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April 2018 New Book Releases

A Charming Corpse (Magical Cures Mystery #11)

The quaint and magical shops in the cozy but unusual little town of Whispering Falls, Kentucky have been booming with business, with the exception of A Charming Cure. A mortal is selling homemade oils and making unfounded promises, undercutting…

A Fishy Discovery (Dune House Cozy Mystery #8)

Suzie and Mary are excited about helping Summer and Jason plan their upcoming wedding. The wedding will be held at Dune House, the majestic bed and breakfast by the sea. But when Robbie, Paul’s friend turns up dead, Suzie’s focus turns to helping…

A Magical Match (Witchcraft Mystery Series #9)

Lily Ivory and her friends are planning a 1950s-themed brunch to benefit the local women's shelter. When a figure from her past shows up unannounced, threatening her unless she returns something that belonged to him, Lily's fiancé, Sailor, steps…

Antique Blues (Josie Prescott Antiques Mystery #12)

Ever-crafty Josie must confront suspicious antiques dealers and her own friend’s killer in Antique Blues, the twelfth mystery in Jane K. Cleland's beloved Josie Prescott Antiques Mystery series set in New Hampshire. When amateur sleuth and…

Antiques Wanted (Trash 'n' Treasures Mysteries #14)

Spring lassos small-town Serenity, as Brandy Borne’s crime-bustin’ mama Vivian hatches a harebrained scheme to run for county sheriff-ropin’ in her daughter to join the rodeo as campaign manager. As the two-woman posse tracks down voters at a…

Aunt Bessie Questions (Isle of Man Cozy Mystery #17)

Helen Baxter and Inspector Pete Corkill are getting married, but Helen’s nerves are getting the better of her. Elizabeth Cubbon, Bessie to everyone, does everything she can to help her friend. Aunt Bessie questions whether the wedding will happen…

Bad Neighbors (Agnes and Effie Mystery #2)

Agnes Blythe and her glamorous Aunt Effie must take a break from restoring their inn to rake in the clues when a local mechanic is murdered in national bestselling author Maia Chance’s charming second Agnes & Effie mystery. It’s leaf-peeping…

Bleeding Tarts (Pie Town Mystery #2)

Old West ghost towns are as American as apple pie. So what better place to sponsor a pie-eating contest than the Bar X, a fake ghost town available for exclusive private events on the edge of Silicon Valley. Valentine Harris is providing the pies…

Cinco De Murder (Taste of Texas Mystery #3)

It's fiesta time in Broken Boot, Texas! And tourists are pouring into town faster than free beer at a bull roping to partake of the mouthwatering Cinco de Mayo festivities. Tex-Mex waitress Josie Callahan, her feisty abuela, Senora Mari, and even…

Cold Earth (Shetland Island Mystery Series #7)

In the dark days of a Shetland winter, torrential rain triggers a landslide that crosses the main road and sweeps down to the sea. At the burial of his old friend Magnus Tait, Jimmy Perez watches the flood of mud and water smash through a house…

Death by the Sea (By the Sea Mystery #1)

The Indialantic by the Sea hotel has a hundred-year-old history on beautiful Melbourne Beach, Florida, and more than a few guests seem to have been there from the start. When Liz Holt returns home after an intense decade in New York, she’s happy…

Death of a Cookbook Author (Hayley Powell Mystery #10)

When Hayley's idol, cookbook author and TV personality Penelope Janice, invites her to participate in a Fourth of July celebrity cook-off at her seaside estate in Seal Harbor, Maine, Hayley couldn't be more flattered. She just hopes she can…

Expiration Date (A Cook-Off Mystery #1)

After a short-lived marriage, Sherry Frazzelle is living single life to the fullest in her little Connecticut town, accompanied by her Jack Russell terrier, Chutney. Her new passion is competitive cooking-but it turns out that murder is the…

Fortune's Favors (Claire Rollins Mystery #5)

An old acquaintance of Claire’s boyfriend, Detective Ian Fuller, asks to have the cold case murder of her mother reopened. When it is discovered that the case files and the collected evidence from the investigation were destroyed in a fire, Ian…

Hair of the Dog (Cypress Cove Mystery #3)

In Cypress Cove, someone is playing ruff… Amateur sleuth Penny Lively is working her tail off trying to keep her family winery afloat. For the first time in her life she's too busy to go looking for trouble. But when drugs are stolen from town…

Hide and Sneak (Savannah Reid Series #23)

As one of nine siblings raised in the Deep South, plus-sized P.I. Savannah Reid has experienced her share of family drama. But shotgun weddings and snooty in-laws don’t worry her nearly as much as a search for a missing mother and child-…

High Desert Super Series (High Desert Mystery #17)

Includes 6 books. Marty, you're not in Kansas anymore! Palm Springs, wealth, and murders, yes. Cattle and wheat, no! She never expected to have a new romance and become involved in solving murders, but when you fall in love with a detective, it…

In Prior's Wood (Max Tudor Series #7)

Newly returned from investigating a murder in Monkslip-super-Mare, handsome Max Tudor wants nothing more than to settle back into his predictable routine as vicar of St. Edwold’s Church in the village of Nether Monkslip. But the flow of his…

Lemon Meringue Die (Southern Psychic Sisters Mystery #4)

Ember Greene, a sharp businesswoman but troubled psychic, is invited to a Seer retreat on the Georgia coast complete with fruity cocktails, spa treatments, and daily affirmations. But her relaxing weekend turns sour when a dead body turns…

Lord of the Pies (Kensington Palace Chef Mystery #2)

When Carrie Ann Cole bakes a lemon meringue pie to die for that actually kills someone, she must find out who the real killer is before her time at the Kensington Palace expires. The elegant Orangery at Kensington Palace is the perfect setting…

