New Releases For The Week Of May 26th, 2024–Part 1

Things are heating up in Arizona in this thrilling novella introducing a page-turning new series by New York Times bestselling author Allison Brennan

Margo Angelhart was recently certified as a private investigator, but she isn’t convinced that it’s her calling. All of her cases have been minor, mostly for family and haven’t paid the bills. She’s more than happy to keep bartending and figure out her post-military career later. That is, until prosecutor Andy Flannigan walks into her bar and offers her a case she can’t turn down…

Nineteen-year-old Sergio Diaz has confessed to murder—except Andy doesn’t buy it. With his own job on the line, Andy asks Margo to work the case discreetly. The more she digs, the more she’s convinced an innocent kid is going to prison for a crime he didn’t commit. Now she just needs to figure out why he’d confess. Can Margo prove Sergio’s innocence and help Andy find the real killer before anyone else dies?

Angelhart Investigations

Book 1: You’ll Never Find Me (Amazon)

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From “one of the genre’s most exciting voices” (E! News) comes one of the year’s most-anticipated thrillers.

For the past five years, Ryan Richardson has relived that terrible night. The car door ripping open. The crushing blow to the head. The hands yanking him from the vehicle. His girlfriend Ali’s piercing scream as she is taken.

With no trace of Ali or the car, a cloud of suspicion hangs over Ryan. But with no proof and a good lawyer, he’s never charged, though that doesn’t matter to the podcasters and internet trolls. Now, Ryan has changed his last name, and entered law school. He’s put his past behind him.

Until, on a summer trip abroad to Italy with his law-school classmates, Ryan gets a call from his father: Ali’s car has finally been found, submerged in a lake in his hometown. Inside are two dead men and a cryptic note with five words written on the envelope in Ali’s handwriting: If something happens to me…

Then, halfway around the world, the unthinkable happens: Ryan sees the man who has haunted his dreams since that night.

As Ryan races from the rolling hills of Tuscany, to a rural village in the UK, to the glittering streets of Paris in search of the truth, he has no idea that his salvation may lie with a young sheriff’s deputy in Kansas working her first case, and a mobster in Philadelphia who’s experienced tragedy of his own.

In classic Alex Finlay form, If Something Happens to Me is told by several distinct, compelling characters whose paths intersect, detonating into a story of twist after pulse-pounding twist. The novel cements Finlay as one of the leading thriller writers today. (Amazon)

Editions Available: Kindle, Hardcover, Audiobook

#1 New York Times bestselling author John Grisham takes you back to Camino Island where bookseller Bruce Cable and novelist Mercer Mann always manage to find trouble in paradise.

In this new thriller on Camino Island, popular bookseller Bruce Cable tells Mercer Mann an irresistible tale that might be her next novel. A giant resort developer is using its political muscle and deep pockets to claim ownership of a deserted island between Florida and Georgia. Only the last living inhabitant of the island, Lovely Jackson, stands in its way. What the developer doesn’t know is that the island has a remarkable history, and locals believe it is cursed…and the past is never the past… (Amazon)

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When Mackenzie Owens started a book club in the small Cornwall town she now calls home, it was meant to be something to bring the community together. But that’s a hard ask when someone drops dead on day one.

With a body in the bookstore, Mack’s reputation is going from floating in the toilet bowl to swirling down into the depths of the sewer. If she doesn’t get to the bottom of this, and fast, there’s no crawling out of there like the hot version of a Ninja Turtle Mack always wanted to be.

Enlisting the help of Maggie and her friends, Mack is convinced she’s going to solve this on her own. After all, what’s another murder investigation, right? But it soon turns out that not everything is as it seems, and Mack quickly finds herself mired deep in Cornwall’s criminal underbelly that has tried to stay hidden for so long.

Discovering that it’s not just her reputation at stake, it’s also her life, will Mack get to the bottom of the case before it’s too late? (Amazon)

Editions Available: Kindle

A Valkyrie with Haphazard Magic

A Fallen Angel Seeking Redemption

An Unlikely Crime-Solving Duo

***Cross-over series from the A Witch in the Woods series with Shayla Loci and Alex Stone!

With good news to celebrate, Kara and the girls weren’t prepared for the latest attack that came their way. But when winged-horse shifter and yogi instructor, Crystal Noble, becomes a possible suspect or next potential victim, Kara, Bettina, and Zahara vow to do everything they can to save their friend. When a handsome stranger comes into the picture, Kara and the girls are immediately suspicious of his intentions. When another dead body is discovered, Kara and Zane strike their own warrior pose and chase down the bad guy. (Amazon)

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Emma Justice never imagines working at the farmers market on a normal Saturday morning will lead to her second murder investigation. When two friends becomes suspects in the latest small-town murder, she’ll help prove they are innocent by tracking down the real killer.

Houston Turner, the successful owner of Texas BBQ Hut, is a hard man and has made many enemies in his life. Revenge, greed, and hatred are some of the motives Emma must sift through to catch the killer. Seeds of suspicion from family, friends, and employees leaves Emma digging for real clues instead of stumbling through the rocky soil of deceit and lies. (Amazon)

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It was supposed to be just another gig for Codi Cassidy, a country music star.

A wealthy businessman hires Codi Cassidy and her band to play at his private costume party for him and his guests.

During the show, a violent storm rolls through, the lights go out, and someone drops dead.

