The Baroness’ Choices for Upcoming Releases for April 2019
Hey Everyone!
I have put together a fantastic bunch of books for April. Some of these books I will be reviewing throughout April so, look for those.
I am looking forward to reading these excellent books. Enjoy my choices for Upcoming Releases in April 2019.
A Rancher to Remember by Karen Rock
Rocky Mountain Cowboys #6
Publication Date: April 1, 2019
Genre: Romance, Contemporary, Clean & Wholesome, Sweet
They can’t change the past…
but they can choose their future
Globe-trotting journalist Cassidy Fulton is back in Carbondale, Colorado. Only she can’t remember why—or the accident that killed her estranged sister. Helping her piece together this mystery is her brother-in-law and former fiancé, Daryl Loveland. Overcoming their grief seems impossible. Yet one thing is clear: Cassidy can’t imagine her life without Daryl or her adorable niece and nephew. But can the ranch ever really be her home?
Her Unexpected Hero by Cheryl Harper
Otter Lake Ranger Station #4
Publication Date: April 1, 2019
Genre: Romance, Contemporary, Clean & Wholesome, Sweet
Starting over…
with her ex-fiancé’s brother?
Winter Kingfisher only wanted to protect the nature reserve in her hometown of Sweetwater, Tennessee. But after a political scandal lands her family on the front pages and costs Winter her PR job at the reserve, and her engagement, she needs to rebuild. Enter handsome Caleb Callaway, who’s arrived to oversee a construction project meant to make amends of his own. Caleb was already part of Winter’s past…can he also be her future?
Holiday Kisses by Anna J. Stewart
Butterfly Harbor Stories #5
Publication Date: April 1, 2019
Genre: Romance, Contemporary, Clean & Wholesome, Sweet
His family’s honor is at stake…
And she holds the key
Calliope Jones, Butterfly Harbor’s free-spirited organic farmer, is the most vocal objector to Xander Costas and his design for the butterfly sanctuary that he hopes will save his family’s architectural firm. Strangely, it’s Calliope who shows him what the town, and he, really need. Calliope makes Xander listen with his heart. And soon his heart may be telling him to stay with this extraordinary woman!
Highway to Homicide by Lucy Quinn
Secret Seal Isle Mystery #9
Publication Date: April 2, 2019
Genre: Mystery, Cozy, Women Sleuth
Cookie James has put her past behind her and is settled in for the long haul on her island with the love of her life… or has she? After a barge blows up just off the coast of Secret Seal Isle, Rain and the Pussycat Posse, who were protesting a new condo construction project, become the prime suspects. Now Rain is being held without bail and Cookie will do anything to prove her innocence, even if it means facing the DeMasi mob and blowing her cover.
Murder at the Marina by Janet Finsilver
Kelly Jackson Mystery #5
Publication Date: April 2, 2019
Genre: Mystery, Cozy, Women Sleuth, Amateur Sleuth
She’s got to solve this-or her friends are sunk . . .
Kelly Jackson, manager of the Redwood Cove Bed and Breakfast, is fond of the Doblinsky brothers, Ivan and Rudy, members of the Silver Sentinels, a crew of crime-solving senior citizens in their Northern California seaside hamlet. After she discovers a jewel-encrusted dagger-with what appears to be dried blood on the blade-on their fishing boat, they share their family history with Kelly, and she learns that the knife may be part of a set from their long-ago childhood in Russia. Its sudden reappearance is eerie, but the mystery grows much more serious when a body is found on the boat. The victim was staying at Kelly’s inn, in town for a Russian Heritage Festival, and some of the organizers were clearly harboring some bitterness. But the story behind this murder seems as layered as a nesting doll-and Kelly’s feeling completely at sea . . .
Smoke and Key by Kelsey Sutton
Publication Date: April 2, 2019
Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy
A sound awakens her. There’s darkness all around. And then she’s falling…
She has no idea who or where she is. Or why she’s dead. The only clue to her identity hangs around her neck: a single rusted key. This is how she and the others receive their names—from whatever belongings they had when they fell out of their graves. Under is a place of dirt and secrets, and Key is determined to discover the truth of her past in order to escape it.She needs help, but who can she trust? Ribbon seems content in Under, uninterested in finding answers. Doll’s silence hints at deep sorrow, which could be why she doesn’t utter a word. There’s Smoke, the boy with a fierceness that rivals even the living. And Journal, who stays apart from everyone else. Key’s instincts tell her there is something remarkable about each of them, even if she can’t remember why.
Then the murders start. Bodies that are burned to a crisp. And after being burned, the dead stay dead. Key is running out of time to discover who she was—and what secret someone is willing to kill to keep hidden—before she loses her life for good…
The Mill on Magnolia Lane by Tilly Tennant
Publication Date: April 4, 2019
Genre: Romance, Contemporary
The sky is cornflower blue, the air is scented with the smell of fresh apple blossom and Lizzie Lovell can’t wait to start her new life in the mill on Magnolia Lane. But is she just about to fall in love with someone she shouldn’t?
