The Baroness’ Choices of New Books Publishing This Week
2024, Week 26’s New Books
My choices for this week include Sweet Romances, Cozy Culinary Mysteries, a Sweet Holiday Romance, a Cozy Paranormal Mystery, a Middle Grade Adventure, a Cozy Paranormal Animal Mystery, a Historical Paranormal Mystery, a Sweet Cowboy Romance, a Middle Grade Fantasy Adventure, and a Private Investigator Mystery.
Can you believe that June is almost over already? It’s like time is just flying by. How are your reading challenges going?
We have so many new amazing books this week. I have one on my list.
Here are my choices for New Books Publishing Week 26 of 2024!
A Home for the Marine by Kellie A. King
Ballad Inn Romance #2
Publication Date: June 25, 2024
Genre: Sweet Romance
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Is he brave enough…
To start over?Retired marine Gideon Holder knows he and his baby girl need a fresh start. The job at the charming sister-owned Ballad Inn is beyond his expectations—as is widowed nurse Margo Ballad. They both know what it is to lose someone…and how it feels to still hope for love. But finding that spark is one thing. Finding the courage to take the leap is quite another.
A Murder for the Sages by Amy Lillard
Sunflower Cafe Cozy Mysteries #3
Publication Date: June 25, 2024
Genre: Cozy Culinary Mystery
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Twenty-something advice columnist and amateur sleuth Sissy Yoder loves helping out at her Aunt Bethel’s Sunflower Café in Yoder, Kansas. It connects her to family, to the close-knit community—and to the suspicious events that always seem to bubble beneath small-town life . . .
The unusual death of local herb farmer, Ginger Reed, is the talk of Yoder. Naturally, Sissy is intrigued. The official report classifies Ginger’s demise as an accident, concluding that she ran herself over with a tractor. But Sissy’s cousin, Naomi, a friend and longtime employee of Ginger’s, insists that’s impossible. When she asks for Sissy’s help in unearthing the truth, Sissy’s on the case—accompanied as ever by her loyal Yorkie companion, Duke . . .
The deeper Sissy digs, the longer the list of suspects grows—and none of them are Ginger. Near the top is Ginger’s resentful sister-in-law, Mallory. Next is Naomi’s brother, Lloyd, who’s bitter about the oil derrick presumably pumping black gold from Ginger’s land—land that once belonged to his family. Naomi herself could be a suspect—it’s her tractor, after all. But the investigation stalls when Naomi makes a shocking turnaround in her story. Is she lying? And if so, why? Then a missing dog, a desperate lawyer, and a teenage con artist are added to the mix, and the puzzle becomes hopelessly complicated. If Sissy doesn’t solve it quickly, she’ll be lost in the weeds as a killer reaps a deadly harvest . . .
A Small Town Fourth of July by Janice Carter
Home to Maple Glen #1
Publication Date: June 25, 2024
Genre: Sweet Holiday Romance
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His return sets off fireworks…
But will it blow up her dreams?When Theo Danby returns to Maple Glen to sell his inherited land, Maura Stuart panics. Selling the land could endanger Maura’s beloved donkey therapy business…and expose her secrets. Her only hope is to rope Theo into helping with the Fourth of July festival and make Theo fall in love with their small town. But if she trusts him with the truth, will he stay…or will she lose everything?
An Amish Country Reunion by Patricia Johns
Publication Date: June 25, 2024
Genre: Sweet Romance
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When friends reunite in Amish Country…
Will love follow?Arriving at the State Police K9 Training Center, Trooper Genevieve Austin learns that she’ll be reporting to her former partner, Sergeant Scott Simpson. Gen hasn’t seen Scott since he ghosted her to protect his job. And after her own struggles to climb the ranks, she can sympathize. When working together makes old feelings resurface, will Gen and Scott choose their careers…or each other?
Come Shell or High Water by Molly MacRae
Haunted Shell Shop Mystery #1
Publication Date: June 25, 2024
Genre: Cozy Paranormal Mystery
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From Molly MacRae, acclaimed author of the Highland Bookshop Mysteries, the first in a charming new series set on a beautiful barrier island off the coast of North Carolina and featuring a widowed folklorist, a seashell shop, and the ghost of an 18th century pirate…
As a professional storyteller, Maureen Nash can’t help but see the narrative cues woven through her life. Like the series of letters addressed to her late husband from a stranger—the proprietor of The Moon Shell, a shop on Ocracoke Island, off the coast of North Carolina. The store is famous with shell collectors, but it’s the cryptic letters from Allen Withrow, the shop’s owner, that convince Maureen to travel to the small coastal town in the middle of hurricane season. At the very least, she expects she’ll get a good story out of the experience, never anticipating it could end up a murder mystery . . .
