Looking for something to read? Check out some of the new titles releasing during the week of November 27 – December 3, 2022 with one debut series. I hope a few of these books take you to an exciting place. Have fun reading!

4 Sleuths & A Burlesque Dancer by Traci Andrighetti, Leslie Langtry, Arlene McFarlane, Diana Orgain (Cozy)
After a murderous bachelorette party in Niagara Falls, Valentine, Merry, Kate, and Franki decide it’s time to relax and have some fun in the Big Easy. New Orleans turns out to be anything but easy when the killer foursome stumble across the body of a formerly famous, elderly Dolphin burlesque dancer. To make matters worse, NOLA’s finest arrest Kate’s husband Jim as the prime suspect!

Bread Over Troubled Water by Winnie Archer (Cozy)
A regular who used Yeast of Eden as a workspace, Josh Prentiss always turned heads with his startlingly good looks and thousand-watt smile. But Ivy can’t help noticing one morning that he seems distracted and off his game. Later, during a visit to the park where she and Miguel plan to hold their engagement party—with plenty of baked goods on the menu—her rescue pug, Agatha, sniffs out Josh lying in a bed of poppies…scone cold dead.

On Spine of Death by Tamara Berry (Cozy)
Bestselling author Tess Harrow and her teenage daughter Gertrude have decided to make Winthrop their home. Their cabin is fixed up and now they’re turning to the family hardware store that Tess inherited from her late grandfather into the town’s first independent bookstore.

Isabel Puddles Abroad by M.V. Byrne (Cozy)
Isabel has crafted a life she loves in her Lake Michigan hometown, but she’s eager to use her golden years to make up for missed opportunities. That’s why she’s traveling to England for the first time to visit her pen pal, Teddy Mansfield, an acclaimed mystery writer who lives just outside the village of Mousehole, Cornwall. First impressions are charming—Isabel is staying in the guest cottage on the grounds of Teddy’s beautiful country manor, and Mousehole is home to an assortment of characters as colorful as any in Teddy’s books.

Baked Offed by Maya Corrigan (Cozy)
The Maryland Mystery Fan Fest sounds like exactly the fun getaway café manager Val Deniston and her grandfather could use. Granddad will even compete in a dessert competition in which contestants assume the roles of cooks to famous fictional sleuths. Playing Nero Wolfe’s gourmet cook Fritz is an exciting challenge for Granddad. A restaurant manager is playing Lord Peter Wimsey’s valet and cook Bunter. But Granddad is steamed to learn who will be playing Sherlock Holmes’s landlady, Mrs. Hudson—his nemesis Cynthia Sweet, who he believes ripped off his five-ingredient theme from his column “Codger Cook” to use in her own recipe column.

Steeped in Secrets by Lauren Elliott (Cozy) *new series*
Flat broke and divorced, intuitive gemologist Shay Myers has changed since leaving her artsy hometown of coastal Bray Harbor sixteen years ago. But when she moves back under strange circumstances, old instincts may be the only key to spilling the tea on a deadly mystery.

Through the Liquor Glass by Sarah Fox (Cozy)
Autumn brings a wonderland of color and atmosphere to Vermont. As the last leaves fall from the trees, the town is gearing up for a new festival: A Taste of Shady Creek. Pub proprietor Sadie Coleman is looking forward to visitors coming to sample her literary-themed cocktails. She’s a little more wary about her mother’s impending first visit. What if her mom doesn’t like Sadie’s adopted town—or her new boyfriend, Grayson Blake?

A Mocha For Murder by Ryan Hoffman (Cozy)
It’s a couple of weeks before Christmas in Cedar Grove and everyone is feeling the Christmas spirit, including Riley Morgan. That is until town disgrace and former classmate, Levi Peirce, comes back after a stint in prison. Everyone turns sour, except for Riley. No tears are shed when Levi is found stone cold dead in a snowdrift, holding a thermos cup from Pages & Scones. Except for his brother who asked Riley to look into his death

Murder on the Class Trip by Lee Hollis (Cozy)
Drafted as chaperones, Maya Kendrick and PTA president Sandra Wallage are accompanying the SoPo High seniors to the nation’s capital—much to the embarrassment of Maya’s daughter Vanessa and Sandra’s son Ryan. Now both moms are about to find out which is harder—shepherding unruly high schoolers or solving a murder. The last sight they expected to see on this trip is a female intern who works for Sandra’s soon-to-be-ex-husband, Senator Stephen Wallage, in a fatally compromising position.

Death by Smoothie by Laura Levine (Cozy)
The Bewitched knockoff I Married a Zombie may have flopped in its day, but it’s got a devoted cult following. Jaine is delighted when one of those rabid fans hires her as script doctor for his new play based on the show—until she reads the awful script and meets Misty, the actress who’ll be playing Cryptessa’s role. Misty has Audrey Hepburn’s doe eyes but not a smidgen of her ability. Yet she can certainly act the diva, demanding a special smoothie every day at 3pm. Meanwhile, Jaine is grappling with another spoiled female—her uncooperative cat, Prozac, who’s refusing to be wrangled into a kitty harness for outside walks.

A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny (Traditional)
It’s spring and Three Pines is reemerging after the harsh winter. But not everything buried should come alive again. Not everything lying dormant should reemerge. But something has. As the villagers prepare for a special celebration, Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir find themselves increasingly worried. A young man and woman have reappeared in the Sûreté du Québec investigators’ lives after many years. The two were young children when their troubled mother was murdered, leaving them damaged, shattered. Now they’ve arrived in the village of Three Pines.

All Dog’s Children by Neil S. Plakcy (Cozy)
Who crept into Boris and Natasha Krimsky’s mini-mansion and murdered them while they slept? Could it be the cousins they brought over from Russia, who want more money from them? Or the physicist who claims he helped Boris with the ideas behind his multi-million-dollar patent?

Penny Küfer’s Christmas by Alex Wagner (Cozy)
Christmas with the family? Penny Küfer is quite surprised when she is invited to a fancy celebration with her estranged mother, of all people. Waldenstein Castle, the party location and home to Penny’s latest stepfather, turns out to be a palace right out of a fairy tale. The assembled guests, however, seem rather eccentric, and what’s more, one of them is a ruthless killer. But he hadn’t reckoned with Penny…

Killer Cranachan by R.A. Wallace (Cozy)
An unexpected encounter sends Megan on a search for a killer recipe that will lead her down many trails. Although some prove fruitless, a fatal crash of another kind leaves her brother-in-law calling her the berries. While Erica and Jerry hope to serve up just deserts, Megan whips up a method of her own for getting to the seed of the matter. A vintage obsession with a sprinkling of suspects is dished up as the final course.