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March 2018 New Book Releases

A Kayak for One (Kirk Lake Camp #1)

Owning and operating a cottage resort in a peaceful northern Ontario setting should be a piece of cake for a former police detective. Families should be happy to be on a vacation in rustic log cabins set among acres of old-growth pines along a…

A Riesling to Die (Wine Trail Mystery #1)

Norrie Ellington is a successful screenwriter living in New York City. She’s also been a silent partner for her family’s winery upstate-until her sister and brother-in-law take a year-long sabbatical. With an experienced staff doing the work,…

Berried at Sea (Cranberry Cove Mystery #4)

It’s a marriage made in murder in the new Cranberry Cove Mystery from USA Today bestselling author Peg Cochran!

The long-awaited wedding of Monica and Greg is the highlight of the harvest season in Cranberry Cove, drawing…

Cold Blooded Brew (Killer Coffee Mystery #4)

Meet Roxanne Bloom, ex-lawyer and who likes to be called Roxy by her close friends. She's the owner and operator of The Bean Hive coffee shop in Honey Springs. Kentucky. But when a dead body is dumped on her doorstep like a sack of coffee beans,…

Cupcakes and Casualties (Peridale Cafe Mystery #11)

The residents of Peridale don't like change, so when the famous actress, Candy Bennett, rolls into the village to demolish a historic cottage, things don't go as smoothly as she would have hoped. With the 'Peridale Preservation Society'…

Dead Velvet Cheesecake (Southern Psychic Sisters Mystery #3)

A hotel billionaire is dead, and Ember Greene is the prime suspect.

Misty Key's annual Mardi Gras celebrations are approaching, and the Lunar Bakery is busier than ever cranking out beignets and King cakes. Ember is tasked with…

Death al Fresco (Sally Solari Mystery #3)

It’s early autumn in Santa Cruz and restaurateur Sally Solari decides an open-air painting class is the perfect way for her to learn more about Paul Gauguin, the inspiration for the restaurant she has recently inherited. But the beauty of the…

Death by Dumpling (Noodle Shop Mystery #1)

The last place Lana Lee thought she would ever end up is back at her family’s restaurant. But after a brutal break-up and a dramatic workplace walk-out, she figures that helping wait tables is her best option for putting her life back together.…

Deja Moo (Perfectly Proper Museum #3)

The holiday season turns udderly dangerous for Maddie and her paranormal museum. Maddie Kosloski is no fan of San Benedetto's Christmas Cow, a thirty-foot straw bovine that graces the town square every December. For one thing, the cow displaces…

Dipped to Death (Olive Grove Mystery #3)

On a sizzling-hot September day, Eva Knox's ex-boyfriend, Dudley Dexter Codman the Third, along with a bunch of his corporate cronies from Boston, arrive at Eva's family's guest inn and olive farm, Knox Plantation. Maps and binoculars in hand,…

Farewell to Felines (Whales and Tails Mystery #15)

The Hollow is a magical place where the cats of Madrona Island have lived since before the island was developed. When Cait's witch friend Tansy alerts her to the fact that the cats are leaving the hollow for no apparent reason, Cait sets out to…

Graveyard Shift (Pepper Martin Series #10)

Pepper Martin returns in a new ghostly mystery when she is contacted by the ghosts of Eliot Ness and Al Capone . . .

Pepper Martin, now Community Relations Director of Garden View Cemetery, is contacted by the ghost of Eliot Ness, one of…

Hippity Hoppity Homicide (Zoe Donovan Mystery #28)

With Easter only a week away, Zoe is pulled into a dangerous game after Zak is kidnapped and the person who kidnapped him, a rival from the past, challenges Zoe to a game referred to as The Sleuthing Game. Zoe is told that the only way to gain…

Lethal in Old Lace (Consignment Shop Mystery Series #6)

There are two social functions in Savannah guaranteed to get people talking: weddings and funerals. And just as consignment shop owner Reagan Summerside agrees to marry the hunky Walker Boone, her neighbors, sisters Annie Fritz and Elsie Abbot,…

Marinating in Murder (A Dinner Club Mystery #3)

The Culinary Capers Dinner Club is planning a fall picnic for their next meeting. What could be better than sharing delicious food with friends under a beautiful autumn sky? But when club member Alison Malkovich opens the back of her SUV to load…

Murder at the Gallery (Northwest Cozy Mystery #6)

You're in Provence, France, and happen to see the same painting for sale by the same artist your best friend just bought from a gallery in Seattle. What would you do? DeeDee discovers the murdered art dealer's body and knows she needs Jake's help…

Murder with a Cherry on Top (Lickety Splits Mystery #1)

Kate McKay had doubts about swapping her high-powered life in Manhattan for Wolfert’s Roost, the quaint Hudson Valley village where she grew up. But when she moves back to care for her ailing grandmother, Kate decides to start fresh and indulge…

Murder, She Knit (Knit & Nibble Mystery #1)

Since her only daughter left for college, widow Pamela Paterson has kept busy as associate editor of a craft magazine and founder of the Knit and Nibble knitting club in quaint Arborville, New Jersey. Now, she’s trying out a new hobby-solving…

Natural Thorn Killer (Rose City Mystery #1)

Britta Johnston might be a late bloomer, but after leaving her deadbeat husband and dead-end job, she’s finally pursuing her artistic passion at her aunt Elin’s floral boutique, Blooma, in Portland, Oregon. It’s on the banks of the Willamette, in…

Original Secrets (Whispering Pines Mystery #3)

The Northwoods village of Whispering Pines used to be a safe haven for outsiders, but after three deaths in two months, it’s become a hotbed of murder.

