Death Takes a Ride: A Novel (The Cate Kinkaid Files) (Volume 3)
By Lorena McCourtney (Revell)
Release date: June 24, 2014
Cate Kinkaid arrives at H&B Classic Auto Restorations to give a friend a ride. But, as usual, trouble finds Cate even there–this time in the form of one dead man, one wounded man, and what appears to be a pretty obvious case of self-defense. Owner Matt Halliday wants to hire her, but not for this case. Instead, Cate is charged with finding a man who owns a particular motorcycle Matt would like to buy. As her search progresses, she begins to suspect that the shooting in Matt’s office may not have been as cut-and-dried as it appeared.
Deception (Pros and Cons Mysteries Book 3)
By Christy Barritt (River Heights)
Release date: March 31, 2025
Sometimes, coming home is beautiful. Other times, it’s fatal. Private investigator Olive Sterling never wanted to return to Oasis, Texas. But when an old flame asks her to investigate a beloved local teacher who claims to have terminal cancer, she reluctantly agrees to help. While the community rallies around Rebecca Roberts with prayers and financial support, something about her story doesn’t add up.
Deeper Than Red: A Novel (Red Returning Trilogy)
By Sue Duffy (Kregel Publications)
Release date: March 6, 2014
Twenty-year-old Tally Greyson isn’t consumed with her own education, social life, or career goals like most young women her age. Instead, she’s trying to save her mother from the grasp of a seductive cult. What Tally doesn’t realize is that in this community, there’s a far greater danger than any she can imagine—and she and her mother aren’t the only ones in its sights. There are plots brewing here that will threaten the fate of the world. Concert pianist Liesl Bower has put her own dangerous past behind her, and in her Charleston family home, surrounded by those who love her, she’s preparing for a world concert tour with her dear friend, violinist Max Morozov.
Deliver Us from Evelyn
By Chris Well ()
Release date: April 4, 2013
Everyone from the Feds to the mob is scrambling to find the husband of heartless media mogul Evelyn Blake. But no one can decide which is worse–that he is missing, or that she is not. Detectives Tom Griggs and Charlie Pasch are feeling the heat from on high to get this thing solved–even as Charlie is distracted by the inexplicable interest the Vice Squad has taken in a local comic book store.
Desert Dead: A Mac ‘n’ Ivy Mystery, Book #3 (The Mac ‘n’ Ivy Mysteries)
By Lorena McCourtney (Rogue Ridge Press)
Release date: October 15, 2019
Ivy and Mac are on the road, headed for their long-delayed honeymoon. Baja! Beaches! Romance and shrimp tacos and sunshine!But then comes a panicky phone call from good friend Magnolia, who is, as usual, looking into her complicated family genealogy. What she’s found this time is not another fourth-cousin-three-times-removed, but a dead body in the middle of a desert town. Except that this body, unlike the dead bodies with which Ivy has had past experience, has vanished. Magnolia is uncertain if she made a foolish mistake about there ever being a body, or if something sinister is going on.
Desperate Measures: A Novel (Port Aster Secrets)
By Sandra Orchard (Revell)
Release date: May 26, 2015
Researcher Kate Adams has finally pinpointed the medicinal plant responsible for tearing her family apart. She’s certain that discovering its secrets is her only hope of solving the mystery surrounding the disappearance of her father. Kate will risk anything to find the truth–even her budding relationship with Detective Tom Parker. But more people than she can fathom are after the plants and going it alone just might prove to be a fatal mistake. Award-winning author Sandra Orchard pulls out all the stops in this breakneck and breathtaking conclusion to the Port Aster series.
Digging Up Doubts
By Olivia Newport (Guideposts)
Release date: September 21, 2018
When Levi Miller goes out of town and leaves Cheryl to look after his land, she never imagines she’ll have to do anything more than a quick drive-by every day. However, when she encounters a spate of mysterious digging episodes, which have torn up the fields Levi plans to seed soon, she must swing into action—with the help of a new sleuthing sidekick, Zoey Marsalla. As questions about Zoey and her story are uncovered, Cheryl must decide if she can trust her own instincts. Is the truth buried right under her nose and she simply can’t sniff it out?
Divine Christmas: A Divine Cozy Mystery (Divine Christian Cozy Mysteries Series Book 5)
By Hope Callaghan ()
Release date: December 17, 2019
It’s Christmas time in the cozy town of Divine. All is merry and bright…until someone is murdered. Where do you start looking for a killer, when half the town is a suspect? Read all of Hope Callaghan’s Mysteries FREE with Kindle Unlimited! “Divine Christmas” is Book 5 in the Divine Cozy Mystery SeriesBONUS: Recipe Included! ——————————–The Christmas season has finally arrived in the cozy town of Divine, and Jo is determined to create wonderful, warm memories for the residents of Second Chance farm. After someone steals the Christmas gifts purchased for the area’s underprivileged children, Pastor Murphy is forced to ask the area business owners for donations. Everyone is more than willing to help except for a longtime local “Scrooge” that no one seems to like.
Do You See What I See?
By Vera Dodge (Guideposts)
Release date: May 2, 2018
January arrives in Lancaster, and the whole town is fascinated by a serialized mystery story running in the local newspaper. Things take a strange turn when Jan becomes convinced that she’s found a cryptic code embedded in the text of the mystery, and things get even stranger when Elaine begins to suspect that the story’s villain is modeled after her! Can the intrepid cousins discover who is behind the not-socomplimentary story—and what the coded clues reveal? Meanwhile, Jan, increasingly consumed with the details of her upcoming wedding to Bob, is faced with the difficult task of securing a location for her wedding tea, until help arrives from a surprising source.
Dog-Gone Dead: A Low Country Dog Walker Mystery (Low Country Dog Walker Mystery Series Book 2)
By Jackie Layton (Bell Bridge Books)
Release date: June 26, 2020
Who’d have thought mulch could cause such a stink?Low Country dog walker Andi Grace Scott is happy to score some free mulch from one of her brother’s landscaping jobs—until she discovers the dead body buried beneath the bark. Worse, her brother’s landscaping tools were used to commit the murder. Once the police arrest her brother and seem happy to have “caught their man,” Andi Grace has no choice but to track down the real killer. She’ll risk everything to prove her brother’s innocence. Even if it means turning over every rock in town.

