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<\/a>10 Marchfield Square<\/a><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>by Nicola Whyte<\/p>\nWhen a minor criminal is murdered in the smallest residential square in London, elderly heiress and landlady Celeste van Duren recruits two of her tenants to investigate. Her cleaner, Audrey, knows everyone and is liked by all, while failed writer Lewis is known by no one. He hates his job, hates his life, and he\u2019s not that fond of Audrey either\u2014but Celeste is persuasive.<\/em><\/p>\n As they hunt for clues in and around the Square, they discover everyone has something to hide, including their fellow residents. Audrey and Lewis must find a way to work together if they\u2019re to find the killer in their midst. Assuming of course, there\u2019s just the one . . .<\/em> – Union Square & Co.<\/p>\n The inspiration behind the Hallmark Channel movie Adventures in Love and Birding.<\/em><\/p>\n A divorcee embarks on her \u201cyear of yes\u201d and crosses paths with a shy but sensitive birdwatcher who changes her life in this charming rom-com that is perfect for fans of Christina Lauren and Ali Hazelwood.<\/em><\/p>\n Newly-divorced, almost-empty-nester Celeste is finally seeking adventure and putting herself first, cliches be damned. So when a friend asks Celeste to \u201cpartner\u201d with his buddy John for an event, Celeste throws herself into the role of his temporary girlfriend. But quiet cinnamon roll John isn\u2019t looking for love, just birds\u2014he needs a partner for Tucson\u2019s biggest bird-watching contest if he\u2019s ever going to launch his own guiding business. By the time they untangle their crossed signals, they\u2019ve become teammates\u2026and thanks to his meddling friends, a fake couple.<\/em><\/p>\n Celeste can\u2019t tell a sparrow from a swallow, but John is a great teacher, and the hours they spend hiking in the Arizona wilderness feed Celeste\u2019s hunger for new adventures while giving John a chance to practice his dream job. As the two spend more time together, they end up watching more than just the birds, and their chemistry becomes undeniable. Since they\u2019re both committed to the single life, Celeste suggests a status upgrade: birders with benefits, just until the contest is done. But as the bird count goes up and their time together ticks down, John and Celeste will have to decide if their benefits can last a lifetime, or if this love affair is for the birds.<\/em> – Gallery Books<\/p>\n This title is also available in large print.<\/p>\n Emersyn Gray is definitely not a detective.<\/em><\/p>\n Really, she\u2019s an unemployed twenty-eight-year-old raising her beloved niece in the only place she can afford after her ex-boyfriend ran off with her life savings: a run-down, seniors-only apartment complex that was desperate for tenants. But never fear\u2014her wild best friend has the perfect plan to get Emersyn back on her feet and stick it to her thieving ex: scare him into returning her money by hiring a private investigator to prove he stole it. Only, there won\u2019t be an actual detective, just a fabricated business card from Wyatt Investigations . . . and a ridiculously hot stranger, who steps in to play the part\u2014a stranger whose name is, coincidentally, Wyatt.<\/em><\/p>\n Emersyn can\u2019t help but notice the real-life Wyatt is capital H-O-T hot, even though she\u2019s wary of his intentions. But her ex does seem flustered, and if she can get her money back and regain control of her life, maybe it\u2019ll finally prove to her parents that she can be a responsible caregiver to her niece.<\/em><\/p>\n But the day after they set their plan in motion, the superintendent of Emersyn\u2019s apartment building winds up dead, and her neighbors turn to her fake detective agency for help after finding one of the phony business cards. With so many eyes on them\u2014or maybe just their eyes on each other\u2014Emersyn and Wyatt agree to take on the case. Now the question is, Can they solve the murder without getting tangled up in their own fictions\u2014or each other?<\/em> – Bantam<\/p>\n The body in the closet was going to be a problem. Kathryn Hu knew it. Yes, Tucker Jones was a cheating scumbag, and yes, she\u2019d agreed to meet Olivia and Elle\u2014Tucker\u2019s other girlfriends\u2014to exact revenge for all he\u2019d put them through\u2026 But then they found him. Dead.<\/em><\/p>\n Do they look guilty? Yes.<\/em><\/p>\n Do they feel guilty for having wished him dead just hours before? Maybe a little.<\/em><\/p>\n But\u2014solid motive and a crime scene covered in their DNA aside\u2014they\u2019re innocent. They swear.<\/em><\/p>\n To clear their names, Kat, Olivia, and Elle team up to find the real killer. But as they go undercover and lie to everyone, including the hot detective working the case, they realize that every person in their ex’s life had a reason to want him dead. Will they uncover the truth before they go down for a murder they didn’t commit?