The Baroness’ Choices of New Books Publishing This Week
2024, Week 51’s New Books
My choices for this week include an International Mystery and a Cozy Culinary Animal Mystery.
If you celebrate, it’s the week before Christmas and Hanukkah. Are you ready? We’ve been listening to Christmas music while reading our books. How are you doing on your reading challenges? For me, it’s read, read, read! I am going to finish them.
Only two books this week, but they both sound amazing.
Here are my choices for New Books Publishing Week 51 of 2024!
Invisible Helix by Keigo Higashino
Detective Galileo #5
Publication Date: December 17, 2024
Genre: International Mystery
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Detective Galileo, Keigo Higashino’s best loved character from The Devotion of Suspect X, returns in a case where hidden history, and an impossible crime, are linked by nearly invisible threads in surprising ways.
The body of a young man is found floating in Tokyo Bay. But his death was no accident—Ryota Uetsuji was shot. He’d been reported missing the week before by his live-in girlfriend Sonoka Shimauchi, but when detectives from the Homicide Squad go to interview her, she is nowhere to be found. She’s taken time off from work, clothes and effects are missing from the apartment she shared. And when the detectives learn that she was the victim of domestic abuse, they presume that she was the killer. But her alibi is airtight—she was hours away in Kyoto when Ryota disappeared, forcing Detectives Kusanagi and Utsumi to restart their investigation.But if Sonoko didn’t kill her abusive lover, then who did? A thin thread of association leads them to their old consultant, brilliant physicist Manabu Yukawa, known in the department as “Detective Galileo.” With Sonoko still missing, the detectives investigate other threads of association—an eccentric artist, who was Sonoko’s mother figure after her own single mother passed; and an older woman who is the owner of a hostess club. And how is Sonoko continuing to stay one step ahead of the police searching for her? It’s up to Galileo to find the nearly hidden threads of history and coincidence that connect the people around the bloody murder- which, surprisingly, connect to his own traumatic past—to unravel not merely the facts of the crime but the helix that ties them all together.
Caffeine and Chaos by Wendy Meadows
Snow Falls Alaska Cozy #8
Publication Date: December 19, 2024
Genre: Cozy Culinary Animal Mystery
Bethany Lights just wants to escape the icy grip of Alaska for a warm beach and a little peace. But when her travel plans go up in smoke and she’s stranded in a blizzard, her simple trip turns into a fight for survival. A missed flight, a wrong turn, and an eerie lake resort with a dark past are just the beginning of her nightmare.
Stumbling into a deadly game, Bethany soon discovers she’s not alone—there are killers lurking in the shadows, and two of them are sisters with a knack for magic tricks… the deadly kind. With no way out and a storm closing in, Bethany has to rely on her wits—and maybe a little coffee-fueled courage—to survive.
Will she make it out, or will the last trick of the night be her final act?
Well, that’s it for the New Books Releasing Week 51 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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