Are You Dying For Your Next Great Beach Read?
Here’s a list of books by our talented and award-winning authors that we know is perfect for reading on the beach, at the pool, on the deck, or wherever you’ll be spending the long, hot days of summer.
This year’s sizzling offerings are:
Vacations Can Be Murder: A True Crime Lover’s Travel Guide to New England
For the true crime lover-finally, a travel guide from an award-winning travel journalist and suspense author that gives you the down and dirty on exactly where the major crimes occurred, and where the bodies are buried. For aficionados of paranormal, prison, and tombstone travel, there’s a goldmine of tourism suggestions for you here as well.
Level Best Books, March 2025
ISBN: 9781685129101
Deadly When Disturbed
When Dara Banks, Rock Canyon’s leading Realtor, searches for an assistant, finding someone as resourceful as Meryl “Merry” Rafter seems too good to be true. So good in fact, she neglects to run a reference check. Bad move. Before she knows it, Merry, a former “actress” trying to be “helpful,” has insinuated herself into Dara’s business, family, and charity, and may be the only person saving her from prison. Dara becomes suspicious and begins snooping into Merry’s past. Feeling cornered, Merry reciprocates by launching an investigation of her own and realizes—too late—that she may have picked the wrong mark to con. These women’s unsettling discoveries, and their desperate efforts to safeguard their skeleton-filled closets and fragile self-images, lead to an explosive confrontation certain to destroy the lives of everyone in their midst.
Level Best Books, January 2025
ISBN: 9781685128319
Bye Bye Blackbird
When a crazed killer threatens the cast of The Maltese Falcon, Humphrey Bogart and the head of Warner Brothers hire B. Norman Investigations to find out why and to stop possible murders.
Level Best Books, January 2025
ISBN: 9781685128401
The Dark Library
Years after Estella Ecker ran away from her overbearing father, she has been forced back home to walk in his footsteps, teaching at the college he dominated and living in the fabulous home where he entertained artists and scholars for decades–and perhaps she owns it now, because her mercurial mother has disappeared. At the center of everything–the whispers, the rumors, the secrets–is her father’s library of rare books, which she had been forbidden to touch while he was alive to stop her. Who were Estella’s parents, really, and is the answer hidden somewhere in the dark library of Rockfall House?
Sourcebooks, June 2025
ISBN: 9781728293677
A Fatal Waltz
In the fifth book of this highly-praised series, newly married Gilded Age diva Ella Shane and her Duke delve into a 40-year-old mystery that could threaten the succession to the British Throne, and confront a vile blackmail plot against a friend and his sibling, a man living as a woman.
Level Best Books, April 2025
ISBN: 9781685129668
Death as a Fine Art (Bartender’s Guide to Murder)
Bartender Avalon Nash has her hands full: her movie star mom is unexpectedly in town, and there seems to be a corpse in the hotel’s lobby-though Avalon has sworn off involvement with suspicious deaths. Instead, she bartends the soiree of a local painter, not knowing she’s about to be immersed in an art-theft ring worth billions-which is plagued by a killer sent to deliver a deadly message.
Arundel Publishing, January 2025
ISBN: 9781933608471
Blood of the Innocents
When singer Alessandra Moreau is found brutally murdered in the living room of New York State Senator Leigh Drayman, NYPD Detectives Chiara Corelli and P.J. Parker are thrust into another high-stakes investigation. The victim, a rising star, harbored a closely guarded secret. She was transgender—just like the senator. What begins as a focused investigation explodes into something far more sinister when fifteen identical murders of trans women going back nearly two decades, surface. In a race against time, the detectives must unravel decades of deception before another woman dies.
Bella Books, February 2025
ISBN: 9781642476538
Murder, She Wrote A Body in Boston
Invited to deliver a lecture at the Boston Public Library, Jessica Fletcher makes plans to see local friends at Gilhooley’s including PI Harry McGraw and bartender Cookie. All is well until Cookie’s daughter stumbles in with her clothes covered in blood.
Berkley, July 2025
ISBN: 9780593820209
The Fourth Girl
On the anniversary of a teen’s disappearance, her closest friends face a deadly hometown reunion in this twisty suspense novel by New York Times bestselling author Wendy Corsi Staub. Dual timelines unfold at Haven Cliff, long an abandoned Hudson Valley estate, now restored to its gilded age glory, as three women wrestle with the secret they’ve kept for twenty-five years…a secret they believed no one else knew. But they were wrong.
Thomas & Mercer, April 2025
ISBN: 9781662523816