<\/em> – MIRA<\/p>\n Recently divorced Gabby Greene spends most of her days listening to self-help books while wrangling her loving yet erratic kids. During a decade of marriage, Gabby shoved aside her own career and ambitions to make room for mountains of laundry, running errands, and investigating the case of the missing socks. Her number one suspect: their Bichon Frise, Mr. Bubbles.<\/em><\/p>\n All that changes when a secret government agency comes knocking on Gabby\u2019s door, asking her to go undercover. At first, she thinks some reality show is pranking her, but apparently, she bears a striking resemblance to an agent recently murdered, and\u2026 well, desperate missions call for desperate measures. Soon Gabby is juggling motherhood and a crash course in Spying 101, led by a handsome James Bond-type who has secrets of his own.<\/em><\/p>\n As Gabby embarks on a dangerous mission involving money laundering, a Russian oligarch, and an unfortunate incident with a prosthetic nose, she begins to realize that she is far from the invisible housewife she once believed herself to be, and that maybe, just maybe, she might be capable of saving the<\/em> day. – Forever<\/p>\n Offered a dream job in Hollywood with a famous director and his actress wife, an insecure woman becomes their personal assistant where their secrets and lies place her in the crosshairs of a murder investigation.<\/em><\/p>\n Cassidy Foster is heartbroken, stuck in life, and getting a little too obsessed with plants. When a well-connected friend becomes sick of Cassidy\u2019s moping and gets her a gig with famous Hollywood couple, Marisol and Nate Sterling, Cassidy jumps at the chance to move to sunny LA.<\/em><\/p>\n The Sterlings are warm and welcoming. A perfect couple. All Cassidy has to do is be available a few hours a week for errands. In return, she has access to luxury: Designer clothes. A sparkling pool. Great pay.<\/em><\/p>\n When Nate takes an interest in her, asking her to read scripts he\u2019s written, Cassidy thinks this could be the key to kick-starting her writing dreams. As their business relationship grows, so does their attraction. Nate is sexy and talented, and Cassidy can\u2019t believe her luck. Clearly, Marisol doesn\u2019t know what she has. Maybe that\u2019s why the two are always fighting when they think Cassidy isn\u2019t around.<\/em><\/p>\n But Cassidy learns she was hired for a different purpose. The Sterlings aren\u2019t the perfect couple. Marisol isn\u2019t the perfect wife. And when one of them is found dead, Cassidy becomes the perfect suspect.<\/em> – Berkley<\/p>\n This title is also available in large print.<\/p>\n When a former friend and devoted mother vanishes, a confident homemaker turned amateur sleuth follows an unexpected trail of scandals and secrets to find her.<\/em><\/p>\n Prairie Nightingale is both the midlife mother of two teenage girls and a canny entrepreneur who has turned homemaking into a salaried profession. She\u2019s also fascinated with the gritty details of other people\u2019s lives. So when seemingly perfect Lisa Radcliffe, a member of her former mom-friends circle, suddenly disappears, it\u2019s in Prairie\u2019s nature to find out why.<\/em><\/p>\n Given her innate talent for vital pattern recognition, Prairie is out to catch a few clues by taking a long, hard look at everyone in Lisa\u2019s life\u2014and uncovering their secrets. Including Lisa\u2019s. Prairie\u2019s dogged curiosity is especially irritating to FBI agent Foster Rosemare, the first interesting man Prairie has met since her divorce. His square jaw and sharp suits don\u2019t hurt.<\/em><\/p>\n But even as the investigation begins to wreak havoc on Prairie\u2019s carefully tended homelife, she\u2019s resolved to use her multivalent homemaking skills to solve the mystery of a missing mom\u2014and along the way discover the thrill of her new sleuthing ambitions.<\/em> – Thomas & Mercer<\/p>\n Isabella\u2019s NOT dead.<\/em><\/p>\n That\u2019s what Gwen tells anyone who asks about the friend who ghosted them all fifteen years ago. But if Isabella\u2019s not dead, then where is she? And why did she leave, just when Gwen needed her most?<\/em><\/p>\n Freshly fifty-three, out of a job, and with children who are starting to fly the nest, Gwen decides to turn detective. Setting out to solve the mystery, Gwen embarks on an adventure across England\u2014then across Europe\u2014that will test her marriage and put her on a collision course with reluctant acquaintances, a mother-in-law best described as eccentric, and a rabbit hole full of clues. But Isabella\u2019s not the only one who\u2019s lost.<\/em><\/p>\n A tale of deep, frayed friendship, fractured memories, and skewed perspectives, Isabella\u2019s Not Dead is the story of one woman\u2019s quest to reclaim her best friend\u2014and herself.<\/em> – G.P. Putnam’s Sons<\/p>\n Nothing brings neighbors together like someone else\u2019s secrets\u2026 At Shelley House, the walls have ears, and they\u2019re attached to a ragtag duo of busybodies ready to pry, snoop, and generally annoy their neighbors into solving a crime.