January 2025 list by Bonnie Bradford |
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All's Fair in Love and Treachery
by Celeste Connally
What’s a lady to do when she can’t hunt down her traitorous lover? She concentrates on a royal assignment instead. Queen Charlotte has tasked Petra Forsyth with attending an event at the Asylum for Female Orphans and making inquiries surrounding the death of the orphanage’s matron. Lady Petra Inquires series.
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April Storm
by Leila Meacham
A seemingly perfect suburban housewife is being pursued by a private detective... and hunted by a murderer.
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The Author's Guide to Murder
by Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White
At Castle Kinloch in the Scottish Highlands, literary superstar Brett Saffron Presley is found dead under strange circumstances, leading Detective Chief Inspector Euan McIntosh to investigate three American novelists--each with their own motives and secrets--as he uncovers connections between the murder and the castle's dark history
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The Boundaries We Cross
by Brad Parks
Charles has long prided himself on keeping proper boundaries with his students. He insists he would never cross the line... or would he? Hayley’s diary makes it clear she had strong feelings for her teacher. Was it just an unrequited schoolgirl crush? Or was it something more?
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The Coldest Case
by Tessa Wegert
News of a missing Instagram celebrity brings Senior Investigator Shana Merchant to a frozen island community of just eight people. When the visit turns deadly, her hunt for a killer collides with a cold case she'll never forget. Shana Merchant series.
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Deadly Crush
by Maddie Day
It’s the beginning of a new year, and for widowed single mom and recent L.A. transplant to California wine country, Cece Barton, that means green hillsides, flowing streams from winter rains, pruned vineyards—and a murder to solve... Cece Barton Mystery series.
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French Quarter Fright Night
by Ellen Byron
As the Big Easy gears up for the Big Scary, it seems everyone has skeletons in their closets. Can Ricki James-Diaz reveal the shadowy killer before someone else becomes part of the Halloween horror show?
Vintage Cookbook Mystery series.
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Guilt and Ginataan
by Mia P. Manansala
Autumn is in full swing for the town of Shady Palms—the perfect time for warm drinks, cozy cardigans, and…dead bodies? Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery series.
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I Think I Was Murdered
by Colleen Coble and Rick Acker
A grieving young widow. The AI program that allows her to continue to "talk" to her dead husband. And a message she never expected: "I think I was murdered."
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Misery Hates Company
by Elizabeth Hobbs
Miss Marigold Manners is invited to a mysterious relative’s estate, and winds up entangled in a murder investigation. And the question of “who done it?” becomes “who didn’t do it?”
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Murder at the Lemonberry Tea
by Darci Hannah
Lindsey Bakewell’s iconic lighthouse bakeshop in beautiful Beacon Harbor, Michigan, is hosting a celebrity cookbook author from the UK—but the notorious diva is now DOA... Beacon Bakeshop Mystery series.
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Pony Confidential
by Christina Lynch
In this one-of-a-kind mystery with heart and humor, a hilariously grumpy pony must save the only human he's ever loved after discovering she stands accused of a murder he knows she didn't commit.
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A Trinket for the Taking
by Victoria Laurie
Dovey Van Dalen has a gorgeous day planned for her 200th birthday. But her boss has other ideas. A powerful magical artifact has been stolen, and he fears it's causing chaos in the unmagical world... And guess who is charged with getting it back?
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A Very Bad Thing
by J. T. Ellison
With a number of hit titles and a highly anticipated movie tie-in, 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. How many lives will they shatter as the truth comes out?
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We Three Queens
by Rhys Bowen
In late 1936 as King Edward faces a scandalous dilemma over his love for Wallis Simpson, he hides her with friends Georgie and Darcy at their estate, but the stakes are raised when a film star is murdered on set, forcing Georgie to solve the crime before it ignites a scandal.
Royal Spyness Mystery series.
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The Witch is Back
by Angela M. Sanders
Just when residents thought life was settling down in small-town Wilfred, Oregon, poison pen letters begin to arrive. Who can celebrate when secrets and less than neighborly transgressions are aired? Librarian Josie Way is lucky to be a witch, since the spellbound books know plenty about solving mysteries!
Witch Way Librarian Mystery series.
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