New Releases

By Christy Barritt (River Heights)

During this snowstorm, the true danger isn’t the cold-it’s the secrets people keep. Olive Sterling and Jason Stewart expected Aegis’s Christmas retreat in the Smoky Mountains to be a rare chance to breathe, reconnect, and enjoy a peaceful holiday away from the chaos of their high-risk world. Instead, they discover that even the most picturesque setting can conceal the darkest of intentions. When Olive finds a teammate’s body frozen in the snow, she instantly knows his death was no accident. As a brutal storm traps the team on the mountain with a killer in their midst, Olive and Jason must uncover the truth before the body count rises.

By Christy Barritt (River Heights)

Olive takes time from her job in order to find out answers about her past. Read more.

By Christy Barritt (River Heights)

Sometimes the glass really is half empty—especially when people are willing to kill for it. Crime-scene cleaner Gabby St. Claire needs extra cash, so when she’s offered a courier job transporting a box of antique dishes from North Carolina to Virginia, she figures it’s easy money. What could go wrong with delivering a dozen old teacups?Everything, as it turns out. When half the precious cargo disappears during transport, Gabby finds herself facing an angry recipient who wants his family heirlooms delivered as promised—or else.

By Christy Barritt (River Heights)

Read Atlas’s story! Book description coming soon. Read more.

By Angela Carlisle (Bethany House Publishers)

A haunting attack. A killer in the shadows. A protective love. Murder–that\’s what photographer Allye Jessup knows she witnessed as she departed her studio one evening. Waking with bruises on her neck and a foggy memory, she believes she survived an attack, but everyone seems to think she simply sustained a head injury from falling down the stairs outside her studio.

By Pepper Basham (Barbour Fiction)

Grace Storms a Scottish Castle to Save her Sister Lord Astley surprises his wife with a trip to America to see her family before they end their honeymoon adventures. But just as they arrive, they find Grace’s sister, Lillias, is the prime suspect in her husband’s murder. To add to the confusion a solicitor arrives to tell the sister’s they are needed in Scotland immediately to claim their mother’s inheritance. The clock is ticking to clear Lillias of suspicion, but someone is determined to keep the sisters from reaching the Scottish Highlands. When Lillias disappears, Freddie and Grace race to Scotland, sure the answers will be found in a long-forgotten castle.

By Julianna Deering (Farlinford Press)

Investigating a suspicious accident leads Drew on a path that points to international intrigue and ever-growing danger. Drew Farthering arrives in idyllic Scotland for the 1935 British Open at Muirfield hoping for a relaxing holiday with his wife, Madeline, and friend Nick. But death meets him once again when Lord Rainsby, his host at Thorburn Hall, is killed in a suspicious riding accident—only days after confiding in Drew his fears that his business partner was embezzling funds. Thorburn Hall is filled with guests, and as Drew continues to dig, he realizes that each appears to have dark motives for wanting Raisnby out of the way. Together with Madeline and Nick, he must sort through shady business dealings, international intrigue, and family tensions to find a killer who always seems to be one step ahead.

By Julianna Deering (Farlinford Press)

When a celebrated actor is found murdered in his dressing room, all signs point to Drew\’s old flame. But behind the curtain nothing is what it seems, and this quickly becomes his most puzzling case yet. Just as Drew Farthering thinks his life has calmed down some, Fleur Landis reenters his life in dire need of his help. She\’s married now, no longer an actress–but the lead actor in her former troupe\’s production of The Mikado has been murdered, and Fleur is the police\’s number one suspect. Drew would rather focus on his fiancée, Madeline Parker, and their upcoming wedding, but he can\’t leave Fleur and her family in the lurch–even if she did break his heart once.

By Julianna Deering (Farlinford Press)

A Regency-era costume party should have been an amusing diversion, but it seems wherever Drew Farthering goes, mystery – and murder– are on the guest list. Drew and Madeline Farthering arrive at a Regency-era house party at Winteroak House, excited to be reunited with old friends, including Drew’s former Oxford classmate, Talbot Cummins. Tal is there with his fiancée, Alice Henly, and though many present seem worried about the couple, nobody is prepared when Alice dies from a sudden overdose. Tal refuses to believe she’s taken the drug intentionally, and a dark question arises of whether the death is an accident or murder. The police have their own information, though, and Drew is shocked when they arrest someone he’s trusted since his childhood—someone who’s been smuggling drugs into the country for years.

By Julianna Deering (Farlinford Press)

The rolling, frigid mists that creep in over the Yorkshire moors hide a mystery as challenging as Drew has ever faced. At the urgent request of an old school friend, Drew and Madeline Farthering come to Bloodworth Park Lodge in the midst of the Yorkshire moors, a place as moody and mysterious as a Brontë hero. There have been several worrisome incidents around those lonesome, rolling hills– property desecrated, fires started, sheep and cattle scattered. Worst of all, the vicar has been found dead on the steps of the church, a crime for which Drew can discern no motive at all. Few in Bunting’s Nest seem like suspects, and Drew can’t keep his suspicions from falling on his friend’s new bride.