Forthcoming Historical Novels for 2025

The Historical Novel Society lists mainstream and small press titles for historical novels set in eras from ancient times to the mid-1970s. Details are based on publishers’ descriptions and are compiled by Fiona Sheppard (US, CAN, UK, ANZ).

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See our guide to historical novels for 2024 for previous releases, plus our guide to forthcoming historical novels for 2026.

For children’s titles, see our guides to children’s and YA historical novels out in 2025, for 2026, and in 2024.

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Last update: October 26, 2025

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January 2025

Heather Alexander, My Heart’s Desire, Wild Rose Press (1883 romance in which a woman travels through a mysterious time portal to the Old West, to save her best friend)

Isa Arsén, The Unbecoming of Margaret Wolf, Putnam (mid-century novel about two Shakespearean actors during one summer that will drive them closer or rip them apart)

Sophie Austin, The Lamplighter’s Bookshop, HarperCollins (romance full of secrets in which Evelyn Seaton answers an advertisement for an assistant at a forgotten bookshop in York)

Lauren J. A. Bear, Mother of Rome, Berkley (reimagining of the earliest Roman legend: the twins, Romulus and Remus, mythical founders of history’s greatest empire, and the woman whose sacrifice made it all possible)

S. J. Bennett, A Death in Diamonds, Crooked Lane (two murders in Chelsea plague amateur detective Queen Elizabeth II. Fourth book in series)

Lauralee Bliss, When the Avalanche Roared, Barbour (one of six stories about historic disasters which transformed landscapes and lives)

Xavier Bosch, trans. Samantha Mateo, What the Light Touches, Amazon Crossing (dual timeline tale of love and intrigue about a woman on the cusp of middle age, her grandma, and a houseguest who changes everything)

Julie Brooks, The Heirloom, Headline Review (dual timeline tale set in Brisbane 2024 and Sussex 1821)

Lois Cahall, The Many Lives & Loves of Hazel Lavery, Historium Press (Victorian drama about an American socialite whose influence altered the course of the Anglo-Irish treaty)

Lila Cain, The Blackbirds of St Giles, Simon & Schuster UK (1782 London; Daniel & his sister Pearl escape a sugar plantation and arrive in London where they are callously tricked into the underworld labyrinth of the rookeries of St Giles)

Tara Calaby, The Spirit Circle, Text (a possibly supernatural sapphic mystery woven around the romance of old Melbourne)

Elizabeth Camden, When Stars Light the Sky, Bethany House (Gilded Age romance in which Inga and Benedict will be swept into a dangerous world on the brink of war)

Cecil Cameron, The Rebel Daughters, HarperNorth (Russia, 1825; tells the story of the brave women who defied everyone by following the revolutionaries into the wilds of Siberia to find courage and freedom and love)

Maggie Campbell, The Housekeeper of Holcombe Hall, Michael Joseph (1929, Lancashire; Holcombe Hall’s owner has passed away, and as the roaring twenties ends the upstairs and downstairs residents begin a new era)

H. D. Carlton, Phantom, Montlake (a novel of dark temptation and dangerous desire, set in November, 1944)

Costanza Casati, Babylonia, Sourcebooks Landmark (novel based on a legend which tells of an orphan born into a life of toil and anonymity who rises from nothing to rule kingdoms and command armies)

P. C. Cast, Boudicca, William Morrow (inspired by the history of Boudicca’s attack on Roman Britain, novel is a retelling of one of the most legendary female warriors of all time)

Megan Chance, Glamorous Notions, Lake Union (a costume designer’s past casts a long shadow over her well-constructed lies in this story about stolen identities, friendship, and betrayal)

Karissa Chen, Homeseeking, Sceptre (told in alternating narratives, novel spans seven decades, through the most tumultuous period of modern Chinese history up to contemporary times)

Rory Clements, A Cold Wind from Moscow, Zaffre (1947; book 8 of Tom Wilde series in which Wilde faces an uphill battle to protect those he loves from merciless killers)

Jennifer Coburn, The Girls of the Glimmer Factory, Sourcebooks Landmark (a tale of resistance, friendship, and the dangers of propaganda, based on the real story of Theresienstadt)

Elizabeth Costello, The Good War, Regal House (dual timeline novel set in 1948 and 1964 dealing with the impact of war, gender roles, and the role of the artist in society)

Tania Crosse, The Butterfly Girl, Joffe Books (a tale of the courage of a young nurse during the Plymouth Blitz, 1941)

Elizabeth Crowens, Bye Bye Blackbird, Level Best (PIs Humphrey Bogart and co. turn the underbelly of Tinseltown upside down to stop a crazed killer from claiming another victim)

Judith Cutler, In at the Death, Severn House (the future of Thorncroft House and its occupants is in the balance while a mysterious murder brings up a past best forgotten, in this Victorian upstairs-downstairs murder mystery)

Dean Cycon, A Quest for God and Spices, Koehler Books (a literary romp through the geopolitical, religious and mercantile landscape of medieval Europe and beyond, as a monk and a merchant seek the fabled Christian king Prester John)

Fiona Davis, The Stolen Queen, Dutton (novel transports readers from New York City’s most glamorous party to the labyrinth streets of Cairo and back. Set in Egypt, 1936 and NYC, 1978)

Jennifer Deibel, Heart of the Glen, Revell (Saoirse Fagan finds a new start at a sheep farm in the wild hills of Dunlewey, Ireland. But master tweed weaver Owen McCready isn’t used to accepting help from outsiders)

Pepsi Demacque-Crockett, Island Song, HarperCollins (a story of finding home sweeps readers from the Caribbean to 1950s London)

Joan Donaldson, Ae Fond Kiss, Black Rose Writing (continues the story begun in On Viney’s Mountain and celebrates second chances and the importance of community)

Tara Dorabji, Call Her Freedom, Simon & Schuster (novel about one woman’s love for her family; an investigation into colonialism’s relationship with loss and innocence spanning from 1969 to 2022)

Anton du Beke, A Dance for the King, Orion (in London 1942, spies have infiltrated high society at the Buckingham hotel, alongside a wave of American GIs)

Robert Dugoni, Jeff Langholz, Chris Crabtree, Hold Strong, Lake Union (based on true events―about love, heroism, and resilience during the darkest chapters of World War II)

A. Rae Dunlap, The Resurrectionist, HarperNorth (combines fact and fiction in a tale of the risks and rewards of scientific pursuit, the passions of its boldest pioneers, and the anatomy of human desire. Set in Edinburgh, 1828)

Dana Levy Elgrod, The Resistance Lily, Seventh Street Books (in Paris, 1941, protégé of a wealthy family is drawn into a dangerous game of survival, in which losing is simply not an option)

Jonathan Evison, The Heart of Winter, Dutton (novel of marriage is a reminder that true love lives in small, everyday moments)

David Wright Faladé, The New Internationals, Atlantic Monthly Press (1947 Paris; novel interweaves a coming-of-age, a cross-cultural romance, and a portrait of international youth at a definitive moment in contemporary history)

Jennie Felton, Rosie’s Dilemma, Headline (unfolds against the backdrop of war with all its hardship, danger, heroism and sacrifice, and the anxiety for loved ones which no-one can escape)

Lily Fielding, Orphan of the Storm, Penguin (19th-century saga about found family, romance and triumph over adversity, set in a small village in 1876)

Emerson Ford, What the Silent Say, Storm (WWII story inspired by a true story)

Laura Frantz, The Indigo Heiress, Revell (to settle her family’s debts and secure a suitable marriage for her sister, a colonial American indigo heiress is forced to wed a Scottish merchant she loathes)

Allan Gaw, The Silent House of Sleep, Polygon (first in trilogy mystery series when two corpses are discovered in a London park in 1929)

Amira Ghenim, trans. Miled Faiza, trans. Karen McNeil, A Calamity of Noble Houses, Europa Editions (a complex mosaic of secrets, memories, accusations, regrets, and emotions, journeying through upheavals of history from 1930s to present day)

Elizabeth Gill, A Sister’s Dream, Quercus (saga in which Catrin determines to change her life for the better by becoming a doctor)

C. P. Giuliani, A Matter of Blood, Sapere (book 6 in the Tom Walsingham Mysteries series set in London, 1588)

Allegra Goodman, Isola, Dial Press (inspired by the real life of a sixteenth-century heroine; the timeless story of a woman fighting for survival)

Philip Gray, The House with Nine Locks, Harvill Secker (a master forger transforms a young woman’s life in post-war Flanders)

Aaron Gwyn, The Cannibal Owl, Belle Point Press (coming-of-age story inspired by the real-life figure Levi English, a settler who ran away to live with the Comanche)

Carmel Harrington, The Lighthouse Secret, HarperCollins (dual timeline dram set in 1951 Ireland and 2023 Maine)

Alex Hay, The Queen of Fives, Graydon House/Headline Review (1898; novel set against the most magnificent wedding of the season, as a mysterious heiress sets her sights on London’s most illustrious family)

Grady Hendrix, Witchcraft for Wayward Girls, Berkley/Tor Nightfire (1970; story set in Wellwood House in St. Augustine, Florida, where unwed mothers are hidden by their families to have their babies in secret)

Kate Hewitt, The Girl Who Never Gave Up, Bookouture (final book in the Emerald Sisters series tells of the power of a mother’s love)

Emma Hinds, The Quick and the Dead, Bedford Square (historical fantasy delving into the shadowed, political world of Tudor alchemy)

Wendy Holden, The Teacher of Auschwitz, Zaffre/Harper (the inspirational and uplifting true story of Fredy Hirsch)

Catherine Hokin, The Train That Took You Away, Bookouture (1938; story of a family torn apart by war)

M. J. Hollows, The Violinist’s Secret, HQ Digital (WWII murder mystery)

Daniel Huhn, trans. Rachel Stanyon, I Will Come Back For You, Ithaka (true story of a Jewish teenager who escaped Nazi Germany for the UK and returned to his homeland to liberate his parents from a concentration camp)

Zora Neale Hurston, Deborah G. Plant, The Life of Herod the Great, Amistad (never before published novel reveals the historical Herod the Great as a philosophical man who lived a life of valor and vision)

Shannon Ives, Those Fatal Flowers, Dell (Greco-Roman mythology and the mystery of the vanished Roanoke colony collide in a story exploring sapphic longing and female rage)

Michael Jecks, Death Comes in Threes, Severn House (princess Elizabeth’s unlikely assassin finds himself on the hook for two murders in this light-hearted Tudor mystery series)

Flora Johnston, The Endeavour of Elsie Mackay, Allison & Busby (1927; three women, a fearless aviatrix, a jaded wife and a secretive academic strain to reach for their dreams on the cusp of an uncertain future)

William W. Johnstone, J.A. Johnstone, Purgatory Crossing, Pinnacle (new historical Western in the Nathan Stark series)

Heather Kaufman, Before the King, Bethany House (weaves a tale of faith, resilience, and love amid the danger of King Herod’s court)

Michelle Kenney, The Mismatch of the Season, One More Chapter (when Phoebe Fairfax discovers she is to be wed to an earl old enough to be her grandfather, she decides to embark on an adventure)

Janice Kidd, A Tea-Dark Bearing, Regal House (opening in 1801, two formerly enslaved women devise a daring plan of escape through a rugged, untamed wilderness, fleeing the dangerous prejudice of unscrupulous men)

Anita Kopacz, The Wind on Her Tongue, Atria/Black Privilege Publishing (sequel to Shallow Waters, Oya is sent to New Orleans to study under Marie Laveau, the Queen of Voodoo, beginning a journey across the still young America)

Caroline Lamond, The Socialites, One More Chapter (in the 1920s, three young girls enter a strict, cheerless convent school in a quiet London suburb. Six years later they leave, to change the world …)

Callie Langridge, The Mandeville Curse, Storm (book 4 in the Mandeville Mystery series, set in 1937)

Ed Lee, The Poydras Ring, Addison & Highsmith (novel set in New France – amid the colonial life of duels, slave rebellions, paramours and war, a powerful voodoo amulet is passed down through generations)

Judith Lennox, A Different World, Headline Review (novel exploring the joys and challenges of family life throughout the twentieth century)

Graham Ley, Moonlight at Cuckmere Haven, Sapere (book 4 in the historical romance Wentworth family saga series)

Howard Linskey, A Serpent in the Garden/Players of Death, Canelo (the greatest writer who ever lived turns spy in London 1592)

Robert Littell, Bronshtein in the Bronx, Soho Press (portrait of ten weeks in the life of Leon Trotsky)

Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum, Elita, TriQuarterly (winter 1951; a child development specialist travels to Elita in the Puget Sound where guards of the penitentiary have discovered an animal-like adolescent living outside the prison walls)

Annie Lyons, A Girl’s Guide to Winning the War, Headline (WWII tale of unexpected friendship, community and two remarkable women who change the course of the war)

Bonnie MacBird, The Serpent Under, Collins Crime Club (murder, jealousy, and deceit underscore three interlocking mysteries as Holmes and Watson take on a high-profile case at Windsor Castle)

Tarris Marie, Empress Creed, Black Odyssey Media (romantic drama set amidst the glitz and grit of 1930’s Chicago, where post-Depression hardship and Jim Crow injustice still rule)

Beezy Marsh, Queen of Diamonds, William Morrow (third in a crime saga series about real-life gang girl, Alice Diamond)

Edward Marston, Mystery at the Station Hotel, Allison & Busby (Shrewsbury, 1866; a suicide of a railway executive turns into murder for Inspector Colbeck)

Katherine Mezzacappa, The Ballad of Mary Kearney, Addison & Highsmith (set in County Down, Dublin, and London, story told through letters, diaries, testimonies, and trial proceedings, gives voice to Ireland’s tumultuous history)

Ellie Midwood, The Photographer’s Secret, Bookouture (a family story of courage, set in Germany, 1944)

