Searching for something to read? Check out some of the new titles releasing the week of November 30 – December 6, 2025 with one debut series. I hope a few of these books take you on a reading adventure!

NOVEMBER 30
Sable Point Murder by Alec Peche (Thriller)
Forensic pathologist and part-time vintner Dr. Jill Quint is ready for good food, close friends, and a peaceful holiday in Green Bay, Wisconsin. But the flashing lights down the block say otherwise. The old Sable Point house has sat empty for two years, its stories wrapped in rumor and dust. When police swarm the property on Jill’s first night in town, curiosity pulls her toward the scene—and straight into a mystery that won’t let go. Format: Digital, Print

DECEMBER 1
Mystery at Mistletoe Place by Clare Chase (Cozy Mystery)
Arthur’s Boatyard is a jewel in the crown of Saxford St Peter, a famous firm that’s been fixing barges and boats for a hundred years. But their centenary celebration shows it’s not all plain sailing… The owner, Anthony Mottram, seems to be at daggers drawn with half the village. So when he turns up dead in his own workshop, Eve Mallow knows she needs to chart her path carefully if she’s to find his killer. Format: Digital, Print

The Body in the Hayloft by Catherine Dilts (Cozy Mystery)
Bookstore owner Emily believes cats and mysteries go together, and she just might be right. During an equestrian workshop at the Double C ranch in northeast Oklahoma, a pampered Persian housecat leads Callie to a woman in a hayloft. The Rose Creek Reads book club springs into action, investigating the meaning behind the woman’s mysterious final words. Format: Digital, Print

Divination and Deceit by Beth Dolgner (Paranormal Cozy Mystery)
There’s a sudden vacancy on the Foxfire Haven City Council when Fortie Fortenbacher is found dead in the park. Euphoria Lachlan, the mayor of Foxfire Haven and Hazel Underwood’s high-school bully, is wasting no time finding a replacement. Did Euphoria permanently remove Fortie from the council? Format: Digital, Print

A Jingle of Justice by Daryl Wood Gerber (Cozy Mystery)
Courtney cherishes the festive season. She loves displaying jingle bells and creating seasonally-themed fairy gardens. She looks forward to the book club tea when she will serve delicious gingerbread cookies and discuss a darling mystery set at the holidays. Format: Digital

Dying in High Cotton by Susan Kiernan-Lewis (Historical Mystery 1920s)
Still struggling to adapt to life a hundred years in the past, newlywed Georgia O’Connell is shockingly confronted with the death of a famous socialite from Savannah’s elite that she believes she is honor-bound to solve. Ex-fiancé and current Chief of the Savannah Police Sam Bohannon stands firmly in her way to achieving those ends. Georgia must battle her own ill-advised determination to punish Sam for his many crimes while not letting that vendetta interfere with her new marriage—or her ability to find justice for the murdered woman who had grown to mean so much to Georgia. Format: Digital, Print

Waikoloa Warfare by Christine Wellert (Cozy Mystery)
Summer Jenkins is broke, burned out, and one whistle-blow away from quitting her lifeguard gig for good. So when her dad offers her a part-time job at his PI firm, she figures why not? If she can survive lifeguarding at one of Hawaii’s poshest beaches and the demanding clientele there, she can handle working a few hours a week with her slightly pushy but lovable dad. Then her nosy neighbor turns up dead and Summer becomes the prime suspect. Format: Digital, Print

DECEMBER 2
Murder on Harley Street by C.J. Archer (Private Investigator Mystery)
The medical profession’s faith in electric shock therapies for treating female nervous conditions is shaken after a patient dies while connected to one such device. Harry Armitage is hired by the doctor arrested for her murder, and he invites Cleo to help him uncover the truth. After all, the doctor is the same one who tried—and failed—to treat Cleo’s aunt. As they dig deeper, it becomes apparent the doctor has failed other patients too, and those patients’ loved ones want revenge. Format: Digital, Print, Audio

Frosting, Festivities & Forensics by Virginia K. Bennett (Cozy Mystery)
Karen McGrath, former elementary school art teacher turned children’s book author and illustrator, wasn’t your typical sleuth. When she volunteered to run free art classes at the local library, it was the librarian who always saved the day and solved the town’s mysteries. This time, Karen would have to save her own day. Format: Digital

