April New Mystery Releases and Book Deals
- Larissa Reinhart
- Apr 15
- 4 min read
Updated: Apr 16
Spring is in full bloom and so are the new releases from my writing friends! April is full of new mystery releases. We've got your cozy mysteries, humorous mysteries, romantic mysteries, and a smexy psychic mystery!
New Mystery Releases
PINEAPPLE EASTER EGG
A Pineapple Port Mystery
by Amy Vansant
Released April 8
A super fun and unique mystery full of hidden "Easter eggs" for you to spot - Famous actor anagrams, Jimmy Buffet song references - find them all! Easter eggs surround the body. One of them has a note. Charlotte teams up with Sheriff Frank to solve a cryptic murder in a do-or-dye situation...
THE PAINTED LIGHTHOUSE
Seabrook Cozy Mystery Series
by Dianne Harman
Released April 2nd
When art conservator Chloe Harper is called to examine vandalized paintings of Seabrook's historic lighthouse, she expects a routine case of mindless destruction. Instead, she discovers the first thread in a century-ole mystery that will test her skills far beyond art restoration.
NEVER BOARD
A Daily Mystery Serial - Part Four
by Sam Cheever
Releases April 22nd
Book four in a five-part serialized romantic mystery novel.
Fractious boarders, broken appliances, leaky roofs, and a very distracting next-door neighbor who makes my engine rev. (Oops…did I say that last thing out loud?) I mean, the real problem is the dead body my plucky little blonde dachshund, Iris, found in the flower beds.
THE HITMAN & THE PSYCHIC
by Jocelyn Drake with Colleen Helme
Released April 9th
Who would have thought a hitman needed a psychic like me for a bodyguard? Too bad he's so smokin' hot that I can't concentrate, and all my visions involve kissing those amazing lips.
CLIFFS, CLUES & CONSPIRACIES
A Camper & Criminals Cozy Mystery book 40
by Tonya Kappes
Released March 30th
Mae West is just hoping for a peaceful weekend at Happy Trails Campground during the Climb the Cliffs Festival in the heart of Kentucky's Daniel Boone National Forest. But when the festival's star climber, James Rafferty, is found dead at the base of the Cascades, Mae's plans for a quiet weekend crumble faster than a buttermilk biscuit.
BUSTED AND BAIL MONEY
The Calling Shotgun Cozy Mysteries book 2
by CeeCee James
Releases May 14th
Retired actress Clara Fitzwater thought a jaunt to Flintlock in her daisy-decaled van, Bread Loaf, would net her some farm-fresh eggs and a dose of theater nostalgia. But when a festival play ends with a poisoned apple and her old friend Archie framed for attempted murder, Clara’s trip turns into a curtain-raising mystery.
MYSTERY BOOK DEALS
GLAD ONE, TWO CRAZY, THREE DUMB - THREE BOOKS IN ONE!
Val Fremden Midlife Mysteries
by Margaret Lashley
April 19-24th: Regularly priced set will be half off!
A midlife meltdown leads to Southern-fried mayhem in this outrageously funny series about a snarky, jaded divorcee's attempt at starting life over again in St. Pete Beach, Florida.
FROM ITALY WITH LOVE
Three first-in-series books box set
by Maria Grazia Swan
Free thru 4/18/25
Our offer, 3 free books. The first of each series. 3 Sassy Italian imports chasing bad people + 2 or 3 cats. And 1 dog. A
few graves, but a lot more laughter.
LICENSE TO STEAL
A Shelby Nichols Adventure novella
by Colleen Helme
99¢
A PI license, a stolen figurine, and the sinister plot behind it. Just another day in the life of Shelby Nichols, mind-reader extraordinaire.
Between a private investigator, a mob boss, and a millionaire philanthropist, it's hard to know which one is the bad guy. For mind reader, Shelby Nichols, the answer could be deadly. Is getting her own PI license worth the risk?
THE ROUTE 66 MISFITS
The Calling Shotgun Cozy Mysteries book one
by CeeCee James
99¢
The famed Clara Fitzwater, best friend with Janice Thornberry from the Secret Library Cozy Mysteries, is trading in her stage lights for detective work. Late one night, she gets an urgent call from her niece, Jane, who's not just been mugged but is also upstaging the local drama scene with her unexpected starring role as the prime suspect.
PINEAPPLE LIES
A Pineapple Port Mystery book one
by Amy Vansant
Free!
Charlotte Morgan isn't your average Pineapple Port 55+ community neighbor. She's 26 years old—adopted by a whole neighborhood of retirees as a child. In an instant, she goes from lonely and bored to trapped in a web of lies. Her neighbors are acting squirrelly, there's a corpse in her garden and a handsome pawnbroker is hovering in the yard...Does he know the dead woman?
NEVER BOARD
A Daily Mystery Serial - Part One
by Sam Cheever
99¢
My name is Phillipa Hilda Schultz, but everybody calls me Pippi (It’s pronounced pee-pee. Yeah, I know). I run a boarding house for people in the early winter of their lives. You know what I mean… People whose leaves are thinning, and whose lawns are slightly frosty in the early mornings.
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