Exhausted from being the only law enforcement official on duty, while also trying…

Playing With Bonbon Fire (Southern Chocolate Shop #2)

Chocolate shop owner Charity Penn is finally settling into life in the quirky South Carolina seaside town of Camellia Beach cooking up chocolate treats. She’s even helped organize the town’s lively beach music festival which has brought…

Plum Tea Crazy (Tea Shop Series #19)

While viewing the harbor's Gaslights and Galleons Parade from the widow's walk of Timothy Neville's Charleston mansion, local banker Carson Lanier seemingly tumbles over a narrow railing, then plunges three stories to his death. But a tragic…

Searcher of the Dead (Bess Ellyott Mystery #1)

Herbalist and widow Bess Ellyott tries to escape the loss of her husband in Elizabethan London only to find that death is following her, and she may very well be next in Searcher of the Dead, the first in a new historical mystery series by Nancy…

Six Dogs 'til Sunday (Mae December Mystery #6)

It's January in Rosedale, Tennessee, and Mae December is preparing for her March wedding to Sheriff Ben Bradley. Mae, who boards dogs for a living, is also busy tending to her pregnant dog and scouting locations for the movie featuring the music…

Six Feet Under (Kenni Lowry Mystery #4)

The residents of Cottonwood, Kentucky are sent into a tizzy when the Culinary Channel comes to town to film an episode of Southern Home Cookin’ with celebrity chef Frank Von Lee. Especially Sheriff Kenni Lowry. Her mama’s award-winning chicken…

Southern Discomfort (Southern B&B Mystery #1)

Quinn Bellandini loves her life in Savannah, Georgia, where she runs her grandfather’s B&B with her sister, Delilah. From baking fresh scones and serving up grits every morning to ensuring the guests see the best of their historic city, Quinn…

The Bags of Tricks Affair (Carpenter and Quincannon #6)

A conman always has a bag of tricks, ready to fool the unsuspecting, and almost everyone is unsuspecting until they get taken. When that happens, they turn to Carpenter and Quincannon, Professional Detective Services, to recover their money and…

The Cats that Stopped the Magic (The Cats That Mystery #9)

This classic whodunit boasts a new cast of characters: a self-centered magician, a compulsive gambler, a sweet cat wrangler and her grandmother, a caring nurse, and a wealthy couple. How are their lives intertwined with a show cat named Abra? In…

The Darling Dahlias and the Unlucky Clover (Darling Dahlias #7)

In the seventh book of this popular series, it looks like the music has ended for Darling's favorite barbershop quartet, the Lucky Four Clovers-just days before the Dixie Regional Barbershop Competition. Another unlucky break: a serious foul-up…

The ImPAWssible Mission (Klepto Cat Mystery Series #28)

Savannah and her unpredictable klepto cat, Rags, help the detective in his search for valuable antique jewelry. Who took it, who has it, who does it actually belong to? Follow Rags and his humans as they uncover long-held secrets in some of the…

The Uninvited Corpse (Food Blogger Mystery #1)

Leaving behind a failed career as a magazine editor and an embarrassing stint on a reality baking show, newly divorced lifestyle entrepreneur Hope Early thought things were finally on the upswing-until she comes face-to-face with a murderer...…

Three for Pumpkin Pie? (Kirk Lake Camp #3)

Owning and operating a cottage resort in a peaceful northern Ontario setting should be a piece of cake for a former police detective. Families should be happy to be on a vacation in rustic log cabins set among acres of old-growth pines along a…

Til Death Do Us Party (Liv And Di In Dixie Mystery #4)

Las Vegas knows how to party, and for once, event planner Liv McKay won’t be entirely behind the scenes. The Dixie gang is in Sin City to celebrate Mama and Earl’s rockin’ Elvis-themed wedding. And between juggling the botched bachelorette party…

To Die but Once (Maisie Dobbs Mysteries Series #14)

Maisie Dobbs- a female investigator every bit as brainy and battle-hardened as Lisbeth Salander (Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air), faces danger and intrigue on the home front during World War II in this poignant entry (#14) in Jacqueline…

Tulips and Trouble (Port Danby Mystery #5)

Lacey Pinkerton is busy getting ready for spring at Pink's Flowers and at the same time Port Danby is bustling with activity as it prepares for its annual flea market in the town square. In the midst of it all, a talented group of artists has…

Two Buckets of Berries (Kirk Lake Camp #2)

Owning and operating a cottage resort in a peaceful northern Ontario setting should be a piece of cake for a former police detective. Families should be happy to be on a vacation in rustic log cabins set among acres of old-growth pines along a…

Uneasy Prey (Zoe Chambers Mystery #6)

On the way to the emergency room, an elderly woman regains consciousness long enough to inform paramedic Zoe Chambers that her fall down the basement steps was no accident. Before she can say more, she succumbs to her injuries, launching Zoe and…

Whisker of a Doubt (Mystic Notch Mystery Series #6)

When retired postmaster Albert Schumer is found dead on the steps of the post office, the whole town of Mystic Notch is disappointed he won’t be able to play in the annual checkers tournament. But when his ghost informs middle-aged bookstore…

Who Moved My Goat Cheese? (Farm-to-Fork Mystery #1)

Angie Turner hopes her new farm-to-table restaurant can be a fresh start in her old hometown in rural Idaho. But when a goat dairy farmer is murdered, Angie must turn the tables on a bleating black sheep... With three weeks until opening night…

Witch Way To Spellbinder Bay (Spellbinder Bay #1)

Would you drop everything and move to a town with a peculiar name, because an odd little man made you a strange offer?

Millie Thorn did, and she could never have guessed what mysteries and revelations were awaiting her in the magical town…