Searching for something to read? Check out some of the new titles releasing the week of November 16 – 22, 2025 with two debut series. I hope a few of these books take you on a reading adventure!

NOVEMBER 17
Madame Pompette Steals the Scene by Libby Castle (Cozy Mystery)
Indian summer has settled over Saint-Luke’s-Upon-the-Water, and Charlotte Pompette, ex-circus fortune teller turned tea shop owner, is enjoying long, lazy days filled with nothing more dramatic than chasing Tarot’s escape-artist kitten around the village. Life is blissfully quiet and predictably peaceful. Format: Digital, Print

NOVEMBER 18
Tom Clancy Executive Power by Brian Andrews & Jeffrey Wilson (Thriller)
An American intelligence team on a routine mission is wiped out. The sole survivor: Kyle Ryan, youngest son of President Jack Ryan. But the massacre of his colleagues is just the prelude to an even more devastating conflict—a deadly military coup in the central African nation. The next step is a shocking escalation, the seizure of the American Embassy and the taking of numerous hostages including the ambassador and the younger Ryan. Format: Digital, Print, Audio

Never Speak Of It by Carolyn Ridder Aspenson (Thriller)
Jenna Wyatt never expected to see Riley Chatsworth again—not after the betrayal that shattered their friendship at Harvard. But when Riley, now a top executive at a powerful insurance company, is charged with murdering her agency’s biggest client, she pleads with Jenna to clear her name. Torn between distrust and duty, Jenna reluctantly agrees to investigate, wary of the woman who nearly destroyed her life years ago. Format: Digital, Print, Audio

From Cradle to Grave by Rhys Bowen (Historical Mystery 1930s)
Georgie may be figuring out what it means to be a new mother but she does know one thing for sure: she absolutely despises the strict nanny who was foisted upon her by her meddlesome sister-in-law. In search of a new nanny, Georgie travels to London to see her old friend ZouZou only to find her about to depart for a funeral, after the unexpected death of a young man in her social circle. It quickly becomes clear there’s more than one mysterious death around town, when another friend reveals he’s also just returned from the funeral of a school friend, who seemingly died in a boating accident. But when word arrives that the son of family friend has also died tragically and unexpectedly, Georgie is certain it can’t be a coincidence. Yet the victims don’t seem to have any connection to one another. Format: Digital, Print, Audio

Seeing Things by Rosie Genova (Suspense)
On the weathered boardwalk of a New Jersey shore town, Maggie Romanelli reads fortunes to make ends meet while pursuing her true passion as an artist. Though convinced her frightening childhood visions are behind her, Maggie still struggles with memory issues—and money issues. So when elderly Addie Mercurio seeks her help, Maggie is happy to take her on. Format: Digital, Print

Made You Look by Tanya Grant (Women’s Crime Fiction)
Sydney Kent is the ultimate It Girl. You want her effortless style, her charisma, her hair. You want to be her; you want to be with her. But the trouble with a star is that everyone else looks dull in comparison. Despite Caitlyn’s social media cunning, it’s impossible for her to step out from Sydney’s shadow. Even Lucy, Sydney’s best friend since before her fame, can’t escape her role as full-time photographer to the influencer. Format: Digital, Print, Audio

Haven’t Killed in Years by Amy K. Green (Women’s Crime Fiction)
Marin Haggerty, the daughter of a notorious serial killer, was only a child when they arrested her father. Ripped from her home and given a new identity, Marin disappeared. Twenty years later, Gwen Tanner keeps everyone at a distance, preferring to satirize the world around her than participate in it. It’s for her safety—and theirs. But when someone starts sending body parts to her front door, the message is clear: I Know Who You Are. Format: Digital, Print, Audio

The Knives Before Christmas by J. Kent Holloway (Traditional Mystery) *first book in a new series*
Holiday emporium owner Thomas Nast isn’t your typical guy. His Victorian-era home is sentient with a 13-foot guard alligator named Tinsel living in its walls. A mostly invisible-and mischievous-elf named Peppermint reluctantly serves his every whim. And he just happens to be the next in line to become the real-life Santa Claus. Until that happens, however, Tom spends his days helping the people-and frequent tourists-of Christmas, Florida, with all their Christmas and other holiday needs. Format: Digital, Print

Death of a Maven by Kathryn Johnson (Traditional Mystery) *first book in a new series*
On the anniversary of her husband’s death, all Verity Cade wants is a quiet night in with her besties. The next morning, she’s shocked when the body of one of their group is discovered at the bottom of an abandoned quarry. Although the sheriff rules it a suicide, Verity is sure her friend couldn’t have killed herself. Format: Digital, Print

When Sleuthing Spells Trouble by T.C. LoTempio (Cozy Mystery)
Six years ago, Mariah Blackthorne was found lying on the floor of her home, unconscious, holding the murder weapon that had killed her husband. Swearing she had no memory of the tragic event but insisting she was innocent, she nonetheless agreed to a plea deal and went to prison for the crime. Now, out on parole and desperate to know the truth, she enlists the help of local sleuth Nora Charles to find out what really happened that day—even if it means discovering she was the guilty party after all. Format: Digital, Print

Lady Avely’s Guide to Guile and Peril by Rosalie Oaks (Historical Mystery)
When the Duke of Sargen is snatched away before her eyes, Judith knows she must follow him into Pendennis Castle before he can be stripped of his Gift and his memory. After all, she hasn’t had a chance to tell the man that she loves him yet. Format: Digital, Print