In Maureen’s first hours on the storm-lashed island, she averts several life-threatening accidents, stumbles over the body of a controversial Ocracoke local, and meets the ghost of an eighteenth-century Welsh pirate, Emrys Lloyd. To the untrained eye, all these unusual occurrences would seem to be random misfortunes, but Maureen senses there may be something connecting these stories. With Emrys’s supernatural assistance, and the support of a few new friends, Maureen sets out unravel the truth, find a killer, and hopefully give this tale a satisfying ending . . . while also rewriting her own.
Dinner at the Brake Fast by Renee Beauregard Lute
Publication Date: June 25, 2024
Genre: Middle Grade Adventure
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Dinner at the Brake Fast is a hilarious and heartfelt story about road-trip mishaps, a murderous rooster, facing down anxieties, and unexpected friendship that is a must-pick for readers who loved The Science of Unbreakable Things and The First Rule of Punk.
Tacoma Jones loves working at her family’s roadside diner, the Brake Fast, pouring coffee and serving eggs and muffins to truckers all day long. But tonight, she is finally going to break out her collection of cookbooks and prepare the best dinner the state of Washington has ever seen.
But her excitement is dampened when she learns that today is one of Dad’s bad days, when his depression makes it hard for him to get out of bed.
Tacoma knows she can’t fix her dad’s depression. But what she can do is steal back his prized photograph of his second-best day from her nemesis, the nasty Crocodile Kyle—while also planning a dinner that is sure to brighten up his bad day.
She just might need an accomplice or two to pull off the heist. . . .
Haunting License by Carol J. Perry
Haunted Haven Mystery #3
Publication Date: June 25, 2024
Genre: Cozy Paranormal Animal Mystery
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When a fisherman is murdered, Florida innkeeper Maureen Doherty and her spirit sleuths must cast a wide net to catch a killer…
Greetings from Haven, Florida, a quaint, scenic old town on the Gulf Coast where Massachusetts transplant Maureen Doherty and her excessively friendly Golden retriever are the newest proprietors of the charming local inn…along with its many ghostly tenants!
It’s June in Haven, Florida, a “between seasons” time in the tourism business, and Maureen’s Haven House Inn is feeling the pinch. There are plenty of ghosts in residence, but Maureen needs living guests to pay the bills.
Inspired by an old brochure she finds in a trunk she inherited along with the inn from her mysterious benefactor Penelope Josephine Gray, she gets the brilliant idea to revive a June fishing tournament from twenty years ago, hoping to reel in anglers who’d love to catch the Gulf Coast’s popular kingfish and take home a trophy.
But one fisherman won’t make it to the tournament. While walking on the beach with her golden retriever Finn, Maureen discovers a body. When Officer Frank Hubbard arrives, he recognizes local charter boat fisherman Eddie Manuel.
Now it’s up to Maureen and her spirited sleuths to sort through the red herrings and bait a hook for a killer before someone else ends up sleeping with the fishes . . .
Murder at an English Séance by Jessica Ellicott
Beryl and Edwina Mystery #8
Publication Date: June 25, 2024
Genre: Historical Paranormal Mystery
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In post–World War I England, foul play at a suspicious séance provokes the delightfully mismatched sleuthing duo of American adventuress Beryl Helliwell and prim Brit Edwina Davenport to dig up some dirt . . .
Hidden beneath her British reserve, Edwina has a secret: she’s finished her novel and is bravely mailing the manuscript to a publisher. Beryl also has a secret: as thanks for solving a case, the American adventuress has been gifted an airplane. After swooping over the fields and hedgerows of Walmsley Parva, livestock scattering beneath her, she flamboyantly lands the plane on the village green, prompting a startled Edwina to consider a stiff gin fizz.
