Here is a list of some of the new releases for the week of July 29th, 2018. I am going to divide the list into 4 days because there are so very many of them for this week. Today is the third day of my list. Hope you find some selections for your weekly reading. Enjoy and happy reading.
Managing a fitness club café and collaborating on a cookbook with her grandfather are Val Deniston’s usual specialties, but she’s about to set sail into nearby Chesapeake Bay—straight into a murder case . . .
Since catering themed events is a good way to make extra cash, Val agrees to board the Titanic—or at least cater a re-creation of the doomed journey on a yacht. The owner of the yacht, who collects memorabilia related to the disaster, wants Val to serve the last meal the Titanic passengers ate . . . while his guests play a murder-mystery game. But it is the final feast for one passenger who disappears from the ship. And that’s only the tip of the iceberg.
Now Val has to reel in a killer before s’more murders go down . . .
Includes delicious five-ingredient recipes! (Amazon)
Editions Available: Kindle, Paperback
Special price of 99¢ for a limited time!
Faith Tillerson loves her job as a school teacher but it doesn’t leave much opportunity to meet eligible bachelors—unless you count divorced fathers and perhaps a stalker.
Nick Claussen knows he’s a workaholic but what’s a guy to do when murder doesn’t take a holiday? Hopefully they’ll be able to get through the holidays alive.
THE 12 MYSTERIES OF CHRISTMAS series:
• Book 1: IN THE NICK OF TIME by Susette Williams
• Book 2: GABRIEL’S SECRET by Alexa Verde
• Book 3: GUARDING CANDY KANE by V.B. Tenery
• Book 4: MURDER: UP ON THE ROOFTOP by Tina Dee
• Book 5: JOY IN JEOPARDY by Lynette Sowell
• Book 6: HOLLY IN HIDING by P. Creeden
• Book 7: STARR WITNESS by Susette Williams
• Book 8: NOELLE ON THE RUN by Alexa Verde
• Book 9: GOLDEN BELLES ARE WRINGING by Gina Conroy
• Book 10: DEATH BY FIGGY PUDDING by Tina Dee
• Book 11: DANGER FOR GLORIA by Lynette Sowell
• Book 12: MERRY WITHOUT MALICE by P. Creeden (Amazon)
Editions Available: Kindle
When tea tastes like danger …
Maddie’s difficult ex-mother-in-law and her crazed old parrot are at it again, stirring up new drama in the Morgan household. Maddie has no sooner resolved the last crises involving her family, than a new problem arrives in the form of a dangerous business rival determined to shut down her tea garden. To make matters worse, a severed hand has just been found in the tea garden and no one seems to know where it’s come from! Can Maddie discover the truth and unravel an old crime before the perpetrator gets close enough to end her investigation permanently? Or has Maddie Morgan donned her detective hat and her gardening gloves for the last time? (Amazon)
Editions Available: Kindle
“Last Voyage is a fine whodunnit in the classic Christie tradition.”
A cruise ship is the perfect place for murder, or so it seems when Gord Fehr, a long-time hustler, is killed while on a Baltic cruise. It quickly becomes clear that Fehr had been surrounded onboard by former victims of his escapades, vastly widening the pool of suspects.
Security officer MJ Murphy and her assistant, Bradley Gros, face many other obstacles while investigating the murder, including the Chief Security Officer, who is quick to criticize their efforts; Regal Cruise Lines, which has already suffered too much bad press; the Copenhagen-based FBI agent, who is looking to exert his authority and has little patience for what he feels is the work of amateurs; and especially the witnesses, most of whom hated the victim and are reluctant to assist in a search for his killer.
And even when the mystery is finally solved, MJ Murphy’s goals in achieving justice may prove to be somewhat different than those of the FBI. (Amazon)
Editions Available: Kindle
A Park Avenue princess discovers the dark side of 1930s New York when a debutante ball turns deadly in this gripping historical mystery for readers of Victoria Thompson, Anne Perry, and Rhys Bowen.
Manhattan, 1938. Tired of being trapped in the gilded cage of her family’s expectations, Elizabeth Adams has done what no self-respecting socialite would think to do: She’s gotten herself a job. Although Elizabeth’s dream is to one day see her photographs on the front page of the Daily Trumpet, for now she’s working her way up as the newsroom’s gal Friday.
But fetching coffee isn’t exactly her idea of fun. So when veteran reporter Ralph Kaminsky needs a photographer to fill in for a last-minute assignment, Elizabeth jumps at the chance. At the Waldorf Hotel, Elizabeth is tasked with tracking down the season’s “It girl,” Gloria DeWitt, who will be making her society debut. Working her own connections to New York’s upper crust, Elizabeth manages to land an exclusive interview with Gloria.
