Looking for something to read? Check out some of the new titles releasing during the week of November 19 – 25, 2023 with three debut series. I hope a few of these books take you to an exciting place. Have fun reading!

NOVEMBER 21
Monkshood, Tea, & Murder by Joni Folger (Cozy Mystery) *first book in a new series*
Fellow witches Lydie Charles and Vanessa Deerborne strive to bring joy to their community with the events they plan and cater. The Seal Cove Garden Society’s annual garden party is next up on the agenda, but Lydie has been having some disturbing visons with the Society playing a starring role. Something dark is afoot, and the women know it’s going to take more than a simple spell to head off what’s coming when Society members start dropping like rose petals. Format: Print, Digital

Grounds for Murder by Lena Gregory (Cozy Mystery)
Danika Delaney is thrilled to have taken over her uncle Jimmie’s old fashioned malt shop on eastern Long Island and is working hard to make it her own. In an effort to increase business, Danika invites a mystery writer to the Cookies & Cream Café for a discussion and book signing. Things seem to be going well, until a guest shows up and confronts the author, accusing him of plagiarizing his work. Embarrassed by the incident, Danika goes to the inn where the writer is staying the following morning, hoping to apologize and offer him another chance to return. Format: Print, Digital

Butterfly Betrayal by Ruth J. Hartman (Cozy Mystery) *first book in a new series*
Majestic Monarch Butterfly Farm might flitter away forever. That is, unless Seneca James acquires the property next door. She and Winifred, her costume-wearing cat, have a fight on their hands. Their land sits next to a milkweed-covered field, essential for monarchs. If she’s unsuccessful in buying it, her precious, winged friends won’t survive. When people end up dead on her farmland, Seneca is suspected of murder. Format: Print, Digital

Crime and Parchment by Daphne Silver (Cozy Mystery) *first book in a new series*
Last year, Juniper saw the 1,200-year-old Book of Kells in Ireland. She learned how their bejeweled covers were stolen centuries ago, never to be seen again. So how could they have ended up in Rose Mallow, a small Chesapeake Bay town? Being Jewish, the Book of Kells might not be her sacred text, but as a rare books librarian, the ancient book is still sacred to her, making it important to Juniper to find out the truth. Format: Print, Digital, Audio

The Canvas by Lane Stone (Heist Thriller)
Brilliant and beautiful art recovery expert, Emma Kelly, has her suspicions about all the sleepers showing up in the art market. Someone is amassing a fortune, but to what end? When she witnesses the murder of a renowned artist in a Washington, DC museum, and her husband, FBI Assistant Director in Charge, Elliott Baldwin, discharges his weapon in public to save her life, they are drawn into investigating a forgery ring. Format: Digital

The Other Half by Charlotte Vassell (Traditional Mystery)
Who killed Clemmie? Was it the blithe, sociopathic boyfriend? His impossibly wealthy godmother? The gallery owner with whom Clemmie was having an affair? Or was it the result of something else entirely? All the party-goers have alibis. Naturally. This investigation is going to be about aristocrats and Classics degrees, Instagram influencers and whose father knows who. Format: Print, Digital, Audio

NOVEMBER 22
The Frozen Murder by Kayt Miller (Cozy Mystery)
When Mabel stumbles across a corpse in the freezer at work, she can’t believe her eyes. No really, she’s never seen anything like it. Surreal and fascinating are the words that keep rolling around in her head. It’s too bad (for him) that her detective boyfriend doesn’t want her meddling in his investigation. Also unfortunate (for him) that Mabel Frye isn’t a very good listener––at least not when there’s a murderer in her midst. Format: Digital

NOVEMBER 24
Played by Death by Kathryn Long (Cozy Mystery)
Sarah Mackenzie enjoys helping her Uncle Chaz with his writing. As his research assistant, she’s made plenty of interesting discoveries, but sometimes those turn out to be unpleasant, even frightening, like the open grave she’d found in Cornplanter Cemetery last summer. Her uncle’s latest project is to write about local artists, past and present. When Sarah makes a routine trip to retrieve a box with some valuable items belonging to the now deceased jazz musician, Sam Slimwell, the trip turns dangerous as she’s confronted by a hijacker who steals Slimwell’s possessions. Only minutes later, the thief ends up murdered, and the local sheriff has his judgmental eye on Sarah as a suspect. Format: Digital

The Brewers’ Murder Diaries by David Slocum (Cozy Mystery)
Billy Bob Dankworth was living his dream as a family man, entrepreneur, chef and brewer. Until The Brewers’ Murder Diaries commenced. A series of murders turn into a binational investigation from the borderlands in Southwestern Texas and Mexico that captures the public imagination. The tragedies turned into a mystery that unravels in a cozy brewing motel in the border town of Canutillo, Texas. Format: Print, Digital