Lies in Little Sutherland by Jenna Bennette (Historical Mystery 1920s)
Six months ago, Grimsby the valet dug up dirt on everyone in the family at the behest of his employer, Henry, Duke of Sutherland. During a memorable weekend at Sutherland Hall, Grimsby was killed for it. So was Henry, while the new Duchess, Charlotte, wife of Harold, overdosed on Veronal after confessing to murdering both of them. Format: Digital, Print

Killer Cache by Michelle Bennington (Cozy Mystery)
Henny Wiley isn’t just a collector, she’s a hoarder. And her collection, er, hoard, keeps growing—and attracting all the wrong attention. Her nosy neighbor, her family, the sheriff, and Adult Services are all putting on the pressure for her to clean up her property—but she ain’t cleaning without a fight! Format: Digital, Print

Edge by Tracy Clark (Thriller)
Chicago’s finest are scouring the city for a tainted new opioid making the rounds, but they’re coming up empty. With five people already dead—a college kid, a new mother, and three poker players—all they really know is the drug’s name: Edge. Where it’s coming from is still anyone’s guess. Format: Digital, Print, Audio

Terror on the Train by Jeanne M. Dams (Cozy Mystery)
Dorothy Martin and her husband, retired chief constable Alan Nesbitt, are leaving England behind to attend a wedding on Vancouver Island, Canada. Opting for the scenic route, the pair board the Empire Builder sleeper train from Chicago to Seattle. But the journey takes a terrifying turn when Dorothy witnesses a person falling from the train. Format: Digital, Print

A Grim Reaper’s Guide to Cheating Death by Maxie Dara (Supernatural Mystery)
Nora Bird works for S.C.Y.T.H.E., which might seem odd for someone as terrified of death as she is. But ever since her parents died in an accident when she was six, she’s been obsessed with avoiding risk, and what better place to learn how to cheat death than the company that employs the nation’s grim reapers? Format: Digital, Print, Audio

Holidays & Homicides from Gemma Halliday Publishing (Short Story Collection)
From twelve USA Today bestselling and award winning authors, comes a short story collection stuffed full of mirthful mysteries, clever criminals, and holiday cheer! These short holiday bites are perfect for enjoying between rounds of wrapping or binge-reading over a cup of cocoa! Format: Digital

Fun City Heist by Michael Kardos (Heist Crime)
Mo Melnick used to be a drummer in rock band Sunshine Apocalypse. He used to be someone. These days he rents beach umbrellas on the Jersey Shore. The last thing he expects is for Johnny Clay, his old bandmate turned enemy, to ask him a favor. Johnny’s dying, and before he passes he wants Sunshine Apocalypse to reunite for one last gig at Fun City, the beachfront amusement park where their musical journey began. Mo’s in—reluctantly. But then Johnny reveals his real plan: He doesn’t just want to play at Fun City on the fourth of July. He wants to rob it. Format: Digital, Print

My Fair Frauds by Lee Kelly and Jennifer Thorne (Historical Mystery 1880s)
F The Grand Duchess Marie Charlotte Antonie of Würrtemberg–a turmoil-plagued Germanic nation with closely guarded emerald mines–has taken Gilded Age high society by storm. Little does the upper crust know that Würrtemberg’s mines are a sham and its “deposed duchess” is actually a con woman named Alice, a fallen woman out for revenge against the five ruthless robber barons who destroyed her father and left her family in shambles. ormat: Digital, Print, Audio

Watch Us Fall by Christina Kovac (Psychological Thriller)
Lucy and her three best friends share a glamorous but decaying house in the heart of Georgetown. They call themselves “the Sweeties” and live an idyllic post-grad lifestyle complete with exciting jobs, dramatic love lives, and, most importantly, each other. Format: Digital, Print, Audio

Wham, Bam, In a Jam by Amanda M. Lee (Cozy Mystery)
What was supposed to be a day of morel hunting turns into work for Stormy Morgan and her fiancé, Hunter Ryan, when they accidentally stumble across a body. The victim was a few years behind them in school and almost never left her home. A severe case of anxiety locked Kayley Shelton away for years, forcing her to give up her dream and leave college before graduation. She locked herself away in an isolated cabin and had almost no outside contact. Format: Digital, Print

