The Baroness’ Choices of New Books Publishing This Week
2024, Week 27’s New Books
My choices for this week include Cozy Crafts and Hobbies Mysteries, Cozy Mysteries, Cozy Paranormal Mysteries, Romantic Suspense, Middle Grade Fantasy, Sweet Historical Romance, Romantic Comedy, and Romantic Fantasy.
It’s officially July. How was your Fourth? For us here, it was quiet. Our neighbors even kept the fireworks noises down, and Carli didn’t freak out too much.
All of these books sound so good. Jen has one of these books on her list.
Here are my choices for New Books Publishing Week 27 of 2024!
Hooked on a Feeling by Becky Klauer
Happy Hookers Crochet Club Mystery #2
Publication Date: July 1, 2024
Genre: Cozy Crafts and Hobbies Mystery
Would you be able to use a hard bag of brown sugar as a self-defense weapon?
When Breezy finds a mysterious riddle that was stuck in a hidden compartment beneath her beloved round table, she enlists creative help to figure out what it means, not knowing where it will lead. Impeding her path, new ghosts pop in to visit, warn, and threaten her.
Meanwhile, her brother’s hot detective partner ends up temporarily staying in her basement and needs Breezy’s help with a troubled ghost. Breezy also meets a gangster ghost who left something hidden on her property, and he won’t stop until he gets it back. In the meantime, she has a mole in her immediate ghost community and has to figure out who it is and how to deal with them.
However, while dealing with new ghost visitors, she gets some new living visitors as well—her mother and her sister, Sadie, from Boston, along with Sadie’s four kids. So, she has to play detective and ghost whisperer while preventing potential familial witnesses from seeing or hearing her.
Can she figure out the riddle, dodge guest ghosts, dire warnings, attempted kidnappings, and visiting family members, while employing large bags of baking ingredients to keep everybody safe? If she doesn’t, neither she, nor her household, will have any peace.
Mai Tai Malice by Tanya Westlake
Kalliope Brooks Mysteries #3
Publication Date: July 1, 2024
Genre: Cozy Mystery
In the festivities of Tampa’s famed Gasparilla Parade, where pirate lore meets modern revelry, amateur sleuths Kalliope Brooks and Tess Russo find themselves embroiled in another deadly mystery. As the excitement rages around them, a chilling murder shatters the celebratory atmosphere, and Kallie finds herself jailed as the prime suspect!
Determined to clear her name, Kallie and Tess plunge into a perilous investigation, uncovering the infamous victim’s unpleasant background — and stumbling on another mystery within the elegant city’s shadows. But their quest for justice is met with skepticism from the authorities, leaving them with no choice but to enlist the help of a dubious ally.
In Mai Tai Malice, the stakes are high, and the danger is real. Join Owhiro’s dynamic duo on a thrilling journey through the sun-soaked streets of Tampa, where every clue brings them closer to the shocking truth and every historic cobblestone street hides a potential killer.
All Witches on Deck by Amanda M. Lee
Moonstone Bay Cozy Mystery #14
Publication Date: July 2, 2024
Genre: Cozy Paranormal Mystery
Hadley Hunter never saw herself as mayor of Moonstone Bay. Now she has the job, and it seems to be a whole lot of squabbling neighbors and missing foul-mouthed birds instead of the action and adventure she was expecting. All of that changes when a local worker for one of the hotels calls in to report seeing a child wandering in the road in the middle of nowhere. Both the woman and child are missing when units go looking.
Sheriff Galen Blackwood can’t find a record of a missing child. He can’t find a path to follow for the missing woman. All he can find is a spit of desert in the middle of the island and no way across.
Moonstone Bay has a lot of secrets. When Hadley starts digging on this one, she’s confused. How is it that nobody has any information on this specific bit of land? Why has nobody ever bothered to ask? Why is it that everybody just accepts the land can’t be crossed?
Hadley smells a conspiracy, and she may be right. The problem is, there’s nobody around to confirm or deny anything she believes.
That, of course, means her mind is running wild. She’s going to take all of her friends along for the ride, too, whether they want to be dragged into this mess or not.
Some secrets are kept for a reason. When this one blows up, they all might regret it…if they live that long that is.
Echo Road by Melinda Leigh and Kendra Elliot
Mercy Kilpatrick #9 and Bree Taggert #9
Publication Date: July 2, 2024
Genre: Romantic Suspense
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When two cross-country cases collide, Bree Taggert and Mercy Kilpatrick join forces to catch a serial killer in an addictive novel of suspense by bestselling authors Melinda Leigh and Kendra Elliot.
During a vicious heat wave, a county maintenance worker stumbles upon two suspicious suitcases abandoned by the side of the road. Sheriff Bree Taggert responds to find two bodies stuffed inside the luggage. The press demands action. The community is on edge. Suddenly, Bree is at the center of a media firestorm.
In Oregon, a senator’s daughter goes missing. FBI Special Agent Mercy Kilpatrick agrees to keep the politically sensitive case on the down-low. When she finds a link between the disappearance and a double homicide three thousand miles away, Mercy takes the next plane out―and lands right in the middle of Bree’s double homicide investigation.
