Winter Book Preview: December 2016 |

Wow, it’s been a while since I’ve done one of these! Many apologies!

Following are the December titles I’m looking forward to! It’s a really quiet month in publishing so this is quite the short list! This is a good thing; I feel December (and the holidays in general) give us all a chance to catch up on our reading!

Spouse on Haunted Hill by E.J. Copperman (Dec. 6):

Where Alison Kerby’s ex-husband goes, trouble follows. Unfortunately this time he’s brought that trouble right to her doorstep. On the run from a business deal gone bad, Steven, aka “the Swine,” owes some scary people a staggering sum of money.

Before Alison has a chance to read Steven the riot act, he disappears—after a mysterious man trailing him ends up full of bullet holes. Now the police are next to darken her doorway. Soon with the help of ghosts Maxie and Paul, Alison sets out to find her ex and clear him of the murder. But if the bad guys get to him first, he may not have a ghost of a chance…

This is the sixth book in the Haunted Guesthouse cozy mystery series. I’m a huge fan, devouring each one as soon as it releases. This one comes out in perfect time for my Cozy Mystery Week, too!

How Will I Know You by Jessica Treadway (Dec. 6):

On a cold December day in northern upstate New York, the body of high school senior Joy Enright is discovered in the woods at the edge of a pond. She had been presumed drowned, but an autopsy shows that she was, in fact, strangled. As the investigation unfolds, four characters tell the story from widely divergent perspectives: Susanne, Joy’s mother and a professor at the local art college; Martin, a black graduate student suspected of the murder; Harper, Joy’s best friend and a potential eyewitness; and Tom, a rescue diver and son-in-law of the town’s police chief. As a web of small-town secrets comes to light, a dramatic conclusion reveals the truth about Joy’s death.

There’s something about curling up with a thriller on a cold winter afternoon! Treadway is the author of Lacy Eye, I’m interested to see where she’ll take us with this most recent endeavor!

Kill the Next One by Federico Axat (Dec. 13):

Ted McKay had it all: a beautiful wife, two daughters, a high-paying job. But after being diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor he finds himself with a gun to his temple, ready to pull the trigger. Then the doorbell rings.

A stranger makes him a proposition: why not kill two deserving men before dying? The first target is a criminal, and the second is a man with terminal cancer who, like Ted, wants to die. After executing these kills, Ted will become someone else’s next target, like a kind of suicidal daisy chain. Ted understands the stranger’s logic: it’s easier for a victim’s family to deal with a murder than with a suicide.

However, as Ted commits the murders, the crime scenes strike him as odd. The targets know him by name and possess familiar mementos. Even more bizarrely, Ted recognizes locations and men he shouldn’t know. As Ted’s mind begins to crack, dark secrets from his past seep through the fissures.

This one sounds twisty. My kind of read!

Which December titles are you looking forward to most!