Check out the new series titles coming out this month. You might just get a few minutes to read after the 25th of December!
Scorched Eggs by Laura Childs is the sixth title in the Cackleberry Club mystery series, following Eggs in a Casket. Suzanne, Petra, and Toni—co-owners of the Cackleberry Club Café are out to find a firebug in this engaging addition to the series. As Suzanne is
getting her hair colored at Root 66, she’s stunned to witness the
County Services office next door suddenly go up in flames. Concerned
neighbors throng the streets, and the fire department does their best.
Unfortunately, their best isn’t enough to save longtime civil service
worker—and friend to the Cackleberry Club—Hannah Venable.Soon it’s discovered that someone set the fire on purpose—was Hannah the intended victim or an unfortunate accident? When Suzanne finds a possible connection between the fire
and the nearby Prairie Star Casino, she comes to realize that the
arsonist wanted something very big and bad kept secret. 
Jane K. Cleland is publishing Blood Rubies this month which is the ninth title in the Josie Prescott Antiques mystery series, following Lethal Treasure. Ana Yartsin is on the verge of becoming a celebrity chef. Her custom
Fabergé egg-shaped cakes have brought her national attention, as has the
story behind the cakes: Her family owns the spectacular Fabergé Spring
Egg snow globe, a magnificent example of the master craftsman’s work
that includes five ruby-red tulips. As she prepares to be filmed for a
reality TV show about the launch of her bakery in Rocky Point, New
Hampshire, Ana hires antiques expert Josie Prescott to appraise the
precious egg and snow globe. The show's pilot will show Ana
planning the desserts for the upcoming wedding of her friend Heather to
investment guru, Jason. When Josie arrives at Ana's home, however, she
finds Jason murdered and the priceless snow globe smashed beyond repair.
All that remains for Josie to examine are bits and pieces—which to her
shock reveal that the Spring Egg was a fake.What has happened to
the real Fabergé snow globe, if it even existed? And what does that
have to do with Jason's murder? Josie
teams up with her reporter friend Wes to investigate.
Once Upon a Grind is Cleo Coyle's fourteenth title in the Coffeehouse mystery series, following Billionaire Blend. When coffeehouse manager turned amateur sleuth Clare Cosi roasts
"magic" beans for a Fairy Tale Fall event, she brews up a vision that
leads to a sleeping beauty in Central Park. Fairy tale fever has descended on New York City. Broadway fans are flocking to "Red Riding Hood: The Musical;
museums are exhibiting art inspired by the Brothers Grimm; and Clare
Cosi and her merry band of baristas give their coffee truck a "Jack and
the Beanstalk" makeover for a Central Park festival. Clare's coffee
hunter ex-husband contributes a bag of African beans with alleged
magical properties. His octogenarian mother entertains customers with
readings of the grinds, but Clare remains skeptical--until she receives a
vision that helps her find a young model's body in the park's woods. The
police dismiss "sleeping beauty" as the victim of a drug overdose. Then
Clare uncovers evidence that points to a list of suspects--from a New
York Giant to quite a few wicked witches--and a cold case murder that
reaches back to the Cold War. Now Clare is really in the woods with a
dangerous predator on her heels and an investigation that leads from a
secret Prince Charming Club right back to her own NYPD detective
boyfriend.
E.J. Copperman is publishing the sixth title in the Haunted Guesthouse mystery series this month, Inspector Spector. It follows The Thrill of the Haunt. Detective Lieutenant Anita McElone is one of Harbor Haven’s finest.
She’s also a hard-boiled ghost skeptic. So when she shows up on the
doorstep of Alison Kerby’s Haunted Guesthouse to ask for supernatural
help in solving the murder of her former partner, it’s hard to tell
which woman is more flabbergasted. But McElone is dead serious, so
Alison promises to help in any way she can—even asking her resident
ghosts, Paul and Maxie, for help with the case. As Paul’s spirit
source reveals some troubling information about the deceased detective,
Alison wrestles with what to tell McElone. First, though, she has to
find her…because the lieutenant has suddenly disappeared.
The Ghost and Mrs. Mewer is the second title in the Paws and Claws mystery series by Krista Davis. It follows Murder, She Barked. Holly Miller doesn’t believe in spirits, but the Sugar Maple Inn is filled with guests who do. The TV series in development, Apparition Apprehenders,
has descended on Wagtail, Virginia’s annual Halloween festivities to investigate
supernatural local legends, and Holly has her hands full showing the
ghost hunters a scary-fun time. But the frights turn real when
Holly’s Jack Russell, Trixie, and kitten, Twinkletoes, find a young
woman drowned in the Wagtail Springs Hotel’s bathhouse—the spot of the
town’s most infamous haunting. The crime scene is eerily similar to the
creepy legend, convincing Holly that the death wasn’t just accidental. 
Murder at the Book Group by Maggie King begins the new Book Group mystery series this month. Hazel Rose never dreamed that the murder mystery book group she and her friend Carlene started would stage a real murder. Nevertheless,
the normally composed Carlene is unusually angry and rattled one night
during a book group discussion and dies after drinking cyanide-spiked
tea. Despite a suicide note, Hazel is skeptical; Carlene never seemed
suicidal—she was busy making plans for her future. Incidentally, Carlene
was married to Hazel’s ex-husband, and Hazel has always suspected there
might be something more to her past than she let on. How much
does anyone really know about Carlene Arness? And did she die by her own
hand or someone else’s? Hazel begins a search for the truth that
produces no shortage of motives, as she unearths the past that Carlene
took great pains to hide. And most of those motives belong to the
members of her very own book group…
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