Stacy Lynn Miller, The Songbird, Severn River (novel of espionage, love, and betrayal in WWII Brazil)

Susan Cummins Miller, My Bonney Lies Under, Artemesia Publishing (August 1885; on board the steamship Oceanic, Keridec Rees is carrying her father’s ashes home, when her friend and companion, Anne Bonney, disappears)

Colin Mills, Bitter Passage, Lake Union (a 19th-century Arctic expedition descends into a chilling nightmare in a novel of discovery, rescue, deliverance, and survival by any means)

Patrick Modiano, trans. Mark Polizzotti, Ballerina, Yale University Press (a novel of art, desire, and time lost and regained, in 1960s Paris)

Lindsay Marie Morris, The Last Letter from Sicily, Storm (tale of forbidden love and impossible choices stretchesfFrom the terraced hills of Sicily to the brewing tensions of wartime America)

Kate Mosse, The Map of Bones, Macmillan (dual timeline conclusion to The Joubert Family Chronicles, set in southern Africa in 1688 and 1862)

Annie Murray, The Pearl Button Girl, Pan Macmillan (book one in the Children of Birmingham series, starting in Victorian Birmingham)

Micah Nemerever, These Violent Delights, Magpie (debut novel about two college students in early 70s Pittsburgh, whose escalating obsession with one another leads to an act of unspeakable violence)

Graham Norton, Frankie, HarperVia (traveling from post-war Ireland to 1960s New York, a story about love, bravery, and what it means to live a significant life

Paraic O’Donnell, The Naming of the Birds, Tin House (Inspector Cutter and Sergeant Bliss solve their strangest and most personal case yet in second installment of Victorian murder mystery series)

Elaine Neil Orr, Dancing Woman, Blair (portrait of a young female artist, torn between two men and two cultures, struggling to find her passion and her purpose in the 1960s)

Angie Paxton, Seeds, S&S/Rising Action (a debut fantasy novel set in Mycenaean Greece that explores the myth of Persephone)

Margaret Pemberton, The Oyster Girl, Pan (WWI family drama)

Caryl Phillips, Another Man in the Street, Farrar, Straus & Giroux (novel about relationships in 1960s London)

MJ Porter, Betrayal of Mercia, Boldwood (next installment of Dark Ages Adventure Series, set in Londonia, AD835)

Samantha Quamma, A Future of Her Own, Black Rose Writing (a student encounters the restrictions of 1960s’ society and collegiate life and decides to push back)

Kritika H. Rao, The Legend of Meneka, Harper Voyager (first in a duology; fantasy inspired by one of the most famous romances in Hindu mythology)

Amber Raven, The Weybourne Witches, One More Chapter (a tale of witches, women and the will to survive; set in 1647, Weybourne, Norfolk)

Midge Raymond, Floreana, Little A (intertwines the emotional journeys of two women bound by dark secrets and the lengths to which they’ll go to find their place in the world)

Sheila Riley, Family Ties on Beamer Street, Boldwood (family saga, book two, set in Liverpool, 1920s)

Mandy Robotham, A Dangerous Game, Avon (as a deadly fog engulfs London in 1952, Dexie and Harri, both officers with the Met, must expose a fugitive, risking everything for justice and each other)

Renée Rosen, Let’s Call Her Barbie, Berkley (beginning with the innovation which becomes an icon, from 1956 through the following decades of highs and lows)

Tom Ross, Miss Abracadabra, Deep Vellum Publishing (tells a story of intergenerational change and conflict in a Black American family in the pre-Civil Rights era)

Shari J. Ryan, The Family Behind the Walls, Bookouture (WWII novel about the strength of the love between a mother and daughter triumphing over evil)

John Sayles, To Save the Man, Melville House (1890; sheds light on the Wounded Knee Massacre, and the ‘cultural genocide’ experienced by the Native American children at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School)

Victoria Scott, The Storyteller’s Daughter, Boldwood (dual timeline novel set in 1940 and 2008 which explores a secret buried for decades and a story which will change everything)

Bernhard Schlink, trans. Charlotte Collins, The Granddaughter, HarperVia (1960s exploration of the legacy of German reunification and the rise of modern populism)

Betty Shamieh, Too Soon, Avid Reader Press (saga follows one family’s journey from fleeing war-torn Jaffa in 1948, chasing the American Dream in the 60s & 70s, to hustling in the NY theatre scene post-9/11)

Cathy Sharp, An Orphan’s Story, HarperCollins (tale of a young boy’s journey to find home)

Amélie Skoda, Bethnal Green, Manilla Press (1971; explores the themes of sacrifice and heartbreak, the power of using your voice and the will to build a life of one’s own)

Barbara Southard, Unruly Human Hearts, She Writes (a tale of faith, passion, idealism, and the limitations faced by women in the nineteenth century)

A. L. Sowards, Beyond the Crescent Sky, Shadow Mountain (1383; as the Ottoman Empire extends its grip into the Balkans, events force Ivan and Helena to choose between loyalty or following their hearts)

Dana Stabenow, Abduction of a Slave, Head of Zeus/Aries (historical mystery in the Eye of Isis series set in Ancient Egypt during Cleopatra’s reign)

Lucy Steeds, The Artist, John Murray (Provence, 1920; an aspiring journalist believes he will make his name by interviewing artist Edouard Tartuffe, while his niece Ettie has spent years cultivating her secrets)

Mary-Lou Stephens, The Jam Maker, HQ Fiction (Tasmania 1874; a tale of danger, deceit and the measures one woman will take to succeed in love and life)

Julia Bryan Thomas, The Kennedy Girl, Sourcebooks Landmark (a journey to France through the eyes of a wide-eyed American orphan who becomes embroiled in an international espionage scheme)

Gemma Tizzard, Grace of the Empire State, Gallery/Headline Review (debut novel in which a daring dancer must take her twin brother’s place as a riveter high atop the in-progress Empire State Building to save her family from ruin)

Joanna Toye, A New Chapter at the Little Penguin Bookshop, Century (continuing saga as Carrie’s business selling books is thriving, as her beloved Mike returns from war)

Karen Tuft, Lady Anna’s Favor, Shadow Mountain (London, England, 1814; Lady Anna Clifton will stop at nothing to find her missing brother)

Sean Tyler, White Hell, Level Best (story of a white man pioneering west to California in 1846, who befriends an escaped slave and fights to protect her from the bigotry of his fellow travelers)

Alexandra Vasti, Earl Crush, St. Martin’s/Corvus (romcom in which a reclusive earl’s life is turned upside down when a stranger shows up on his doorstep)

Alexandra Walsh, The House of Echoes, Boldwood (dual timeline novel with insight into the Tudor court through the eyes of a woman who has only her guile to keep her alive)

Jenni L. Walsh, Ace, Marvel, Spy, Harper Muse (based on the life of a very real American tennis icon)

Minette Walters, The Players, Allen & Unwin/Blackstone (a story of guile, deceit and compassion during the dark days of The Bloody Assizes, England 1685)

Tiffany L. Warren, The Unexpected Diva, William Morrow (brings Black opera singer Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield to life in a novel of the forgotten diva’s remarkable story)

Jeri Westerson, Rebellious Grace, Severn House (Henry VIII’s court jester Will Somers turns reluctant inquisitor once again when a grotesque murder within the palace walls is linked to the Pilgrimage of Grace rebellion)

Charmaine Wilkerson, Good Dirt, Ballantine (the daughter of an affluent Black family pieces together the connection between a childhood tragedy and a beloved heirloom)

Sue Williams, The Governor, His Wife and His Mistress, Allen & Unwin (story of female friendship, betrayal and triumphs based on historical events)

Susan C. Wilson, Helen’s Judgement, Neem Tree Press (first-person retelling that redefines the story of Greek mythology’s Helen of Troy)

Jane Yang, The Lotus Shoes, Park Row/Harper Canada/Sphere (set in 1800s; focuses on an enslaved maid and her wealthy mistress as they survive the restrictions placed on them as women)

Ellen Yardley, Eleanor and the Cold War, Kensington (1950s Cold War historical mystery debut featuring the former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt’s indispensable assistant)

Mosab Hassan Yousef, James Becket, The Last Prophet, Forefront Books (based on the life of the prophet Muhammed, one-time shepherd and outcast revolutionary)

Guixing Zhang, trans. Carlos Rojas, Elephant Herd, Columbia Univ. Press (narrative begins in the 1970s and explores the repercussions of Sarawak’s mid-century Communist insurgency, focusing on a boy, his extended family, and his Indigenous classmate and travel companion)

February 2025

Rose Alexander, A Santorini Secret, Bookouture (in 1944, a young woman is forced to make a terrible sacrifice to save a life)

Belina Bauer, The Impossible Thing, Atlantic Monthly (tale of obsession, greed, ambition, and a crime that has remained unsolved for a hundred years)

Ron Base, Curse of the Savoy, Douglas & McIntyre (fourth Priscilla Tempest mystery series is a tale of suspense set against the backdrop of high society and 1960s London)

Elizabeth Becker, The Moonlight Healers, Graydon House (debut with a magical twist about one woman’s discovery of her family’s secret healing abilities)

Marie Benedict, The Queens of Crime, St. Martin’s (a story of Agatha Christie’s legendary rival Dorothy Sayers, the race to solve a murder, and the power of friendship among women)

S. J. Bennett, The Queen Who Came in from the Cold, Zaffre (1961; fifth book in the Her Majesty the Queen Investigates mystery series)

H.W. “Buzz” Bernard, Where the Dawn Comes Up Like Thunder, Severn River (amidst the turmoil of World War II, a daring Army Air Forces aviator is swept into an odyssey that will carry him to the far corners of the earth)

Laurent Binet, trans. Sam Taylor, Perspectives, Harvill Secker (murder mystery set in Renaissance Florence, 1557)

Kay Blythe, Murder at Merry Beggars Hall, No Exit (cosy mystery set in December 1922 with society dressmaker Jemima Flowerday)

Rachel Brimble, Dangerous Days for the Home Front Nurses, Boldwood (a WWII saga of friendship and love set in Bath, 1942)

Douglas Bruton, Woman in Blue, Fairlight Books (explores the intersection between art, artist and viewer)

Louella Bryant, Willie, Rum Running Queen, Black Rose Writing (during Prohibition, Rum Running Queen Willie Carter Sharpe rises from poverty to the heights of fame and fortune in the moonshine business)

Barney Campbell, The Fires of Gallipoli, Elliot & Thompson (portrayal of friendship forged in the trenches of the First World War)

Roger Celestin, The Delicate Beast, Bellevue Literary Press (a novel of a life lived in the shadow of history, portraying the pernicious legacy of political violence)

Rosie Clarke, Family Matters at Blackberry Farm, Boldwood (family saga continues as WWII touches everyone’s lives and loves on Blackberry Farm)

Eden Francis Compton, Belle, Level 4 Press (a true-ish story about Belle Gunness, a modern, liberated woman, esteemed by everyone in a small Indiana town, in 1890)

Mary Connealy, Whispers of Fortune, Bethany House (adventure of courage, danger, and love in the Wild West, in 1875 California)

Nicola Cornick, The Secrets of the Rose, Boldwood (novel tells of two women divided by time but bound by a centuries’ old mystery)

Kim Curran, The Morrigan, Michael Joseph (debut retelling of Ireland’s mythic goddess of war)

Martin Davies, Mrs Hudson and the Capricorn Incident, Allison & Busby (Sherlock Holmes looks to longstanding housekeeper Mrs Hudson, and her able assistant housemaid Flotsam, to assist in a case)

Camille Di Maio, Come Fly With Me, Lake Union (in 1962, hope takes flight for two women navigating an adventurous new life in a novel about love, friendship and escape)

Helena Dixon, Murder on the Cornish Coast, Bookouture (next installment of cosy crime mystery set in 1937)

Renita D’Silva, New Arrivals on West India Dock Road, Boldwood (first of a new series set in 1938, on the brink of war)

Rachel Donohue, The Glass House, Corvus (dual timeline tale of two sisters and their secrets, of love, regret and vengeance)

Rachel Louise Driscoll, Nephthys (UK) / The House of Two Sisters (US), Harvill Secker UK/Ballantine US (story of a forgotten daughter and a forgotten goddess)

Kat Dunn, Hungerstone, Manilla Press/Zando (set against the uncontrolled appetite of the Industrial Revolution, novel is a sapphic reworking of Carmilla, the book that inspired Dracula)

Elyse Durham, Maya & Natasha, Mariner (debut novel set in the fascinating world of Cold War Soviet ballet follows the fates of twin sisters whose bond is competitive, complicated, but never broken)

Lesley Eames, A Foundling at the Wartime Bookshop, Penguin (fifth in the WWII saga series)

Erin Crosby Eckstine, Junie, Ballantine (a young girl faces a life-altering decision, navigating love, friendship, and her sister’s ghost as the Civil War looms)

Allison Epstein, Fagin The Thief, Doubleday (reimagining the world of Charles Dickens and reclaiming the character of Fagin from the antisemitic stereotype)

Linda Epstein, Ally Malinenko, Liz Parker, The Other March Sisters, Kensington (reimagining of Little Women in which Jo’s sisters grapple with societal strictures, queer love, motherhood, chronic illness, artistic ambition, and more)

Charles B. Fancher, Red Clay, Blackstone (chronicles the interwoven lives of an enslaved Black family and their white owners as the Civil War ends and Reconstruction begins)

Virginia Feito, Victorian Psycho, Liveright/Fourth Estate (novel that probes the psyche of a bloodthirsty governess in the Victorian era)

Amanda Flower, I Died for Beauty, Berkley (Amherst, 1857; when a blaze takes a neighbor’s home and his life, Emily Dickinson and her maid Willa have a burning desire to crack the case)

Danny Fromchenko, The Keeper of the Laugh, Seventh Street (story of love and redemption set in the aftermath of World War II)