<\/em><\/p>\n Seventy-seven-year-old Dorothy Darling has lived in Shelley House longer than any of the other residents, and if you take their word for it, she\u2019s as cantankerous as they come. But Dorothy has her reasons for spying. And none of them require justifying herself to Kat Bennett. <\/em><\/p>\n Twenty-five-year-old Kat has never known a place where she felt truly at home, and crumbling Shelley House is no different. Her neighbors find her prickly and unapproachable, but beneath her tough exterior, Kat\u2019s plagued by a guilty secret from her past.<\/em><\/p>\n When their apartments face demolition, sworn enemies Kat and Dorothy agree on just one thing: they must save their historic building. But when someone plays dirty\u2014and one of the residents is viciously taken down\u2014Dorothy and Kat seek justice. The police close the investigation too soon, leaving it up to the unlikely amateur sleuths\u2014with a playful Jack Russell terrier at their side\u2014to restore peace in their community.<\/em> – Berkley<\/p>\n This title is also available in large print.<\/p>\n When Julia Mann, a bad-tempered ex-actress and professional thorn in the side of authority, runs into Natasha Mason at an AA meeting, it\u2019s anything but a meet-cute. Julia just found a dead body in her swimming pool, and the cops say she did it (she already went to jail for murder once, so now they think she\u2019s making a habit of it). Mason is eager to clear Julia\u2019s name and help keep her sober, but all Julia wants is for Mason to leave her alone.<\/em><\/p>\n As their investigation ranges from the Hollywood Hills to the world of burlesque to the country clubs of Palm Springs, this unconventional team realizes their shared love of sarcasm and poor life choices are proving to be a powerful combination. Will secrets from their past trip them up, or will their team of showgirls, cat burglars, and Hollywood agents help them stay one step ahead? Are dead piranhas, false noses, and a giant martini glass important clues or simply your typical day in Los Angeles? And will they manage to solve the crime before they kill each other, or worse, fall off the wagon? Trying to keep it simple and take it easy is one thing\u2014trying to find a murderer before they kill again is a whole other program.<\/em> – Berkley<\/p>\n When thirty-four-year-old Cath loses her mostly absentee mother, she is ambivalent. With days of quiet, unassuming routine in Buffalo, New York, Cath consciously avoids the impulsive, thrill-seeking lifestyle that her mother once led. But when she\u2019s forced to go through her mother\u2019s things one afternoon, Cath is perplexed to find tickets for an upcoming \u201cmurder week\u201d in England\u2019s Peak District: a whole town has come together to stage a fake murder mystery to attract tourism to their quaint hamlet. Baffled but helplessly intrigued by her mother\u2019s secret purchase, Cath decides to go on the trip herself\u2014and begins a journey she never could have anticipated.<\/em><\/p>\n Teaming up with her two cottage-mates, both ardent mystery lovers\u2014Wyatt Green, forty, who works unhappily in his husband\u2019s birding store, and Amity Clark, fifty, a divorced romance writer struggling with her novels\u2014Cath sets about solving the \u201ccrime\u201d and begins to unravel shocking truths about her mother along the way. Amidst a fling\u2014or something more\u2014with the handsome local maker of artisanal gin, Cath and her irresistibly charming fellow sleuths will find this week of fake murder may help them face up to a very real crossroads in their own lives.<\/em> – Gallery \/ Scout Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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<\/a>Birding with Benefits<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Sarah T. Dubb<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Definitely Maybe Not a Detective<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Sarah Fox (book 1 in Wyatt Investigations Mysteries series<\/p>\n
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<\/a>The Ex-Girlfriend Murder Club<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Gloria Chao (book 1 in Hu Done It Mystery series)<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Errands & Espionage<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Sam Tschida<\/p>\n
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<\/a>The Hollywood Assistant<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by May Cobb<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Homemaker<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Ruthie Knox and Annie Marie (book 1 in Prairie Nightingale series)<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Isabella’s Not Dead<\/a><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>by Beth Morrey<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Nosy Neighbors<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Freya Sampson<\/p>\n
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<\/a>One Death at a Time<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>by Abbi Waxman<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Welcome to Murder Week<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Karen Dukess<\/p>\n