Pearls and Poison by Erin Lindsey (Historical Mystery)
Fully fledged Pinkerton agent Rose Gallagher has just caught her first solo case. Stolen jewels and suspicious deaths in a building on Pearl Street with supernatural markings in the wall are right up her alley. But without her partner, Thomas—whose abrupt departure still hurts her bruised heart—Rose fears she might not be up to the challenge. Especially when the investigation takes a deadly turn . . Format: Digital, Print, Audio

White Wolf by Eric Van Lustbader (Thriller)
In this cutting-edge installment of the acclaimed thriller series, New York Times bestselling author Eric Van Lustbader thrusts readers into a world where power is being redefined by a revolutionary communication program that renders modern encryption obsolete, one that will topple global power structures and give rise to technology-driven totalitarian states. Format: Digital, Print, Audio

Death Throws a Bouquet by Maria Mankin & Maren C. Tirabassi (Cozy Mystery)
Everyone believes their wedding day is special, but a reverend’s June calendar is filled with more than a few “special” days. The Rev. Wanda Duff has to juggle her officiant duties alongside caring for her beloved teenage nephew, the impending arrival of her sister with her Scottish fiancé for their wedding (which Wanda soon realizes she is expected to plan), and a new houseguest in the form of her future brother-in-law’s son, who’s happy to show her nephew a little more summer adventure than Wanda’s strictly comfortable with. Oh, and there’s her favorite retired sheriff, who wants her to look into the accidental slip-and-fall death of a high school teacher well-known for ruffling feathers. Because what Wanda needed was to fit in a good sleuthing between rehearsal dinners and family drama? Format: Digital, Print

Weapon in the Watermelon by Dale Mayer (Cozy Mystery)
When a young couple is attacked while prepping for a catering job, it seems like the family is dealing with a long-running curse—one that ends in murder. … Doreen can’t stop meddling, so, when she finds out that that the young woman’s mother is an unsolved murder case, Doreen has her cold case to work her way into Mack’s current investigation. Format: Digital, Print

Silent Bones by Val McDermid (Thriller)
When torrential winter rain causes a landslide on a motorway, it dislodges more than mud and asphalt – it reveals a skeleton, concealed when the road was built eleven years prior. Sam Nimmo, an investigative journalist who’d been poking his nose into the murky politics of the Scottish independence referendum, had become the prime suspect in the brutal murder of his girlfriend when he vanished. Now he’s reappeared, buried under the motorway. It’s the perfect cold case for DCI Karen Pirie, chief of Police Scotland’s Historic Cases Unit. What was Nimmo investigating that was worth killing over? Format: Digital, Print, Audio

Scot’s Eggs by Catriona McPherson (Cozy Mystery)
Not even Cuento’s Easter bonnet parade can distract Lexy Campbell from conception woes and missing tourists Bill and Billie Miller. The Millers’ vintage Mustang has been abandoned, its interior covered in blood. Is this a double murder, and if so, where are the bodies? Why were the Millers spending the night in their car? Did they pitch up at the Last Ditch Motel only to be turned away? Are they really dead? The Trinity for Trouble are quickly on the case! Format: Digital, Print

Murder, She Wrote: The Body in the Trees by Terrie Farley Moran (Cozy Mystery)
A quartet of friends from Florida have come to Maine to experience a New England autumn, complete with hiking in the woods and fishing. When one of them goes missing, the town rallies to find the presumably lost but otherwise safe tourist. But when newspaper editor Dan Andrews is biking on the trail along a ridge, he looks down and sees a leg caught in the branches of a tree. Count on Jessica Fletcher to uncover the secret reason the victim came to town . . . and how it led to her murder. Format: Digital, Print

The Italian Secret by Tara Moss (Historical World War II Mystery)
A girl embarks on a journey to begin a new life far from home. A woman shelters underground from a wartime air raid, praying her husband will return home. Billie Walker, returned from a stint as a wartime investigative journalist, uncovers a dusty box in her father’s old office whose contents—correspondence with a woman on the other side of the world—just might explain how they all are connected. Format: Digital, Print, Audio

The Snow Lies Deep by Paula Munier (Traditional Mystery)
Mercy and Troy are looking forward to baby Felicity’s first holiday season, and they’re determined to make it a Christmas to remember. At Northshire’s annual Solstice Soirée, hosted by Northshire’s finest and funded by Mercy’s billionaire pal Feinberg, Amy’s little girl Helena is sitting on Santa Claus’s lap. She’s telling him she’d like a Bitty Baby doll just like little Felicity when the bearded man leaps up, thrusts the toddler at her mother Amy, and staggers away from the festivities. He disappears into the woods. By the time Elvis and Mercy find him, Santa Claus aka the town mayor, is lying on his back, dead. A yule log made of oak sits on his chest, burning bright, a beacon of light on the darkest day of the year. Format: Digital, Print, Audio