Kelly Frost, The Kings Head, Atlantic (1957; debut of conflict and camaraderie, carving a slice of history for London’s forgotten Teddy Girls)

Kate Furnivall, The Crash, Hodder & Stoughton (in Paris 1933, people’s lives are torn apart by a single terrifying event)

Nicole Galland, Boy, William Morrow (thought-provoking historical tale of love, political intrigue, and gender-swapping set in the theatre world of Elizabethan London)

Peter Golden, Their Shadows Deep, Lake Union (imagines the connection between JFK’s presidential campaign and an ex-cop’s investigation into her husband’s murder)

Esther Goldenberg, Seventeen Spoons, Row House Publishing (delves into the life of Joseph, the youngest and most favored son in the tribe of Jacob. Second in the Desert Songs Trilogy)

Kat Gordon, The Swell, Manilla Press (Iceland 1910; moving between the turn of the 20th century and the 1970s a dark mystery is unravelled, rich in Icelandic myth)

Gail Milissa Grant, The Sable Cloak, Grand Central (novel set in the South and Midwest during the time of Jim Crow that reveals a little-known part of American pre-civil rights history of Black intrigue and power)

Stephen Greco, The Last American Heiresses, John Scognamiglio (draws readers into the lives of legendary heiresses Doris Duke and Barbara Hutton and the public rivalry that defined them)

Elly Griffiths, The Frozen People, Quercus (Ali Dawson ventures back farther than before: to 1850s London in order to clear the name of Cain Templeton, the eccentric great-grandfather of MP Isaac Templeton)

Thomas Guay, Chesapeake Bound, McBooks (1763; a story of desperate immigrants looking for adventure, advancement, love, and most of all a sense of belonging in the colonies)

Amanda Hampson, The Tea Ladies, Penguin AU (cosy crime novel set in Sydney in the swinging sixties)

Julie Hartley, The Promise She Made, Bookouture (determined to find out what happened to her sister during the Blitz, Ruby joins the Special Operations Executive)

Penny Haw, Follow Me to Africa, Sourcebooks Landmark (dual timeline novel inspired by the story of Mary Leakey, who carved her own path to become one of the world’s most distinguished paleoanthropologists)

India Hayford, The Song of the Blue Bottle Tree, John Scognamiglio (set in rural Arkansas in 1967, Southern novel draws readers into a visceral tale of secrets, desperate choices, and belonging)

Nydia Hetherington, Sycorax, Quercus (a reimagining of what came before Shakespeare’s The Tempest)

Dani Heywood-Lonsdale, The Portrait Artist, Bloomsbury UK (an art historian determines to uncover the true story about Timothy Ponden-Hall, a controversial artist thought to have died decades earlier)

Van Hoang, Silver and Smoke, 47 North (historical fantasy in the golden age of Hollywood where success for two Vietnamese dreamers means conjuring a magical break)

Elisabeth J. Hobbes, Dance With the Fae, One More Chapter (a blend of romance, mystery and magic in a historical fantasy set in 1919)

Pam Jenoff, Last Twilight in Paris, Park Row (a Parisian department store, a mysterious necklace and a woman’s quest to unlock a decade-old mystery are at the center of this novel of love and survival, set in 1953 & 1943)

Nancy Johnson, People of Means, William Morrow (dual timeline novel about a mother and daughter each seeking justice and following their dreams during moments of social reckoning—1960s Nashville and 1992 Chicago)

Lora Jones, The Woman in the Wallpaper, Sphere (as revolution blazes across France, the lives of three women are set to collide in unimaginable ways)

Adele Jordan, The Body in the Chamber, Sapere (third book in the Shadow Cutpurses Tudor series; a historical espionage adventure set during King Henry VIII’s reign)

Alka Joshi, Six Days in Bombay, MIRA (novel follows a young Anglo-Indian nurse who embarks on a journey from her home in Bombay, through Prague, Florence, Paris, and London, to uncover a mystery)

Julia Kelly, The Dressmakers of London, Gallery (novel about two estranged sisters who inherit their late mother’s dressmaking shop in London during World War II)

Vaseem Khan, City of Destruction, Hodder & Stoughton (new mystery featuring the inimitable Persis Wadia, set in Bombay, 1950)

Thomas Kohnstamm, Supersonic, Counterpoint (illuminates themes of identity, displacement, destruction, and reinvention that give rise to all great American cities)

Carolyn Korsmeyer, Riddle of Spirit and Bone, Regal House (a skeleton discovered buried beneath a city sidewalk leads a group of student archaeologists to the 19th century spiritualist movement)

Ann-Helén Laestadius, trans. Rachel Willson-Broyles, Punished, Scribner (story of five Indigenous children forced to attend a government-run boarding school in 1950s Sweden)

Soraya M. Lane, The Pianist’s Wife, Lake Union (fiction inspired by true stories of those who chose to defy the Nazis from within Germany)

Elizabeth Langston, Once You Were Mine, Lake Union (in a quiet North Carolina town in 1968, a seventeen-year-old girl’s life is forever changed when a summer romance leads to an unplanned pregnancy)

Jane Lark, The Great Western Railway Girls, Boldwood (a new WWII industry saga beginning in 1939)

Patrick Larsimont, The Wire and the Lines, Sapere (Jox McNabb Aviation Thrillers, book 5, set during WWII)

Barbara Leahy, Rembrandt’s Promise, Bonnier (1642; the Dutch Golden Age is underway, as an impoverished widow from Edam, becomes nursemaid in the house of renowned painter Rembrandt)

Ed Lee, The Poydras Ring, Histria (in the territory of New France, amidst duels, slave rebellions, and war, a cursed ring binds generation in a struggle for power)

Tod Lending, The Umbrella Maker’s Son, Harper Paperbacks (in which a Jewish teenager in World War II Poland fights to save his life and find the young woman who holds his heart)

Adam Lofthouse, Raven: Defier of Rome, Boldwood (first book in the Enemy of the Empire series, set in AD 144)

Canisia Lubrin, illus. Torkwase Dyson, Code Noir, Soft Skull (fifty-nine linked fictions based on the infamous real-life “Code Noir,” a set of historical decrees passed in 1685 by King Louis XIV of France)

N. J. Mastro, Solitary Walker, Black Rose Writing (a novel of Mary Wollstonecraft)

Imogen Martin, The Mountains Between Us, Storm (California 1848; a woman braves the mountains to California, to find her missing husband, amidst the turmoil of the Gold Rush)

Elsie Mason, The Loveless Child, Orion (England, 1940s; a novel of the Sixteen Streets, South Shields)

Alyssa Maxwell, Two Weddings and a Murder, Kensington (June 1922; as Lady Phoebe and her betrothed say their vows of holy matrimony, a killer has vowed unholy vengeance on the town’s chief inspector)

Stephen May, Green Ink, Swift Press (novel of politicians, spies and lovers and the mysterious disappearance of Victor Grayson in 1920)

Rachel Scott McDaniel, The Dreams We Knew, Kregel (blend of mystery and second-chance romance in twenties New York)

Patrice McDonough, A Slash of Emerald, Kensington (Victorian-set mystery series where medical examiner Julia Lewis, and her partner, DI Richard Tennant, investigate a string of murders. Julia Lewis series book two)

Kathleen McGurl, The Lost Diamond, HQ Digital (dual timeline romance set in India, 1947 and London 2024)

Steven A. McKay, King of Wessex, Canelo (third installment of the Alfred the Great series)

Amy Patricia Meade, Death Upon a Star, Severn House (historical cozy featuring obsession, power and murder, set in 1939, Los Angeles)

Fiona Melrose, Even Beyond Death, Corsair (1657 Avignon; the story of a man in love and a tale of the sacrifices we make for it)

Fenella J. Miller, Stormy Waters at Harbour House, Boldwood (tale of wartime bravery and courage; next installment in Harbour House series)

Meredith Miller, Cold Grace, Honno Welsh Women’s Press (story of survival and humanity set in early 1900s New England exploring themes of race, disability, eugenics and rural life on the fringes of society)

Shara Moon, Let Us March On, William Morrow (inspired by the life of real-life crusader, Lizzie McDuffie, who as a maid in FDR’s White House, spearheaded the Civil Rights movement of her time)

Jean P. Moore, Crossing from Shore to Shore, Running Wild Press (dual timeline love story set against the backdrop of the WWI Red Scare and the Spanish Flu)

Victoria Christopher Murray, Harlem Rhapsody, Berkley (in 1919, amidst civil and social unrest, in a place called Harlem, Black pride is evident everywhere…in music, theatre, fashion and the art)

Lars Mytting, trans. Deborah Dawkin, The Night of the Scourge, The Overlook Press/Maclehose (family drama set in WWII–era Norway)

Sacha Naspini, The Bishop’s Villa, Europa Editions (1943; based on the true story of a collaboration between the Catholic diocese of Grosseto and the Fascist authorities)

Suzanne Nelson, The Librarians of Lisbon, Zando Projects (with World War II raging across Europe, best friends Selene and Beatrice are enlisted by the U.S. Intelligence Office to infiltrate the Axis spy network)

Leonie Norrington, Merrkiyawuy Ganambarr-Stubbs, Djawa Burarrwanga and Djawundil Maymuru, A Piece of Red Cloth, Allen & Unwin (novel based on the oral history of the Yolngu people from north-east Arnhem Land)

Anne O’Brien, The Queen and the Countess, Orion (England 1450s; can Queen Margaret and the Countess of Warwick trust each other in the midst of treachery and the turmoil of battle?)

Joseph O’Connor, The Ghosts of Rome, Europa Editions (second book in the Rome Escape Line trilogy, set in Italy 1944)

Jamie Ogle, As Sure as the Sea, Tyndale House (Christian historical romance novel set in Eastern Roman Empire, AD 310)

Sally Page, The Secrets of Flowers, Blackstone/Harper (novel about a grieving woman who rediscovers herself by uncovering the lost story of the girl who arranged flowers on the Titanic)

Heather Parry, Carrion Crow, Doubleday (gothic horror commentary on the constraints of polite society, that unfurls one family’s festering secrets)

Victoria Purman, The Radio Hour, Harper Muse (a funny look at the golden years of radio broadcasting in post-war Australia)

Frances Quinn, The Lost Passenger, Simon & Schuster UK (1912; uplifting story about grabbing your chances with both hands, and being brave enough to find out who you really are)

Youssef Rakha, The Dissenters, Graywolf Press (a transgressive novel that spans seventy years of Egyptian history from the 1950s to the present)

Nicola Rayner, The Paris Dancer, Head of Zeus/Aria (story of courage, friendship and resistance, inspired by the true story of a Jewish ballroom dancer in Paris during WWII)

Lynette Rees, The Cobbler’s Apprentice, Boldwood (a boy down on his luck finds his way in a cruel Victorian world)

Madeleine Reiss, The Taking of Irene Hart, One More Chapter (1859, Somerset; widow Hester Hart decides to sign over all her family’s worldly goods – and the family freedom – to a secretive religious community)

Nancy Revell, A Secret in the Family, Century (saga follow-up to the Shipyard Girls set in 1945 Sunderland and 1953 Durham)

Evelio Rosero, trans. Victor Meadowcroft, House of Fury, New Directions (brings to light Colombia’s violent history on one night in 1970)

David Rotenberg, City Rising: The Bend in the River, At Bay Press (tells the story of two destitute Baghdadi Jews who become opium lords)

S. E. Rutledge, The Girl Who Saved Them, Bookouture (during WWII a woman smuggles allied soldiers out of occupied Paris)

Robert Seethaler, trans. Katy Derbyshire, The Café with No Name, Europa Editions/Canongate (a story of the hopes, kindnesses and everyday heroism of one community in 1966)

Victoria Shaun, City of the Sun, Melville House (in modern-day Hollywood, a copywriter uncovers the secret of a 1904 movie that was never finished; dual timeline set in present and 1904 NY, Hollywood and Berlin)

Jill Eileen Smith, Dawn of Grace, Revell (on the brink of despair, Mary Magdalene is about to discover that while the life of faith is never perfect, perfect love casts out fear–and Jesus makes all things new)

Richard Strachan, The Unrecovered, Raven Books (debut inspired by the legend of Gallondean, which has it that if the heirs to the house hear the howling of a spectral hound nearby, their death will quickly follow)

Stephen Spotswood, Dead in the Frame, Doubleday (book 5 in Pentecost and Parker series, as Will scrambles to solve a murder before Lillian takes the fall for the crime)

Steve Stern, A Fool’s Kabbalah, Melville House (in the ruins of postwar Europe, the world’s leading expert on the Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism goes on a journey to recover sacred books stolen by the Nazis)

Sarah Sundin, Midnight on the Scottish Shore, Revell (story takes you to the wild Scottish seaside, where danger lurks under the surface of the water–and in the depths of the human heart)

Abdellah Taïa, trans. Emma Ramadan, Live In Your Light, Seven Stories (three moments in the life of Malika, a Moroccan countrywoman, from 1954 to 1999; from French colonization to the death of King Hassan II)

Tangea Tansley, Snakes in Paradise, Arden (novel of power, treachery, cross-cultural friendship, and love, reimagining history in a pivotal period in the life of the last sultan to rule the Iberian Peninsula)

Hope C. Tarr, Stardust, Lume (WWII; novel set against the backdrop of war-torn Paris)

Mario Theodorou, Felix Grey and the Descendant, Neem Tree (Edwardian crime caper set in London, 1904, a few years after Queen Victoria’s death)

Grace Tiffany, The Owl Was a Baker’s Daughter, Harper (novel about Judith Shakespeare, a middle-aged apothecary and midwife during the English Civil War)

Elizabeth A. Tucker, The Pale Flesh of Wood, She Writes (twentieth-century multigenerational braided narrative examining the rippling effects of trauma and perceived fault after a loved one’s suicide)

