Searching for something to read? Check out some of the new titles releasing the week of May 31 – June 6, 2026 with four debut series. I hope a few of these books take you on a reading adventure!
MAY 31
Scoops & Secrets by Rowan Callery (Cozy Mystery)
Wave Sanderson knows the ocean. She runs Drift & Scoop on the Pelican Bay boardwalk, tracks tides in her head, and trusts patterns more than people. So when the annual fireworks test siren doesn’t sound on the night of the Fourth, she knows something is wrong. Minutes later, the fireworks coordinator is found dead at the base of the lighthouse. Authorities call it an accident. Wave isn’t convinced. Format: Digital
Murder In Boston Public Garden by Andrea Kress (Historical Cozy Mystery 1930s)
When society hostess Mrs. Mott hosts a lavish garden party in Boston Public Garden to honor philanthropist Gordon White, it should be a golden afternoon. Instead, a photographer from the Boston Globe is found dead, his camera and negatives missing. Someone among the well-heeled guests killed to keep a secret hidden. Format: Digital, Print
JUNE 1
Ghostly Group Chat by Kristen Brand (Cozy Mystery)
Sydney Farina has a gift nobody asked for: dead people text her. It’s how she’s solved multiple murders, saved her sister from a wrongful conviction, and accumulated enough trauma to keep a therapist in business for years. So when she finds her sister’s cheating ex-husband stabbed in his own bed, she’s not surprised when his ghost shows up in her messages. Format: Digital, Print
Murder by Design by Lee Goldberg (Thriller) *first book in a new series*
Edison Bixby is wealthy, handsome, and, due to a traumatic brain injury, impulsively rude. He’s also a brilliant insurance investigator who solves baffling crimes by figuring out how the design of the man-made world around us makes them possible. Enter Wally Nash: a struggling actor hired to keep Bixby from offending everyone he meets. Format: Digital, Print, Audio
Amber Warning by Joana Snowdon (Cozy Mystery)
Joana and Brian, the curious sleuthing duo, set off once more. This time, their promise is clear: absolutely no bodies. Just stunning Hebridean views and a peaceful workshop exploring Lewis and Harris with their photography group. They should have known better. From the moment they arrive, it’s clear the guests are more interested in each other’s secrets than in the scenery. Secrets simmer, and someone is desperate to keep them buried. Format: Digital, Print
JUNE 2
Murder and the Missing Treasure by C.J. Archer (Historical Mystery 1900s)
When the celebrated biographer of the infamous pirate Blackheart takes a suite at the Mayfair Hotel to live out his final months, Goliath the porter is desperate to ask the one question that has haunted treasure hunters for decades: Where is the loot buried? Forbidden to disturb a guest, he instead visits the man writing the author’s own life story, only to discover him dead at his desk. Accused of the crime, Goliath turns to Cleo and Harry to clear his name. Format: Digital, Print, Audio
A Fatal Ingredient by Paul Austin Ardoin (Cozy Mystery) *first book in a new series*
After losing her tech job and her live-in boyfriend in the same week, Nina Parrish leaves San Francisco for Milwaukee, determined to rebuild her life in the city’s fast-rising restaurant scene. Her newest challenge is helping launch Forge, an ambitious pop-up restaurant in Walker’s Point, where one flawless night could secure the future of a permanent location. But when notorious food critic Laurent Pike dies during dinner service, Nina’s fresh start turns into a nightmare. With the restaurant under suspicion and the staff’s livelihoods on the line, Nina begins asking questions the police haven’t answered yet. Format: Digital, Print
Blunt Instrument by Amy Bloom (Private Investigator Mystery) *first book in a new series*
The case of the bludgeoned lecturer has all of Cromwell University reeling, even though the elderly Professor Bullfinch wasn’t particularly well-liked. His ornery nature and Old World approach to campus politics ruffled more than a few feathers over the years, and present tensions within his department mean there are more suspects than mourners in the wake of his death. And the murder weapon—a bronze bust of Nathaniel Hawthorne—does seem to indicate that the attack may have been academically motivated… Format: Digital, Print, Audio