Then Gloria’s stepmother is shot dead in a Waldorf bathroom, placing Elizabeth at the scene of a headline-worthy scandal: “Murder of a Society Dame.” Now Elizabeth will have to get the scoop on the killer before her good name gets dragged through the gossip columns—or worse. . . . (Amazon)
Editions Available: Kindle
Still kicking herself in the pants for ever getting married in the first place, twenty-something crime statistician Marcie Rayner does a turnaround. She divorces her philandering husband and trades her desk job in St. Paul, Minnesota, for a temporary role as an investigative assistant in New Ulm.
Never expecting her first case to come from her mother in Florida, Marcie finds herself ensconced in a full-blown murder investigation. The victim, forty-five-year-old microbrewery owner, Billy Hazlitt, is found shot to death on the floor of the Crooked Eye Brewery’s tank room in the nearby hamlet of Biscay.
And while Biscay doesn’t seem like the place where murder motives abound, its quirky residents, including two spinster sisters and the employees of the local diner, offer more obstacles than help. Marcie is convinced one of them is the killer. As she digs deeper into the case, she learns the victim may not be the nice guy everyone thought he was. Worse yet, the killer may be gunning for her as well.
Book One of the Marcie Rayner Mystery Series
Editions Available: Kindle, Paperback
For Alberta Scaglione, her golden years are turning out much more differently than she expected—and much more deadly . . .
Alberta Scaglione’ s spinster aunt had some secrets—like the fortune she squirreled away and a secret lake house in Tranquility, New Jersey. More surprising: she’s left it all to Alberta. Alberta, a widow, is no spring chicken and she’s gotten used to disappointment. So having a beautiful view, surrounded by hydrangeas, honeysuckle, and her cat, Lola, sounds blissful after years of yelling and bickering and cooking countless lasagnas.
But Tranquility isn’t as peaceful as it sounds. There’s a body in the water—and it belongs to Alberta’s childhood nemesis. Alberta suspects foul play and when Alberta’s estranged granddaughter, an aspiring crime reporter, shows up, it only makes sense for them to team up and investigate . . .
Includes Italian recipes from Alberta’s kitchen! (Amazon)
Editions Available: Kindle, Paperback, Audiobook
Restaurateur Robbie Jordan is ready for the boost in business a local music festival brings to South Lick, Indiana, but the beloved event strikes a sour note when one of the musicians is murdered . . .
June’s annual Brown County Bluegrass Festival at the Bill Monroe Music Park in neighboring Beanblossom is always a hit for Robbie’s country store and café, Pans ‘N Pancakes. This year, Robbie is even more excited, because she’s launching a new bed and breakfast above her shop. A few festival musicians will be among Robbie’s first guests, along with her father, Roberto, and his wife, Maria. But the celebration is cut short when a performer is found choked to death by a banjo string. Now all the banjo players are featured in a different kind of lineup. To clear their names, Robbie must pair up with an unexpected partner to pick at the clues and find the plucky killer before he can conduct an encore performance . . .
Includes Recipes for You to Try! (Amazon)
Editions Available: Kindle, Paperback, Audiobook
All Georgia Rae Winston wants is to fall in love. Life, of course, has other plans.
Georgia’s biggest challenge in the farming town of Wildcat Springs, Indiana, is figuring out how to win Evan Beckworth’s heart. Until the day she discovers the body of a former student in the woods.
She assumes it was an accident. When she starts to suspect it wasn’t, it stirs memories of her father’s murder nine years earlier. A murder never solved. Georgia refuses to let that happen this time.
Not necessarily the wisest decision.
As Georgia works with the sheriff’s department’s newest detective, Cal Perkins, she finds her heart slipping into his hands. But her head is pummeled with conflicting evidence and anonymous threats of severe consequences if she digs any deeper.
In the end, Georgia faces a paralyzing choice. Ignore the dark secrets inside the family and friends who surround her or be willing to risk her own life to uncover the truth.
(Amazon)
Editions Available: Kindle, Paperback
Every town has one. The big old house which has stood empty for so long that no one really remembers anyone living there. The iconic subject of lore and folktales which hints at supernatural occurrences, tragedy, and family curses, that can be neither confirmed nor denied. For the town of White Eagle Montana the house that served as the subject of ghostly stories by the campfire was a huge old mansion built more than fifty years ago by a wealthy industrialist as a summer home for his wife and five children. The house, void of love and laughter, served as a sort of luxury prison far away from the hustle and bustle of Hartford Harrington’s full and busy life in San Francisco.
Structurally, Harrington House had weathered the long winters and hot summers of northern Montana. It had endured long after every one of those five children had been buried in the little family cemetery at the edge of the huge estate. I’m really not sure why the place was never sold, or even lived in, by whichever Harrington relation inherited the place, but after the summer Houston Harrington jumped from the third floor window to the concrete bricks of the veranda below, not a single Harrington or Harrington heir had set foot in the place.
Until now.
When Jordan Westlake inherits the house from his mother, he decides to break tradition and take up residence. He expected that the renovation on the old mansion would be an expensive and time consuming endeavor, what he didn’t expect to find was a skeleton in his closet. Literally. (Amazon)
Editions Available: Kindle, Paperback