Yuko Tsushima, trans. Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda, Wildcat Dome, Penguin Classics (a metaphysical saga of postwar Japan)

Simon Turney, Agricola: Warrior, Head of Zeus/Aries (first in series where Agricola must tread a careful path to stay alive through the Year of the Four Emperors)

Eric von Neff, The Quan Shang Opera, Histria (erotic thriller in which San San finds herself thrust into an arranged marriage with tyrannical figure who owns a laundry and garage in San Francisco)

Jack Wang, The Riveter, House of Anansi Press/HarperVia (debut novel explores what one man must sacrifice to belong in the only home he has ever truly known)

Larry Weill, The Dutchman’s Gold, North Country Books (historical novel involving a pair of situational treasure hunters from New York who are enticed into a search for one of America’s largest treasures)

Raymond Wemmlinger, The Queen’s Favourite, Sapere (biographical historical novel of the Seymour sisters, set during the Tudor period at Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth’s court)

Lauren Westwood, The House of Light and Shadows, Boldwood (an old-house historical mystery, layered with romance and secrets)

Charlotte Whitney, A Tiny Piece of Blue, She Writes (novel follows a homeless young girl as she struggles to survive during the Great Depression)

Steve Wick, The Ruins, Pegasus Crime (thriller set in 1954, where the grim horrors of Nazis in America collide with the manufacturing of the suburban dream)

Jenny Williamson, Enemy of My Dreams, Canary Street (in the last days of the Roman Empire a princess and Goth warlord forge a dangerous alliance in this historical fantasy)

Olivia Wolfgang-Smith, Mutual Interest, Bloomsbury (novel about three queer people united by marriage, love, and their budding business empire in turn-of-the-twentieth-century New York City)

Kell Woods, Upon a Starlit Tide, Tor/Voyager AU (fairy tale-inspired historical fantasy set in Saint-Malo, Brittany, 1758)

March 2025

Anita Abriel, American Housewife, Lake Union (NYC 1950; for a beloved television star in 1950s America, image and reality clash in a novel about fame, marriage, and secrets)

Claire Anderson-Wheeler, The Gatsby Gambit, Renegade Books AU/Viking (1922; at the Gatsby West Egg Mansion one of the guests is murdered and Greta Gatsby is on hand to investigate)

TJ Alexander, A Gentleman’s Gentleman, Vintage (dry wit, a slow-burn romance, and a nuanced portrait of trans identity in this Regency romance)

Deepa Anappara, The Last of Earth, Oneworld (novel set in mid-19th century Tibet, featuring three travellers, one Indian, two British, who venture into a kingdom then forbidden to outsiders)

Laura Anthony, The Women on Platform Two, Gallery (in 1970s Dublin, all forms of contraception are forbidden, but an intrepid group of women will risk everything to change that in this little-known true story)

Maggie Anton, The Midwives’ Escape, Banot Press (novel filled with adventure, warfare, and romance, that is true to both Torah and to history)

Libby Ashworth, The Widow’s Shillings, Michael Joseph (third in Cavanah series, with her daughter, Agnes, married, Kitty must focus on her youngest children and their dream of making it across the sea to America)

Alice Austen, 33 Place Brugmann, Grove Press/Bloomsbury (a love story, mystery, and philosophical puzzle—told in the singular voices of the residents of a Beaux Arts apartment building in Belgium in 1939)

D. R. Bailey, The Night Angels, Sapere (novel features women pilots in WWII, in the second of the Secret Sirens Aviation Thrillers)

Cecily Blench, Secrets of Malta, Zaffre (1943; while investigating the disappearance of her former lover, Margarita stumbles upon the hunt for a dangerous spy)

Bob the Drag Queen, Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert, Gallery (novel about American hero Harriet Tubman that remixes history into a fresh, dynamic novel about love, freedom, salvation, and music)

Chris Bohjalian, The Jackal’s Mistress, Doubleday (the wife of a missing Confederate soldier discovers a wounded Yankee officer and must decide what she’s willing to risk for the life of a stranger)

Rhys Bowen, Clare Broyles, Silent as the Grave, Minotaur (retired Detective Molly Murphy Sullivan goes undercover)

AnneMarie Brear, The Riverside Maid, Boldwood (saga set in Victorian Yorkshire)

J. C. Briggs, The Secrets of Treasonfield House, Sapere (a dual timeline Gothic mystery set in England between the 1950s and the First World War)

Jessica Bull, A Fortune Most Fatal, Union Square (a witty murder mystery featuring Jane Austen as an intrepid sleuth— second installment in the Miss Austen Investigates series set in 1797)

Lucy Caldwell, These Days, Zando/SJP Lit (follows two sisters over the course of four nights as they reckon with their futures in war-torn Belfast)

Melodie Campbell, The Silent Film Star Murders, Cormorant (Lady Lucy Revelstoke reboards her ocean liner for another high society murder mystery, book 3, on the high seas)

Michael Dennis Cassity, York’s Ride, Univ. of Nevada Press (story set in 1914, in northern California and western Nevada with the tale of two twelve-year-old boys and a legendary, wild horse from the desert)

Brian Castleberry, The Californians, Mariner Books (novel that spans 100 years of American history, starting with the early days of cinema)

Crystal Caudill, Written in Secret, Kregel (in the heart of nineteenth-century Cincinnati, where justice is scarce and danger lurks in every shadow, one woman holds the power to rewrite fate)

Su Chang, The Immortal Woman, House of Anansi Press (a student Red Guard leader in 1960s Shanghai, escapes to America, ten years later, to become a true Westerner)

Veronica Chapa, Malinalli, Atria/Primero Sueno Press (retelling of the triumphs and sorrows of one of the most controversial and misunderstood women in Mexico’s history and mythology)

Roohi Choudhry, Outside Women, The Univ. of Kentucky (intertwines the narratives of two women carving their existences outside of patriarchal and colonial spaces as they search for kinship and strength)

Joanne Clague, The Lightfingered Lass, Canelo (the House of Help for Friendless Girls, book 2. Victorian saga)

Donovan Cook, Woden’s Spear, Boldwood (adventure of turmoil, coming of age and survival set in Old Saxony, 449 AD)

Iver P. Cooper, 1637: The Pacific Initiative, Baen (historical fantasy centering conflicting power struggles between the colonists and the native Americans)

Emily Critchley, The Undoing of Violet Claybourne, Sourcebooks Landmark (1938; gothic mystery following a young girl enthralled by the enigmatic Claybourne sisters and the tragedy that binds them together for good)

Richard Cullen, Winter Warrior, Head of Zeus/Aries (book three of The Wolf of Kings Viking adventure set in England, 1069)

R. M. Cullen, Harlequin is Dead, Sapere (historical thriller set in 18th century London. First in Richard Brinsley Sheridan Mysteries)

Siobhan Daiko, The Girl from Sicily, Boldwood (dual timeline story from wartime Italy, set in 1945 and 2005)

Jeanne M. Dams, Murder of a Recluse, Severn House (a warm-hearted 1920s historical mystery with a courageous heroine)

N. R. Daws, Murder at the Palace, Orion (when one of the ladies in residence at Hampton Court Palace fails to answer her maid’s call, Mrs Lydia Bramble, palace housekeeper, is called in to investigate)

Katie Daysh, A Merciful Sea, Canelo (romantic historical adventure of the sea)

Ellie Dean, With Promises to Keep, Century (1947; Cliffehaven book 21 in which Peggy Reilly and the rest of the Cliffehaven community must pull together to keep everyone safe)

P. T. Deutermann, The Second Sun, St. Martin’s (historical thriller set during the waning months of World War II)

Helena Dixon, The Secret Detective Agency, Bookouture (first in a new cosy series with Miss Jane Treen – the coffee-drinking cat lover dressed head to toe in tweed, who just happens to be a secret super sleuth)

Emma Donoghue, The Paris Express, S&S-Summit/Picador/Harper Avenue (historical novel about an infamous 1895 disaster at the Paris Montparnasse train station)

José Donoso, trans. Megan McDowell, The Mysterious Disappearance of the Marquise of Loria, New Directions (an elegy to the literary erotica of 1920s Madrid)

Ariel Dorfman, Allegro, Other Press (historical mystery set in 1789 tells of friendship and betrayal, and how music allows us to defy death)

Kate Eastham, A Fresh Start for the Country Nurse, Boldwood (Lara Flynn takes on a new job as a district nurse and midwife at a country practice in July 1936)

Sarah M. Eden, The Tides of Time, Shadow Mountain (in 1793, a storm propels Lili forward through time, kindling a love that transcends the ages)

Fang Fang, trans. Michael Berry, Soft Burial, Columbia Univ. Press (part mystery, part historical fiction, and part social exposé, novel intercuts different generations, regions, and time periods to explore historical trauma and the psychological toll of repressed violence)

Diane Fanning, Lizzie, Level Best (historical fiction imagines the thinking and fear that drove Lizzie Borden to an extreme act of cruelty)

Kaitlin Felix, Rán’s Daughters, Outland Entertainment (adventure of sea salt, blood, and gold features a female-driven Viking crew)

Katie Fforde, From London With Love, Century (1968 — Felicity arrives in London to stay with her mother, do a secretarial course – and meet a suitable man)

Pip Fioretti, Skull River, Affirm Press (a murder mystery and a portrayal of a country on the verge of transformation – set in 1912 NSW)

Elinor Florence, Finding Flora, Simon & Schuster (novel set in turn-of-the-century Alberta about a young woman on the run from her abusive husband who uses a legal loophole to claim a homestead in the Wild West)

Katie Flynn, Forgotten Child, Century (late summer 1940; Isla Donahue’s idyllic lifestyle comes to an abrupt end when her father sends her to the poorhouse)

Kate Forsyth, Bitter Greens, Allison & Busby (a dark retelling of the Rapunzel tale set around the court of the Sun King)

Jacqueline Friedland, Counting Backwards, Harper Muse (dual time line story is a reminder that progress is rarely a straight line and always hard-won. NY, 2022 and Virginia, 1927)

Jackie French, The Whisperer’s War, HQ Fiction (1940; Lady Deanna becomes enmeshed in the German plot to restore the Duke of Windsor to the throne and ensure an alliance with Hitler)

January Gilchrist, My Sister’s Shadow, Crooked Lane (envy and desire infiltrate the lives of twin sisters in this gothic suspense set in England and New York City)

Leonard Goldberg, A Scandalous Affair, Pegasus Crime (a Daughter of Sherlock Holmes mystery in which Joanna Holmes must confront a shocking case of blackmail that threatens the highest levels of His Majesty’s government)

S. K. Golden, The Socialite’s Guide to Sleuthing & Secrets, Crooked Lane (hotel heiress Evelyn Murphy is on the hunt for a cunning killer and a mysterious thief in the third Pinnacle Hotel mystery)

C. W. Gortner, The Saint Laurent Muse, William Morrow (novel of fashion’s 1970s “It Girl” Loulou de la Falaise, and her life partying and designing with Yves Saint Laurent, Karl Lagerfeld, and Halston)

Chaim Grade, trans. Rose Waldman, Sons and Daughters, Knopf (a glimpse of the rich Yiddish culture of Poland and Lithuania that the Holocaust will eradicate)

Alex Grecian, Rose of Jericho, Tor Nightfire (supernatural horror where ghosts and ghouls are the least of a witch’s problems in nineteenth-century New England)

Gabrielle Griffiths, Greater Sins, Doubleday (1915, Scotland; a series of unsettling events befalls the isolated community after a perfectly preserved body is pulled from a peat bog)

Rachel Griffiths, The Trouble with Anna, Gallery (witty slow burn frenemies-to-lovers romance)

Emilia Hart, The Sirens, St. Martin’s/The Borough Press (novel of mystery and magic, about four sisters separated by centuries, but bound together by the sea. Set in 2019, 1999 and 1800)

Gracie Hart, The Chocolate Box Girls at War, Michael Joseph (2^nd book in saga set in York, 1940, where the Rowntrees factory is turned over to making munitions)

Sophie Haydock, Madame Matisse, Doubleday (novel about drama and betrayal; emotion and sex; glamour and tragedy, set in the 1930s art movement in France)

Lucy H. Hedrick, Six Weeks in Reno, Lake Union (a woman at a “divorce ranch” in 1930s Reno strives to live life on her own terms)

M. B. Henry, As the Storm Clouds Gather, Severn House (1915; novel of two young people drawn together through war)

Patti Callahan Henry, The Story She Left Behind, Atria (story of a legendary book, a lost mother, and a daughter’s search for them both)

Charlie N. Holmberg, Wizard of Most Wicked Ways, 47North (when dead enemies rise, grave matters of the heart, mind, and body clash in the fourth Whimbrel House Victorian fantasy novel)

Angela Hunt, The Daughter of Rome, Bethany House (tale of faith and sacrifice set against the rich tapestry of Nero’s ancient Rome)

Georgia Hunter, One Good Thing, Pamela Dorman Books/Allison & Busby (story of hardship and hope, courage and resilience, that follows one young woman’s journey through war-torn Italy)

Lindsey Hutchinson, The Pick-Pocket’s Return, Boldwood (Victorian saga about two orphaned children who once saved each other from a terrible fate)

Anna Jacobs, Hope Comes to Eastby End, Hodder & Stoughton (third book in the Eastby End saga series)

Guy Jenkin, Murder Most Foul, Legend Press (dark, witty murder mystery set in 1593 with amateur sleuths Will Shakespeare and Chris Marlowe’s sister, Ann)

Kath Jonathan, The Resistance Painter, Simon & Schuster (dual timeline examines the little-known story of Poland’s resistance army and the contemporary lives of two artists, grandmother and granddaughter, which are inextricably entwined)

William W. Johnstone; J.A. Johnstone, The High Country, Kensington (celebrates the guts, glory, and often deadly exploits of the pioneering fur trappers who tracked and tamed the American frontier)