A Medium Specialist by Lynn Cahoon (Cozy Mystery)
After almost successfully transitioning an angry spirit to the other side, Eddie’s got a new member of the ghost crew at her antique store and more problems. Her almost sister is still in town with her best friend, a fellow fortune teller from California. And someone is killing mediums with real power. And everyone Eddie cares about is on that list. Format: Digital, Print
A River Red with Blood by John Connolly (Thriller)
In a darkly brilliant thriller set in Maine’s rural Kennebec River Valley, the body of a young runaway from a “troubled teens” school has been found in the water, seemingly drowned, while a teenage girl has gone missing, believed dead. Now it is up to one man, private investigator Charlie Parker, to find the connection, and bring two evils—one new and one ancient—to an end… Format: Digital, Print, Audio
Death on the Lanai by Rachel Ekstrom Courage (Cozy Mystery)
The invite delivered to 6151 Richmond Street was short on details, only promising to celebrate “the greatest artist of the century” and accompanied by a jewel-encrusted brooch—the whole package a brand of mysterious opulence that another Saturday night of gin rummy just can’t match. Blanche Devereaux’s passionate dalliances are as plentiful as hot Southern nights, and surely one can’t be expected to remember all of one’s suitors. Format: Digital, Print, Audio
Lie in the Bay by Holly Danvers (Thriller)
The residents of Bayshore Lane excel at three things: throwing unforgettable waterfront parties, spreading the juiciest gossip, and taking their darkest secrets straight to the grave. Take Jenna, Gabrielle, and Dublin. Each harbor something they’d rather die than confess—a forbidden desire, a dangerous scheme, a hidden agenda. In their postcard-perfect neighborhood, these are truths that can never see the light. Format: Digital, Print, Audio
Sconed to Death by Betty Hechtman (Cozy Mystery)
Annie Hart has transformed the yarn shop she inherited into a thriving business and tea shop. Now she needs to sell it so she can move back to LA. She just has to ensure that young Toby Swanson is kept on as the supplier of their famous scones. Annie decides to secretly enter Toby in a new reality TV cooking show. But his application video takes a deadly twist when Annie and her business partner, Gray, discover a body on the beach while filming. Format: Digital, Print, Audio
The Dog Walker’s Detective Agency by Michael Hogan (Cozy Mystery) *first book in a new series*
When Charlie Boardman and his beloved Staffordshire bull terrier, Ruby, stumble across a corpse in the woods, the sleepy English coastal town of Framstone is rocked by the discovery that the local pub landlord has been murdered. Charlie and his fellow dogwalkers take it upon themselves to try and sniff out any clues that might help the local police with their investigation. Format: Digital, Print
Breaking the Mold by Amanda M. Lee (Cozy Mystery)
Stormy Morgan has faced diabolical demons, evil witches, and murderous ghosts. Nothing is as bad as what she’s facing now, however. Her grandfather is moving in. Stormy and her fiancé, Hunter Ryan, are only weeks away from moving into their new home. Before then, however, they have an unwanted roommate. One who doesn’t like knocking before entering a bedroom or shutting the bathroom door. Format: Digital, Print
The Corpse by the Creek by Iris March (Cozy Mystery)
While volunteering with a local stream restoration group, Molly and her husband, Scott, expect to end the day with nothing more to show for it than muddy hiking shoes and water samples. Instead, they stumble upon a dead body left in the woods behind the Buckeye Trail. The victim turns out to be Upton North—an unpopular developer with business ties to half the town and enemies to match. Format: Digital, Print
An Artful Dodge by Karen Odden (Historical Mystery 1870s)
Twenty-year-old Kit Jimeson has fingers so nimble she can nick a necklace off a lady in a crowded theater without raising alarm. Kit and her dodge partner, Mary, are the highest earners in the notorious all-women thieving ring in South London’s Elephant and Castle district. Kit, whose mother had been a thief before her, dreams of a different life, one where she’s not constantly on the lookout for constables and plainclothes detectives, and where a mistake or pure bad luck won’t land her in the hangman’s noose Format: Digital, Print, Audio