Lost Books and Old Bones (Scottish Bookshop Mystery #3)

Delaney Nichols, originally of Kansas but settling happily into her new life as a bookseller in Edinburgh, works at The Cracked Spine in the heart of town. She’s recently befriended a few medical school students after they came into the shop to…

Miss Julia Raises the Roof (Miss Julia Series #19)

With her husband Sam off on a trip to Europe, Miss Julia takes a pause to reflect on the past few decades--realizing how the comforts and joys of her life can sometimes give way to boredom. Miss Julia reckons it's about time to roll up her…

Miz Scarlet and the Acrimonious Attorney (Scarlet Wilson Mystery #6)

Scarlet Wilson made a mistake when she quoted Shakespeare. 'First thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.' Less than an hour later, a lawyer was murdered in a parking garage in Hartford, Connecticut. Not just any lawyer, her lawyer! When she…

Motto for Murder (Merry Wrath Mystery #6)

For ex-CIA Agent turned Girl Scout troop leader, Merry Wrath, planning a wedding is infinitely more terrifying than the time she was a mole in Carlos the Armadillo’s drug cartel. To make matters worse, while plagued by insomnia (brought on by…

Murder and Mega Millions (High Desert Mystery #6)

She picked the winning numbers. She won millions. Is that why she was murdered? But who did it? Melissa’s no-good uncle or her ex-con brother who she hasn’t seen for years? Could they both be prime suspects? And what about her maid and her…

Murder at Medley Park (Juliette Abbott Regency Mystery #4)

MURDER AT MEDLEY PARK is the fourth book in best-selling author Marilyn Clay's Juliette Abbott Regency Mystery Series. In the tradition of Stephanie Barron, Jane Austen and Carola Dunn, Marilyn Clay’s Regency mystery novels contain no strong…

Murder at the Mushroom Festival (Kelly Jackson Mystery #4)

Redwood Cove Bed and Breakfast manager Kelly Jackson is hosting a cooking class during the Week of the Mushroom festival to attract guests, not drama. But soon after she finishes foraging for an edible mushroom species on sacred Native American…

Murder in the Locked Library (Book Retreat Mystery #4)

With her twins, Fitzgerald and Hemingway, back in school, Jane Steward can finally focus on her work again-managing Storyton Hall, and breaking ground on the resort’s latest attraction: a luxurious, relaxing spa named in honor of Walt Whitman.…

Pastry Penalties (Donut Shop Mystery Series #36)

When Emily Hargraves’ stuffed animals are kidnapped and ransomed, the police treat it as a joke, but when the apparent abductor ends up on the wrong end of a knife, things turn deadly serious in April Springs as Suzanne and Jake do their best to…

Queen Anne's Lace (China Bayles Mystery #26)

A present day ghost leads China Bayles to a secret from Pecan Springs's past in this haunting mystery from New York Times bestselling author Susan Wittig Albert. While helping Ruby Wilcox clean up the loft above their shops, China comes upon a…

Read Herring Hunt (Mystery Bookshop #2)

To the town of North Harbor, Michigan, MISU quarterback Dawson Alexander is a local hero. To Samantha Washington, owner of the Market Street Mysteries Bookstore, Dawson is more than a tenant-he’s like an adopted son. But to the police, he is…

Rest in Pieces (Southern Quilting Mystery Series #9)

It’s a beautiful evening for a wedding and Beatrice couldn’t be prouder as the mother of the bride. It’s a happy occasion and a beautiful ceremony-aside from the appearance of the odd and uninvited Ophelia. Ophelia argues with another guest, who…

Scot Free (Last Ditch Mystery #1)

Lexy Campbell fell in love and left her native Scotland for a golden life in California―hitched to a hunk, building her marriage counseling practice, living the dream. Six months later she's divorced, broke, and headed home. There's just one last…

Shot in the Dark (Coffeehouse Mystery Series #17)

A new smartphone dating game turns the Village Blend into a hookup hot spot, until one dark night, when a gunshot leaves a dead body behind and the landmark coffeehouse becomes the center of a whole new scene--a crime scene. As Village Blend…

Tart of Darkness (Chef-to-Go Mystery #1)

Right when Dani thinks she's hit a dead-end in her career, she unexpectedly inherits an enormous old house in a quaint college town. This gives her the perfect opportunity to pursue her true passion―cooking! So Dani opens Chef-to-Go, preparing…

The Advice Column Murders (Oakwood Mystery #3)

What’s the couple next door really hiding? Vintage fashionista and amateur sleuth Charley Carpenter finds out in this engrossing cozy mystery from the USA Today bestselling author of The Book Club Murders. In a small town like Oakwood, Ohio,…

The Marmalade Murders (Penny Brannigan Mystery Series #9)

The competition is friendly and just a little fierce at the annual Llanelen agricultural show as town and country folk gather for the outdoor judging of farm animals and indoor judging of cakes, pies, pastries, chutneys, jams and jellies, along…

The Mother's Day Mishap (Tess and Tilly Mystery #3)

It's Mother's Day in White Eagle Montana and spring has come to the small foothills community. It's the season for puppies and kittens to be born and rehomed, families to gather for an outdoor picnic and a baseball game, friends to fall in love,…

The Shadow of Death (Sister Agatha and Father Selwyn Mystery #1)

The sisters of Gwenafwy Abbey have cherished their contemplative life-days spent in prayer, reflection, tending the Convent’s vegetable gardens and making their award-winning organic cheese, Heavenly Gouda. Life seems perfect, except for Sister…

The Staveley Suspect (Lake District Mysteries #7)

Simmy Brown has a lot on her mind. Not just keeping her florist business afloat, her father’s failing health, the challenge of developing a long-term relationship with Christopher, but also the approach of Mother’s Day, a busy and painful day for…