Stephen Graham Jones, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, S&S/Saga Press (historical horror set in the American west in 1912 follows a Lutheran priest who transcribes the life of a vampire looking for justice)

Dietrich Kalteis, Dirty Little War, ECW Press (crime novel set in mob-filled Chicago during the 1920s Prohibition)

Susanna Kearsley, The King’s Messenger, Sourcebooks Landmark (story of treachery, betrayal and love set in 1613 when James I/VI’s son and heir dies plunging the nation into mourning)

Fiona Keating, Smoke and Silk, Mountain Leopard (opium smuggling, murder and romance meet in this historical thriller set in Victorian London)

Jim Kelly, The Cambridge Siren, Allison & Busby (WWII murder mystery set in Cambridge, spring 1941. Nighthawk book 4)

Julia R. Kelly, The Fisherman’s Gift, Simon & Schuster/Harvill Secker (debut set in a Scottish village, in 1900, in the weeks after a young boy mysteriously washes up on shore, causing the buried secrets to come to light and rekindling an old love story)

Paulette Kennedy, The Artist of Blackberry Grange, Lake Union (a ghostly novel about family secrets, sacrifice, and lost loves)

Lynn Knight, Miss Burnham and the Loose Thread, Bantam (London, 1925; ambitious designer-dressmaker Rose Burnham turns sleuth to bring a swindler to justice)

Jackson Kuhl, The Island of Small Misfortunes, Regal House (gothic ghost mystery set on a private island in 1898)

Brianna Labuskes, The Boxcar Librarian, William Morrow (Depression-era novel about a woman’s quest to uncover a mystery surrounding a local librarian and the Boxcar Library)

Lizzie Lane, Tough Times on Coronation Close, Boldwood (next installment in the Coronation Close saga set in WWII)

Soraya Lane, The Spanish Daughter, Bookouture (dual timeline tale in which a woman finds courage in her grandmother’s story)

Kathryn Lasky, A Slant of Light, Severn House (1930s mystery; when students of St Ignatius go missing, painter and amateur sleuth Georgia O’Keeffe must infiltrate the school to figure out what’s going on)

Iris Mitlin Lav, Gitel’s Freedom, She Writes (narrative about the lives of Jewish immigrants in the early twentieth century)

Phil Lecomber, Midnight Streets, Titan Books (dark thriller set in 1920s Soho, featuring George Harley, a cockney private detective)

Rosanne Limoncelli, The Four Queens of Crime, Crooked Lane (first woman detective chief inspector in the CID, is determined to find a killer with the help of the four crime writers; Christie, Sayers, Marsh, and Allingham)

Andrew Ludington, Splinter Effect, Minotaur (time traveling archaeologist Rabbit Ward maneuvers through the past to recover a long-lost, precious menorah hiding out in ancient Rome)

Julianne MacLean, All Our Beautiful Goodbyes, Lake Union (1946 and 1995; tale of lost love and fallen dreams, set in remote Nova Scotia and spanning decades)

Sanam Mahloudji, The Persians, Scribner (travelling from the 1940s to early 2000s, a searching portrait of a family in crisis at the turn of the century, and an American family saga reinvented)

Clare Marchant, The Shadow on the Bridge, Boldwood (the discovery of a book of poems draws contemporary Sarah into the story of Anne Howard in 1571)

Lee Martin, The Evening Shades, Melville House (tells the story of two lonely people in a small Midwestern town slowly revealing their secrets to themselves, and each other)

Sandro Martini, Ciao, Amore, Ciao, Black Rose Writing (the accidental discovery of an aged photo from World War II offers a jaded journalist a last gasp at bonding with his dying father)

Kate Maruyama, Alterations, Running Wild (dual timeline story told in 1940s and 1998 about a woman who gets a job sewing for Edith Head at Paramount’s costume department)

Maggie Mason, A Mother’s Hope, Sphere (wartime novel about motherhood, hardship and courageous women during WWII)

Susan Meissner, A Map to Paradise, Berkley (mystery set during the McCarthy era in 1956 Malibu, California)

John Winn Miller, Rescue Run, Bancroft Press (after escaping the treacherous waters of WWII, Captain Jake Rogers leads his crew on a daring mission across Nazi-occupied Europe. Sequel to The Hunt for the Peggy C)

Vanessa Miller, The Filling Station, Thomas Nelson (inspirations novel delves into the sisterhood of two women and highlights the strength and resilience of Black women and the beauty of Black joy in the face of adversity)

Mark J. Mitchell, A Book of Lost Songs, Addison & Highsmith (a picaresque tale follows one man’ s journey and disillusionment in a world of brutality in the late 13^th-century)

Mary Monroe, Bent But Not Broken, Dafina (Depression-era Alabama novel tells of a mistreated wife who finally finds the love she’s longed for—only to be plunged into deceit, betrayal, and murder)

Allison Montclair, An Excellent Thing in a Woman, Severn House (the owners of The Right Sort Marriage Bureau are determined to bring love matches to the residents of Post-WWII London, despite a murder investigation)

Louise Morrish, Women of War, Penguin UK (August 1914; as World War One begins, two women are determined to do whatever they can for their country)

Stuart Nadler, Rooms for Vanishing, Dutton (the violence of war has fractured the universe for a Jewish family from Vienna, where the novel finds them alone in their separate futures, and haunted by the loss of their loved ones)

Erica Ruth Neubauer, Homicide in the Indian Hills, Kensington (American newlywed Jane Wunderly learns that tigers aren’t the only dangers lurking in 1920s India)

Gosia Nealon, The Wartime Chocolate Maker, Bookouture (a girl risks her life hiding notes vital to the Polish resistance in boxes of chocolates made in her father’s factory)

Valerie Nieman, Upon the Corner of the Moon, Regal House (immerses readers in a story about the real rulers who changed the face of Scotland)

Phil Oakley, Runners, Stoney Creek Publishing (historical saga continues in second Oakley book about resilience, family, and the price of ambition)

Janette Oke, The Pharisee’s Wife, Tyndale House (about a young Jewish woman, plucked from obscurity and thrust on perilous journey, only to witness the world’s most life-changing story)

Emily Organ, The Whitechapel Widow, Storm (1888 during the Ripper spree a widow hunts for her husband’s killer)

Debra Oswald, One Hundred Years of Betty, Allen & Unwin (set against a century of world events and social upheavals, the anti-war protests, the women’s liberation movement, and the AIDS crisis during the 1980s)

Lizzie Page, The Wartime Mother, Bookouture (saga set in England, 1941 in which widowed Winnie struggles to keep her pub open with the help of an orphaned girl she cares for)

Lew Paper, Legacy of Lies, Level Best (thriller focusing on a former FBI Special Agent-turned-private investigator, who is asked by a Mafia contact to follow Jimmy Hoffa in the weeks before his abduction)

Tracie Peterson, A Constant Love, Bethany House (historical romance of healing and spiritual depth set during the early years of the city of Cheyenne)

Chris Petit, Come In and Shut the Door, Scribner UK (employed by a collector of dubious historical objects, Parker discovers things that will lead him into the darkest corners of 20th-century history)

Natasha Pulley, The Hymn to Dionysus, Bloomsbury/Gollancz (reimagining of the story of Dionysus, Greek God of ecstasy and madness, revelry and ruin)

Anthony Quinn, The Mouthless Dead, Abacus (crime novel based on the Wallace Murder, a national cause célèbre of the 1930s and still unsolved)

Angela Ransom, A Glittering Peril, Sapere (lady-in-waiting, Catrin Surovell Tudor Mysteries book 3, set in 1561)

Marcie R. Rendon, Broken Fields, Soho Crime (Cash Blackbear, a young Ojibwe woman, is back on the case after two men are found dead on a rural farm in Minnesota in 1970s)

Helena Rho, Stone Angels, Grand Central (novel set in the Pacific theater, focusing on the Korean diaspora and Japanese occupation during WWII)

Vanessa Riley, A Wager at Midnight, Zebra (romance in which a duke has made a wager to find husbands for the love-of-his-life’s two sisters, in order to have a second chance with her)

Jane Rosenthal, The Serpent Bearer, She Writes (part World War II spy thriller, part romance, and part tale of buried family secrets)

Karen Russell, The Antidote, Knopf/Chatto & Windus (dust bowl epic about five characters whose fates become entangled after a storm ravages their small Nebraskan town)

Kim Vogel Sawyer, Hope’s Enduring Echo, Waterbrook (historical romance about two young people whose discovery of fossilized bones leads to a love that echoes through the ages)

Simon Scarrow, A Death in Berlin, Headline (next installment of the Inspector Schenke WWII espionage thriller series)

Isabelle Schuler, The House of Barbary, Raven Books (story walks the thin line between retribution and revenge, and the choices we must make when confronted by evil)

Kent M. Schwendy, Sailing Toward the Tempest, Black Rose Writing (early in the French Revolutionary War, a young British naval officer finds himself unexpectedly in charge of a powerful frigate)

Caroline Scott, Greenfields, S&S UK (when Robert Bardsley arrives at Greenfields in spring, 1933, it is home to a collective of writers, artists, and musicians, until the cracks start to show)

Rachel Seiffert, Once the Deed is Done, Virago (set in Northern Germany, 1945; as the war comes to an end, a boy stands witness to secrets he doesn’t understand and cannot carry alone)

Betty Shamieh, Too Soon, Avid Reader/S&S (saga follows one family’s journey fleeing war-torn Jaffa in 1948, to chase the American Dream in Detroit and San Francisco in the sixties and seventies)

Joanna Shupe, The Gilded Heiress, Avon (story full of secrets and betrayal, set among the streets of New York City’s Gilded Age)

Danielle Steel, Far From Home, Macmillan (wartime tale about the love between a mother and daughter)

Anna Stuart, The English Wife, Bookouture (novel inspired by the remarkable life of Clementine Churchill)

Marion Taffe, By Her Hand, 4^th Estate (a young girl in the Peak District, Mercia, AD 910 develops a friendship with Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians)

Maisie Thomas, A New Home at the Wartime Hotel, Boldwood (first installment in new saga series set in Manchester 1941)

Liz Tolsma, When the Sky Burned, Barbour (novel taking place in the true-life setting of the deadly fire of Peshtigo, Wisconsin, October 8, 1871)

Christopher C. Tubbs, Betrayal, Lume Books (tale of swashbuckling adventure, loyalty, and resilience)

Claire van Ryn, Where the Birds Call Her Name, Penguin AU (dual timeline novel set in 2023 and 1968 in Tasmania’s north-west)

Johanna van Veen, Blood on Her Tongue, Poisoned Pen Press (gothic horror set in the Netherlands, 1887 when one of two sisters goes temporarily insane)

Radha Vatsal, No. 10 Doyers Street, Level Best (mystery novel of New York City on the cusp of modernity, as seen through a unique immigrant perspective)

Michelle Vernal, The Dressmaker’s Secret, Bookouture (a young orphan is raised by a talented dressmaker in a bridal shop)
Also: The Dressmaker’s Past, Bookouture (book two – a bridal shop holds the key to discovering what happened the day Sabrina’s mother disappeared)

Bridget Walsh, The Spirit Guide, Gallic (1879, London; scriptwriter Minnie Ward and ex-police officer Albert Easterbrook are drawn into a world of celebrities, ghosts and questionable cults)

Boo Walker, Peggy Shainberg, The Secrets of Good People, Lake Union (Florida area, 1970; a whirlwind romance, impulsive marriage, and a murder among friends in a twisty whodunit)

J. E. Weiner, The Wretched and Undone, HTF Publishing (Southern Gothic saga set in the heart of the Texas Hill Country and inspired by real people and actual events)

Amy Weldon, Creature, Sea Crow Press (braids Mary Shelley’s life journey with that of her most famous character –Victor Frankenstein’s half-human Creature)

Alexandra Weston, The Lavender Bride, Boldwood (historical romance set in 1930s Hollywood)

Lauren Willig, The Girl from Greenwich Street, William Morrow (based on the true story of a famous trial, as Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr investigate the shocking murder of a young woman)

Evie Woods, The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris, One More Chapter (mystery in which Edie leaves everything behind in Ireland for her dream job at a bakery in Paris. Except the bakery isn’t in Paris – and neither is Edie)

Helen Yendall, The Highland Girls Report for Duty, HQ Digital (WWII saga set in Scotland, 1944; book 3 in series)

April 2025

Milo Allan, Murray Hall, Black & White (inspired by a true story of one Scot’s rise to prominence, novel unearths a queer past erased by history)

Michael Arnold, The Savage Isle, Canelo (the epic story of Britain on the cusp of the Roman conquest. 42AD)

Ingeborg Bachmann, trans. Tess Lewis, The Honditsch Cross, New Directions (new translation of novella set during the final days of the Napoleonic occupation of Austria in 1813)

David Baldacci, Strangers in Time, Grand Central (novel set in London in 1944, about a bereaved book shop owner and two teenagers scarred by the second world war)

Anne Berest, Claire Berest, Gabriële, Europa (novel about love and sex, art and revolution, experimentation and creativity, and three young people who changed the world)

Sian Ann Bessey, A Time Traveler’s Masquerade, Shadow Mountain (romance blossoms when Isla Crawford steps into McQuivey’s Costume Shop in London and is swept back in time to 1605)

Nancy Bilyeau, The Versailles Formula, Lume Books (historical thriller in which a woman is invited to a dinner party at a Gothic castle and is drawn into a web of deception, espionage and murder)

Laurent Binet, trans. Sam Taylor, Perspective(s), Farrar, Straus & Giroux (murder mystery set in Renaissance Florence, 1557)

Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women, Harper Muse (a humorous, thought provoking and nostalgic romp through one pivotal American year in the 1960s)

