This year, I’m going to try something new: A once-a-month showcase of selected new releases. This month’s batch of books come to you by way of my author friends at Sisters in Crime Guppies.
Title: Travels of Quinn: A Quinn O’Neill Mystery #1
Genre: Mystery
Author: Sasscer Hill
Release Date: February 11, 2020
Abandoned by her mother, Quinn is raised into a life of crime by her father and the gypsy con artists known as Irish American Travelers. Now arrested and jailed for theft, Quinn pays restitution by working on a horse farm. Unfamiliar with horses, her love for them surprises her. They make her hope for a better world. But the farm’s owner is brutally murdered and Quinn becomes the prime suspect.
Title: HERE COMES THE BODY: A Catering Hall Mystery #1
Genre: Cozy
Author: Maria DiRico (aka Ellen Byron)
Publication Date: February 25, 2020
After her philandering husband’s boat went down, newly single Mia Carina went back to Astoria, the bustling Queens neighborhood of her youth. Living with her nonna and her oversized cat, Doorstop, she’s got a whole new life—including some amateur sleuthing…
Title: Under the Radar: A Zoe Chambers Mystery #9
Genre: Traditional Mystery
Author: Annette Dashofy
Publication Date: February 25, 2020
Paramedic and deputy coroner Zoe Chambers responds to a shooting and discovers her longtime friend, Horace Pavelka, has gunned down a man who’d bullied him mercilessly for decades. Ruled self-defense, no charges are filed. When another of his tormentors turns up dead in Horace’s kitchen, Police Chief Pete Adams questions the man’s innocence in both cases…especially after Horace and his girlfriend go into hiding.
Title: Murder at Plimoth Plantation: A Miranda Lewis Mystery
Genre: Mystery, Suspense
Author: Leslie Wheeler
Release Date: February 28, 2020
It’s the week before Thanksgiving, and history book author, Miranda Lewis, has deadlines to meet. But when a check-in call to her eighteen-year-old niece, Caroline, ends in tears and a hang up, Miranda rushes to Plimoth Plantation, where Caroline works as an interpreter, portraying a Pilgrim woman. At the recreated seventeenth-century Pilgrim village in Plymouth, Massachusetts, Miranda encounters protesting Indians, quarrelsome Pilgrims, and finally a grisly murder…
Thanks so much for the mention!
My pleasure Annette!
So excited to see the work of so many talented authors who belong to the Guppy Chapter of Sisters in Crime! This is an exciting quartet!
Thanks Micki! Guppies rock!
Thank you Judy for this shout out about my new mystery novel. You know how much we author appreciate this. And Leslie Wheeler, thank you for your good wishes, and right back to you on that! Here’s a short but very telling video about Travels of Quinn. See it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V76f6tPNBE&t=2s
I’m reading Travels of Quinn now and really enjoying it! Thanks for posting the video.
Always happy to host you Leslie!
Thanks so much, Judy, for including me in your monthly releases. I’m thrilled to be in such good company as Annette Dashofy, Ellen Bryon (writing as Maria DiRico), and Sasscer Hill. Interesting that two of you are starting the New Year with the first books in new series. Although I neglected to number it, Murder at Plimoth Plantation was #1 in my Miranda Lewis series, and was originally published back in 2001, but has been re-released for the first time in trade paperback. Good luck with your new books, Annette, Ellen/Maria, and Sasscer! They all sound great!