Looking for something to read? Check the list below for some of the new titles releasing during the week of May 29 – June 4, 2022 with three debut series.

Until Dead by Donnell Ann Bell (Suspense)
When Lt. Everett T. Pope is notified of an explosion in downtown Denver close to the judicial buildings, his first instinct is gas leak. No such luck. As Incident Command and Pope’s own Major Crimes unit move in, he discovers he knows the intended victims—an Assistant U. S. Attorney—and Pope’s former partner, now a private investigator, has died shielding the injured AUSA with his body.

Devil’s Kiss by Michelle Bennington (Traditional) *new series*
Rook Campbell is broke, divorced, jobless, and in desperate need of steady employment, which is hard to come by in the small town of Rothdale, Kentucky. With the help of her friend and neighbor Bryan, she lands a good job at the Four Wild Horses Distillery and meets an attractive co-worker with lots of dating potential. Her life is finally headed in the right direction until a co-worker dies under suspicious circumstances and a shipment of rare small-batch bourbon goes missing.

The Diva Says Cheesecake! By Krista Davis (Cozy)
Old Town’s midsummer festivities are getting a tasty addition this year. To coincide with a public performance of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Bobbie Sue Bodoin, the Queen of Cheesecake, has hired Sophie to organize a dinner with a dessert buffet on the waterfront. Bobbie Sue’s homegrown company is thriving, and since her baking dish overfloweth, she wants to reward her employees.

Salt Water Wounds by C. Michele Dorsey (Traditional)
Sabrina “Salty” Salter resolves to finally determine why her mother disappeared when she was a toddler. The day before she and her grandmother embark on a mission to uncover the answer, an explosion on St. John kills the son of a cop with whom Sabrina and her friends had a confrontation. Post-hurricane St. John gets even more difficult when a former resident and ex-con returns and three men go missing, including Sabrina’s best friend and business partner, Henry.

Murder Most Grave by G.A. McKevett (Cozy)
With a new grandbaby to care for at home, Stella has little time to spare. Her hands are especially full since Savannah, her teenage granddaughter, developed a crush on a boy guaranteed to break her heart. Gallivanting around with her best pal Sheriff Manny Goldford simply isn’t an option—until a freshly murdered body is discovered . . .

A Parisian Bait by Ileana Munoz-Renfore (Cozy)
Rosa de Los Reyes and her spirit guide Raul have just arrived in the city of love, Paris. She is excited to start her one-year fashion internship at The House of Mather. But before she even has a chance to meet her new instructors she is thrust into the middle of a murder. Follow Rosa as she uses her psychic powers to figure out who the killer is or risk being charged for a murder she did not commit.

Depths of Deceit by Laura Oles (Private Investigator)
PI Jamie Rush has her hands full with small-time skip-tracing and surveillance jobs in Port Alene, Texas. The work is steady, though she still struggles to make ends meet. But when her partner, Cookie, brings in a low-paying and potentially time-consuming case, Jamie takes it on out of loyalty.

Unruly Son by Neil S. Plakcy (Police Procedural)
A mother and her neurodiverse teen-aged son are missing in one of the parks surrounding Honolulu, and homicide detective Kimo Kanapa’aka must use his knowledge of the landscape, and of human nature, to tackle this case, with more twists and turns than a mountain trail.

Renovated to Death by Frank Anthony Polito (Traditional) *new series*
After a successful first season of Domestic Partners chronicling the renovation of their historic Craftsman Colonial, Peter and JP are taking on a renovation of a local Tudor Revival inherited by identical twin brothers Terry and Tom Cash. But linoleum floors and a pink-tiled bathroom aren’t the only unwelcome surprises awaiting inside the house . . .

Deadly Intent by Laraine Stephens (Historical)
It is October 1923. What looks like a routine report, on the heavy rains battering Melbourne, becomes another case of murder for The Argus’s celebrated crime reporter, Reggie da Costa, devotee of fashionable suits and flamboyant automobiles. A flooded basement hides a ghastly secret: the decomposing remains of Cornelius Stout, a wealthy widower, who has been missing for over two years. With an unlikely partner in straitlaced Dotty Wright, Reggie pursues a cold-blooded, manipulative killer with deadly intentions.

Big Shot by Kirsten Weiss (Cozy) *new series*
Hi. I’m Alice. The number one secret to my success as a bodyguard? Staying under the radar. But when a public disaster blew up my career and my reputation, my perfect, solo life took a hard left turn to crazy town. And to bodies. Lots of dead bodies. I thought my hometown of Nowhere would be an out-of-the-way refuge to wait out the media storm. It wasn’t.

Shepherded To Death by C.B. Wilson (Cozy)
It’s a perfect job for the right person in the wrong place: she’s a cat lady and her name’s even Cat– yet here she is, working for cable station KDOG in a place called Barkview, the dog-friendliest town in America. Worse, she’s just become the babysitter and bodyguard of a 60-pound attack dog named Gem, who thinks she’s the bodyguard.