Christy Barritt
Wreck the Halls: a Worst Detective Ever Christmas novella (The Worst Detective Ever Book 9)
By Christy Barritt (River Heights)
Release date: November 19, 2019
Deck the halls with boughs of. danger. Joey Darling and her friend Starla McKnight are all set to host a new TV Christmas light special.
J. Mark Bertrand
Nothing to Hide (A Roland March Mystery)
By J. Mark Bertrand (Bethany House Publishers)
Release date: July 1, 2012
The Stakes Have Never Been Higher for this Homicide CopPublishers Weekly calls J. Mark Bertrand’s writing “gritty and chilling. ” He returns once more to the streets of Houston for another twisting mystery featuring Detective Roland March. This time, a new case is launched by the discovery of a headless corpse.
Leeann Betts
Hidden Assets (By the Numbers Book 6)
By Leeann Betts (PLS Bookworks)
Release date: June 15, 2017
Carly Turnquist, forensic accountant, responds to a call from her friend, Anne, who is in the middle of a nasty divorce, and travels to Wyoming to help find assets Anne thinks her husband has stolen. But the mystery begins before Carly even arrives when she sees a man thrown off a train. Except there’s no body. Husband Mike uncovers an illegal scam in a computer program he has been asked to upgrade, and then Anne is arrested for her ex’s murder. Can Carly figure out what’s going on, and why a strange couple is digging in Anne’s basement? Or will she disappear along with the artwork, coins, and money?
Missing Deposits (By the Numbers Book 11)
By Leeann Betts ()
Release date: November 26, 2019
Carly looks forward to a vacation when Mike is hired to assist a rancher in western Colorado catalogue his various mineral rights following the discovery of a large field of copper. However, Carly soon learns that the real wealth—and the real danger—aren’t below ground. Someone is out to keep a secret bigger and more profitable than gold and copper. And they’re willing to kill for it.
Petty Cash (By the Numbers Book 7)
By Leeann Betts (PLS Bookworks)
Release date: December 17, 2017
Carly is off and running headlong into another mystery.
Nancy Bilyeau
The Tapestry: A Novel (Joanna Stafford series)
By Nancy Bilyeau (Gallery Books)
Release date: March 24, 2015
The next page-turner in the award-winning Joanna Stafford series takes place in the heart of the Tudor court, as she risks everything to defy the most powerful men of her era. Henry VIII’s Palace of Whitehall is the last place on earth Joanna Stafford wants to be. But a summons from the king cannot be refused. After her priory was destroyed, Joanna, a young Dominican novice, vowed to live a quiet life, weaving tapestries and shunning dangerous conspiracies. That all changes when the king takes an interest in her tapestry talent.
Terri Blackstock
Breaker’s Reef (Cape Refuge, No. 4)
By Terri Blackstock (Zondervan)
Release date: May 26, 2009
Murder and mystery continue in Book Four of the Cape Refuge series A famous mystery writer has just moved to Cape Refuge when a teenage girl is found murdered. Sheila Caruso–ex-con, mother to Sadie and Caleb, and resident of Hanover House–is working for the writer when she discovers that a scene in one of his novels matches the crime scene. When Police Chief Cade and Blair Owens discover a second dead teenager–mirroring a murder in another of the eccentric writer’s books–Cade is drawn into a web of trickery and deceit. Evidence turns up in Cade’s own truck, and suddenly he becomes the number-one suspect. Cade tries to clear his name, but when eighteen-year-old Sadie Caruso disappears, tensions mount to a fever pitch.
Janet Chester Bly
Down Squash Blossom Road (Trails of Reba Cahill) (Volume 2)
By Janet Chester Bly ()
Release date: September 2, 2016
What secret lies down Squash Blossom Road? Cowgirl Reba Cahill’s schedule is full. Save the family ranch. Take another road trip. Free her mom from a mental institute. Solve a murder and kidnapping.
Margaret Brownley
Undercover Bride (Undercover Ladies)
By Margaret Brownley (Shiloh Run Press)
Release date: June 1, 2015
Pinkerton detective Maggie Cartwright is tasked with going undercover as a mail order bride. Her “fiancé” is widower Garrett Thomas, aka the suspected Whistle-Stop Bandit. No sooner does Maggie arrive in Arizona Territory when she’s confronted with an early wedding date—the clock is ticking on her detective work or she may end up a criminal’s wife! As the day of the wedding draws near, Maggie begins to panic. The problem is that the more she gets to know Garrett and his two adorable children, the harder it is to keep up the deception. Can a man as kind and gentle as Garrett really be the Whistle-Stop Bandit?