Beryl’s aircraft is not the only disruption of village peace. Miss Dinsdale, a psychic medium, has started holding séances. After the church organist resigns to serve as musical accompaniment for the séances, the vicar’s wife hires the enquiry agents to expose the medium as a charlatan. Beryl is confident she can spot the fraud, having learned from Harry Houdini himself some tricks of the trade. The dubious Miss Dinsdale claims her spirit guide is an Egyptian princess whose mummy resides in a sarcophagus in the room. But the only body in the sarcophagus belongs to a murdered villager impaled with a dagger.
As the sleuths begin to investigate, Beryl discovers her plane has been sabotaged and wonders if there’s a connection. Whether in the air or on terra firma, Beryl and Edwina must go round a circle of suspects to divine the culprit . . .
Murder at the Rusty Anchor by Maddie Day
Cozy Capers Book Group Mystery #6
Publication Date: June 25, 2024
Genre: Cozy Culinary Mystery
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There’s deadweight behind the bar at the Rusty Anchor and it’s up to Cape Cod bike shop owner Mackenzie “Mac” Almeida to solve the murder in Agatha Award–winner Maddie Day’s latest Cozy Capers Book Group Mystery . . .
A rainy July weekend in Westham means the beaches are empty and business is dead at Mac’s Bikes but couldn’t be livelier inside the Rusty Anchor Pub. But come Monday morning one patron is not so lively when the chef opens up and finds a body behind the bar. It’s last call for Bruce Byrne, an elderly high school teacher who’s been around so long it seems like he taught everybody.
When Mac’s friend Flo, the librarian, makes the list of suspects, Mac gathers the Cozy Capers Book Group to clear her name. With no end in sight to the rain, the group has plenty of time to study the clues and sort through a roll call of suspects to determine who decided to teach Mr. Bryne a lesson. But with a killer desperate to cover their tracks, Mac and the group will be tested as never before . . .
The Heart of a Rancher by Trish Milburn
Jade Valley, Wyoming #4
Publication Date: June 25, 2024
Genre: Sweet Cowboy Romance
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Is it too soon…
For a second chance?After a bad breakup, Ivy Lake enters a draw for a historic property—and wins! Jade Valley, Wyoming, will be the perfect escape from heartbreak. Making the building livable means hiring rancher Austin Hathaway, who could use the extra money. He has his own problems and romance is not on his agenda, but working with Ivy, he falls under her spell. Are they ready to take another chance on love?
The Last Draft by Agatha Frost
Meadowfield Bookshop Mysteries #1
Publication Date: June 25, 2024
Genre: Cozy Culinary Mystery
THE FIRST IN A BRAND NEW SERIES!
Welcome to Meadowfield Bookshop…
Meet Ellie Swift… a bookworm with a history degree stuck at a crossroads. After putting her degree to work in a TV studio’s historical continuity department for years, the studio merges with a giant streaming service and Ellie loses her dream job. She finds herself working in a coffee shop to make ends meet, and while waiting for the perfect opportunity to come along… she gets a phone call informing her that her dear Granny Maggie has broken her hip.
Leaving the city and her coffee shop job behind, Ellie returns to her quaint hometown of Meadowfield to care for her grandmother, but she finds more than just the family’s beloved bookshop, Meadowfield Books, in disarray. Granny Maggie’s hip was broken during a robbery gone wrong, and the thief—a relative of a deceased local author—is found dead. The item the thief stole? The local author’s final manuscript.
While juggling caring for her grandmother and running the failing bookshop, Ellie finds herself in a web of mystery and murder, as she encounters a cast of characters each with a motive for coveting the author’s final manuscript. Utilising her passion for history and her old community ties, Ellie untangles a series of clever clues and red herrings. From the financial desperation of the thief’s father to the secretive actions of a local historian and antique dealer, the plot thickens when a rival author is also found dead. With a knack for history and a heart for sleuthing, Ellie uncovers hidden truths, from coveted manuscripts to clandestine motives, but can Ellie’s keen insights and tenacity ensure justice is served? And will she find a renewed sense of purpose in her long-forgotten home?
Find out in The Last Draft, the first book in the NEW Meadowfield Mysteries series, a quintessentially British cozy mystery series packed with heart, charm, and a cracking mystery full of twists and turns. Perfect for those who love a good puzzle served up with a side of homemade scones and village gossip.
