The Baroness’ Choices of New Books Publishing This Week
2023, Week 44’s New Books
My choices for this week include Humorous Mystery, Cozy Animal Mystery, MG Fantasy, YA Fantasy, Sweet Holiday Romance, and YA Sweet Spies.
It’s almost Halloween time! Do you guys do trick-or-treating with the little ones, or do you go someplace and do the trick-or-treating out of your trunks? Maybe a community party?
Here are some lovely books for this week, and I reviewed one of them already!
Here are my choices for New Books Publishing Week 44 of 2023!
Dirty Thirty by Janet Evanovich
Stephanie Plum #30
Publication Date: October 31, 2023
Genre: Humorous Mystery
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#1 New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich is in top form as she sends Stephanie Plum on the trail of a stolen cache of dirty diamonds.
Stephanie Plum, Trenton’s hardest working, most underappreciated bounty hunter, is offered a freelance assignment that seems simple enough. Local jeweler Martin Plover wants her to locate his former security guard, Andy Manley (a.k.a. Nutsy), who he is convinced stole a fortune in diamonds out of his safe. Stephanie is also looking for another troubled man, Duncan Dugan, a fugitive from justice arrested for robbing the same jewelry store on the same day.
With her boyfriend Morelli away in Miami on police business, Stephanie is taking care of Bob, Morelli’s giant orange dog who will devour anything, from Stephanie’s stray donuts to the upholstery in her car. Morelli’s absence also means the inscrutable, irresistible security expert Ranger is front and center in Stephanie’s life when things inevitably go sideways. And he seems determined to stay there.
To complicate matters, her best friend Lula is convinced she is being stalked by a mythological demon hell-bent on relieving her of her wardrobe. An overnight stakeout with Stephanie’s mother and Grandma Mazur reveals three generations of women with nerves of steel and driving skills worthy of NASCAR champions.
As the body count rises and witnesses start to disappear, it won’t be easy for Stephanie to keep herself clean when everyone else is playing dirty. It’s a good thing Stephanie isn’t afraid of getting a little dirty, too.
Mission Impawsible by Chris Abernathy
Detective Whiskers Cat Cozy Mystery #5
Publication Date: October 31, 2023
Genre: Cozy Animal Mystery
You never know what you’ll discover when you start remodeling an old hotel. Forgotten treasures can change your life – or end it. Detective Whiskers may need all nine of his lives in this thrilling case!
The Parrot Eyes Inn is getting a complete, and much-needed, makeover and there’s no time to kill as the new owner wants it ready for a grand reopening in the Spring. Celebrity guests are already making reservations. Everything comes to a stop, though, when one of the construction workers winds up dead in a secret room that had been long forgotten. Even more surprising than the room and the body in it, is what had been hidden in the room for decades and has now disappeared a second time.
Detective Whiskers has his paws full in this thrilling case. When he finally figures things out – that’s when the real excitement begins, for him and his furry and feathered friends!
If you love humorous cozy mysteries where pets take the lead and eccentric friends come together to solve crimes with just the right amount of suspense then the Detective Whiskers Cozy Mystery Series is exactly what you’re looking for. Buy Mission Impawsible now and find out why the only thing better than a K-9 cop is a feline detective!
Wand by Landra Jennings
Publication Date: October 31, 2023
Genre: MG Fantasy
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A dazzling story of grief and found family wrapped in a spellbinding fairy tale, perfect for fans of Anne Ursu and Jodi Lynn Anderson.
Eleven-year-old Mira wishes everything could go back to the way it was. Before she changed schools and had to quit gymnastics. Especially before Papa died. Now she spends her days cooking and cleaning for her stepsisters and Val—who she still won’t call mom and still won’t forgive for the terrible thing she did.
When a mysterious girl named Lyndame appears out of the woods wielding a powerful wand, she makes Mira an offer she can’t refuse: she will grant Mira three wishes.
What if magic isn’t just pretend after all? What if these wishes could fix everything? But in the quiet town of Between, Georgia, where secrets lurk and rumors swirl of strange creatures, nothing is as it seems, and everything comes at a price.
Rising talent Landra Jennings weaves together an enchanting, modern fairy tale with eloquence and compassion about finding hope after loss—and finding belonging in the places we least expect.
What the River Knows by Isabel Ibanez
Secrets of the Nile #1
Publication Date: October 31, 2023
Genre: YA Fantasy
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The Mummy meets Death on the Nile in What the River Knows, Isabel Ibañez’s lush, immersive historical fantasy set in Egypt and filled with adventure, a rivals-to-lovers romance, and a dangerous race.
Bolivian-Argentinian Inez Olivera belongs to the glittering upper society of nineteenth century Buenos Aires, and like the rest of the world, the town is steeped in old world magic that’s been largely left behind or forgotten. Inez has everything a girl might want, except for the one thing she yearns the most: her globetrotting parents―who frequently leave her behind.
When she receives word of their tragic deaths, Inez inherits their massive fortune and a mysterious guardian, an archeologist in partnership with his Egyptian brother-in-law. Yearning for answers, Inez sails to Cairo, bringing her sketch pads and a golden ring her father sent to her for safekeeping before he died. But upon her arrival, the old world magic tethered to the ring pulls her down a path where she soon discovers there’s more to her parent’s disappearance than what her guardian led her to believe.
With her guardian’s infuriatingly handsome assistant thwarting her at every turn, Inez must rely on ancient magic to uncover the truth about her parent’s disappearance―or risk becoming a pawn in a larger game that will kill her.
What the River Knows is the first book in the thrilling Secrets of the Nile duology.
A Seaside Bookshop Christmas by Jennifer Faye
Turner Family of Bluestar Island #3
Publication Date: November 3, 2023
Genre: Sweet Holiday Romance
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Twelve days before Christmas, the forecast is calling for snow with a hundred percent chance of love as the owner of the Seaside Bookshop risks everything, including her heart.
Christmas returns to Bluestar Island in this heartwarming page-turner. While the small town’s holiday calendar is filled with festive events, the friendships of Bluestar’s residents are put to the test. Melinda Coleman, owner of the Seaside Bookshop, finds herself making a deal with the town curmudgeon that could cost her everything. While furniture maker Liam Turner is suddenly a full-time single father, he’s in over his head with an active three-year-old. It will take these two friends helping each other to keep their lives from imploding, and in the process, they find the most precious gift of all—love.
Includes a holiday recipe for Santa’s Mitten cookies!
Spies Never Play by M. Taylor Christensen
Banana Girls #4
Publication Date: November 4, 2023
Genre: YA Sweet Spies
Playing with guys has only ever been a game.
Now Katie has to play the game for real.
When Katie Okiishi goes undercover at an elite eSports tournament overflowing with guys—nerdy, hot, and everywhere in between—it’s like her dream has finally come true. But with national security secrets hanging in the balance, Katie must sift through the sea of eager players to catch the would-be thief.
How will this game end? Will Katie find a way to ignore the distraction of so many guys? Will the tournament end before she can catch the thief? Will she ever meet a man who makes her want to stop playing the field?
If you enjoy kick-butt spy-girls and in-game action, you’ll love Spies Never Play. This stand-alone novel is the fourth book in the Banana Girls series. As always, the romance is sweet, and the suspense is cozy.
Well, that’s it for the New Books Releasing Week 44 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!
Whisper Valley my second book, came out last month