Baptie, J.V.
- The Departed ***
Fiction. Second in the Scottish police series. It’s 30 years later, and Helen now heads up the detective bureau. The case she is on involves the murder of a woman, but it has ties 30 years in the past to a missing woman case.
- The Forgotten ***
Fiction. First in the Scottish police series. Helen is just starting out as a new detective in Edinburgh, and her first case involves the deaths of several men who seem to be connected to an old crime.
Berry, Connie
- A Dream of Death *****
Fiction. First in the Kate Hamilton cozy mystery series. Kate arrives in Scotland to visit her sister-in-law who needs her help, but before she can tell Kate what the mystery is, she is murdered.
Blake, Heather
- A Witch to Remember *****
Fiction. Ninth in the Wishcraft paranormal cozy mystery series. Darcy’s pre-wedding party is to be held at Divinitea, the local tea shop, but when it suddenly catches on fire and they find the body of the owner inside, all eyes point to Dorothy as the culprit.
- To Catch a Witch ****
Fiction. Eighth in the Wishcraft paranormal cozy mystery series. Darcy is involved in the planning of a big race in town, but when one of the racers disappears and is found dead, she has to get involved in the investigation.
Bradbury, Laura
- A Vineyard for Two ****
Fiction. Cerise is recovering from losing her husband, her parents, and her patron all within 6 years, and when she learns that her patron, Maxime, has left her joint ownership of Le Domaine du Cerise with his grandson, Clovis, she is incensed. She doesn’t want a partner, she wants her independence, but how does she reconcile that with her growing attraction to Clovis?
Cadell, Elizabeth
- My Dear Aunt Flora ***
Fiction. Three women move to the country and live their lives in a small village.
Chase, Deanna
- Soul of the Witch ****
Fiction. First in the Witches of Keating Hollow witchy series. Abby Townsend returns to Keating Hollow to care for her father dealing with cancer. She hasn’t been back in years and is nervous about returning to the place her magic failed her. When she runs into her ex-boyfriend, old passions are ignited, but she has a boyfriend back in New Orleans to deal with.
Dane, Lauren
- Triad ***
Fiction. First in the Witches Knot urban fantasy series. Amelia meets a man she’s been dreaming of for months, and the connection between the two is immediate. When she meets his best friend, she realizes that she has a connection with him also. A demon lord has been called into the realm to destroy her family and claim their power, but she and her two men must combat him.
Garrett, Danielle
- Big Ghosts Don’t Cry ***
Fiction. Fifth in the Beechwood Harbor Ghost Mysteries series. Scarlet has new powers, but one of them gets her into trouble when she forcibly sends a ghost to the Otherworld. Only the ghost ends up in Limbo and is in danger of being used by a demon to travel into our world.
Hamilton, Lyn
- The Magyar Venus ****
Fiction. Eighth in the Lara McClintoch mystery series. Lara meets up with her old college buddies at a museum event. An old boyfriend is the museum curator and has opened an exhibit of an ancient mother Earth goddess figuring, known as the Magyar Venus. Lara drinks too much and doesn’t remember getting home, but she finds a large dent in her car. When she finds out one of her friends has died, she worries that she might have been the cause.
Hanna, HY
- Silent Bud Deadly **
Fiction. Second in the English Cottage Garden cozy mystery series. Poppy takes a job planting a garden for a wealthy couple, even though she knows nothing about gardening. But when the nosy neighbor next door comes to teach her how to transplant the roses and suddenly dies, Poppy begins to investigate her poisoning.
- Two Down, Bun to Go ****
Fiction. Fourth in the Oxford Tearoom cozy mystery series. One of Oxford’s dons, but when Gemma’s friend is accused of the murder, she jumps to the chance to prove his innocence.
Kimelman, Emily
- Betray the Lie *****
Fiction. Eleventh in the Sydney Rye thriller series. Sydney is recuperating at Robert’s Miami mansion. When Hugh tells her he is about to be married, she offers the mansion as the venue, but when Santiago is kidnapped, Sydney and Blue rush to save him.
Lang, Essie
- Trouble on the Books ****
Fiction. First in the Castle Bookshop mystery series. Shelby takes over running the castle bookshop while her aunt is recuperating from knee surgery. The manager of the castle is an over-bearing woman who tries to tell Shelby how to run the shop, but they end up in an argument overheard by some of the volunteers. When Shelby finds the woman dead in the grotto, she gets embroiled in the murder mystery.
Lynn, Judi
- The Body in the Attic ***
Fiction. First in the Jazzi Zanders mystery series. Jazzi is renovating a house where her missing aunt used to live, but she stumbles upon the skeleton in a trunk in the attic. Her aunt has been missing for 26 years. Then another body is found buried in the backyard. Jazzi assists the detective in his interviews with suspects, and they finally figure out who the murderer, or murderers, were.
Moore, Ann
- Gracelin O’Malley ****
Fiction. First in the Gracelin O’Malley trilogy set in Ireland in the 1840’s. Gracelin grows up in a loving, but poor, family. At fifteen her father gives her hand in marriage to the local squire, son of an English lord, hoping that she’ll have a better life. But the squire is a cruel man and causes Grace to lose two sons, before he is killed by Irish rebels. The Great Potato Famine kills off a million of her countrymen, and her brother and her love fight to free Ireland from England’s vicious grip.
Noga, Cari
- The Orphan Daughter ****
Fiction. Jane runs a small farm in Michigan. Her son is in the Army, her ex-husband is with his new wife and their daughter, and Jane is just trying to make it day to day. She still grieves the stillborn daughter she lost and feels like a failure as a mother. She finds out that her half-sister and her husband have been killed in a car accident, and they’ve appointed her as their daughter’s guardian, a job that she takes unwillingly. Lucy is unwilling to move to Michigan and leave her life in New York, but when her parents die, she has no choice.
Norton, Graham
- Holding ***
Fiction. Guarda P.J. lives in Duneen, where he oversees the village. A new development in town is paused when diggers find a skeleton buried on an old farm. A 20-year-old mystery might have been solved, but when a second skeleton, this time a baby, is found on the same property, tongues start wagging in town about who the deceased were.
Owens, Delia
- Where the Crawdads Sing *****
Fiction. Kya lives in the marsh with her family, but one by one they all left her. Living off grits and mashed mussels, she ekes out a living selling seafood at the local market. Spending her days in wonder at the living marsh around her, she can’t imagine living anywhere else. One day she meets a boy who teaches her how to read, and a whole new world is opened to her. But the day a man is found dead at the bottom of a water tower, signs point to her, and she lands in jail.
Perkins, S.C.
- Murder Once Removed ****
Fiction. First in the Ancestry Detective cozy mystery series. Lucy is hired by a wealthy Texan to uncover the secrets of his ancestors, one of whom had been murdered. The mystery deepens when it carries over to the present and Lucy’s life is in danger.
Santiago, Esmeralda
- When I Was Puerto Rican *****
Non-fiction. Memoir of Esmeralda when she was a child living in Puerto Rico up through when she moved to New York with her mother and siblings.
Vilhauer, Ruvanee Pietersz
- The Mask Collectors ***
Fiction. Grace and her husband, Duncan, get embroiled in a mystery surrounding a pharmaceutical company and a new drug meant to con people into believing it can cure their problems but is actually a placebo.
