It’s the final week of October – Happy Halloween this Thursday, and happy release day tomorrow. Here are some of the books out this week.
Books for Kids
Chapter Two Is Missing! – A narrator discovers that chapter two of his book is missing. This looks fantastic!
The Muppet Christmas Carol – An illustrated book of The Muppet Christmas Carol movie. The illustrations look great!
Play It! Christmas Songs, Level 1 – Play Christmas songs on your piano or keyboard!
Books for Older Kids/Teens/Young Adults
Black Canary Ignite (Graphic Novel) – From Meg Cabot. Dinah Lance is focused on the band she is building with her friends and solving crime like her dad through the Junior Police Academy. But when someone threatens her friends and family it will send Dinah on a search through her mother’s things for secrets and answers. Looking forward to this one!
Super Sons: The Foxglove Mission – Book 2 in the Super Sons series about the sons of Clark Kent and Bruce Wayne and their friend Candace. After the events of book one, the kids are on their own without the super parents to help them out, including Lois Lane who is suffering the effects of a mysterious virus.
Tangled in Time 2: The Burning Queen – Book 2 in this middle grade time travel series. After serving Princess Elizabeth of sixteenth-century England, Rose is going to be stuck serving Princess Mary after her coronation unless she returns home to our time. But she finds our time no less daunting as she befriends a young immigrant facing both mean girls at school as well as the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.
Full Disclosure – An HIV-positive teen is just trying to live her life when someone threatens to take her secret public if she doesn’t back off from the guy she’s started dating.
Ironheart: Riri Williams (Graphic Novel) – A graphic novel about the teen successor to Iron Man.
A River of Royal Blood – A princess with a heritage of magic that in the past lead to massacre prepares to fight her older sister for the right to sit on the throne and rule their people. But an assassin shows the teen there are others besides her sister who want her dead.
Books for Adults
Apple Cider Slaying (Mass Market Paperback) – First in a new series. While trying to save the family business with a Christmas at the Orchard event, someone finds a body, and Granny is the number one suspect. I’ll be reviewing this one soon.
Blue Moon (Hardcover) – Book 24 in the Jack Reacher series. Reacher’s effort to help someone in need turns around and bites him, leaving him in the middle of a turf war.
The Bookworm Crush (Trade Paperback) – A spinoff of The Replacement Crush. A shy bookworm has the chance to interview her favorite author. And to build her confidence she hires a coach, the local surfing celebrity and her big crush.
Can’t Judge a Book by Its Murder (Mass Market Paperback) – First in the new Main Street Book Club Mystery series. The guest of honor at a major book signing event at Arlo’s book store is found murdered, and the elderly ladies from the store book club decide to investigate. I’ll be reviewing this later this week.
A Catered New Year’s Eve (Hardcover) – Book 15 in the Mystery with Recipes series. An estranged family member asks the sisters to cater a New Year’s Eve event where she is going to read from an old diary and try to expose a killer.
Christmas in Silver Springs (Mass Market Paperback) – Book 6 in the Silver Springs series. A woman and her daughters flee to Silver Springs when her rock star husband dumps her. A local with a rocky past would love a chance to see if something could develop between them, but he’s afraid of what she will do if she finds out about his past.
The Christmas Keeper (Mass Market Paperback) – Book 2 in the Happily Ever After series. A woman looking for revenge on the boss who got her fired isn’t in the mood for Christmas and isn’t paying attention to the rancher who would love nothing more than to romance her into staying in North Carolina. This one is a must read for me – I loved the first book in the series!
Christmas Sweets (Trade Paperback) – Three Christmas stories from popular authors. Includes The Twelve Desserts of Christmas, Nightmare on Elf Street, and The Christmas Thief. All three have been previously released in other collections.
Coached to Death (Hardcover) – First in a new series. After a painful divorce and selling off her marketing firm, Cat Cooper is trying to start over as a life coach, but a nasty neighbor wants to bully her out of town. When the neighbor ends up dead, Cat is suspected of the murder.
Hounds of the Basket Stitch (Hardcover) – Book 3 in the Black Sheep & Co. Mystery series. When the Black Sheep Knitters try to help out a pair of sisters who live on the edge of town with some simple knitting lessons, they are drawn even further into their lives when one is attacked and the other is found unconscious in a fire.
Murder Can Mess Up Your Masterpiece (Mass Market Paperback) – First in the new Haunted Craft Fair Mystery series. When a customer returns a painting saying it’s haunted, the artist discovers she has psychic abilities that are being reflected in her art. Could her paranormal skills help her find out who killed the manager of the craft fair?
Murder Cuts the Mustard (Hardcover) – Book 3 in the Beryl and Edwina Mystery series. Edwina’s elderly gardener is accused of murdering his brother-in-law, but by the state of her garden, she and Beryl doubt he would have the energy or gumption to murder anyone.
Nogged Off (e-book) – Previously published in a collection called Egg Nog Murder. Julia invites a down-on-her-luck acquaintance home for the holidays and then finds the woman’s ex in the back of their rental truck – dead.
Shot Through the Hearth (Mass Market Paperback) – Book 7 in the Fixer Upper Mystery series. A retired tech billionaire trying to launch a humanitarian foundation is accused of murder when his former business partner is found dead.
Silent Knit, Deadly Knit (Mass Market Paperback) – Book 4 in the Knit & Nibble Mystery series. Pamela is sleuthing again when a local craft store owner is found dead.
A Snowy Little Christmas (Mass Market Paperback) – Collection of three holiday stories. From what I can tell, these have not previously been published elsewhere.
Star Trek: The Q Conflict (Paperback Graphic Novel) – The crews of the four main Star Trek series encounter each other in an effort to halt a dispute that threatens the entire galaxy. I can not WAIT to read this one! Collects comics 1-6.
Stamped Out! (e-book) – First in a new Mail Carrier Cozy series. A widowed mail carrier starts sleuthing when her best friend – a local property developer – is accused of murder. This is available right now for free to Kindle Unlimited subscribers.
Three Widows and a Corpse (Mass Market Paperback) – Book 3 in the Food Blogger Mystery series. When Hope stumbles across a body during the annual town scavenger hunt, not one, not two, but THREE women see the body and exclaim that their husband is dead. I haven’t read the earlier books in this series, but that premise could get me to jump in mid-series to check this one out.
‘Tis the Season Murder (Trade Paperback) – Collection of two previously published Lucy Stone books, New Year’s Eve Murder and Christmas Carol Murder.
A Very Mummy Holiday (e-book) – A Tourist Trap mystery. On a Thanksgiving trip, Jill and Greg and their friends discover a body and a whole slew of trouble.
Batman: The Definitive History of the Dark Knight in Comics, Film and Beyond – A 400-page collection of the history of Batman, including full-color illustrations.