I love months when my favorite authors have new books coming out. It makes my life so much easier. Right when we need a distraction from covid-19 here is just a taste of the amazing books available this month.

Reading right now:

“Outsider” by Linda Castillo is the 12^th book in her Kate Burkholder series. This is a great series where police officer Kate Burkholder moves back to her home town of Painters Mill, Ohio to become the Chief of Police and finds herself dealing with so much more than she could have ever imagined. Having growth up Amish, Kate understands the local Amish community as well as the duties of small town policing. In this latest novel, Kate is called in on a traffic accident only to find that the driver is a former friend named Gina whom Kate attended the police academy with. Gina has been forced to run for her life so she seeks out the one person she trusts to help her.

On hold right now:

One of the all time funny legal mystery series stars Andy Carpenter and believe it or not author David Rosenfelt has just released the 21^st book in the series. “Muzzled” finds Andy once more coming to the aid of (guess what?) a dog. His dogs Tara and Sebastian rule his life so how can he say no to helping a friend who finds a dog that seems to belong to a murder victim until the victim calls up wanting his dog back. While the man says he is in hiding from the danger that could get him actually killed, he loves his dog enough to risk his life. How can Andy say no to a man who loves his dog that much?

“The Revelators” is the tenth book in Ace Atkins’ Quinn Colson series. Ten books ago when Quinn returned from Afghanistan to his home town in Mississippi to find his uncle, the county sheriff, murdered, he solved the murder and got elected to take his uncle’s place as county sheriff. Flash forward to find Colson in rehab after the criminal empire that he has been trying to take down for years almost murdered him. He wants revenge and he wants to end the power that this group has over his state. With the help of some old friends, Quinn sets out to face his greatest enemy. How could anything sound more exciting than that?

The father and son team of Jonathan and Jesse Kellerman has teamed up again for the third book in the Clay Edison series. “Half Moon Bay” finds the deputy coroner dealing with a new baby when the remains of an infant is found by developers demolishing a local park. These remains could be part of a cold case from 50 years ago which tore a family apart and finding the body and solving the case will bring to light secrets that will continue that process.

Other Mysterious Things:

Not all mystery readers like Science Fiction, but if you are going to like a Science Fiction series it would be this series about Harry Dresden who is a wizard and a private investigator. Author Jim Butcher’s series starts out as a paranormal mystery series but as it goes along the fantasy part becomes more complicated. Butcher hasn’t added to this series for six years and I was beginning to think it was over. I am thrilled that the 16^th book is finally available and that the 17^th book is not far behind (with a September release date). The first book which came out in 2000 was “Storm Front” and the current book is called “Peace Talks.” I am over the moon happy to have two more books in this series to look forward to and hope for more. Give this series a chance, you might find you love it as much as I do.