Searching for something to read? Check out some of the new titles releasing the week of November 15 – 21 with two debut series. I hope a few of these books take you on a reading adventure!
NOVEMBER 15
A Little Light Music by Sarah Osborne (Cozy Mystery)
Flo, Maude and the Old Dames Protection Agency are called into action once more over the holiday season. This time it’s the fiancé of Maude’s granddaughter who seems to be in trouble. Someone is sabotaging Andrew’s career as a pianist and might be intent on ending it once and for all. When Andrew nearly gets his fingers smashed in a so-called accident, the gang takes off for Berkeley, California and the glorious Berkeley City Club Hotel. Format: Digital, Print
Hooking Trouble by Macie Ryan (Cozy Mystery)
But when strict organiser Lori Wilson is found dead at the bottom of the church hall stairs, a tragic fall seems easy to believe. Lori’s knees were bad, the stairs were unsafe, and the town already has a suspect in mind. Tash isn’t convinced. Format: Digital, Print
NOVEMBER 16
Murder at the Mistletoe Ball by Helena Dixon (Historical Cozy Mystery, 1930s)
Kitty Underhay is feeling festive in an elegant crimson gown as she makes her way through the well-dressed crowds at the annual Mistletoe Ball. But as the evening draws to a close and she retires for a final sherry, the mood is swiftly punctuated by a grim discovery… blood pooling on the rug and a fellow guest still in her ballgown… dead. Format: Digital, Print, Audio
Dying To Win by Luzann Falin (Cozy Mystery)
Dumped on her 40th birthday, June Bogart quits her job to cuddle with Hamlin, her beloved corgi. Her life already in the doghouse, it goes off-leash after she and Hamlin participate in the local pet show and then stumble over the corpse of the disgraced town matriarch. June’s knack for sniffing out, digging up and piecing together clues faster than the police becomes evident as her investigation leaves no bone unturned. Format: Digital, Print
NOVEMBER 17
The Riddle Maker by Bruce Borgos (Historical Mystery)
Porter Beck is the sheriff of Lincoln County, Nevada, a vast expanse of desert and mountains best known to the outside world for the top-secret installation called Area 51. Just down the highway sits a weathered mailbox where UFO believers leave messages for aliens. But this time, the message is for Beck. Format: Digital, Print, Audio
To Crown It All by Rhys Bowen (Historical Mystery)
One of the most daunting things about being related to the royal family but not being royalty myself is finding just the right ensemble for incredibly important events like the coronation. The process has become especially difficult as my maid has fallen ill and I am now relying on Queenie for everything—well almost everything. We do have a lovely new nanny with whom my son James is quite smitten. Format: Digital, Print, Audio
All The Little Secrets by May Cobb (Domestic Thriller)
From the USA Today bestselling author of The Hunting Wives (now a hit Netflix series) comes a deliciously wicked stand-alone sequel to All the Little Houses, as the fallout from an utterly unexpected death reverberates over every margarita and through every pine-lined street down in Texas. Longview is a place quite familiar with social scandal and unsolved crimes, but now that the queen has fallen from her throne, there’s more at stake than just pinning a murder on someone. Format: Digital, Print, Audio
Cover Story by Elizabeth Spann Craig (Cozy Mystery)
When a record blizzard buries Whitby and knocks out the power grid, the library’s backup generator makes it the natural choice for a warming station. Ann Beckett and her colleagues open the doors, neighbors arrive with blankets and thermoses, Luna keeps the children settled, and Fitz makes his rounds with the quiet authority of someone who has always understood that a library’s first job is to take people in. Format: Digital, Print
The Trusted by Marisa de los Santos (Traditional Mystery)
In the charming, tight-knit community of Sheppley, Pennsylvania, Detective Lina Cordova and her partner Aaron Cash are still reeling from their failure to get justice for Tally Frost—wife, grieving mother, and Sheppley society queen who disappeared a year earlier—when another high-profile case hits their desks. A body is discovered in a remote hunting cabin, shot through the head. Format: Digital, Print, Audio
The Collateral Heart by Jeffery Deaver (Thriller)
When a harrowing arson in Manhattan burns a building to the ground, Rhyme and Sachs are called to investigate, only to discover in the rubble a package of clues that teases where the perp will strike next. Rhyme and Sachs work feverishly to unravel the mystery, turning to an unlikely source for help: one of the nation’s most popular history podcasters. Along the way they cross paths with Desdemona Vale, a determined detective from Long Island who is in search of the killer of a young woman from her neighborhood. Format: Digital, Print, Audio
Dead Gorgeous by Elizabeth Flynn (Cozy Mystery)
When supermodel Kirsty Manners is found dead in her London flat, Detective Inspector Angela Costello is drawn into the shadows beneath the glamour of London Fashion Week. Kirsty wasn’t just beautiful—she was ambitious, reckless, and entangled in secrets powerful enough to kill for. As DI Costello sifts through a tangled web of jealous colleagues, rejected lovers, and scandalous secrets, the investigation reveals links to a sinister modelling agency, high-stakes blackmail, and a fashion house harbouring devastating corruption. Format: Digital, Audio
Merry Murder All the Way by Richard Wolfrik Galland (Cozy Mystery)
Can you catch the killer by Christmas? In the quaint, picturesque village of Merrydale, the wreaths are perfect, the mulled wine flows, and something decidedly rotten lurks beneath the tinsel. When adored local celebrity Robin Coxworth is found dead, you awaken in the village with no memory—no name, no past, and every reason to be afraid. Format: Print
Murder in the Cathedral by Kerry Greenwood (Historical Mystery)
