In Georgia, we've had a beautifully mild start to May. I hope it continues through to the end of the month, when you'll find me sitting in a stadium watching my youngest graduate high school. Historically it's hotter than blue blazes or raining cats and dogs Memorial Day weekend. While I'm holding seats and waiting for the ceremony to start, you better believe I'll be reading! At least untill family arrives. :)
Here are my writing friends' new mystery releases & book deals for May! Check back mid-month to see if I've added books! Look for cozy mysteries, mystery thrillers, humorous mysteries, woman sleuth, and amateur sleuth mysteries.
New Mystery Releases
THE GARDEN CLUB MURDER
The Ozarks Cozy Mystery Series book 9
by Dianne Harman
Releases May 26
"The Garden Club Murder" is a captivating cozy mystery that combines gardening, small-town dynamics, and suspense, perfect for readers who love a plot that twists like the vines of a well-tended wisteria.
THE MAN WHO CAME BACK
A Shee McQueen Mystery Thriller
by Amy Vansant
Released April 30
Save $2 on the new release
The sunny Loggerhead Inn resort has everything—sea turtle wall art, a tiny terrier mascot who thinks she's a pit bull, and a staff of deadly, damaged military veterans, looking to redeem their troubled hearts and souls by helping others... Can Shee and her "domestic mercenaries" find redemption, love, and new beginnings?
CORNFIELD CALAMITY
Farm Fresh Cozy Mysteries book 1
by Summer Prescott
Released April 26
When a body is discovered in her cornfield, the locals, including a handsome sheriff with a bad attitude, view new farm owner Shea with suspicion.
Will Shea survive financially by making a living from her land? Can she clear her name and gain the trust of her new community? Or should she throw in the towel before the rooster crows?
DOUBLE BLAST A Davis Way Crime Caper book 12
by Gretchen Archer
Releases May 21
Davis Way Cole returns to her hometown of Pine Apple, Alabama, to fill in for her police chief father during the bustling Memorial Day Celebration.Her missteps that follow threaten to blow her life to smithereens. They include pilfering a botanical garden from her Biloxi employer, hiding out in a closed diner with a surprise in the freezer, and choosing a questionable-at-best team to aid and assist when a fireworks problem pops up. But all that pales next to Davis reopening Pine Apple’s oldest and deepest wound. Because, as she soon learns, some small-town secrets are best left buried.
Book Deals
A MOTHERLODE OF TROUBLE
A Cherry Tucker "Mother's Day" Mystery Novella
99¢ on Kindle
Free on Kindle UnIimited
When a cat dubbed Trouble shows more than curiosity in the house next door, Cherry also becomes intrigued with the goings-on of what seems more than a Mother’s Day reunion. Not only are the visitors packing heat, but it seems they're also smuggling stolen ice. Not only are the pistol-packin’ mamas prepared to put Cherry and Trouble in a permanent time-out, but they're also threatening Cherry's new niece. Can Cherry and her feline partner stop them?
THE GIRL WHO WANTS
Shee McQueen Mystery Thriller book 1
by Amy Vansasnt
Free through May 4
Shee McQueen grew up skip-tracing and hunting military criminals with her father, Mick, until someone put a bounty on her head, forcing her underground. Resurfacing years later, she returns to her family's hotel in Jupiter Beach, FL, to find Mick in a coma, shot by an unknown sniper.