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December 2019 New Book Releases

A Christmas Caper (Sugar Martin Vintage #3)

With Christmas fast approaching and her bank accounts woefully low, Sugar Martin is spending her first holiday in Meres Reach, England instead of back home in Oregon. When the festivities are interrupted by an urgent call from her employer, she…

A Tough Nut to Crack (Spicetown Mystery #5)

Saucy makes his stage debut in the local community play while teenagers are running amok at the high school, Mayor Cora Mae Bingham is trying to decorate every tree in town and a new spice has hit the streets of Spicetown!

Can the "…

Address For Murder (Mail Carrier Mystery #2)

Mail Carrier Bernadette Butler makes sure she checks on all of her elderly customers on her mail carrier route during the colder months. It makes her feel good and lets face it, she's trying to keep her mind off the feelings she's having for her…

Bonbon with the Wind (Southern Chocolate Shop #4)

Join Penn and Stella on their latest adventure!There's a legend in the Sea Islands that before a hurricane hits the Gray Lady can be seen walking down the beach warning of doom. Penn doesn’t believe in such silly stories, but she does believe…

Brewed Awakening (Coffeehouse Mystery Series #18)

When coffeehouse manager Clare Cosi awakens on a bench in Washington Square Park, she has no idea she's been missing for the past week, or that her friends and family have been frantic with worry. Now that she's back, everyone is overjoyed,…

Brownies and Bloodshed (Peridale Cafe Mystery #19)

Dot South and Percy Cropper are finally getting married! With a secret theme up their sleeves, the octogenarians are intent on making the day the most spectacular wedding Peridale has ever seen. They planned everything to the last detail, but…

Case of the Reincarnated Client (Vish Puri Series #5)

When a young woman comes forward claiming to be the reincarnation of Riya Kaur, a wife and mother who vanished during the bloody 1984 anti-Sikh riots, Puri is dismissive. He's busy enough dealing with an irate matrimonial client whose daughter is…

Celtic Christmas (Zoe Donovan Mystery #33)

In this Zoe Donovan novella, Zoe is invited to Ireland to attend the wedding of one of her Irish cousins after contacting the man as part of her research into her Irish heritage. The wedding is being held at Dunphy Castle, the castle where Zoe…

Come Homicide or High Water (Welcome Back to Scumble River #3)

School psychologist Skye Denison-Boyd is getting ready to return to work from her maternity leave and hoping for a peaceful year in her job as a school psychologist. But when an elderly woman disappears on her first day back and a disgruntled…

Dead in Dublin (Dublin Driver Mystery #1)

Ferrying tourists around Dublin for the Leprechaun Limo Service makes quite a change after years in the military. Still, Megan Malone is enjoying her life in Ireland. She likes the scenery, the easy pace, the quirky, quick-witted locals.…

Have a Deadly New Year (Farm-to-Fork Mystery Novella)

Chef Angie Turner of The County Seat-Idaho’s finest farm-to-table restaurant-is preparing a private dinner in the mountains during ski season, but the trip’s about to go downhill... It’s a rockin’ New Year for Angie and her crew as they cater a…

Hems & Homicide (Apron Shop Mystery #1)

Welcome to the first in the Apron Shop mystery series by Elizabeth Penney, set in the quaint village of Blueberry Cove, Maine where an expert seamstress turned amateur sleuth is getting measured for murder. . .

Iris Buckley is sew ready…

Last Licks (Lickety Splits Mystery #3)

It's autumn in the Hudson Valley, and Kate McKay has some tricks up her sleeve for a deliciously spooky season at her Lickety Splits Ice Cream Shoppe. But with a cold-blooded murderer thrown into the mix, the scares are about to become a little…

Matchmaking Can Be Murder (Amish Matchmaker Mystery #1)

Matchmaking can be murder... When widowed Millie Fisher moves back to her childhood home of Harvest, Ohio, she notices one thing right away-the young Amish are bungling their courtships and marrying the wrong people! A quiltmaker by trade, Millie…

Meow and Forever (Klepto Cat Mystery Series #40)

