Belinda Blake and the Snake in the Grass (An Exotic Pet-Sitter Mystery Book 1)
By Heather Day Gilbert (Lyrical Press)
Release date: June 25, 2019
When exotic pet-sitter Belinda Blake moves into a carriage house in tony Greenwich, Connecticut, she’s hoping to find some new clients. Instead she discovers a corpse in the garden—and a knack for solving murders. Pet-sitter Belinda Blake doesn’t rattle easily, but move-in day has been eventful, to say the least.
Bishop & the Nun (Bishop & Nun Book 1)
By (Bethany Publishing Group)
Release date: May 27, 2014
What do you get when you put a Mormon Bishop together with a beautiful Catholic Nun? This is a suspense thriller with a Mormon Bishop, an FBI agent, working with a quick-witted Catholic Nun — sent by the Pope to help crack a Muslim espionage caper. What you get is intrigue, friendly religious-banter, and ???
Bitter Truth: A Green Dory Inn Mystery (Green Dory Inn Mystery Series Book 3)
By Janet Sketchley (Janet Sketchley)
Release date: March 29, 2022
Attempted murder. A hostile rescuer. And an amateur sleuth’s vow to catch the attacker before he strikes again. Against all odds, Landon Smith and her ordinary-hero neighbour Bobby Hawke survived a murderous plot six weeks ago. Now, she’s determined to leave solving mysteries to the experts—like handsome local police officer Dylan Tremblay.
Blessed Are the Cheese Makers
By Tricia Goyer (Guideposts)
Release date: September 21, 2018
Christmas decorations brighten the storefronts of Sugarcreek, Ohio. Cheryl Cooper is visiting Swissters, a cheese shop down the street from the Swiss Miss, when she hears that a local business has burned down. Heini’s Cheese Chalet and Factory is a local favorite, and word has it that arson is suspected. Who would want to burn down a cheese factory? And why? Cheryl’s friend Naomi Miller helps her to understand that the ripple effect goes beyond one family. Amish farmers who provided fresh milk to the cheese factory now face the threat of losing their farms.
Blind Trust: A Novel (Port Aster Secrets)
By Sandra Orchard (Revell)
Release date: June 10, 2014
Kate Adams had no idea she was carrying counterfeit money, and she can’t believe that it came from her sweet neighbor. Or that it lands her in the middle of another one of Detective Tom Parker’s investigations. Determined to prove her neighbor’s innocence, Kate stumbles into a pit of intrigue that is far deeper than a two-bit counterfeit operation–and strikes too close to home for comfort. As family secrets come to light, her world–and her budding romance with Tom–begin to crumble. To Kate, it’s clear that she won’t be safe until she uncovers all of Port Aster’s secrets.
Blood Speaks: A Veronica “Ronnie” Ingels/Dawson Hughes Novel, Book Three (Authorized Operations 2)
By Nike Chillemi (Crime Fictionista Press)
Release date: November 21, 2016
Veronica “Ronnie” Ingels, Brooklyn gal PI, waited a long time for the solitaire on her finger. When her sometimes boss, a shadowy figure and director of a secret government organization, offers a one-week bridal shopping vacay in Virginia, she jumps at it. Joined by bridesmaids, Sandra Daube and Bertha Dagney, Ronnie sets off for the village of Heritage Cove on Arrowhead Lake, Virginia. Their joyous stay at the rustic yet luxury Heritage Cove Inn is shattered by a murder with tendrils and a clandestine motive stretching back to the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. It doesn’t take long for Ronnie and her gal-pals to become targets of the killer.
Blooper Freak (The Worst Detective Ever Book 5)
By Christy Barritt (River Heights)
Release date: October 20, 2017
Real life is nothing like TV. Joey Darling, actress and detective by default, is reminded of this point daily. If only problems could be solved in sixty minutes, complete with commercial breaks, closing credits, and a catchy theme song. Joey accompanies Detective Jackson Sullivan to a crime scene, only to discover she knows the victim. After a friend is accused of murder, Joey can’t refuse her help—however bumbling it might be.
The Book of Judges: A Maura Garrison Mystery (The Maura Garrison Mysteries 1)
By Traci Tyne Hilton (Proverbs 31 House)
Release date: May 6, 2018
All things work together for the good for those who believe. Too bad Maura Garrison, a private investigator, isn’t a believer. The murder she was hired to solve hinges on its parallel in the Old Testament book, Judges, but she was just dumped by her pastor-husband so the Bible is the last thing she wants to turn to for answers. Rick Styles, Maura’s husband, is a popular marriage and family counselor with a thriving writing and speaking side business. He’s also the member of a city council committee dedicated to getting homeless children off the streets of Portland, Oregon, a worthy goal that seems to have attracted the attention of a sick and twisted killer.
Bound by Murder (Beach Bound Books and Beans Mysteries Book 1)
By Christy Barritt (River Heights)
Release date: August 5, 2022
When widow Talitha Robinson buys an old store on the boardwalk in Lantern Beach, North Carolina, she’s in for a surprise. or several. She plans to renovate the space and open Beach Bound Books and Beans, but never expects to find a decades-old skeleton hidden inside one of the walls.
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.