To save the missing girl, Bree and Mercy must work together to stop a killer who’s playing deadly games with the press and stirring up public rage. Hungry for notoriety, he dares Bree and Mercy to catch him before he kills again.
Farrah Noorzad and the Ring of Fate by Deeba Zargarpur
Farrah Noorzad #1
Publication Date: July 2, 2024
Genre: Middle Grade Fantasy
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A 12-year-old girl discovers her true jinn heritage when a birthday wish gone wrong traps her father in a magical ring, sending her on an epic quest to free him. This richly imagined fantasy series inspired by Persian mythology and Islamic lore is filled with action, magic, and self-discovery.
Farrah sees her father just one day every year—her birthday. But this year, her wish to bring them closer goes wildly awry when Farrah discovers she is a half-jinn…and her father is one of the seven great jinn kings. Her wish traps her father inside a legendary ring, and the other six jinn kings will follow unless Farrah can rectify her mistake.
Pursued by menacing shadow jinn, Farrah’s quest takes her to a floating mountain range. Joined by Idris, the jinn boy whom she inadvertently freed from the ring, and her newly discovered half-brother, Yaseen, Farrah must find a way to navigate the mysteries and dangers of her new world in order to save her father and face the most devious jinn lord of all.
Luna by Shanna Hatfield
Pendleton Petticoats #11
Publication Date: July 2, 2024
Genre: Sweet Historical Romance
She’s searching for peace and grace
He’s ready to step into his next big adventure
Haunted by memories of the fateful day that changed her life, Luna Campanelli seeks a fresh start in Pendleton, Oregon. Life in the wild western town is nothing like she imagined, although the rugged beauty of the area soothes her troubled spirit. An unlikely friendship with one of the area ranch hands lifts her hopes, until she discovers the cowboy isn’t who he’s led her to believe.
Hunter Douglas didn’t intend to hide his identity from the woman he met on the train, but when she assumed he was his sister’s hired hand, he didn’t correct her. He never anticipated forming such a deep connection to her, especially when thoughts of her continue to infiltrate his carefully made plans. As a recent college graduate with an inheritance he intends to use to start his own ranch in Pendleton, Hunter must decide if he is willing to open his heart and include Luna in his future.
Will they embrace the unexpected love that has blossomed between them, or let fear tear them apart?
This sweet and wholesome romance is a story of love, healing, and the power of hope in a delightful western setting. Join Luna and Hunter on their journey as they discover what it truly means to love unconditionally.
Read all the books in the Pendleton Petticoats series, beginning with Aundy.
The Love of My Afterlife by Kirsty Greenwood
Publication Date: July 2, 2024
Genre: Romantic Comedy
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A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK
A recently deceased woman meets “the one” in the afterlife waiting room, scoring a second chance at life (and love!) if she can find him on earth before ten days are up…
If she wasn’t dead already, Delphie would be dying of embarrassment. Not only did she just die by choking on a microwaveable burger, but now she’s standing in her ‘shine like a star’ nightie in front of the hottest man she’s ever seen. And he’s smiling at her.
As they start to chat, everything else becomes background noise. That is until someone comes running out of a door, yelling something about a huge mistake, and sends the dreamy stranger back down to earth. And here Delphie was thinking her luck might be different in the afterlife.
When Delphie is offered a deal in which she can return to earth and reconnect with the mysterious man, she jumps at the opportunity to find her possible soulmate and a fresh start. But in a city of millions, Delphie is going to have to listen to her heart, learn to ask for help, and perhaps even see the magic in the life she’s leaving behind…
The Night Ends with Fire by K.X. Song
The Night Ends with Fire #1
Publication Date: July 2, 2024
Genre: Romantic Fantasy
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Infused with magic and romance, this sweeping fantasy adventure inspired by the legend of Mulan follows a young woman determined to choose her own destiny—even if that means going against everyone she loves.
The Three Kingdoms are at war, but Meilin’s father refuses to answer the imperial draft. Trapped by his opium addiction, he plans to sell Meilin for her dowry. But when Meilin discovers her husband-to-be is another violent, ill-tempered man, she realizes that nothing will change for her unless she takes matters into her own hands.
The very next day, she disguises herself as a boy and enlists in her father’s place.
In the army, Meilin’s relentless hard work brings her recognition, friendship—and a growing closeness with Sky, a prince turned training partner. But has she simply exchanged one prison for another? As her kingdom barrels toward destruction, Meilin begins to have visions of a sea dragon spirit that offers her true power and freedom, but with a deadly price.
With the future of the Three Kingdoms hanging in the balance, Meilin will need to decide whom to trust—Sky, who inspires her loyalty and love; the sea dragon spirit, who has his own murky agenda; or an infuriating enemy prince who makes her question everything she once knew—about her kingdom and about her own heart.
Well, that’s it for the New Books Releasing Week 27 of 2024
Drop a comment if you like one of the books above or if you have one to recommend.
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Happy Reading!
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