When Lizzie loses her larger-than-life dad she doesn’t know how to move forward. Encouraged by a childhood dream she shared with her beloved father, she is determined to continue his legacy and moves to the old Mill on Magnolia lane, a place he had always longed to own.
Restoring the old windmill is a much bigger job than Lizzie bargained for, especially when she is distracted by her new next door neighbour Jude, who has temptingly twinkly eyes and a body to die for. But when Jude’s ex- girlfriend Harriet arrives back on the scene, Lizzie begins to wonder if life wasn’t far simpler before she moved to the mill. Especially when it emerges that Harriet knows something about Jude’s past, something that could shatter her new start and her heart into smithereens …
If your heart is warmed by Jenny Colgan, Lucy Diamond and Josie Silver’s One Day in December, you’ll fall in love with this beautiful feel-good story about finding love when you least expect it.
Bat Wings, Rings and Apron Strings by Erin Johnson
Spells & Caramels #10
Publication Date: April 6, 2019
Genre: Mystery, Cozy, Paranormal, Fantasy, Romance
A delicious wedding. A sour and supernatural curse. Will this baker’s next bite be her last?
With her wedding to Hank fast approaching, Imogen Banks has come a long way from the magical contest that brought her to Bijou Mer. But when conspirators seek to sabotage the witch’s big day, she fears her latest recipe for happiness will end in disaster. And after the prince falls horribly ill, Imogen and her friends must solve one more dark mystery before her love and kingdom perish.
Speeding through a menu of suspects as long as the guest list, Imogen clashes with a vengeful monarch and a calculating assassin. But as the minutes tick down to seconds, saving her home and her fiancé may require walking away from everything she loves.
Can Imogen create one final concoction to stop a war and marry her soul mate?
Bat Wings, Rings and Apron Strings is the magical conclusion to the Spells and Caramels cozy witch mystery series. If you like witty characters, mystical intrigue and a dash of romance, then you’ll love Erin Johnson’s tasty whodunit.
The Atlantis Song by M.S. Kaminsky
The Mermaid Curse #2
Publication Date: April 6, 2019
Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, Mermaids
What if your deepest love became your greatest fear?
Allie loved to be near the water. Even before she learned she had mermaid genes, the ocean held the power to soothe her soul. Adria, with its miles of canals, should have been bliss. The chance to explore the city of serenading gondoliers with her boyfriend, Nate, might have been a romance vacation come true.
But Allie is desperate to find her mom who she holds responsible for the death of her twin sister, Alysa. Amid the distractions of one of the most beautiful cities in Europe, Allie’s friends lose focus. After a strange series of incidents, they get kicked out of their hotel and end up on the streets. Soon an ancient foe pursues Allie through the city’s winding waterways.
Justice Rain, a famous rock star and student of her mother, invites Allie and her friends to stay in his sumptuous palazzo. But the generational bond that connects Allie to her destiny remains strong and life with one of the world’s top celebrities has complexities of its own. Justice hides a dark secret and Nate becomes consumed by jealousy. Meanwhile, Allie develops a powerful and inexplicable fear…of water.
Trapped in a foreign city and not knowing whom to trust, everything will depend on her penetrating to the mystery that lurks in the canals beneath the city’s oldest palazzo.
A Dream of Death by Connie Berry
Kate Hamilton Mysteries #1
Publication Date: April 9, 2019
Genre: Mystery, Women Sleuths, Amateur Sleuth
On a remote Scottish island, American antique dealer Kate Hamilton sleuths a killing that eerily replicates a murder still unsolved after 200 years.
Autumn has come and gone on Scotland’s Isle of Rothsay, and the locals gather for the Tartan Ball, the annual end-of-tourist-season gala. Among the invited guests is American antique dealer Kate Hamilton. Returning to the island where her husband died is brutal, but Kate is determined to repair her relationship with her sister-in-law, Elenor Spurgeon, the proprietor of Rothsay’s deluxe country house hotel.
Kate has hardly unpacked when a body turns up, murdered in an eerie recreation of an infamous unsolved murder two hundred years before. And the only clue to the killer’s identity lies in a curiously embellished antique casket. When Bo Duff, the gentle handyman who had tried to save Kate’s husband’s life, is taken into custody, she teams up with vacationing Detective Inspector Tom Mallory to clear Bo’s name. To accomplish that, they’ll have to unmask a killer who seems bizarrely fixated on the past…because two hundred years is an awfully long time to hold a grudge in A Dream of Death, the tantalizing series debut by Connie Berry.
