#book previews

There are so many great books being released, all the time. How to choose? And the lists! Library hold lists are so lonnnnnnng. As the late, great Tom Petty sang, “the waiting is the hardest part.” I’ve got the cure for the common hold: Here are ten big books of note coming out in May to help you choose what to reserve now. (And as always, you can find me raving about a bunch more on social media. Only picking ten books is HARD.)

This is another series of Amazon short stories/novellas from different authors centered around a theme and this time it’s fantasy authors turning to crime, which sound exactly up my street. There are seven authors in the series most of which I haven’t read before so I’m hoping that I will discover some new people to try because the two that I have read are Travis Baldree (Legends and Lattes) and…

The third in Ellie Alexander’s Novel Detectives series came out on Tuesday so having already mentioned Glow Job which was out on Monday in yesterday’s post I thought I’d mention this one today. As you may remember this is the continuation series that has spun off Alexander’s earlier and completed Secret Bookcase series featuring the same main character and her new detective agency. This third in…

Happy Thursday – and happy new Three Dahlias day! We have two books in the series this year and the first of them, Death on a Lively Sea sees our three heroines on a super yacht in the Med with a property mogul whose father died recently in a death that he doesn’t think was natural and who is convinced he’s going to be murdered next. And so he’s done the only thing a sensible billionaire can do:…

We are past the halfway part of the year now, and almost all the books that I mentioned in my anticipated books post at the start of the year have come out – even if I haven’t read all of them – and we have a better sense of what’s coming in the autumn. And so today: we have the stuff I didn’t know about back in January and that I’m desperate to read! Let’s start with some continuations of other…

When I wrote about Mrs Spy in my Recommendsday post, I mentioned that there was a sequel coming, so it only seemed right to come back around and mention that it is out today. It’s called The Spy and the Snake and according to the blurb sees Maggie on a mission in Budapest pretending to be the wife of a British defector. As the blurb mentions that Maggie’s daughter is away at university I think we…

Jenny Jackson’s first novel Pineapple Street was one of my favourite new books of 2023 and so it probably shouldn’t be a surprise that her new novel is the new release that I want to highlight this week. Per the Blurb: The Shampoo Effect is about one summer in New England, where writer Caroline arrives in Greenhead and falls for its charms and for one of it’s residents, Van Whittaker. She spends…