Rags becomes a pawn in a most preposterous plot.Savannah’s on high alert after someone threatens to take Rags. Every stranger becomes a suspect and every encounter causes more uncertainty. Meanwhile, Glori, the special-needs cat settles into the…

Murder and High Rollers (High Desert Mystery #10)

Ever consider betting $25,000 on a poker hand? High rollers at an exclusive card room in a Palm Springs casino do. And when the same person wins night after night. That person becomes a threat to their livelihood. A threat that needs to be taken…

Murder at the Arts and Crafts Festival (Cleo Mack Mystery #3)

It’s late March in Fairhope, Alabama, and artists from around the country are flocking to the bayside town’s Arts & Crafts Festival. The annual tradition has something for everyone, only this year, the main attraction is murder . . .
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Murder Ink (Victoria Square Series #6)

The charm of Victoria Square may prove to be only skin deep when murder follows the arrival of a tattoo parlor in town in this latest installment of the New York Times bestselling series. A tattoo parlor on Victoria Square? Some of the merchants…

Murder on Cape Cod (Cozy Capers Book Group #1)

A Cape Cod shop owner and her book club must find a crafty killer in this charming new series from the Agatha-nominated author of the Country Store Mystery series. Summer is busy season for Mackenzie 'Mac' Almeida’s bicycle shop, nestled in the…

Note in the Nutcracker (Inn at Holiday Bay #7)

After suffering a personal tragedy Abby Sullivan buys a huge old seaside mansion she has never even seen, packs up her life in San Francisco, and moves to Holiday Bay Maine, where she is adopted, quite against her will, by a huge Maine Coon Cat…

Poppy Harmon and the Hung Jury (Desert Flowers Mystery #2)

For retiree-turned-PI Poppy Harmon, spending her golden years running the Desert Flowers Detective Agency is far from the glamorous life she once knew. But becoming ensnared in two twisted Palm Springs crimes might be her worst look yet . . .…

Sauvigone for Good (Wine Trail Mystery #4)

The descent of winter on the Finger Lakes means it’s time for the Wine Trail Association’s Chocolate and Wine Extravaganza. Unfortunately, for screenwriter-turned-reluctant vintner, Norrie Ellington, her Two Witches Winery is co-hosting the…

Sealed Off (Maine Clambake Mystery Series #8)

Early October is 'winding down' time in Busman’s Harbor, Maine, but there’s nothing relaxing about it for Julia Snowden. Between busloads of weekend leaf peepers at the Snowden Family Clambake and a gut renovation of the old mansion on Morrow…

Sell Low, Sweet Harriet (Sarah W Garage Sale Mystery #8)

ONE WOMAN’S TRASH... Sarah Winston’s garage sale business has a new client: the daughter of a couple who recently died in a tragic accident while away on a trip to Africa. Their house is full of exotic items from around the world that need to be…

Snowmen and Sorcery (Spellbinder Bay #4)

There's not much that's cosier than a family Christmas holiday in a traditional log cabin set in a Scottish highland town. It's uniquely special for Millie Thorn. It's her first Christmas with the father she's recently found out existed, and her…

The Knitpicker (Crabapple Yarns Mystery Series #3)

“Nothing can wait like an untold secret. And, it’s possible that the secrets themselves know the most terrible secret… that just because you are invisible doesn’t mean that you’re not there. It doesn’t mean that someone can’t by sheer coincidence…

Theater Nights Are Murder (Poppy McAllister Mystery #4)

The last thing gluten-free baker Polly McAllister needs in her life is more drama-or more murder... Poppy thought her toughest challenge this winter would be sticking to her Paleo diet and filling all her orders for her gluten-free goodies, but…

Thin Ice (Alaska Wild Mystery #1)

The stunning wilds of Alaska are not for the faint of heart—but when Beth Rivers finds herself with a need to disappear, she’s already faced far worse. So how hard could it be?

Beth Rivers, known to the world as Elizabeth Fairchild, has…

Verse and Vengeance (Magical Bookshop Mystery #4)

With the help of Walt Whitman's works, magical bookshop owner Violet Waverly puts her pedal to the metal to sleuth a bicycle-race murder that tests her mettle. A bicycle race is not Charming Books proprietor Violet Waverly's idea of a pleasant…