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New Release available now (release date is February 18th) Shake-speared in the Park by Joy Ann Ribar: Meet the Browning sisters: Bay, a precocious English professor, and Cass, a professional gifter with paranormal ability. Toss murder into their path and watch them combine their talents to bring the guilty parties to justice.

‘Lisa Manuel, writing as Alyssa Maxwell, announces the recent release of her ninth and final Lady & Lady’s Maid Mystery, Two Weddings and A Murder. As Lady Phoebe and her betrothed say their vows of holy matrimony, a killer has vowed unholy vengeance on the town’s chief inspector . . . Available in hardcover, ebook, and audio.

In Lisa Black‘s new book Not Who We Expected, forensic experts Ellie Carr and Rachael Davies are enlisted by legendary rock star Billy Diamond to find his missing daughter. A level-headed student at Yale, Devon left six months earlier with her boyfriend, Carlos, for a career development retreat in Nevada—but after learning Carlos’ body was found a few miles upstream from the ranch, Billy needs answers.

‘Final Exam’, the prequel to Lou Pugliese’s debut novel, ‘Blame It on the Moon’ introduces Don Weston, a semiretired Philadelphia detective who has taken on the role of university police chief at Churchville University. When faculty members begin dying under mysterious circumstances, Weston finds himself navigating a complex web of academic intrigue and murder. “Final Exam’ was
released on February 1, 2025 and is available in e-book, paperback, and hardcover formats.

Charles Thayer’s Fatal Illusion: A Paradox Murder Mystery (#9) will be released on Amazon, April 23, 2024.
 
Steve Wilson finds himself entangled in a new investigation when the marine patrol brings Britney Green’s lifeless body to the empty dock next to his boat, Paradox. Britney’s parents refuse to believe their daughter died from an accidental drug overdose and they persuade Steve to uncover the truth.

Mel Taylor’s The Exclusive will be released on March 14th, on Amazon. This is a new series, featuring TV reporter Booker Johnson. 
 
A gruesome discovery leads to a deadly conspiracy.

Booker Johnson, an Emmy-winning TV reporter on the brink of losing everything, stumbles upon a horrific crime scene in South Florida. Teaming up with no-nonsense police detective Brielle Jensen, they dive into the case, unraveling a web of deception, manipulation, and murder that reaches the highest echelons of power.

Barbara Fox’s Murder in The Inn series was just re-issued with new formatting and covers, the first in the series is Murder In The Inn followed by Another Murder In the Inn, Murder In Another Inn and Mysteries in the Inn. The series is available in print and Kindle on Amazon and other online bookstores and the audiobooks are on Google Books.

In Lisa Black’s The Deepest Kill, Ellie Carr and Rachael Davies of the Locard Institute are summoned to Florida to investigate the death of a software mogul’s pregnant daughter. He suspects his son-in-law, but the CSIs wonder if it could be connected to his proposed and very lucrative missile defense design. 

In Neil Plakcy’s, Blessing of the Dogs, Steve Levitan and Lili Weinstock are on their way to the altar—but dognapping and murder get in the way.

The theft of the vice-mayor’s dog unveils a widespread pattern of canine thefts. Could those poor pooches be on their way to a testing lab or a puppy mill? And how does that case play into the death of a Billy Joel tribute act? Could the caterer they’ve hired be responsible?

It will take all of Steve’s hacking skills and Rochester’s talent for nosing out clues to close these cases before Steve and Lili can walk down the aisle… or will a killer ruin their happy ending?

In Cold Vengeance, the 7th of the series by George Berstein, Detective Al Warner is swamped by two major crimes: Long-retired, ex-Mossad agents are being assassinated, up close and personal in South Florida; and a tech-savvy psychopath is torturing, then killing young women. With few clues to work with, Warner must hunt them down, while scrambling to protect the ones he loves.