Evil Bones by Kathy Reichs (Thriller)
Small creatures—a rat, a rabbit, a squirrel—have been turning up throughout Charlotte, North Carolina, mutilated and displayed in a bizarre manner. But one day, as Tempe is relaxing at home alongside her aimless, moody great-niece Ruthie, she’s diverted by a disturbing call. The perp is upping the ante. This find could be human. Format: Digital, Print, Audio

A Case of Life and Limb by Sally Smith (Historical Mystery 1900s)
Gabriel Ward KC is hard at work on a thorny libel case involving London’s most famous music hall star, Topsy Tillotson, and its most notorious tabloid newspaper, the Nation’s Voice, but the Inner Temple remains as quiet and calm as ever. Quiet, that is, until a severed hand arrives in the post.
Format: Digital, Print, Audio

At Midnight Comes The Cry by Julia Spencer-Fleming (Traditional Mystery)
It’s Christmas time in Millers Kill, and Reverend Clare Fergusson and her husband Russ van Alstyne – newly resigned from his position as chief of police – plan to enjoy it with their baby boy. On their list: visiting Santa, decorating the tree, and attending the church Christmas pageant. But when a beloved holiday parade is crashed by white supremacists, Clare and Russ find themselves sucked into a parallel world of militias, machinations and murder. Format: Digital, Print, Audio

Hawaiian Holiday Homicide by Rosalie Spielman (Cozy Mystery)
For marine biologist Nelly O’Hare, “Mele Kalikimaka” on the island of Kauai means enjoying the holiday with her cute golf pro boyfriend, Jack Frango, getting ready for her bestie, Kiki Hepburn’s, wedding, and lots and lots of Hawaiian rain. Nelly is excited for it all—even the rain. Format: Digital, Print

The Botanist’s Assistant by Peggy Townsend (Traditional Mystery)
Plenty of people consider Margaret Finch odd. Six-feet-tall and big-boned, she lives alone in a small cabin in the woods, drives a 20-year-old truck, and schedules her life so precisely you can tell the time and day of the week by the chore she is doing and what she is wearing. But the same attributes that cause her to be labeled eccentric—an obsessive attention to detail and the ability to organize almost anything—make her invaluable in her job as Research Assistant II to a talented and charismatic botanist. Format: Digital, Print, Audio

The First to Die by Suzanne Trauth (Psychological Thriller)
Connie Tucker, a free-spirited beach bartender, has been estranged from her family in New Jersey ever since her actress mother, Simone, disappeared one night during a violent storm at the theatre where she was rehearsing. Uncontrollable and in a rage at the loss of her parent, fifteen-year-old Connie is exiled to California, due to her delinquent behavior, to live with an aunt she doesn’t know. Format: Digital, Print

A Fair Isle Murder by Ann Yost (Cozy Mystery)
Hatti Lehtinen and the ladies of the Red Jacket knitting circle have come to Mackinac Island to help Kay Preston launch a yarn shop in her pharmacy. But their plans for a Fair Isle knitting workshop take a back seat when the groom from an island dream wedding turns up dead from a lethal bee sting—or so it appears. Format: Digital, Print

NOVEMBER 20
The Dog Sitter Detective’s Christmas Tail by Antony Johnston (Cozy Mystery)
It’s almost Christmas, and Gwinny Tuffel’s thoughts are on what she’ll buy for DCI Birch (retired) and whether she can adopt another furry friend. But sorting through her late father’s papers leads her into his mysterious past, pointing to an enigmatic liaison now living in a Somerset commune. Gwinny and Birch find themselves unexpectedly snowed in with a group of retired spies, along with an energetic Cocker Spaniel, and embroiled in a murder case. Will they uncover the culprit and escape in time for Christmas? Format: Digital, Print

The Shattered Bauble by Rachel McLean and Millie Ravensworth (Traditional Mystery)
It’s Christmas in Lyme Regis, and DC Tina Abbott is looking forward to some well-earned time with her family. But then her mum Annie, true to form, reports a crime. The pottery shop has been broken into and the owner Peg, Annie’s friend, attacked. The evidence is scant. A solitary fingerprint in blood, but nothing stolen, at least as far as the police can tell. Format: Digital, Print

Murder at Christmas: You Solve the Crime by G.B. Rubin (Historical Mystery 1930s)
You are Dr Kinn Tenor, a Scotland Yard pathologist with a sideline in private detection when the boys in blue are stumped. You’re celebrated in the newspapers, but you tend to get the official police’s backs up – they don’t take kindly to being upstaged. Format: Digital, Print

Murder Most Wild by Nellie H. Steele (Cozy Mystery)
Back on Maine’s rugged coast, artist Emily Harper is settling into her creaky home and its secret-stuffed attic when she uncovers a trove of nautical curios—an old compass, a spyglass, a locket-etched map, even a sextant—that hint at a legend entwined with her family’s past. The bracelet on her wrist doesn’t help her sleep—it pulls her into dizzying flashes of elsewhere, the kind that feel too true to ignore. Format: Digital, Print

Mock Apple Alibi by P.D. Workman (Cozy Mystery)
In the picturesque town of Bald Eagle Falls, rich stories are woven as perfectly as a pie’s golden lattice top and the alibis are just as fake as mock apple pie. Erin and Vic must cut deep to solve a sting of mysterious disappearances. Welcome back to Bald Eagle Falls, where Erin Price is serving up more than delicious treats at Auntie Clem’s Bakery. This time, the recipe for disaster includes missing persons, clan warfare, and a mock apple pie that’s not as fake as the alibis flying around town! Format: Digital, Print

Note: in some cases, print releases for digital titles will be forthcoming.