Kate Lord Brown, The Golden Hour, Simon & Schuster UK (dual timeline story which interweaves desert archaeologists, priceless treasures, Nefertiti’s tomb and the cabarets of WW2 Cairo, with restless expats living in Beirut)

Susan Buttenwieser, Junction of Earth and Sky, Manilla Press (unfolds in multiple timelines the enduring bond of grandmother and granddaughter)

Colleen Cambridge, A Fashionably French Murder, Kensington (1950; American expat Tabitha Knight has found a new life in postwar Paris, along with a delightful friend in aspiring chef Julia Child)

Christian Cameron, The Venetian Heretic, Orion (brings to life Renaissance historical events of espionage and murder, while retaining a human story at its heart)

Deborah Challinor, Black Silk and Buried Secrets, HarperCollins AU (novel featuring heroine Tatty Crowe and the world of Sydney’s Victorian funeral business; second installment after Black Silk and Sympathy)

Fliss Chester, Death in an English Village, Bookouture (a family gardener is murdered near a site of legendary buried treasure. Cressida Fawcett, book 7)

Jennifer Chiaverini, The World’s Fair Quilt, William Morrow (celebration of quilting, family, community, and history, featuring a quilt entered in the Sears National Quilt Contest for the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair)

Georgina Clarke, Viper in the Nest, Verve Books (third instalment of the historical mystery series set in 18th century London)

Madeleine Cleary, The Butterfly Women, Affirm Press (weaves romance and mystery into a tale of Australian history)

Aliocha Coll, trans. Katie Whittemore, Attila, Open Letter (Attila the Hun, reimagined as a visionary leader, contemplates the fate of his people at the gates of Rome. First English translation)

Elena Collins, The Cornish Witch, Boldwood (dual timeline historical mystery about secrets, longing and the power of a mother’s love; set in present day and 1625)

Manda Collins, A Wallflower’s Guide to Viscounts and Vice, Grand Central (a wallflower and a rake join together to solve a mystery in this historical rom-com)

Vivian Conroy, Death on the Rhine, One More Chapter (Miss Ashford Investigates, book 5; cosy mystery set in 1930s)

Christina Courtenay, Shadows in the Spring, Headline Review (present day and AD80 timeline with an Iceni tribe member who is home in Britannia with vengeance on his mind)

Joanna Courtney, Salome, Piatkus (feminist retelling of the royal daughter who loved to dance)

Siobhan Curham, The Lost Story of Sofia Castello, Bookouture (mystery in which a writer is tasked with the job of writing the memoir of Sofia Castello – a singer who faked her own death in 1941)

Sandra Dallas, Tough Luck, St. Martin’s (in this homage to True Grit, a young woman makes a perilous journey west in 1863 in search of her gold-mining father)

Sarah Damoff, The Bright Years, Simon & Schuster (told from three points of view over four generations, story tells a tender, true-to-life novel that explores the impact of each generation in a family torn apart by tragedy)

Martina Devlin, Charlotte, The Lilliput Press (a fictional tale of Charlotte Brontë and a story about fiction– who creates it, who lives it, who owns it)

Claire Deya, trans. Adriana Hunter, Blast, Other Press (captures the beginning of a postwar period in which everyone must rebuild their lives and identities, and overcome the obsessions that prevent them from healing)

Helena Dixon, The Seaside Murders, Bookouture (second in the new cosy series The Secret Detective Agency)

Stuart Douglas, Death at the Playhouses, Titan (second novel in the Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries set in the early 1970s featuring two ageing actors attempting to solve a murder after their famous co-star is found dead)

C. F. Dunn, Sun Ascendant, Sapere (book 2 in the Wars of the Roses saga)

Jim Eldridge, Murder at St Paul’s Cathedral, Allison & Busby (Coburg and Lampson work to solve a very puzzling case in May 1941)

Laura Elvery, Nightingale, Univ. of Queensland (a tale of faith and love, bravery and care, and the vitality of women’ s work. Set in London 1910)

Jean Ende, Houses of Detention, Apprentice House/Loyola Univ Press (like many immigrants who flee persecution, when the Rosens escaped the Nazis they thought life in America would be perfect)

Oisin Fagan, Eden’s Shore, John Murray (tale of greed, revenge and love, populated by a cast of revolutionaries and pirates, capitalists and aristocrats, sailors and soldiers, slaves and spies)

Joan Fernandez, Saving Vincent, She Writes (an early twentieth century novel about Jo van Gogh who battled the male-dominated art elite in her fifteen-year crusade to save her genius brother-in-law Vincent from obscurity)

Lily Fielding, A Locket Full of Hope, Penguin (19th-century saga about found family, romance and triumph over adversity)

Betty Firth, A Wartime Wedding in the Dales, Hera (WW2 saga set in the Yorkshire Dales in 1942)

Essie Fox, Dangerous, Orenda Books (historical thriller about Lord Byron, as decadent and dark as the poet himself)

Lynne Francis, The Disgraced Daughter, Piatkus (a heart-warming new saga of love, betrayal and secrets)

Allan Gaw, The Moon’s More Feeble Fire, Polygon (in 1930, Cuthbert and his team find themselves in a world of people-trafficking, prostitution and drug use amongst the upper classes)

Peter Geye, A Lesser Light, Univ. of Minnesota Press (story about industry and calamity, science versus superstition, patriarchy’s corrosive power, and the consequences when these forces collide in the wake of rapid social change)

Danielle Giles, Mere, Mantle (990 AD, deep in the fens; a novel about fear and survival, power and position, and a love that takes hold in the darkest of places)

Jenny Gladwell, The Bookshop Murders, Hodder & Stoughton (murder mystery set in London 1928)

Kelsie Sheridan Gonzalez, The Ones Time Forgot, Alcove Press (Irish mythology collides with Gilded Age New York in this debut enemies-to-lovers historical romantasy set in Manhattan, 1870)

Eric Goodman, Kaveh Zamanian, Mother of Bourbon, Post Hill (biographical fiction story of the most successful and influential woman distiller of Kentucky Bourbon)

Rosie Goodwin, Our Dear Daisy, Zaffre (saga set in Nuneaton, 1880)

Genevieve Graham, On Isabella Street, Simon & Schuster (novel set in Toronto and Vietnam during the turbulent sixties about two women caught up in powerful social movements)

Holly Green, A Call to Home, Hera (historical romance spans Europe during World War Two)

Beth Hahn, The City Beneath Her, Regal House (delivers a tale of suspense in a feminist noir thriller)

Jo Harkin, The Pretender, Knopf/Bloomsbury (the true story of the little-known Lambert Simnel, a figurehead of the 1487 Yorkist rebellion who ended up working as a spy in the court of King Henry VII)

C. S. Harris, Who Will Remember, Berkley (1816; the macabre murder of a prominent nobleman throws an already unsettled London into chaos)

Olivia Hawker, The Stars and Their Light, Lake Union (1947 in Roswell, New Mexico, the mystery of the unknown grips a sheltered novitiate in a novel about fate, agency, and faith)

Elise Hooper, The Library of Lost Dollhouses, William Morrow (about a young librarian who discovers historic dollhouses and embarks on a journey to uncover their hidden secrets in an interwoven narrative set during the early- to mid-twentieth century)

Rebecca Ide, The Gentleman and his Vowsmith, S&S/Saga Press (a roguish young lord, his intended bride, and his former lover race to survive when an arranged marriage goes wrong in this historical fantasy debut)

Michael Jecks, Fields of Glory, Boldwood (first book in the Vintaine series, set in 1346 France, during the one hundred years war)

Sabrina Jeffries, Hazardous to a Duke’s Heart, Kensington (new series in which a lord, detained in France during the Napoleonic war, returns home to find he’s inherited a dukedom)

Morgan Jerkins, Zeal, Harper (multi-generational novel that illuminates the legacy of slavery and the power of romantic love. Dual timeline novel set in 1865 and 2019)

Belinda Jones, The Hotel Where We Met, Quercus (a sweet time travel romance taking readers through the Victorian era to the Roaring Twenties, stopping off in the Fifties and Eighties)

Jenni Keer, The House of Lost Whispers, Boldwood (part romance, part mystery, and part First World War historical fiction)

Venessa Vida Kelley, When the Tides Held the Moon, Erewhon (blend of historical fantasy and romance at the turn of the 20th century; a fairytale of queer identity and found family)

Naomi Kelsey, The Darkening Globe, HarperNorth (1597, London. Beatrice’s husband returns from the New World with a mysterious woman, and an enormous painted globe, which starts to illustrate murder scenes)

Jess Kidd, Murder at Gulls Nest, Atria (1954; first in a cozy mystery series about a former nun who searches for answers in a small seaside town after her pen pal mysteriously disappears)

Karen Lynne Klink, War and Preservation, She Writes (journey through sacrifice, resilience, and love in the heart of the Civil War in Book 2 of The Texian Trilogy)

Joanne Kormylo, The Resistance Daughter, Hodder (novel inspired by true stories of WWII in Poland, 1942)

Richard Kurti, Carnival of Chaos, Sapere (book 4 in the Basilica Diaries Medieval Mysteries)

Ben Ladouceur, I Remember Lights, Book*Hug Press (a reminder of forgotten history and an exploration of the details of queer life)

Deryn Lake, Love Song of the Nightingale, Lume Books (historical time-slip romance)

Ariel Lawhon, The Frozen River, Swift Press (novel inspired by the life of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-century midwife who defied the legal system and wrote herself into history)

Natasha Lester, The Mademoiselle Alliance (US), The Paris Code (UK), Ballantine/Sphere  (brings to life the true story of Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, who led one of the largest and most effective resistance networks in France during World War II)

Jessica Levine, Three Cousins, She Writes (set during the second wave of feminism and the sexual revolution, this coming-of-age novel is about female friendship in the 1970s)

Olesya Lyuzna, Glitter in the Dark, Mysterious Press (the search for a kidnapped singer in Prohibition-era New York leads an intrepid reporter from Harlem speakeasies to the dazzling world of the theater)

Alice G. May, The Resistance Girls, Boldwood (new saga series inspired by the true-life stories of The Women’s Secret Army)

Fiona McIntosh, The Fallen Woman, Storm (a talented botanical artist finds that her greatest strength lies, not in conforming to society’s rules, but in daring to defy them)

Lindz McLeod, The Unlikely Pursuit of Mary Bennet, Carina Adores/Atom (sapphic romance between Charlotte Lucas and Mary Bennet, after the death of Mr. Collins)

Fiza Saeed McLynn, The Midnight Carousel, Michael Joseph/Park Row (a story of grief, obsession, revenge and enduring love set in Paris, 1900 and Chicago, 1920)

Catriona McPherson, The Edinburgh Murders, Hodder & Stoughton (Edinburgh, 1948; welfare officer Helen Crowther investigates just how deep corruption can go)

Joanna Miller, The Eights, Putnam/Fig Tree (follows the unlikely friendship of four women in the first female class at Oxford, and their coming of age in a world forever changed by World War I)

Jennifer Moore, Discovering Dahlia, Covenant (inspirational Victorian romance; Blue Orchid Society, book 5)

Laura Morelli, The Keeper of Lost Art, William Morrow (during World War II, a girl makes a connection with a boy sheltering in her family’s Tuscan villa, where the treasures of the Uffizi Galleries are hidden)

Boyd Morrison, Beth Morrison, The White Fortress, Head of Zeus/Aries (third historical adventure in the Tales of the Lawless Land series, set in 1350s Europe)

Kelly Mustian, The River Knows Your Name, Sourcebooks Landmark (in dual storylines, Nell, in 1971, and Becca, in early 1930s, move toward 1934, the catastrophic year that will forever link them)

John Shen Yen Nee, S. J. Rozan, The Railway Conspiracy, Soho Crime (Judge Dee and Lao She must use all their powers of deduction to take down a sinister conspiracy between Imperial Russia, Japan, and China in 1920s London)

Susan Neuhaus, The Surgeon of Royaumont, HQ Fiction AU (a young Australian woman on the battlefields of World War I finds her calling through her work as a surgeon)

Chris Nickson, No Precious Truth, Severn House (first in a new WWII historical thriller series introduces Sergeant Cathy Marsden – a female police officer working for the Special Investigation Branch in Leeds)

Jenny O’Brien, The Book of Lost Children, Storm (a wartime nurse risks everything to protect mothers and babies in Nazi-occupied Guernsey)

Maureen Paton, The Mystery at Rake Hall, Swift Press (first in a new historical crime series in which C.S. Lewis finds himself an unlikely detective)

Sarah Penner, The Amalfi Curse, Park Row/Legend Press (dual timeline tale in which a nautical archaeologist searching for sunken treasure unearths a centuries-old curse and powerful witchcraft)

Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Happy Land, Berkley (multi-generational novel about the stories that shape us and the courage it takes to dream)

Jean-Yves Pitoun, The Three Partisans, Union Square (saga of three World War II freedom fighters and their perseverance in the face of overwhelming odds)

Joanna Davidson Politano, The Curious Inheritance of Blakely House, Revell (in 1901, clockmaker Sydney Forrester inherits the estate of a mysterious industrialist, the estranged uncle she never met)

MJ Porter, Men of Iron, Boldwood (first book in a new Dark-Age Adventure series)

Weina Dai Randel, The Master Jeweler, Lake Union (story of a young woman’s dangerous rise to fame in the perilous world of jewelry in 1920s Shanghai)

Pamela Reitman, Charlotte Salomon Paints Her Life, Sibylline Press (novel inspired by the life and work of a young German-Jewish art student at The Berlin Fine Arts Academy during Hitler’s rise to power)

Paul Remmers, Island Intern, Stoney Creek Publishing (in early summer 1900, in the wake of a devastating storm, a young doctor struggles to save lives while searching for the love of his life)

Rachel Rueckert, The Determined, Kensington (set during the Golden Age of Pirates, based on the real experiences of Anne Bonny and Mary Read, who dared to subvert the rules and roles assigned to women of their time)