When the town’s police chief, who is also a party guest, gets incapacitated, and with no outside chance for help, it’s up to Codi to work through the guest list to determine whodunit.

It’s music, murder, and mayhem in this third book of the Codi Cassidy Cozy Mystery series. (Amazon)

Editions Available: Kindle

In the quaint town of Clover, Missouri, the peaceful rhythm of life is shattered when Agatha Greenfield, a respected botanist and leader of the local Garden Club, is found dead under mysterious circumstances. The community is stunned, especially Della Fox, a widowed antique store owner with a penchant for solving mysteries. Agatha had been a pillar in the gardening community, revered for her knowledge and feared for her sharp tongue.

As Della delves into the investigation, and deals with her feelings for Bryce, her late husband’s best friend and an FBI agent, she uncovers not just the secrets of Agatha’s Garden Club but also the hidden layers of a small town teeming with undercurrents of old grudges and resentments. What starts as a straightforward investigation soon spirals into a web of deceit, misdirection, and more questions than answers.

With every discovery, Della finds herself more deeply entwined in the lives of the club members, revealing that beneath the surface of their shared passion for gardening lie dangerous secrets that someone is willing to kill to keep. At the same time, she and Bryce continue to search for the person or persons intent on murdering Della, a murderer who is closer than they think.

“The Garden Club Murder” is a captivating cozy mystery that combines gardening, small-town dynamics, and suspense, perfect for readers who love a plot that twists like the vines of a well-tended wisteria. (Amazon)

Editions Available: Kindle

In the serene coastal haven of Cherry Blossom Bay, the whispers are deadly, and the truth is as elusive as the shifting sands.

With one mystery under her belt, Piper Rose is ready for more. Despite her boss and affable PI Kenji Kitsune firing her every other day during their banter, she loves what she’s doing…and who she’s doing it with. But the discovery of local artist Victoria Scheffeld’s body at the scenic shore casts a dark cloud over the town’s blooming cherry blossoms.

Victoria, an emerging talent from the arts community, was entangled in a web of suspicion and secrets. Was her death an accident, or was she silenced? The suspects are as colorful and complex as her paintings: Adrian Lancaster, head of the committee that issued her a scholarship; a group of shady businessmen unable to reclaim the money they loaned her; and her own brother, Detective Richmond, who was seen arguing with her in public right before her untimely death.

As the Spring Art Festival draws near, Piper and Kenji must navigate through lies and distrust. The closer they get to the truth, the more perilous their path becomes. Can they solve the mystery before the petals fall and the killer strikes again?

Step into Whispers on the Wind, where every whisper could mean the difference between justice and injustice, and where the past never truly dies. Fans of Bones and Castle are devouring this series! (Amazon)

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A dead ex-boyfriend, the city detective trying to frame her, and a mystery from the past that’s been haunting a small town for a decade. She’s seen death, but the baker has never been in danger like this before…

Maddie Dixon is just trying to get on with her life; she has her little bakery, and her friends, and she is content living in her quiet little town and leaving her crime solving days behind her. But when the body of Travis Lang, her ex-boyfriend, is found on the bakery’s doorstep, one of Maddie’s own knives in his heart, she finds herself once again tangled up in a mystery.

Between tiptoeing around a grieving sister, a city detective trying to put her in a cell, and her crush using her to get information on a news story, Maddie has her hands full. Digging into her ex’s past, she delves into a horrifying scandal that was never resolved, and which has been haunting her little town—and the Lang family—for years. And it may be the reason for Travis’s demise.

When the killer strikes again, and a local personality ends up dead, Maddie realizes she’s in over her head. And it’s going to take more than friendship and cupcakes to solve these crimes. (Amazon)

Editions Available: Kindle

An aggravating angel.
A deadly decoration.
An unexpected union.
Time to deck the halls with bras of holly …

It’s Yuletide in the supernatural village of Nohallows, and Hecate Jones has been given the task of directing the school play at St Morrigan’s. As if she didn’t have enough to do, what with her job as a Humanism teacher, her role as a junior agent for the SBI and the emerging competition between Cam and Mac. So the last thing she needs is another mystery to solve!
The principals of the supernatural schools are being targeted, and before they know it, Hecate and her faithful familiar Diva the greyhound are up to their necks in more than tinsel and turkey …

It’s all conspiracy and no computing at St Morrigan’s, as you catch up with old friends and new! Curl up with a hot chocolate and the sixth book in this latest light-hearted paranormal cozy mystery series, set in a school for supernatural kids.

St Morrigan’s – it’s not like other schools … (Amazon)

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Deborah, a brilliant party planner, has always lived by one rule: never date a client. But when reserved accountant Thomas Granger hires her for a 40th birthday bash, sparks ignite beneath the surface. Their connection deepens after a magical first date, but when Thomas mysteriously disappears, Deborah is left with a cryptic note and a world of questions.

In “Party Sparks,” love and mystery intertwine as Deborah unravels the truth about the man who captured her heart. Join her on a thrilling journey where the line between love and secrets blurs, challenging everything she thought she knew about trust, fate, and unexpected twists.

Get ready for a rollercoaster of emotions and a love story that transcends the ordinary. Will Deborah’s heart lead her to the answers she seeks, or will Thomas Granger’s secrets shatter her world forever? (Amazon)

Editions Available: Kindle