The Baroness’ Choices of New Books Publishing This Week
2023, Week 1, 2, and 3’s New Books
My choices for this week include Psychological Thriller, Cozy Mystery, Cozy Culinary Mysteries, Historical Mystery, Cozy Paranormal Mysteries, Paranormal Romance, and Sweet Romance.
So, 2023? Yep, it snuck right up and blew me away. I am already a bit behind where I wanted to be, but 2023 will be a great year. Did any of you make new year’s resolutions? This year I didn’t; I think I am going to roll with it our first year in Texas and see how it goes.
Here is hoping that all of you had a great holiday season, have planned out your new year, and are ready for 2023 to be fabulous! The one positive is there will be lots of new books with lots of great characters and fantastic stories. I am looking forward to digging in. As you can see, we already have reviews for some of these books.
Here are my choices for New Books Publishing Weeks 1, 2, and 3 of 2023!
No One Knows Us Here by Rebecca Kelley
Publication Date: January 1, 2023
Genre: Psychological Thriller
In this gripping novel about obsession, control, and self-preservation, a woman desperate to provide a new life for her sister enters a compromising arrangement with an entitled tech billionaire.
Rosemary Rabourne is already struggling to pay the bills when her recently orphaned half sister, Wendy, shows up at her door. Rosemary will try anything to provide for the traumatized teenager―including offering her services as a high-end escort.
Leo Glass is the billionaire CEO of a revolutionary social app. He wants the “girlfriend experience”―someone contractually obligated to love him―and he thinks he’s found the perfect match in Rosemary. His proposition has its perks: a luxury apartment and financial security. And its conditions: constant surveillance and availability whenever Leo calls. It’s not the life Rosemary wants, but she’s out of options.
Then she meets her new neighbor, Sam, a musician with whom Rosemary shares an immediate attraction and a genuine intimacy she’s never felt with anyone. Falling in love makes it possible to imagine a real new life. But Leo won’t let go of her that easily, and his need for control escalates. So does Rosemary’s desperation―to protect Wendy, to protect herself, and, at any price, to escape.
Death on the Emerald Isle by Jessica Fletcher and Terrie Farley Moran
Murder, She Wrote #56
Publication Date: January 3, 2023
Genre: Cozy Mystery
A trip to Northern Ireland becomes unexpectedly grim for Jessica Fletcher in this new entry in the USA Today bestselling Murder, She Wrote series.
Jessica Fletcher is quick to accept an invitation to replace a speaker who couldn’t attend a Book Festival in Belfast, Ireland. When her Cabot Cove neighbor Maeve O’Bannon hears about the trip, she asks Jessica to deliver some paintings to her family in the village of Bushmills. Happy to extend her travels and see more of the Irish countryside, Jessica agrees.
The festival goes off without a hitch, and it seems like Jessica is in for a relaxing vacation. But then Maeve’s cousin Michael is discovered dead under suspicious circumstances. Jessica finds herself once again in the midst of a murder investigation, and she’ll have to dig into the O’Bannon family’s secrets to unmask the killer.
Of Mushrooms and Matrimony by Amy Patricia Meade
Tish Tarragon Mystery #6
Publication Date: January 3, 2023
Genre: Cozy Culinary Mystery
Tish Tarragon is catering for a wedding, but the weekend goes from sweet to sour when a guest at the venue is poisoned.
Literary caterer and owner of Cookin’ the Books café Tish Tarragon is pushing thoughts of her impending eviction aside to prepare an appetising welcome buffet for a wedding weekend at Abbingdon Green Bed and Breakfast. While there, Tish witnesses one of the guests, controversial TV chef and restaurant critic, Gunner Randall, threatening staff after missing breakfast and making do with a mushroom omelet.
When Randall is found dead the following day, it soon becomes clear that poisoned mushrooms were behind his demise. With no shortage of potential suspects and motives, can Tish and her new beau, Sheriff Clemson Reade, uncover who was enraged enough with the unsavoury star to silence him for good?
Just Murdered by Katherine Kovacic
Ms. Fisher’s Modern Murder Mystery #1
Publication Date: January 10, 2023
Genre: Historical Mystery
It’s 1960 and Peregrine Fisher, Phyrne’s long-lost niece, is about to get the news of her life.
Phryne’s gone missing in the jungles of Papua New Guinea. Only her pearl handled gun and a note arrive back home. She’s left instruction that say, that should not turn up in six months’ time, a letter must be sent to next of kin.
Peregrine, summons in hand, arrives in Melbourne to Greenwood mansion where she will inherit her aunt’s wealth. Phryne’s seat in the Adventuresses’ Club, on the other hand, must be earned. When two dead bodies turn up at the Astor bridal show, Peregrine gets her chance.
In pure Fisher fashion, she’ll defy social expectation with outlandish style, discover a penchant for investigating, all while running circles around the police.
Steep With One Eye Open by Erin Johnson
Magical Tea Room Mysteries #7
Publication Date: January 12, 2023
Genre: Cozy Paranormal Mystery
Twenty-seven-year-old witch Minnie Wells has an a-maze-ing ability to land herself in trouble.
Minnie’s vampire beau Fitz has just opened his country estate’s hedge maze to the paying public. They’re counting on the proceeds to fund the restoration of Fitz’s crumbling manor house, and to keep him from having to return to living in his cunning vampire sire’s nest.
But on opening day, a local school teacher is found murdered in the middle of the maze. And to add to the intrigue, Minnie’s chased off by the ghostly specter of a Regency woman whose own life was taken in the labyrinth two hundred years ago.
Now, Minnie teams up with a friend who has unexpected abilities, to catch the culprit, appease the spirit, and get the maze back in business.
