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4-STAR REVIEW: TURNING THE PAGE ON MURDER by Vanessa Westermann
Murder by the Book Mysteries: Book 2
Publication Date: May 16, 2026
Bookstore owner and armchair sleuth Kate Rowan loved a good murder mystery ― until she fell for an actual killer.
Once, she’d hoped her fling with security expert Gary Fenris...
4.5-STAR REVIEW: THE WINTER VERDICT by Dan Buzzetta
Tom Berte: Book 2
Publication Date: February 17, 2026
Lawyer Tom Berte’s bucolic new life is about to be shattered by a threat he can’t ignore.
Tom Berte, a former Department of Justice lawyer, thought he’d left his past behind when he...
4-STAR REVIEW: VIEWS by Marc-Uwe Kling
Publication Date: May 19, 2026
Black Mirror meets Stieg Larsson in Views, a compulsive thriller that explores the toxic relationship between technology and humanity, and the fallout after unthinkable lines are crossed.
Sixteen-year-old Lena Palmer has gone missing when a violent video of...
4.5-STAR REVIEW: LOVE BEYOND REASONABLE DOUBT by Swati Hegde
Publication Date: May 12, 2026
In this second-chance workplace romance, two lawyers find themselves working in the same office after a steamy vacation fling a year and a half ago, from the author of Can't Help Faking in Love
Naina Shetty is...
3.5-STAR REVIEW: OUR LITTLE SECRET by Edward Kay & Mikhael Klassen-Kay
Publication Date: May 16, 2026
Twelfth-grade English teacher Mr. Lowell turns up dead one May morning. Cause of death: autoerotic asphyxiation gone wrong. Everyone at Ridgeview Alternative School is shocked. Everyone, that is, except honor students Jordan Byrne, Nick Moretti,...
4-STAR REVIEW: KANE’S RECKONING by Bailey Thomas
Publication Date: May 11, 2026
Can their love survive a father’s ambition to protect his empire?
Kane Miller, heir to PC Miller Corporation, has no interest in working for his billionaire family's business. Driven by his creative passion, he aims to...
4-STAR REVIEW: SHADOWS OF THE MISSING by Lauren Carr
A Chris Matheson Cold Case Mystery: Book 5
Publication Date: May 5, 2026
In the shadows of the missing, the truth lies buried.
Helen Clarke-Matheson believed she had escaped the shadows of her past, building a new life with Chris. But the...
5-STAR REVIEW: THE FRAGILE BREATH by Sharon V. Agar REVIEWER’S CHOICE! 🏆
Publication Date: May 12, 2026
Based on a true story, this heartwarming and often humorous story follows a fortysomething New Yorker as she uproots her entire life in pursuit of a cure after developing a terminal disease—and ends up finding...
4-STAR REVIEW: DIRTY MYRTLE by Kennedy Weible
Publication Date: June 9, 2026
A few days before Thanksgiving, Sailor Cassidy is running an amateur stakeout she has no business conducting. She’s nursing a bad breakup, following a plan that’s half-baked in more ways than one, and reckless enough...
5-STAR REVIEW: MURDER, LOCAL STYLE by Leslie Karst
An Orchid Isle Mystery: Book 3
Publication Date: April 7, 2026
Retired caterer Valerie Corbin investigates a suspicious poisoning in this Orchid Isle culinary mystery, featuring a feisty queer couple who swap surfing lessons for sleuthing sessions in tropical Hilo, Hawai‘i.
A...
5-STAR REVIEW: A HARLEM WEDDING by Tiffany L. Warren
Publication Date: May 12, 2026
From The Unexpected Diva author Tiffany L. Warren—a dishy and dramatic novel of the Harlem Renaissance and its most famous Black debutante, Yolande Du Bois, daughter of W.E.B. Du Bois, whose spectacular wedding to poet Countee Cullen...
5-STAR REVIEW: THE FOURSOME by Christina Baker Kline REVIEWER’S CHOICE! 🏆
Publication Date: May 12, 2026
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Christina Baker Kline comes a boldly original reimagining of an astonishing true two sisters in nineteenth-century North Carolina—Kline’s own distant relatives—who married world-famous conjoined twins from Siam.
When Chang and...
3.5-STAR REVIEW: A WRITING MARRIAGE By Lori Carlson-Hijuelos
Publication Date: May 12, 2026
A uniquely styled memoir that blends fiction and nonfiction to illuminate the love, faith, and artistry of two American writers.
In December 1998, novelist Oscar Hijuelos and writer/editor Lori Marie Carlson were married in the Riverside...
5-STAR REVIEW: SOUNDS LIKE TROUBLE TO ME by Jean Trounstine
Publication Date: May 12, 2026
Sounds Like Trouble to Me sheds light on what happens when a corrections officer kills her abusive husband and suddenly finds herself on the other side of the law. Not only is she shocked with...
3.5-STAR REVIEW: A VERY VEXING MURDER by Lucy Andrew
Harriet Smith Investigates: Book 1
Publication Date: May 12, 2026
A witty debut whodunit that reimagines Harriet Smith, the gullible sidekick of Jane Austen’s Emma , as a spitfire con woman, hired to break off an engagement and uncover a murderer in the...
5-STAR REVIEW: THE LAST LADY B by Eloisa James
Publication Date: May 12, 2026
Lady B may have married Bluebeard; she may have fallen in love with a gorgeous, grumpy solicitor; she may have met a ghost and survived to tell the tale! New York Times and USA TODAY...
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