April 2026 list by Bonnie Bradford |
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Booking for Trouble
by Jenn McKinlay
Just off shore are two small islands, which library director Lindsey Norris visits with her new book-boat. Nothing can stop Lindsey from getting books to readers. But when Lindsey discovers a body on an outcrop of one of the islands, Lindsey’s new library venture quickly becomes a murder investigation. Library Lover's Mystery series.
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Crown City
by Naomi Hirahara
Pasadena, 1903: Eighteen-year-old Ryui Wada staggers off the boat from Yokohama, ready to reinvent himself. When a painting is stolen from Toshio Aoki, Pasadena's most successful Japanese artist, he hires Ryui and Jack to investigate. It's not long before their sleuthing leads them into real danger. Ryui is a naive young man in a foreign country--has he bitten off more than he can chew? Japantown Mystery series.
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The Curious Case of the Poisoned Professor
by Lucy Connelly
After crossing the pond for a new job, Dr. Gwen Griffith finds herself in quirky Dillynaidd, Wales. With her best friend at her side, Dillynaidd feels like a dream, until murder comes knocking at her doorstep.
Welsh Village Mystery series.
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Dirty Metal
by Allison LaMothe
New York City, 1992. Meet Parker Snow, the most tenacious reporter for a tabloid paper that thrives on juicy gossip. Trying to run down two stories at once, Parker must fight the pull of her pills and the arrogant men who get in her way at every turn. But she's still determined to find truth and redemption for herself, the victims, and a city in chaos―if her demons don't get to her first.
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The Jills
by Karen Parkman
Virginia is a Jill--a professional Buffalo Bills cheerleader. When her friend Jeanine fails to show up for a game, and all her calls and texts go unanswered, Virginia is aided by a worried network of Jills, ex-boyfriends, and fixtures of Buffalo's criminal underground, in her investigation.
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Murder at an Irish Session
by Carlene O'Connor
As pregnant Siobhán O’Sullivan awaits her new baby, she’s bringing new life to her village of Kilbane in County Cork, Ireland, with a music and matchmaking festival. But one matchmaker is about to find out that Cupid’s arrow can be fatal. Irish Village Mystery series.
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Murder by Moonrise
by Patrice McDonough
1867: Dr. Julia Lewis, London's first woman doctor, and skeptical Scotland Yard detective Richard Tennant find their holidays sidelined by a murderer threatening the royal family in this historically rich, gritty mystery set in Victorian London. Dr. Julia Lewis Mystery series.
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Murder in the Reading Room
by Con Lehane
New York crime-fiction librarian--and reluctant amateur sleuth--Ray Ambler investigates a puzzling murder that's too close to home for comfort. 42nd Street Library Mystery series.
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Ours is a Tale of Murder
by Nora Murphy
One quiet neighborhood.
Three different families.
Bound by murder.
Klara never wanted the house with the white picket fence. Troy never wanted anything else. Nothing is quite right with this happy couple, but isn't every home hiding something?
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The Patient
by Tim Sullivan
No fingerprints. No weapon. No witnesses.
Can DS Cross prove it was murder?
DS George Cross Mystery series.
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A Sociopath's Guide to a Successful Marriage
by M. K. Oliver
Meet Lalla Rook. Lalla has a lot on her plate: on the afternoon she stabs a stranger seven times after he breaks into her living room, she has a four-year-old’s birthday party to host. You know, disposing of a body, framing a friend, and being the world’s best mother can easily be managed. Funny, calculating, hypercompetent, and ambitious, Lalla is your next favorite antiheroine. Just don’t mention it to her mother-in-law.
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To Kill a Cook
by W. M. Akers
Nobody in Manhattan eats better than Bernice Black. It’s 1972, and she is the city’s busiest restaurant critic. When she finds her favorite chef and mentor, Laurent Tirel's severed head, perfectly preserved in a flawless mold of jellied aspic, her meeting with the cops proves only one thing–they know nothing about food or the seedy under-world that BB Black has made her home.
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The Whisking Hour
by Ellie Alexander
Fall is in full flush in the charming hamlet of Ashland, Oregon, and baker Juliet Capshaw is excited to celebrate the season with a night at the theatre. After the actors take their final bow, the cast is ready for a night of frivolity. But when an actor is discovered dead in his dressing room, Jules wonders if she's just witnessed the real perfect murder. Bakeshop Mystery series.
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The Widow Hamilton
by Mollie Ann Cox
It’s December 1805, and Eliza Hamilton is determined to seek justice. One young woman is dead, another has vanished. With no help from the constabulary Eliza vows to protect the women and uncover the truth.
Eliza Hamilton Mystery series.
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The Wolves Are Watching
by Victoria Houston
Sheriff Lew Ferris finds herself challenged more than ever before: arms dealing, sports betting, blackmail, and wolves. Is she under threat from predators too?
Lew Ferris Mystery series.
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Worse Than a Lie
by Ben Crump
It’s the night of November 4, 2008. America’s first Black president has just been elected. And Hollis Montrose has become the latest victim of a brutal attack. Miraculously, he survives, but the Chicago PD has already spun the narrative in its favor. What really happened that night the car was pulled over? Was it random or was Hollis targeted? Beau Lee Cooper series.
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