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4-STAR REVIEW: DIRTY MYRTLE by Kennedy Weible

Mystery JoAnne - 13 May 2026

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...

5-STAR REVIEW: MURDER, LOCAL STYLE by Leslie Karst

Cozy Mystery Lori Van Buren - 13 May 2026

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...

5-STAR REVIEW: A HARLEM WEDDING by Tiffany L. Warren

Historical Fiction Amy Wilson - 13 May 2026

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,...

5-STAR REVIEW: THE FOURSOME by Christina Baker Kline REVIEWER’S CHOICE! 🏆

Literary Fiction Amy Wilson - 13 May 2026

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...

3.5-STAR REVIEW: A WRITING MARRIAGE By Lori Carlson-Hijuelos

Biography/Memoir Amy Wilson - 12 May 2026

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...

5-STAR REVIEW: SOUNDS LIKE TROUBLE TO ME by Jean Trounstine

Family Life Peggy K - 12 May 2026

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...

3.5-STAR REVIEW: A VERY VEXING MURDER by Lucy Andrew

Historical Mystery Tierney Linton - 12 May 2026

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...

5-STAR REVIEW: THE LAST LADY B by Eloisa James

Historical Romance Amy Wilson - 12 May 2026

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...

5-STAR REVIEW: REALITY BITES by Amy Mass

Contemporary Romance Amy Wilson - 11 May 2026

Publication Date: May 12, 2026 A wickedly funny debut romcom in which a young scientist reluctantly becomes a contestant on a reality TV dating show to save her lab—and realizes her secrets are...

5-STAR REVIEW: STORM BREAKER by Nisha J. Tuli REVIEWER’S CHOICE! 🏆

Young Adult/Teen Amy Wilson - 8 May 2026

Storm Breaker: Book 1 Publication Date: May 5, 2026 From the publisher who brought you Fourth Wing comes your next romantasy obsession... For nineteen-year-old Poet Graves, New Manhattan has always promised safety—if she obeys. Raised within the...

4-STAR REVIEW: THE RANCHER’S UNLIKELY MATCH by Jill Kemerer

Romance JoAnne - 8 May 2026

Tumbleweed, Texas: Book 4 Publication Date: April 28, 2026 Could her fresh start… …be the answer to his prayers? Widowed rancher Ben Wright doesn’t need more complications, especially not runaway goats from the pretty new farmer...

4-STAR REVIEW: LIFE AND HOW TO LIVE IT by Chaz Holesworth

Biography/Memoir Amy Wilson - 8 May 2026

Life and How to Live It: Book 1 Publication Date: March 1, 2025 Philadelphia in the 1980s was no place for the soft-hearted. For Chaz Holesworth, childhood meant dodging gangs, addiction, and silence after...