Played To Death by Mike Ripley (Traditional Mystery)
Retirement was beckoning until local lawyer Adam Cunningham – aka the Hopewell Players’ pantomime dame – requested my professional opinion on the script of their next play that he’s been given. The script is terrible! And it rips off a number of Golden Age mysteries. With Roly’s knowledge of crime fiction, I might be able to get the whole thing cancelled. I couldn’t believe it when I learned that my late father had written a play of all things! And now the players will perform his work – until one of them is found dead. . . Format: Print
The Disaster Gay Detective Agency by Lev AC Rosen (Traditional Mystery)
Brandon is a hopeless romantic. So when a handsome stranger named Jon checks in at the hotel he works at and invites Brandon to his room, Brandon ignores the advice of his crew—a group of loveable and messy queer twenty-somethings—and accepts. What follows is a tale as old as time: they hook up, Jon promises to text, Brandon falls in love, and Jon ghosts. Case closed—or is it? Format: Digital, Print, Audio
The Last Time We Drowned by Saratoga Schaefer (Thriller)
Charlie Engels is broke and desperate when her bookstagram account lands her the offer of a lifetime: join Empress, a state-of-the-art yacht houseboat off the Florida Keys turned influencer paradise. Lucrative brand deals and a ready-made “sisterhood” of internet stars—it may not be Charlie’s dream job, but she knows she’d be a fool to turn it down. Format: Digital, Print, Audio
Valley of the Moms by Hannah Selinger (Thriller)
Hamilton, Massachusetts is one of those suburban towns that appears untouched by the outside world where stay-at-home moms wear 2ct diamond studs to the playground, where a million-dollar property is “affordable,” and where the Parent Teacher Organization is a hotbed of controversy. Sure, some people struggle to make ends meet, but residents would say discussing such ugly matters is impolite. Hamilton has been like this forever, and everyone likes it that way. Or: almost everyone. Format: Digital, Print, Audio
Purple, Blame, Game by Joanna Campbell Slan (Cozy Mystery)
Kiki Lowenstein is used to juggling crafts, customers, and chaos—but she never expected her latest charity project to lead to murder. When Kiki offers free crochet classes to make stuffed animals for hospitalized children, the project seems like the perfect way to give back. But tensions quickly rise among her students, and a heated confrontation sparks rumors, accusations, and a social media frenzy that threatens to destroy lives. Then everything takes a deadly turn. Format: Digital, Print
Precious Friends: Murder in Sag Harbor by Frank Spinelli (Thriller)
JB Pulaski, a tenured sociology professor, thought surviving cancer was his greatest battle. Now, desperate to save his crumbling marriage, he retreats to his Sag Harbor summer home with his philandering husband Mike and teenage son Emilio. Instead, he finds humiliation. When Mike begins a public affair with Italian pianist Gianni Cuomo, JB becomes the summer’s most whispered-about scandal—the cuckolded husband everyone pities but no one respects. But when Gianni is found murdered at an exclusive costume party, pity transforms into suspicion, and JB becomes the prime suspect. Format: Digital, Print, Audio
Missing in Soho by Holly Stars (Traditional Mystery)
Misty Divine is bold, beautiful and back in action. She’s barely settled into her new role as the glamorous hostess of Lady’s Bar when a private detective arrives out of the blue. He’s been stabbed. With what might be his final breath he whispers a cryptic message. “You’re in danger, Misty… you must find Jeremy.” Format: Digital, Print, Audio
A Jewel of a Crime by Valerie Taylor (Cozy Mystery)
After selling her dance studio, she has a brand-new plan: travel the world and recover stolen art. But life deals Venus an unexpected card. When she pulls back a curtain in the studio and finds the new owner dead on the couch, her next adventure becomes a very public nightmare. With Chatham Crossing’s whisper mill in overdrive, Venus is now a prime suspect (because of course she is). In the process of clearing her name, she discovers her late husband secretly bought an emerald ring—and now it’s missing. Format: Digital, Print