All My Bones by P.J. Nelson (Cozy Mystery)
Madeline Brimley recently inherited a bookstore in Enigma, Georgia, is embarking on her second career, after her first one (acting) founders upon the metaphorical rocks. Settling in, Madeline recruits her friend Gloria Coleman, the local Episcopal priest, to help her plant azaleas in the front yard of the old Victorian that houses the bookstore. Turning the soil, however, uncovers the body of one Beatrice Glassie, a troublesome woman who has been missing for the past six months. Format: Digital, Print, Audio

LIT by Tim Sandlin (Traditional Mystery)
In a small town in the woods of northwest Wyoming, Kasey Cobb lives alone in a cabin, runs a drive-through coffee kiosk, and hangs out at the library, reading the classics. He’s the least-likely guy to become the center of a culture clash… and death. Yet that’s what happens when he strays past a book-bonfire, ignited by a pastor and his hapless followers, and inadvertently rescues a self-important (drunk) author from being burned with his obscure novel. Format: Digital, Print

The Curious Poisoning of Jewel Barnes by Terry Shames (Traditional Mystery)
Newly single Chief of Police Samuel Craddock hasn’t got time to worry about his own troubles—not with Lily Barnes’ wild accusation and trucks dumping suspicious cargo outside Jarrett Creek late at night. Lily is sure her twin sister, Jewel, is trying to poison her—but it’s Jewel who’s discovered dead. Did she have a secret that could lead Craddock to her killer? Format: Digital, Print

DECEMBER 4
A Poisoning at Castle Gloaming by Kay Blythe (Cozy Mystery)
After a two-day train journey, peripatetic dressmaker Jemima Flowerday makes the final approach to her new job on foot, following the canal to Castle Gloaming, which stands in the rugged North Wales countryside overlooking the foaming River Dee. Format: Digital, Audio

Face Time With Murder by Sue Hollowell (Cozy Mystery)
Maggie Bellamy figured opening a cozy little jewelry shop would be her ticket to a drama-free life. Wrong. Now she’s chasing her golden retriever (who’s got the nose of a crime scene investigator), dodging her cat’s judgmental side-eye, and trying to stay one step ahead of the local podcaster turning the town’s clock tower mystery into front-page gossip. Format: Digital, Print

DECEMBER 5
Willowbend’s Body Disposal Problem by Anne Dafydd (Cozy Mystery) *first book in a new series*
Environmental consultant Myra Masterton thought her biggest problem would be deciding what to do with the thousands of books her estranged grandmother left her in tiny Willowbend, Nebraska. Divorced, unemployed, and starting over at thirty-four, she figured she’d sell the house, sort through the literary chaos, and figure out her next move. Format: Digital, Print

Missing in St Ives by Deborah Fowler (Cozy Mystery)
Former lawyer Merrin McKenzie has returned to her hometown of St Ives, the stunning coastal town in Cornwall. She has settled back into life there in a lovely cottage, and new friendships are beginning to blossom. An old friend, Jane Faulkner is going through a messy divorce, and her daughter Emily is keen to stay with Merrin, but just three days into the holiday, she disappears. Emily has pushed a note through Merrin’s bedroom door to say she is going back home to Bristol but has left behind all of her possessions. It soon becomes clear she is not heading home and the police are notified, but when a ransom demand is made to her parents requesting 500,000 for the girl’s safe return, matters take a distinctly sinister turn. Format: Digital, Print

DECEMBER 6
Secrets Lie in Wait by Daniella Bernett (Traditional Mystery)
Debonair jewel thief/insurance investigator Gregory Longdon has always relied on his wits to extricate himself from tricky situations. But when he’s kidnapped and framed for murder in Amsterdam by Russian mafia boss Bogdan Kozlov, living on a knife’s edge stops being a game. Meanwhile, his wife, journalist Emmeline Kirby, is stirring up trouble—as usual—with articles about Kozlov’s diamond smuggling operation and the Golden Tulip, a looted 130-carat yellow diamond with a long, colorful past. Format: Digital, Print

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