When Phryne Fisher is invited to Bendigo to witness the investiture of her old friend Lionel, who is being made a Bishop, her expectations of the solemn and dignified ceremony do not include a murder in its midst. Phryne is soon working with local Constable Watson and eagle-eyed Inspector Mick Kelly to identify the perpetrator. It becomes quickly apparent the murder victim had been an overzealous deacon with a nose for trouble. Nobody seems very inclined to mourn his passing. Format: Digital, Print, Audio
The Killing Time by Elly Griffiths (Time Travel Mystery)
Detective Ali Dawson leads a unit that investigates cases so cold her team must travel back in time to solve them. But ever since their technical expert, Jones, got stuck in Victorian London, Ali and her team have been forbidden from time travel. At a loss, Ali dives into a present-day case – an apparent suicide of a young man who fell to his death from a high building. Ali believes the death is linked to a bad-news psychic medium, Barry Power, who convinced the boy he could fly Format: Digital, Print, Audio
Lady Anne and the Witch of Wintermede by Victoria Hamilton (Historical Mystery)
Caught in a fierce winter storm as they travel north on their honeymoon, Lady Anne and Lord Darkefell are grateful to take refuge at Wintermede Abbey. But the relief they feel at finding safety and warmth soon turns to wary curiosity, as the strange family and guests gathered there seem caught in a drama of furtive glances and simmering hostility. Until one mischievous young man makes a show of alluding to improper liaisons and scandalous behavior—and is rewarded for his cleverness later that night with a fatal blow to the head. Format: Digital, Print
The Nightshade by Jill Johnson (Traditional Mystery)
Professor Eustacia Rose is done with murder cases. After getting dragged into a series of investigations that have threatened her teaching career, her collection of rare poisonous plants, and her relationship, she’s ready to settle down with her partner, Matilde, and focus on her work at the university. But then another body is discovered, and this time, the victim was poisoned with one of her stolen plants. A specimen she’d do anything to get back. Format: Digital, Print, Audio
Murder on the Menu by Rosie A. Point (Cozy Mystery) *first book in a new series*
Olivia Owens loves living by the ocean in Periwinkle Point, Maine with its rugged coastline, smalltown charm, and mostly friendly neighbors. She has big dreams for her family’s local seafood spot and can’t wait to take over. But when a fancy new restaurant plans to open in town and the owner winds up dead, it’s up to Olivia to solve the case and clear her mother’s name. Puzzle along and figure out whodunit in Murder on the Menu. Format: Digital, Print, Audio
The Write Way To Catch A Killer by Beth Prentice (Cozy Mystery)
Cozy mystery author Aubrey Jackson thought the hardest part of her week would be trying to turn a blank page into the hopefully-bestselling follow-up to her debut novella. Then Detective Jacob Tate shows up with news that shatters what’s left of her family—her sister Emily’s fatal car accident wasn’t an accident at all. It was murder. And before Aubrey can catch her breath, the police pull her brother, Corey, in for questioning. Format: Digital, Print
The Sleeper by Holly Seddon (Psychological Thriller)
Librarian Maya is traveling home from Edinburgh to London when her sleeper train is struck by lightning. She wakes the next morning in a version of London she doesn’t recognize. Not only is a stranger living in her apartment, but her husband Arthur has disappeared. Worse, in this reality, the Berlin Wall never fell, the Cold War never ended, and Britain is an authoritarian Soviet state. Maya’s parents did not kiss by the falling Berlin wall while on their gap year travels, and so Maya was never born. Format: Digital, Print, Audio
The Shadow In The Mirror by Kari Lee Townsend (Psychic Mystery) *first book in a new series*
When portrait artist Seraphine Marrow paints a murdered woman, she discovers something impossible: her art reveals her subjects’ final moments. Each brushstroke brings visions she cannot explain, and the more she paints, the harder it becomes to separate memory from madness. Desperate to keep her ability hidden, she avoids the authorities — until one painting exposes a killer who has made mirrors into weapons. Format: Digital, Print
NOVEMBER 19
Jack Be Quick by Diane Capri (Traditional Mystery)
FBI Special Agent Kim Otto recognizes the play instantly. Using his nephew to antagonize Reacher is a dangerous plan. When a stranger approaches Jake Reacher in a parking lot at Fort Benning, Jake is close enough to kill. But Bennett Ford wants him alive. For now. Ford delivers a written threat with a photograph to back it up, showing his crew is already in place. Jake heads straight home after him. Format: Digital, Print, Audio
Murder in the Starlight Atrium by Denise Jaden (Cozy Mystery)
Cruise ship photographer Olivia Ocean is thrilled to begin a new chapter aboard the magnificent Starlight Majesty. With her mischievous orange cat Pickle at her side and Security Manager Miles Blackwell finally serving on the same ship, life couldn’t be looking brighter. Then the groom in the ship’s lavish destination wedding is discovered dead inside a glass elevator. Format: Digital, Print
Follow the Frenchie by DL Mitchell (Cozy Mystery)
Pet-sitting a French bulldog should be fun-until the mischievous Nettie escapes, returning dusted in an odd white powder. Curious and concerned, Dr. Emily Benton teams up with her best friend Anthony and his partner, Marc, to track the determined pup’s secret excursions. Their search leads them straight to Sweet Tide Bakery… and to the shocking discovery of a murdered food blogger. Format: Digital, Print
NOVEMBER 20
A Fatal Current at the Exposition by Amelia Pine (Historical Cozy Mystery, 1880s)
With the Eiffel Tower rising above the city and electric light promising to turn night into day, the Exposition Universelle is the talk of Paris. American bookseller Emma Greene can hardly wait to explore its wonders, especially with her oldest friend, engineer Daniel Harrington, as her guide. Then Daniel is found dead beside an electrical cabinet. Format: Digital, Print
Note: in some cases, print releases for digital titles will be forthcoming.
Publication date subject to change