Toby Schmitz, The Empress Murders, Allen & Unwin (novel that is both a witty whodunnit and a look at the excesses of the British Empire in its decline)

Bailey Seybolt, Coram House, Atria (haunting novel about a crime writer who risks everything as she investigates the mystery of two deaths, decades apart, at a crumbling Vermont orphanage)

April J. Skelly, A Lethal Engagement, Crooked Lane (1890; an airship bound for London is thrown off course by a murder on the first night of its transatlantic voyage in this locked-room historical mystery debut)

Fiona Veitch Smith, The Penford Manor Murders, Embla Books (The Miss Clara Vale Mysteries Book 4, set in the Golden Age)

Lauraine Snelling, Kiersti Giron, Land of Dreams, Bethany House (Norwegian immigrant Amalia Gunderson and her ward, Ruth Forsberg, arrive in Iowa to claim the boarding house Ruth has inherited)

Andrés Felipe Solano, trans. Will Vanderhyden, Gloria, Counterpoint (centered around a historic concert at Madison Square Garden, novel spans two continents and five decades as it charts the lives of a mother and son in NYC)

Burhan Sönmez, trans. Sami Hêzil, Lovers of Franz K., Other Press (tribute to Kafka in a key period of history in the 1960s, when the Berlin Wall divided Europe, and women were fighting for freedom)

Shaina Steinberg, An Unquiet Peace, Kensington (novel following Paper Moon takes place in October 1948 around the Berlin Airlift)

Elaine Stock, The Last Secret Kept, Black Rose (set against the backdrop of the construction of the Berlin Wall, novel explores the beauty of individualism)

Emily Sullivan, A Death on Corfu, Kensington (murder mystery at the turn of the 20th century, where widow Minnie Harper struggles to find her place in a swiftly changing world)

Judy Summers, An Orphan’s Dream, Mountain Leopard (Liverpool, 1864; when Jemima Jenkins’s Pa passes away, she is thrown out of her lodgings and dismissed from her job as a schoolmistress)

Karen Swan, The Midnight Secret, Macmillan (last in The Wilde Isle series set on a remote Scottish island amidst the glamour and intrigues of high society in the 1930s)

Nadia Terranova, trans. Ann Goldstein, The Night Trembles, Seven Stories (two stories converge in the aftermath of the devastating 1908 earthquake in Sicily and Calabria)

Mark Thielman, The Devil’s Kitchen, Severn River (a blend of historical fiction and suspense that challenges the boundaries between past and present)

Will Thomas, Season of Death, Minotaur (in late Victorian England, private enquiry agents Cyrus Barker and Thomas Llewelyn find themselves in the middle of the chaos when forces align to take over London’s criminal underworld)

Mae Thorn, Without Words, Wild Rose Press (romance in which a woman gains the ability to detect witches and inadvertently falls for a witch)

Milo Todd, The Lilac People, Counterpoint (story about a trans man who must relinquish the freedoms of prewar Berlin to survive first the Nazis then the Allies)

C. W. Towarnicki, Notes From a Deserter, HTF Publishing (a Civil War farmer’s odyssey from battle to desertion ends in tragedy, revealing the era’s tumultuous spirit through a series of vignettes)

Jennifer Uhlarik, Love and Order, Barbour (separated as children adopted out to different families, the Braddock siblings have each grown up and taken on various jobs within law enforcement and criminal justice)

Nghi Vo, Don’t Sleep With the Dead, Tordotcom (a reinvention of The Great Gatsby with Nick Carraway, on the eve of WWII)

Shirley Russak Wachtel, The Baker of Lost Memories, Little A (novel spanning decades about the broken bonds of family, memories of war, and redemption and hope)

Tasma Walton, I Am Nannertgarrook, S&S Bundyi (based on the story of the author’s ancestor, novel asks us to consider who, in colonial history, were the real savages, and what it means to be civilised)

Ursula Werner, Magda Revealed, She Writes (fictionalized account of Jesus’ life and ministry—told from the perspective of disciple Mary Magdalene)

Rita Woods, The Edge of Yesterday, Forge (a principal dancer with a renowned Harlem company stumbles through a vortex, a portal through time that transports her back 100 years to 1925 Detroit)

Jaime Jo Wright, Tempest at Annabel’s Lighthouse, Bethany House (dual timeline novel in which Beth washes ashore on Lake Superior with no memory, and is mistaken for the ghost of a local fisherman’s late wife)

Yu Hua, trans. Todd Foley, City of Fiction, Europa Editions (story of love, blood and dreams, set in early 20th century China)

May 2025

Alina Adams, Go On Pretending, HTF Publishing (three generations of women battle against the tides of history, from segregated 1950s America to the fall of the USSR)

Jenny Adams, A Poisonous Silence, Crooked Lane (a film star is poisoned in Prohibition-era Philadelphia in the second Deadly Twenties mystery)

Isabel Allende, My Name is Emilia del Valle, Ballantine (1890s; a young writer journeys to South America to uncover the truth about her father—and herself)

Merryn Allingham, The Venice Murders, Bookouture (book 11 of cosy mystery series when amateur detective and bookshop owner Flora Steele, and husband Jack Carrington, end up on a ‘murderous’ honeymoon in 1959)

Cynthia Anderson, The Pilot’s Wife, Embla (a dual timeline WWII novel set in 1944 and 2015)

Kelley Armstrong, Death at a Highland Wedding, Minotaur (fourth installment of the Rip Through Time series with time-traveler Detective Mallory Atkinson)

Lelita Baldock, The Keeper of Lost Art, Storm (a tale of love, sacrifice, and the power of art in the darkest of times)

Martha Bátiz, A Daughter’s Place, House of Anansi Press (Madrid, 1599; romance inspired by the real-life daughter of Miguel de Cervantes)

Susanna Bavin, A Wedding for the Home Front Girls, Bookouture (historical saga set during WWII in Manchester, 1941)

Alfonz Bednár, trans. David Short, Rajendra A. Chitnis, The Hours and the Minutes, Karolinum Press/Charles Univ, (an engaging critique of communism in the 1950s, debunking the founding myths of a modern Slovakia)

Gaëlle Bélem, trans. Hildegarde Serle, The Rarest Fruit, Europa Editions (set in 19th-century La Réunion, novel follows a Creole boy born into slavery, whose talent for botany leads him to revolutionize the vanilla industry)

Ginny Bell, The Dover Café on Trial, Zaffre (fifth book in WWII historical fiction saga series)

Tom Bentley-Fisher, The Boy Who Was Saved by Jazz, NeWest Press (a coming-of-age story and meditation on belonging)

Millicent Binks, A Most Parisian Murder, Bookouture (step into the glittery world of Paris in this Golden Age whodunnit full of intrigue, mystery and murder)

Neil Blackmore, Objects of Desire, Hutchinson Heinemann (traverses the 20th century with a glimpse into the lives of the cultural elite, and a story of betrayal, deceit, and literary fraud)

Barbara Tifft Blakey, The Angel of Second Street, Barbour (inspirational romance set in Eureka, California, 1885)

Talhi Briones, Mrs. Victoria Buys a Brothel, Renaissance Press (set in the US in 1865, this is a story about women who age, gossip, drink, love, and help you hide the body of your dead husband)

Jesse Browner, Sing to Me, Little, Brown (after the fall of Troy, an eleven-year-old boy sets off for the razed city when his father and sister fail to return home)

Katherine Bryant, Give My Love to Berlin, Walrus Publishing/Amphorae (Berlin, 1927; novel follows the lives of two gay couples trying to navigate falling in love and thriving in their community)

Rachel Burton, The House at River’s Edge, Boldwood (dual timeline love stories set in 1914 and 1997)

Ciar Byrne, A Lethal Cocktail, Headline Accent (a novel of three ex-husbands; two ex-wives; one murder; and a wedding that’s the talk of the town)

Lila Cain, The Blackbirds of St Giles, Dafina (1782 London; Daniel & his sister Pearl escape a sugar plantation and arrive in London where they are callously tricked into the underworld labyrinth of the rookeries of St Giles)

Joy Callaway, The Star of Camp Greene, Harper Muse (1918; WWI romance about a Broadway star forced to stay at Charlotte, NC’s Camp Greene for the duration of the war, after she overhears secret information. Inspired by the woman who initiated the USO)

Linda Chavez, The Silver Candlesticks, Wicked Son (a novel of the Spanish Inquisition)

Inger Christensen, trans. Denise Newman, The Painted Room, New Directions (three-part novella about the Italian Renaissance and the intrigue surrounding the frescoes made on the walls of a famous bridal chamber in the ducal palace of Lodovico III Gonzaga)

Barry Michael Cole, One Hundred Pearls, Livingston Press at Univ. of W. Alabama (mythical slave Sadie’s story embodies the lived experience of a silent multitude and chastises any attempt to rewrite the bloody history of American Slavery)

Jody Cooksley, The Surgeon’s House, Allison & Busby (sequel to The Small Museum, Maddie’s sister, Rebecca, is forced to question the stability of the life she has created)

J. C. Corry, The Storyteller’s War, Black Rose Writing (a tale of intrigue, loyalty, and love in medieval Europe)

Emma Cowing, The Show Woman, Hodder & Stoughton (set in the Edwardian era, novel about the first all female circus act)

Katherine Scott Crawford, The Miniaturist’s Assistant, Regal House (an art conservator discovers a familiar face in a 200-year-old miniature portrait and must reconcile her past with that of the men she loves across two different lifetimes)

Jiu Da, The Winding Dirt Road, Historium Press (an antithesis to propaganda written by both Chinese and foreign writers in 20th century, gives insight into how human docile nature and characteristics are manipulated, bringing about cultural and social corrosion)

Anjet Daanje, trans. David McKay, The Remembered Soldier, New Vessel Press/Scribe UK (a love story and a novel about the power of memory and imagination, set in Flanders 1922)

Oliver Darkshire, Isabella Nagg and the Pot of Basil, W. W. Norton (debut reimagines a heroine of Boccaccio’s Decameron in a world of talking plants, walking corpses, sentient animals, and shape-shifting sorcerers)

Edward J. Delaney, Hard Margins, Turtle Point Press (in the search for justice for a road accident in 1958, an agent of the Bureau of Indian Affairs finds a report from the post Civil War era)

David Demchuk, Corinne Leigh Clark, The Butcher’s Daughter, Hell’s Hundred (literary thriller that draws from historical sources and shines new light on Mrs. Lovett, the woman behind the counter of the most disreputable pie shop ever known)

Cécile Desprairies, trans. Natasha Lehrer, The Propagandist, Swift Press (novel gives rare insight into a French female proponent of fascist ideology during WWII)

Helena Dixon, Murder at the English Manor, Bookouture (next installment of the 1930s era Miss Kitty Underhay Mysteries)

David Donachie, Tested by Fate, McBooks (the toll of war, both physical and emotional, becomes a poignant part of Nelson’s journey as he battles not only his enemies but also his own inner demons)

Frederic S. Durbin, The Country Under Heaven, Melville House (1880s, post Civil War; western about a former Civil War soldier following enigmatic visions that started coming to him after he survived one of the war’s bloodiest battles)

Marjorie Eccles, A Fatal Necessity, Severn House (historical mystery sharply conveys British society and politics of the interwar period of the 1930s)

Sarah M. Eden, The Best-Kept Secrets, Covenant (inspirational romance; The Huntresses, Book 3)

Jessie Elland, The Ladie Upstairs, Baskerville (a dark and twisted tale of ambition and desire featuring a scullery drudge who longs to become a lady’s maid)

Mark Ellis, Death of an Officer, Headline Accent (historical noir set against the London Blitz in 1941)

May Ellis, New Hope for the Clarks Factory Girls, Boldwood (1917: as the war reaches its final moments, the families of the Somerset village of Street take comfort in new arrivals amongst them as they navigate a changing world)

Stephen G. Eoannou, After Pearl, Santa Fe Writer’s Project (a wartime murder mystery and one man’ s struggle with reclaiming his life and sobriety while investigating a dirty politician)

Rob Espenscheid, The Rise of the Mad March, Stoney Creek Publishing (a tribute to 1973 bar bands, musical dreamers, and the offbeat ambition of a band who never made it to the big time)

Elaine Everest, New Horizons for the Woolworths Girls, Pan (a story of hope and change in the final novel in series)

Patricia Falvey, The Famine Orphans, Kensington (based on the little-known story of the thousands of young women sent from Irish workhouses to Australia after the Famine)

Rickey Fayne, The Devil Three Times, Little, Brown/Fleet (debut spanning eight generations of a Black family in West Tennessee as they are repeatedly visited by the Devil)

Melora Fern, Whistling Women and Crowing Hens, Sibylline Press (the tumultuous 1920s, a modern era of flappers and smuggled whiskey is experienced through a woman in a traveling roadshow)

Carolina Flórez-Cerchiaro, Bochica, Atria/Primero Sueno Press (1923 Colombia; debut gothic horror in which a young aristocrat is desperate to escape her past)

Amanda Flower, Not They Who Soar, Kensington (sister of the famous flying Wright Brothers, Katharine Wright, investigates an unsettling death at the 1904 World’s Fair)

Jack Ford, Beyond This Place of Wrath and Tears, Kensington (dual timeline novel of Lee Carson, the heroic yet elusive female journalist who defied convention and danger to report from the front lines of WWII)

Kate Foster, The Mourning Necklace, Mantle UK (centres on a woman from 18th-century Edinburgh who survived her own execution)

Helen Fripp, The Emerald Twins, Bookouture (dual timeline novel set in France 1944 and present day)

Ann H. Gabhart, The Pursuit of Elena Bradford, Revell (when her father dies, leaving the family in debt, Elena’s mother packs the family up to go to in search of a rich husband for Elena)

