September 2025 list by Nanette Alderman |
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The Bitter End Birding Society
by Amanda Cox
Hometown hero Ana Leigh Watkins ventures to Bitter End, Tennessee, to help her great-aunt get her house ready to sell. But when a ragtag group of amateur bird watchers take her under their wing, she discovers long-buried family history that puts her hope for new beginnings to the test.
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The Book of Lost Hours
by Hayley Gelfuso
In 1938, 11-year-old Lisavet Levy becomes trapped in a mysterious library of memory called the time space, where her path intertwines with American timekeeper Ernest Duquesne, whose 1965 death compels his niece Amelia to uncover buried truths amid shifting histories and shadowy CIA intrigue.
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The Color of Death
by Trey Gowdy
Following the death of his wife and daughter, Colm Truesdale is left mentally scarred. After time off, and with no desire to return to the courtroom, Truesdale is brought back into the investigation of the murder of a young woman who ran a beauty salon outside of town. When a page from her appointment book goes missing, and then the crime scene burns down, it's up to Colm to untangle the web of deception that implicates a powerful judge and his family.
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Dear Miss Lake
by AJ Pearce
During wartime, advice columnist Emmy Lake and the Woman's Friend staff relocate to the countryside, where Emmy balances rural life, a looming wedding and the possibility of war correspondence.
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Derringer
by William W. Johnstone
In 1867 Cheyenne, gun-savvy railroad troubleshooter Jesse Derringer arrives to keep peace and progress on track, but as outlaws, grifters, and growing tensions converge, he must navigate rising chaos to prevent bloodshed in a town built on ambition and danger.
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Everything Is Probably Fine
by Julia London
After a workplace meltdown threatens her promotion, Lorna Lott is forced into a 30-day wellness program where, with help from a quirky neighbor and his dad, she confronts her past, gains self-acceptance and a takes chance on happiness.
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Five Found Dead
by Sulari Gentill
After surviving terminal cancer, Joe boards the Orient Express for a fresh start, but when a passenger disappears and the train is quarantined, he and his sister race to catch a killer before they become the next victims.
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Hemlock & Silver
by T. Kingfisher
Healer Anja regularly drinks poison. Not to die, but to save— seeking cures for those everyone else has given up on. But a summons from the King interrupts her quiet, herb-obsessed life. His daughter, Snow, is dying, and he hopes Anja's unorthodox methods can save her.
Aided by a taciturn guard, a narcissistic cat, and a passion for the scientific method, Anja rushes to treat Snow, but nothing seems to work.
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If You're Seeing This, It's Meant for You
by Leigh Stein
After a brutal breakup, Dayna joins an influencer renovating a crumbling mansion to reboot her life, but as she digs into the mystery of a missing tarot reader, the house's dark secrets threaten to consume her.
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Joy Moody Is Out of Time
by Kerryn Mayne
On her twin daughters' twenty-first birthday, Joy Moody—proprietor of Bonbeach's premier laundromat—is found dead, yet that is not the strangest thing happening behind the bright pink facade of Joyful Suds.
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Laying Down the Latte
by Ellie Alexander
While vacationing at a lush Costa Rican coffee farm with her husband Carlos and their trusty barista Andy, baker Jules Capshaw's relaxing getaway turns deadly when a worker is found murdered, forcing her to trade lattes for sleuthing before the killer strikes again.
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The Locked Ward
by Sarah Pekkanen
When Amanda visits her institutionalized twin Georgia—accused of murdering their younger sister—she's drawn into a chilling spiral of doubt, buried family tensions, and psychological manipulation that forces her to question the truth, her past, and her own sanity.
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Love at First Sight
by Laura Jane Williams
One Saturday in London, Jessie and Cal's chemistry is instant when a fire alarm in Whole Foods throws her into his arms, but she's devastated when they're separated before swapping numbers; weeks later he appears at her nannying job with roses—but they're not for her.
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Lucky Day
by Chuck Tingle
Four years ago, an unthinkable disaster occurred. In what was later known as the Low-Probability Event, eight million people were killed in a single day, each of them dying in improbable, bizarre ways. A day of freak accidents that proved anything is possible, no matter the odds. Luck is real now, and it's not always good. Vera, a former statistics and probability professor, lost everything that day, and she still struggles to make sense of the unbelievable catastrophe.
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A Moment's Shadow
by Anna Lee Huber
In 1920s Dublin, Verity and Sidney Kent race to stop a traitor's deadly gas plot while investigating a string of jewel thefts.
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Murder by the Book
by Amie Schaumberg
Detective Ian Carter is shaken by a student's dead body posed like Hamlet's Ophelia, and when a chance meeting with literature professor Emma Reilly ends with her accidentally solving the killer's clue, she turns to the books she loves for the key to unraveling the crime.
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A New New Me
by Helen Oyeyemi
Kinga, a woman experiencing life through seven distinct daily personas with varying traits and professions, faces internal chaos and external threat when one of her selves discovers a captive in their shared apartment, forcing a reckoning with a potential saboteur.
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The Society of Unknowable Objects
by Gareth Brown
A trio of seemingly everyday people are members of a secret society tasked with finding and protecting hidden magical objects—ordinary items with extraordinary properties.
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A Touch of Treachery
by Jennifer Estep
Charlotte Locke is an analyst for Section 47, a secret spy organization and uses her magical form of synesthesia to track down paramortal criminals, but one villain keeps eluding her—Henrika Hyde. Henrika claims to have answers about Charlotte's father's death on a Section 47 mission years ago, and she has also created a horrific new weapon capable of killing even the strongest paramortals.
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When the Cranes Fly South
by Lisa Ridzén
Bo is running out of time. Yet time is one of the few things he's got left. These days, his quiet existence is broken up only by daily visits from his home care team. Fortunately, he still has his beloved elkhound Sixten to keep him company. When his son insists upon taking the dog away, claiming that Bo has grown too old to properly care for him, the threat of losing Sixten stirs up a whirlwind of emotion, leading Bo to take stock of his life, his relationships, and the imperfect way he's expressed his love over the years.
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Whispers of Shadowbrook House
by Rebecca Anderson
In 1880s Hampshire, governess Pearl Ellicott tends to a sickly child in the eerie Shadowbrook House, where deepening feelings for heir Oliver Waverley challenge class boundaries and threaten the fragile future she's built within its mysterious walls.
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