A Witch to Remember by Heather Blake
A Wishcraft Mystery #9
Publication Date: April 9, 2019
Genre: Mystery, Cozy, Paranormal, Amateur Sleuth
Not even a witch can keep her secrets safe in the sizzling ninth installment of national bestselling author Heather Blake’s Wishcraft series.
Wishcrafter Darcy Merriweather’s enchanted wedding plans are put to the test when murder invites itself to her bridal luncheon…
The Enchanted Village always has a touch of magic about it, but the buzz of excitement over the wedding between wish-granting witch Darcy and Police Chief Nick Sawyer is positively electric. With every spellbinding detail planned to perfection all that’s left is to sit back and let wishes come true. But Darcy’s dream wedding is threatened when the Divinitea Cottage, the tea room hosting her bridal luncheon, goes up in flames, revealing the strangled body of the owner, Leyna Noble.
Making vows to solve the crime without delaying the nuptials, Darcy focuses on her prime suspect, and number one nemesis, wicked witch Dorothy Hansel Dewitt, a notorious firebug. But when a psychic vanishes without a trace, Darcy’s investigation shifts to Leyna’s mysteriously bewitching past. Darcy must sort through mystical claims and old, vengeful grudges to find a killer before she is forced to forever hold her peace.
The Eighth Sister by Robert Dugoni
Charles Jenkins #1
Publication Date: April 9, 2019
Genre: Mystery, Crime, Thriller, Spies, and Espionage
A pulse-pounding thriller of espionage, spy games, and treachery by the New York Times bestselling author of the Tracy Crosswhite Series.
Former CIA case officer Charles Jenkins is a man at a crossroads: in his early sixties, he has a family, a new baby on the way, and a security consulting business on the brink of bankruptcy. Then his former bureau chief shows up at his house with a risky new assignment: travel undercover to Moscow and locate a Russian agent believed to be killing members of a clandestine US spy cell known as the seven sisters.
Desperate for money, Jenkins agrees to the mission and heads to the Russian capital. But when he finds the mastermind agent behind the assassinations—the so-called eighth sister—she is not who or what he was led to believe. Then again, neither is anyone else in this deadly game of cat and mouse.
Pursued by a dogged Russian intelligence officer, Jenkins executes a daring escape across the Black Sea, only to find himself abandoned by the agency he serves. With his family and freedom at risk, Jenkins is in the fight of his life—against his own country.
Southern Hauntings by Amy Boyles
Sweet Tea Witches #11
Publication Date: April 11, 2019
Genre: Mystery, Cozy, Paranormal
Pepper and Axel’s adventures continue in Southern Hauntings!
Trajectory by Carissa Andrews
The Pendomus Chronicles #0
Publication Date: April 15, 2019
Genre: Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Dystopian
THE PREQUEL to the #1 International Amazon Bestseller, Pendomus…
In order to be nudged toward their ultimate destinies—Runa Cophem and Traeton Revasco had to break ranks from what they already knew. Set a year before the #1 Amazon Bestseller, Pendomus, this prequel grounds you in the world of Pendomus, while setting you up for the wild ride ahead.
Read it for FREE whereever ebooks are sold.
Dragons of Bourbon Street by Deanna Chase
Jade Calhoun #9
Publication Date: April 16, 2019
Genre: Paranormal Romance and Mystery
Trouble is brewing in New Orleans. Join Jade Calhoun while she navigates her third trimester and tracks down a woman who is about to unleash dragons on Bourbon Street.
Magickal Mystery Lore by Sharon Pape
An Abracadabra Mystery #4
Publication Date: April 16, 2019
Genre: Mystery, Cozy, Women Sleuth
This spells trouble . . .
The New Camel Day Fair is a fun-filled event for residents of this upstate New York town. Kailyn Wilde, a modern-day witch of ancient lineage, leaves her potion shop, Abracadabra—and her feline familiar, Sashkatu—to attend with her fortune-telling Aunt Tilly. Joining them is legendary wizard Merlin, who’s discovering new pleasures of time-traveling to the modern world, including curly fries and kettle corn—but the appeal of the Tilt-a-Wheel is beyond his mystical imagination.
The real wild ride begins later, when neighboring sweet shop owner Lolly rushes into Abracadabra with news about a dead body. The victim has one of Lolly’s fudge knives stuck in her back, but in spite of the sticky evidence, Lolly is only one of several suspects with ample motive and opportunity. Meanwhile, Merlin’s research into old family scrolls and electromagnetic ley lines is causing some unusual mix-ups. As the two investigations collide, Kailyn will have to do everything in her power to prevent disaster…
A Killer Latte by Tonya Kappes
A Killer Coffee Mystery #6
Publication Date: April 23, 2019
Genre: Mystery, Cozy
Welcome to the Bean Hive Coffeehouse where the coffee is as hot as the gossip!
“Fabulous fun and fantastic fried food! Kappes nails small town mystery with another must-read hit. Don’t miss this one!”