The Water Diamond by C.B. Wilson (Cozy Mystery)
When a legendary Art Deco bracelet disappears from the Wrigley Mansion, diamond detective Taylor “Hunter” is pulled into a case that turns deadly fast. The theft is only the beginning. A body surfaces. A trail of lies follows. And every clue points back to a mystery buried since 1929—the disappearance of a young heiress and the secret of a second, missing bracelet. Format: Digital, Print
Man of My Dreams by Olivia Worley (Thriller)
Bestselling romance author Ivy Harcourt has been as unlucky in love as she’s been successful in writing—as her sad relationship track attests, there are no good dating options left in New York . . . Until she rescues an escaped dog in the park, and runs into Liam. Charming, British, hot architect Liam. The exact description of the love interest in her next book. When an instant connection leads to a whirlwind relationship, Ivy is convinced she’s found the dream man. Except he may be too perfect. He may be hiding something. Format: Digital, Print, Audio
JUNE 3
The Crookedest Street in the World by Claire M. Johnson (Historical Mystery 1930s)
Maggie Laurent, P.I., is making a name for herself, but it’s slow going. Her best friend, Maureen Dunleavy, who is a postulant at a nearby convent, asks Maggie for her help. At stake is the life of a young Chinese postulant. Maggie braves San Francisco’s underworld to keep her safe, bringing down the wrath of the mayor and police chief of San Francisco, and the kingpins of the prostitution, gambling, and drug trades operated by Chinese gang lords on her head. Format: Digital, Print
JUNE 4
Locket Room Gossip by Sue Hollowell (Cozy Mystery)
When Maggie Bellamy receives a vintage locket and a note from her late friend Constance—“It’s your turn now.”—she’s suddenly the town’s new magical protector… whether she’s ready or not. Before she can even process her new role, a romantic picnic ends in chaos: a stolen basket, a broken charm, and a mysterious puzzle box with magical carvings and a cryptic riddle. The clues? All point back to the locket—and to Constance’s final secrets. Format: Digital, Print
Death and Déjà Vu by Ian Moore (Private Investigator Mystery)
Richard Ainsworth moved to rural France to escape, so being voted mayor of the small town of Saint-Sauver comes as a terrible shock. Fortunately bureaucracy has its benefits and he is shipped off to a health spa to recuperate. The Esprit de l’Air is a world-famous venue on an island fort off the west coast of France, and was chosen specifically by his business partner and bounty hunter of international repute, Valérie d’Orçay. Richard should have been prepared then. Format: Digital, Print, Audio
The French Market Murder by Greg Mosse (Cozy Mystery)
The delightful town of Sainte-Catherine, nestled in the heart of Provence, is preparing for the May bank holiday. The cobbled village square will be packed with stalls of the French market, selling wines, cheese, and other local products. Zoe Pascal, who runs the bookshop, is ready for a busy weekend recommending books to tourists and locals alike. But the festivities have barely begun before Zoe and her loyal companion, Russell the dog, discover a body in an abandoned house behind her bookshop. Format: Digital, Print, Audio
The Tembusu Tree Mystery by Ovidia Yu (Historical Mystery 1940s)
Su Lin is rolling out the red carpet for a new chapter in her life. Now happily settled in her marriage to Chief Inspector Le Froy, and having stepped away from her formidable grandmother Ah Ma’s thriving business, she is the proud manager of the new Imperial Cinema. But the grand opening isn’t going as planned . . . the cinema has an unhappy history as a site for Japanese propaganda during the Occupation, and there are protesters who would rather see it demolished, than refurbished. The cinema’s financier John Wong is acting very strangely, local businesswoman Madam Leong is issuing outrageous demands, and Tony Khoo, the young, fun and handsome son of the VIP guests, has gone missing. Format: Digital, Print
Note: in some cases, print releases for digital titles will be forthcoming.