Last Updated: December 7, 2024
The Haters
by Robyn Harding
Camryn Hart is living her dream- her first novel has finally been published. She’s on top of the world- until she receives a disturbing email from an unfamiliar address. But then she checks her ratings on a popular book site and finds a similarly scathing one-star review. Soon, Camryn’s book is flooded with bad reviews. Could the reviewer be the same person who sent the email? Other authors warn her that trolls are dangerous, that she should be careful, but the actions of the troll are escalating, and Camryn’s starting to lose touch with what’s real and what isn’t. When the troll’s harassment turns deadly, it will take everything Camryn has to unmask the enemy who’s been sabotaging her every move- and finally learn why she’s being targeted.
Peach Tea Smash
by Laura Childs
During the Mad Hatter Masquerade, a fundraiser hosted by the Friends of the Opera on the grounds of the old Pendleton Grist Mill, Harlan Sadler, husband of Cricket Sadler, the chairwoman, is killed. He’s been hit in the head with a croquet mallet, and his body hung on the chains and paddles of the grist mill. Nobody can figure out why since Harlan was much beloved by everyone. It’s only after Cricket and Delaine beg Theodosia Browning to investigate that she realizes the killer might have mistaken Harlan for his crazy son, Duke.
The Treasure Hunters Club
by Tom Ryan
For nearly a century, people have ventured to the idyllic seaside town of Maple Bay, Nova Scotia, in search of a legendary lost pirate treasure, but locals know there’s more than just gold buried in the sand. As the paths of three strangers converge in Maple Bay, the truth is about to be blown wide open. But not before the bodies start to pile up.
A Very Bad Thing
by J. T. Ellison
Celebrated novelist Columbia Jones is at the top of her game. But on the final night of her latest book tour, one face in the crowd makes the author collapse. And by the next morning, she’s lying dead in a pool of blood. Columbia’s death shocks the world and leaves Darian, her daughter and publicist, reeling. The police have nothing to go on- at first. But then details emerge, pointing to the author’s illicit past. Turns out many people had motive to kill Columbia. And with a hungry reporter and frustrated cop on the trail, her secrets won’t stay buried long.
The Author’s Guide to Murder
by Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig and Karen White
There’s been a sensational murder at historic Castle Kinloch, a gothic fantasy of grey granite on a remote island in the Highlands of Scotland. Literary superstar Brett Saffron Presley has been found dead–under bizarre circumstances–in the castle tower’s book-lined study. Years ago, Presley purchased the castle as a showpiece for his brand and to lure paying guests with a taste for writerly glamour. Now it seems, the castle has done him in–or possibly, one of the castle’s guests has. Detective Chief Inspector Euan McIntosh, a local with no love for literary Americans, finds himself with the unenviable task of extracting statements from three American lady novelists.
What We’ll Burn Last
by Heather Chavez
When she was twelve, Leyna Clarke watched her older sister, Grace, walk away from their Sierra Nevada foothills home with her boyfriend, Adam Duran. Neither was ever seen again. Sixteen years later, a stranger who looks like Grace shows up at the restaurant where Leyna works–and vanishes soon after. When it comes out that Leyna was one of the last people to have talked with the young woman, Leyna’s childhood crush Dominic, who is also Adam’s brother, pleads with her to do the last thing she wants to do: come home. But Leyna isn’t the only one who hasn’t been able to leave that fateful night behind.
The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year
by Ally Carter
Meet Maggie Chase and Ethan Wyatt. She’s the new queen of the cozy mystery. He’s Mr. Big-Time thriller guy. But when they both accept a cryptic invitation to attend a Christmas house party at the English estate of a reclusive fan, neither is expecting their host to be the most powerful author in the world…That night, the weather turns, and the next morning Eleanor is gone. She vanished from a locked room, and Maggie has to wonder: Is Eleanor in danger? Or is it all some kind of test? Is Ethan the competition? Or is he the only person in that snowbound mansion she can trust?