– Darynda Jones, New York Times Bestselling Author of Eighth Grave After Dark
Only One Life by Ashley Farley
Publication Date: April 23, 2019
Genre: Family Life, Women’s Friendship, Southern Fiction
A reunion between an estranged mother and daughter opens a world of secrets in a poignant novel by the bestselling author of Magnolia Nights.
Julia Martin grew up wealthy, but it wasn’t until she met her husband, Jack, that she knew true happiness. He made her feel worthy and loved. Their marriage was also an escape from her sister’s bullying, her father’s scrutiny, and her chilly and enigmatic mother. But when tragedy strikes on the night she gives birth, Julia’s happiness is shattered. She has no choice but to return home to her family’s South Carolina mansion, where the grief and guilt buried in her mother’s past await her.
As a young woman trapped in a bitter marriage, Julia’s mother, Iris, once needed her own means of escape. In Lily, she found a best friend. In the flower shop they opened, she discovered independence. Then came a transgression—unforgivable, unforgettable, and unresolved—that changed Iris’s life forever.
Now, in Iris’s most desperate hour, her only hope is to regain the trust of the daughter she loves—and to share the secrets of the heart that could rebuild a family’s broken bonds.
Sifting Through the Clues by Daryl Wood Gerber
A Cookbook Nook Mystery #8
Publication Date: April 23, 2019
Genre: Mystery, Cozy, Amateur Sleuth, Culinary
Book clubs from all over have descended on Crystal Cove to celebrate the library’s Book Club Bonanza week, and Jenna Hart has packed the Cookbook Nook with juicy reads and tasty cookbooks. But she’s most excited about spending an evening with the Mystery Mavens and their moveable feast, when they will go from house to house to share different culinary treats and discuss the whodunit they’re all reading. It’s all good food and fun for the savvy armchair detectives, until one of the members of the group is found murdered at the last stop on the tour.
As if that weren’t enough to spoil her appetite, Jenna discovers that all the evidence points to her friend Pepper as being the guilty party. And with Pepper’s chief-of-police daughter too close to the case to be impartial, Jenna knows she’ll have to step in to help clear her friend’s name before a bitter injustice sends her to jail. Sifting through the clues, Jenna unearths any number of possible culprits, but she’ll have to cook up a new way to catch the killer before Pepper’s goose is cooked . . .
Murder by Muffin by Maria Geraci
Whispering Bay Mystery #3
Publication Date: April 25, 2019
Genre: Mystery, Cozy
Lucy McGuffin has three problems:
She’s a human lie-detector, a “gift” she tries hard to keep hidden.
Her rescue dog, Paco, is a ghost whisperer.
And someone’s just been found murdered in her kitchen.
The murder weapon? One of Lucy’s blueberry muffins. The victim? The producer for a reality T.V. cooking competition that Lucy is determined to win. Lucy and the producer had some very public words the day before the murder. When it’s discovered that Lucy’s café was about to be disqualified from the show, all fingers point to Lucy as the prime suspect.
Travis Fontaine might be Whispering Bay’s newest heartthrob, but the know-it-all cop and Lucy have butt heads in the past. He doesn’t believe she’s guilty, and he’ll prove it. Himself. Without any of Lucy’s “special” help, thanks.
But Lucy isn’t about to sit back and let her goose get cooked. With her best friend, Will, and her dog, Paco, by her side, she sets out to solve the crime before someone gets away with murder.
Wed, Read and Dead by VM Burns
Mystery Bookshop #4
Publication Date: April 30, 2019
Genre: Mystery, Cozy
Bookstore owner Samantha Washington sells and solves mysteries in North Harbor, Michigan—including the murder of her mother’s wedding planner . . .
Sam’s mother can’t wait to wed her wealthy beau, Harold Robertson. The big mystery is how they’re going to pull off a lavish wedding in three weeks. Harold’s snobby sister-in-law proposes a solution: engage flamboyant wedding planner Lydia Lighthouse. But their beacon of hope quickly sends everyone into a blind rage, most of all the groom-to-be. So when the maddening micromanager is strangled with her own scarf, it’s a shock, but not a surprise.It’s a case of art imitating life as Sam pens her next historical mystery set in England between the wars. Lady Daphne Marsh insists on marrying Lord James Browning on Christmas Eve, three weeks hence. But when the fop planning their wedding ends up with a knife in his back, she vows to nab the backstabber before she walks down the aisle.
Meanwhile, when she’s not writing, Sam and her beloved and boisterous Nana Jo rush to shine a light on Lydia’s killer—so her mother’s new husband won’t spend his honeymoon behind bars . . .
Well, that’s it for the Upcoming Releases April 2019
Do you like any of these books? Have you already decided what you are reading this month?
Thank you for dropping by.
Happy Reading!
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