Discover the secrets of Meadowfield, where every page turned is a clue unveiled…
Wander Lost by Laura Martin
Publication Date: June 25, 2024
Genre: Middle Grade Fantasy Adventure
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From the critically acclaimed author of Float and Glitch comes a new stand-alone adventure full of humor and heart, perfect for fans of Gordon Korman and Dan Gutman!
Rhett and his brother, Nash, have never been allowed to play board games. It’s their mom’s most important rule; the twins don’t know why, but they know not to push her on it.
When their mom suddenly disappears, they’re reunited with Ace, their long-lost grandfather, who reveals that their family is descended from a board game character who escaped his game and lived in the real world. Their family now has the ability to enter the world of any game they want—but this gift also comes with a price. A game character who’s wanted revenge against their mom for decades has finally caught her and is holding her hostage in the world of a game. Which game? That’s up to Rhett and Nash to figure out, even if it means breaking Mom’s most important rule.
But as they learn to use their newly discovered ability, exploring new worlds and facing new challenges and risks, the brothers quickly realize that saving Mom won’t be all fun and games. It’s game on… or game over.
The Bride’s Antique Ring by Jennifer Faye
Seabreeze Wedding Chapel #4
Publication Date: June 26, 2024
Genre: Sweet Romance
Seven days before a Christmas Eve wedding, the bride’s wedding ring goes missing…
Selena Blakely, owner of a Bit of Cake Bakery, is the maid of honor for her best friend’s wedding. When she learns the bride’s wedding ring is missing, she’s intent on finding it in time for the nuptials. Firefighter Dylan Adler feels an enormous weight of guilt. One moment he was entrusted with the ring that had been in the groom’s family for generations, and the next moment the ring was gone.
When Selena and Dylan realize they both played a part in the ring’s disappearance, they reluctantly work together to get it back. However, the more time they spend together, the more they are drawn to each other. Still, he keeps a wall up around his scarred heart, while she doesn’t trust him to stick around once the ring is found. With time ticking away until the wedding, their search leads them on an epic journey full of twists and turns. At times, they find themselves looking within for the answers. Will those answers surprise them?
Nocino Noir by Traci Andrighetti
Franki Amato Mysteries #9
Publication Date: June 27, 2024
Genre: Private Investigator Mystery
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Franki’s coffee shop noir is a hard nut to crack!
It’s a slow, steamy summer in New Orleans’ French Quarter, but Franki Amato is busy planning her bridal shower—that is, until a hit-and-run outside a coffee shop gets her PI senses percolating. The victim is linked to crimes at a fancy society wedding in a haunted hotel where Franki’s fiancé’s family is staying. As for the java joint, it’s straight out of a hardboiled detective movie, and there’s something hinky about its walnut liqueur coffee. Franki’s Sicilian nonna says the macabre events are proof the malocchio has been cast on her impending marriage, and to her utter surprise, her future grandmother-in-law also suspects the evil eye. To save her wedding and solve the case, Franki must investigate some shady places, from a witch shop and bridal swap to a shack in the swamp. She has to uncover the identities of a femme fatale and a jewel thief and unravel the meaning of a deadly delivery. If she doesn’t, this noir mystery could turn Grimm fairy tale.
Nocino Noir is book 9 in the Franki Amato Mysteries, but it can be read as a standalone story. If you like zany characters and laugh-out-loud humor with a splash of suspense, then you’ll drink up this fun series by USA Today Bestselling Author Traci Andrighetti. Cheers!
Mocha Motives by Wendy Meadows
Brown’s Grounds Mystery #2
Publication Date: June 28, 2024
Genre: Cozy Culinary Mystery
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When Monica Brown swaps city chaos for the quaint charm of Millpond and her cozy coffee truck, she never imagines serving up a side of murder with her morning coffee. But that’s exactly what happens when she discovers the body of reclusive author Priscilla Montegrove, thrusting Monica into the role of Millpond’s newest—and most reluctant—amateur detective.
With the help of the enigmatic Sheriff Nathan Thomas, Monica brews her way through a maze of clues, secrets, and betrayals that run deeper than the town’s roots. As they unravel the mystery together, Monica learns that solving Priscilla’s murder involves more than just her detective instincts—it challenges her heart and soul. Millpond, with its picturesque facade, harbors dark secrets, and Monica is determined to bring them to light.
Join Monica on her journey to solve Millpond’s most perplexing case—before the killer decides her next pour is her last.
Well, that’s it for the New Books Releasing Week 26 of 2024
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