But when her sleuthing uncovers a strange tie between the two women’s deaths, Minnie questions whether the killer is living, or undead, and if the maze will ever be safe again.
Will Minnie catch the culprit and put the angry spirit to rest or will she hit a dead end and become the murderer’s next victim?
Steep with One Eye Open is the seventh book in the charming Magical Tea Room Mysteries. These books are fun, clean, imaginative mysteries you’ll stay up all night binging.
Grim by Amy Boyles
Withering Mysteries #1
Publication Date: January 15, 2023
Genre: Cozy Paranormal Mystery
It only takes an instant for Grim—monster hunter and emotionally scarred hero—to lose everything.
Grim is having a bad year. A hunter by trade, his world is ripped apart when he is cursed with a sickness that is slowly changing him into one of the very creatures he hunts.
Worse, Grim is forced to abandon the woman he loves for fear that he’ll destroy her. So he must find a cure. Otherwise, they’ll never be together.
Yet there’s hope in a thorny alliance with an eccentric billionaire who lives in a castle.
But the billionaire has his own problems. He’s being hunted by an elusive monster, one that wants him dead. So, he strikes a deal with Grim—capture the creature and Grim will be healed.
Now Grim must navigate a castle filled with creeping shadows and portraits that seem alive, a suspicious butler, and the billionaire’s young daughter. She may hold the key to unlocking the truth behind why the creature is hunting her father—if only she could remember the past.
Can Grim stop the monster, break the curse plaguing him, and be reunited with the woman he loves? Or will he succumb to the darkness growing inside of him?
Monster in the Mirror by Kristen Painter
Shadowvale #6
Publication Date: January 16, 2023
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Shadowvale isn’t your typical small town America. The sun never shines, the gates decide who enters, magic abounds, and every resident bears some kind of curse.
For Isadora Graham, Shadowvale seems like a dream come true. A safe haven where she can hide from the darkness that lives within her, and hopefully, keep everyone else from finding out about it too. She needs this kind of place where she’ll be left alone. Where no one will realize who she really is.
Dr. Henry Jekyll, or rather a monstrous part of him, makes Shadowvale a more dangerous place for everyone, no matter how hard he tries to stop that side of himself from emerging. He’s doing everything in his power to control it, but control is hard, and solutions don’t come easy. Fortunately, the town understands he needs to be left alone.
Until somehow things go wrong, and he gets a neighbor. Izzy is incredibly nice and for her own safety, Henry knows he has to tell her what everyone else already knows. That he’s a monster. But he only ends up shocking her and turning her against him. Then another disturbing encounter makes her understand he was telling the truth, and that they are so very much alike.
When they join forces, their collaboration feels like a match made in heaven. Except for the part where the town is being targeted. And Izzy seems like the one causing all the trouble.
Can Henry battle his own demons in time to save Izzy? Or will the monster in the mirror be the ruin of them both? Only time, and love, will tell.
Sleigh Bell Serenade by Shanna Hatfield
Winter Wishes #2
Publication Date: January 19, 2023
Genre: Sweet Romance
He keeps his heart heavily guarded.
She meets everyone with a friendly smile.
Will the attraction sizzling between them pull them into the space between their two worlds?
Burdened by too many responsibilities, Bowen Jensen struggles beneath the overwhelming weight of them. Between raising his teenage sister, running their family ranch, and managing Sleigh Bell Tours, he barely has time to sleep let alone do something just for himself. He can’t even recall his last date. Then a chance encounter with a beguiling woman leaves him pondering if there isn’t more to life than trudging through one lonely day after another.
Juniper Haynes appears to have it all with a successful real estate career and a picture-perfect existence. Only she’s tired of dealing with demanding clients, wary of her so-called friends, and longing for the peace she finds at her sister’s mountain home. After a magical New Year’s Eve kiss with a cowboy she barely knows, she realizes true happiness might only be found outside her comfort zone.
Can Bo and Juniper find the courage to embrace change and explore the possibility of a future together?
Find out in this sweet winter romance full of small-town charm, memorable characters, laughter, hope, and love.
Tropical Tragedy by Wendy Meadows
Travel Writer Mystery #5
Publication Date: January 20, 2023
Genre: Cozy Culinary Mystery
Paradise hides the deadliest secrets…
Patricia McKay’s latest travel assignment is a dream come true: a tropical getaway where she can soak up the sun and interview a local businesswoman who’s determined to transform the island into a world-class family vacation destination.
But trouble is brewing in paradise – and when a poison dart lands Patricia’s interviewee in a body bag, her trip takes a sour turn… and everybody’s favorite amateur sleuth is plunged into a murky murder investigation that pushes her to the brink.
After the island’s only boat is stolen, Patricia finds herself stranded with a quirky cast of suspects – including a strange cowboy, a crazy cook, two lovestruck natives, a dim-witted blond on the run from a bounty hunter, and a dangerous man who isn’t what he seems. With the odds stacked against her, Patricia must fight to keep her head above water as she tries to unravel a mysterious case that forces her to discard theory after theory.
Can Patricia follow the killer’s tracks and emerge from the jungle victorious? Or will this disastrous vacation be the last one she ever takes?
Packed with thrilling twists and turns that will challenge even the most seasoned mystery reader, Tropical Tragedy is a fun and feel-good cozy mystery novel that will delight fans of puzzling who-dun-its and amateur sleuths.
Well, that’s it for the New Books Releasing Weeks 1, 2, and 3 of 2023
Drop a comment if you like one of the books above or if you have one to recommend.
Thank you for stopping by,
Happy Reading!
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