Looking for Christmas presents? These recent releases by our members would make great gifts, AND some of the links lead to signed copies available at bookstores that will ship.
A TIME TO SWILL, Sherry Harris - On a foggy morning run, Chloe Jackson spots a sailboat washed up on a sandbar. Hearing a cry, she climbs aboard and finds not only a mewling cat but a human skeleton that ties back to Chloe’s friend Ralph, whose wife disappeared on a sailboat twelve years ago. Chloe is determined to find out who’s been up to skulduggery, but her sleuthing will lead her into rough waters… Signed copies available at
One More Page Books.
HOLD ME DOWN, Clea Simon - This psychological suspense opens with Gal, a rock star for a hot minute twenty years earlier, back in Boston to play a memorial for her late drummer/best friend when she finds herself freezing on stage at the sight of a face in the crowd. The next day, she learns that the man she saw has been killed and her friend’s widower charged, and as Gal starts her own informal investigation she finds she must reexamine her own wild life, her perception of the past, and an industry that monetizes dysfunction in a dark tale of love, music, and murder. Find links for ordering the book at
Clea's website.
DEATH IN CORNWALL, St. Just #4, G.M. Malliet - DCI St. Just goes on what is meant to be a relaxing holiday in Cornwall with his fiancée, but it turns into a busman’s holiday when the lord of the local manor is murdered. Find more about the book at
Severn House's website.
THE ROCKY ROAD TO RUIN, Meri Allen - A former CIA librarian returns to her New England hometown to lick her wounds following a professional disaster and stumbles upon murder. You can buy the book at
MacMillan's website..
NO GRATER CRIME, Maddie Day - Robbie Jordan’s Pans ’N Pancakes boasts delicious eats and the best vintage cookware finds in South Lick, Indiana, but when an antique shop opens across the street, Robbie scrambles to manage weird incidences plaguing her restaurant and country store. After an elderly man dies after devouring an omelet packed with poisonous mushrooms, Robbie must temporarily close down and search for the killer with a real zest for running her out of business—or else.
Order here and Maddie (aka Edith Maxwell) will personalize a copy for the recipient.
MURDER AT THE LOBSTAH SHACK, Maddie Day - When murder turns out to be the special of the day at her friend’s Cape Cod seafood restaurant, bike shop owner Mackenzie “Mac” Almeida and the Cozy Capers Book Group sleuths have to net a killer. After the body of a former beauty queen is discovered in the Lobstah Shack's walk-in freezer, several suspects and multiple motives emerge, and they’re getting crabby about Mac intruding on their affairs. Order here and Maddie (aka Edith Maxwell) will personalize a copy for the recipient.
Order here and Maddie (aka Edith Maxwell) will personalize a copy for the recipient.
THE HOUSE OF GOOD AND EVIL, Book 4 in the Ditie Brown Mystery Series, by Sarah Osborne - Ditie's best friend Lurleen buys a crumbling mansion in Atlanta to convert into a cooking school. Good forces and bad seem to be at work as Ditie and Lurleen attempt to solve an old murder in the house. A black man was wrongly convicted of the crime in 1949.
FLO AND MAUDE SAVE A SANTA, Book 2 in Flo and Maude Christmas Cozies, by Sarah Osborne - The Old Dames Protection Agency is at it again! Octogenarians Flo and Maude prevent murders from happening. With their young assistant Kate they are called to rural Maine where Bob Quellete's Santa suit has been viciously destroyed. Will Bob live long enough to play Santa once more and ride his sleigh through Main Street in Menescotta for a sixteenth season? And who hates Bob enough to want to kill him?
BLOODROOT: BEST NEW ENGLAND CRIME STORIES, Editors Susan Oleksiw, Ang Pompano, Leslie Wheeler - Whether it’s an elderly woman facing a scam, a retired robber invited to join in one last fling, or a group of kids in over their heads, with Bloodroot, Crime Spell Books continues the tradition of the annual anthology of Best New England Crime Stories by New England Writers.
Bloodroot can be purchased here.
UNSAFE HAVEN, Lucy Burdette -After giving birth in a subway bathroom and thrusting her newborn into a newly jilted bride’s arms, a teenage runaway teams up with that stranger to save herself and her baby from the ruthless sex trafficker in pursuit.
You can find links to buy the book on Lucy's website.
ALWAYS PLAY THE DARK HORSE, Sharon Healy-Yang - Dark secrets on a college campus, terrible memories of a World War, and a mysterious man on a dark horse put newlyweds Jessica Minton and James Crawford in the shadow of espionage and death. The two place their bets on adventure, but treachery and murder enter the field.
More on where to buy the book here.
IN DEEP, Sharon Ward – An underwater photographer realizes an unknown diver is murdering her family and members of the staff at the oceanographic institute on Grand Cayman where she works. Fin must find the killer before everyone she cares about is gone.
SUNKEN DEATH, Sharon Ward - Fin Fleming, underwater photographer, embarks on an expedition to retrieve a legendary treasure, the Queen’s Tiara. During the journey she encounters pirates, drug dealers—and maybe a witch. Can she bring the treasure and her team safely back to port?
(releasing 12/31/21)
LOVE IN A TIME OF HATE, Matthew Langdon Cost - A young man from Maine fights for social equality in New Orleans after the Civil War while pursuing a murderer of prostitutes, becoming enmeshed in voodoo, and falling in love. Much like Louisiana's famous gumbo, Love in A Time of Hate, is a spicy dish of varied ingredients.
You can find the book here.
MIND TRAP, Matt Cost - From award winning author Matt Cost comes a thriller that Bruce Robert Coffin says is a twisted and chilling tale of control and manipulation. Private Investigator Clay Wolfe and his partner Baylee Baker must get to the bottom of a series of odious attacks in Port Essex before it is too late.
You can find the book here.