Kathy George, Estella, HQ Fiction AU (the icily enigmatic anti-hero of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations tells her own story … and changes the ending in this feminist take on the classic)

Julia Golding, The Wordsworth Key, One More Chapter (in 1812, Jacob Sandys and Dora Fitz-Pennington, find themselves drawn into the scandals once more when William Wordsworth’s prized notebook of unpublished poems goes missing)

Alison Goodman, The Ladies Road Guide to Utter Ruin, Berkley (in Regency England, the eccentric Colebrook sisters are amateur detectives who use their wits and invisibility as “old maids” to fight injustice)

Alan Govenar, Come Round Right, Deep Vellum (novel set during a pivotal moment in American history, when the Vietnam War was raging, and the idealism of the 1960s was losing ground to frustration, anger, and violence)

Donna Gowland, The Missing Wife, Sapere (a young aspiring writer finds romance and mystery in Paris)

Sara Hailstone, Wretched, Running Wild Press (amongst a handful of letters from a Jewish man in an internment camp in Belgium, Nelle strives to tell the story of a secret love, a man’ s escape and death in Auschwitz, to her unborn daughter)

J. C. Harvey, The Wanton Road, Allen & Unwin (final instalment in the Jack Fiskardo trilogy sees Jack return to a London filled with bitter rivalries and deadly secrets)

Natasha J. Hastings, How to Charm a Viscount, Magpie (romantasy in which the Season could end with charmed suitors waiting at the altar, or scandalous magical mischief afoot)

Jody Hedlund, A Wager with the Matchmaker, Bethany House (book three in the Shanahan Match series)

Joanna Hickson, The House of Seymour, HarperCollins (as John Seymour’s ambition rises in Tudor England, his wife, Isabel, realises her husband will pay any price to get what he wants)

Grace Hitchcock, To Kiss a Knight, Kregel (desperation leads to questionable choices in this humorous inspirational Regency romance)

Jenny Holiday, Manic Pixie Dream Earl, Kensington (Regency romance follow up to Earl’s Trip, focusing on the goth, Effie)

James Holland, Alvesdon, Atlantic Monthly (stretching from the summer of 1939 to the Battle of Britain, this is a fictional portrait of how the war changed everything for one family and their community)

Gill Hornby, The Elopement, Century (1820; Mary Knatchbull lives under the sole charge of her father, but when he marries Fanny Knight of Godmersham Park, Mary’s life changes)

Christopher Huang, A Pretender’s Murder, Inkshares (second Eric Peterkin mystery set in 1920s aftermath of the Great War)

Eva Ibbotson, The Secret Countess, Picador (romantic adventure where, after revolution tears her country apart, a young Russian countess is forced to flee Saint Petersburg for rural England)

Conn Iggulden, Tyrant, Pegasus (second novel in trilogy finds newly-crowned Emperor Nero fending off court rivals while embracing his fate as the most feared, notorious ruler in Roman history)

Lee Jackson, Storming the Reich, Severn River (the eighth installment in the After Dunkirk series)

Anna Jacobs, The Secrets of Eastby End, Hodder & Stoughton (Rachel and Joss are married and keen to continue the hard work to rebuild Eastby End in this continuation of the Eastby End Saga series)

Nicole Jarvis, A Spell for Change, Titan (historical fantasy set in post WWI Appalachia)

Lola Jaye, The Manual for Good Wives, Macmillan UK (dual narrative historical novel about love, generational trauma, second chances and hope)

Natalie Jenner, Austen at Sea, St. Martin’s (1865; two pairs of siblings, devotees of Jane Austen, find their lives transformed by a visit to England to Francis Austen, keeper of her memories)

Martha Jean Johnson, The Queen’s Musician, SparkPress (an untold story about how the plot against Anne Boleyn entrapped a gifted young musician named Mark Smeaton)

Luisa A. Jones, What We Left Behind, Storm (a story of love forged in wartime)

Eleanor Joslin, Measure of Devotion, Regal House (October 1863; explores themes of sacrifice, resilience, and the impacts of war on family bonds, and one woman’s fight for survival in a time of unprecedented turmoil)

Ben Kane, Rome, Orion (Rome, 410 AD; story of a little-known Galla Placidia whose ambition saw her, against all odds, become empress of Rome)

Amy S. Kaufman, The Traitor of Sherwood Forest, Penguin (historical reimagining of the Robin Hood ballads, told through the eyes of one of his spies)

Guy Gavriel Kay, Written on the Dark, Ace/Berkley/Hodderscape (a novel of love and war that evokes the drama and turbulence of medieval France)

Daniel Kehlmann, trans. Ross Benjamin, The Director, S&S-Summit/riverrun (tale inspired by the life of film director G.W. Pabst, who fled to Hollywood to resist the Nazis only to be forced to return to his homeland and create propaganda films for the German Reich)

Martha Hall Kelly, The Martha’s Vineyard Beach and Book Club, Ballantine (two sisters living on Martha’s Vineyard during World War II find hope in the power of storytelling when they start a wartime book club for women)

Suzanne Kelman, The Paris Promise, Bookouture (third novel in The Paris Sisters series tells the story of the power of a mother’s love during WWII)

T. E. Kinsey, The Beast of Littleton Cotterell, Thomas & Mercer (in 1912, Lady Hardcastle and her fearless lady’s maid, set out to find a rational explanation for some gruesome deaths)

Jane Kirkpatrick, Across the Crying Sands, Revell (inspired by a true story of the first female mail carrier to traverse the cliff-hugging mountain trails of Oregon and discovers that a life without risk is no life at all)

Christina Koning, Murder in Oxford, Allison & Busby (a cat and mouse murder game in Oxford, 1942)

Andrey Kurkov, trans. Boris Dralyuk, The Stolen Heart, HarperVia/MacLehose (second installment of the Kyiv Mysteries after The Silver Bone)

Dawn Reno Langley, The Mystic, Black Rose Writing (exploration of remorse, responsibility, and the power of human connection set in 1950s Massachusetts)

John Lawton, Smoke and Embers, Atlantic Monthly/Grove UK (ninth installment opens in 1950, when Chief Inspector Troy learns that his sergeant has been conducting an affair with the mistress of a London racketeer)

Adam Lofthouse, Outlaw: Nemesis of Rome, Boldwood (second installment of the Enemy of the Empire series)

Jane Loftus, The Herb Knot, HQ Digital (novel set during the Hundred Years War, about a young boy whose mother is murdered after Battle of Crecy in 1346)

Lisa Lucas and Steve Landsberg, Ping, Historium Press (alternates between the 1970’s Ping Pong diplomacy between the U.S. and China, and the present-day struggles of a multi-generational family)

Nev March, The Silversmith’s Puzzle, Minotaur (Captain Jim Agnihotri and Lady Diana Framji return to India as they investigate a murder amidst colonial Bombay’s complex hierarchy)

Scott Mariani, The Pilgrim’s Revenge, Hodder & Stoughton (first in new revenge epic thriller set in 1190)

Annabelle Marx, The Rebel of Seventh Avenue, Storm (in early 20th Century New York a woman is determined to fashion not just beautiful clothes, but her own place in a man’s world)

Mimi Matthews, Rules for Ruin, Berkley (romance about an academy with a secretive aim—train young women to distract, disrupt, and discredit the patriarchy)

Patrick McCabe, Goldengrove, Unbound (dark satire about a theatrical agency acting as a front for British counter-terrorism in 1960s Dublin)

Michael McGarrity, Night in the City, W. W. Norton (crime fiction set in New York City in the mid-1950s)

Kristina McMorris, The Girls of Good Fortune, Sourcebooks Landmark (Portland, 1888; novel explores the complexity of family and identity, and the importance of stories that echo through generations)

Jonathan Meades, Empty Wigs, Unbound (a hallucinatory literary ride through the twentieth century)

Gabrielle Meyer, Every Hour Until Then, Bethany House (a time-crosser tale of intrigue, loyalty, and romance–threaded with suspense and decisions that could change history)

Mary Alice Monroe, Where the Rivers Merge, William Morrow (first of two novels celebrating one intrepid woman’s life across multiple generations in the American South. Dual timeline set in 1908 and 1988)

Jacob McArthur Mooney, The Northern, ECW Press (a novel concerned with sports, labor, growing up, and God, set in Ontario in the early 1950s)

Christopher Moore, Anima Rising, William Morrow (tale of a mad scientist, a famous painter, and an undead woman’s journey of self-discovery, set in Vienna, 1911)

Sarah Moss, Ripeness, Picador (story that moves from 1960s Italy to contemporary Ireland)

Alice Murphy, A Showgirl’s Rules for Falling in Love, Union Square (romance between a vaudeville star and a showbiz tycoon who find love at the turn of the twentieth century)

Pat Murphy, The Adventures of Mary Darling, Tachyon (Victorian-era fantasy adventure featuring well-known literary characters)

Amita Murray, An Unladylike Secret, Avon (final installment of the Marleigh Sisters series)

Gosia Nealon, The German Next Door, Bookouture (story of a mother hiding a Jewish doctor’s family during WWII)

Frank Nissen, Fortune’s Price, Black Rose Writing (book two in A Gold Rush Odyssey series after Fortune’s Call)

Brionni Nwosu, The Wonderous Life and Loves of Nella Carter, Hodderscape (an enslaved woman makes a bargain with Death whereby she can travel and document every place from the Victorian age to Gilded Age New York)

Scott O’Neill, The Witch, the Seed and the Scalpel, McNidder and Grace (Edinburgh, 1841; story follows the battle between botanist Joseph Ware and one of Scotland’s last witches, against a sinister order of surgeons)

MJ Pankey, Oracle of Helinthia, Muse and Quill (book two of Greek myth of warring gods and the mortals who must find a way to end the conflict before it destroys their world)

Mollie Panter-Downes, One Fine Day, Virago (together again in 1946, after years of separation by war, Laura and Stephen Marshall must find their way in an altered, shabbier world)

David Park, Ghost Wedding, Oneworld (novel follows two troubled men, separated by nearly a century and bound by the ghosts of their past)

S. J. Parris, Traitor’s Legacy, Hemlock Press (when a young heiress is found murdered at the theatre, the Queen’s spymaster Robert Cecil calls upon former agent Sophia de Wolfe to investigate)

Owen Pataki, Smoke in the Cypress, Permuted Press (a veteran of the Napoleonic Wars travels from France to Louisiana to rescue a young French noblewoman, but is quickly ensnared in a complex web of intrigue and violence)

Kristin Perrin, How to Seal Your Own Fate, Dutton (second novel in the Castle Knoll series, where Annie Adams is caught in a new web of murder that spans decades)

Tracie Peterson, Kimberley Woodhouse, An Unexpected Grace, Bethany House (journey to Kalispell, Montana, in an inspirational romance on a trail to navigate lost love, second chances, and redemptive grace)

Oliver Pötzsch, trans. Lisa Reinhardt, The Gravedigger’s Almanac, HarperVia (first volume in a new mystery series which introduces a gravedigger and young inspector who must stop a serial killer in fin de siecle Vienna)

Barbara Pronin, Winter’s End, Black Rose Writing (traces a journey of resistance, from the streets of Nazi-occupied Holland to a finale seventy years later)

D. C. Rivera, Campfires, Running Wild (a tug-of-war romance set in 1969 which exposes a web of violence, dark secrets, and betrayal)

Rebecca Rosenberg, Silver Echoes, Lion Heart (a Roaring Twenties Gold Digger dual-timeline novel weaves a tale of resilience and the enduring bond between mother and daughter)

W. A. Schwartz, Fabulous Beasts, Black Rose Writing (inspired by the life of Sylvia Plath, a story which tackles the complexities of art, abuse, mental illness in early 1960s London)

Cat Scully, Below the Grand Hotel, CLASH books (1920s gothic horror in which a wannabe Ziegfeld girl is granted her wish to be famous)

Natasha Solomons, Cleopatra, Manilla Press (told from the perspectives of Cleopatra and Caesar’s mistress Servilia, novel draws out the real woman behind the great legend)

Suzanne Stauffer, Fried Chicken Castañeda, Artemesia Publishing (a young woman finds bootleggers, murder, romance, and gourmet dining at the Castañ eda Hotel in Las Vegas, New Mexico)

Danielle Steel, A Mind of Her Own, Delacorte (historical drama about a young woman’s fight to chart her own destiny, challenging norms for women of the time)

Keith Stuart, Love is a Curse, Sphere (a woman uncovers the tangled history of her ancestors as she sifts through diaries, letters, and paintings)

Mary Ellen Taylor, After Paris, Montlake (tale of hope that intertwines the lives of three women who fight for survival in 1940s France and present-day Virginia)

Danielle Teller, Forged, Pegasus (novel set in the Gilded Age, exposes the dark heart of the American dream)

Madeleine Thien, The Book of Records, W. W. Norton/Granta/Knopf Canada (explores the role of fate in history, the migratory nature of humanity, our search for home, and the place of faith and humanity in our world)

Annabelle Thorpe, The Moonlit Piazza, Head of Zeus/Aria (WWII; as the Nazis tighten their grip on power, family-run Casa Maria is now under Nazi control, to the fury of matriarch Elena Capaldi)

Simon Tolkien, The Palace at the End of the Sea, Lake Union (NYC, 1923; a young man comes of age and crosses continents in search of himself and a cause)

Martha Anne Toll, Duet for One, Regal House (weaves a narrative of loss, connection, and the hope that love can be found where life resides)

Lydia Travers, Death at the Highland Loch, Bookouture (new historical cosy whodunnit series featuring Lady Poppy Proudfoot, Scotland 1924)

Jen Turano, A Lesson in Propriety, Bethany House (first in a new series presents a tale of laugh-out-loud adventure, romance, and mischief in the Gilded Age)

S. J. A. Turney, Kings of Stone and Ice, Canelo (Wolves of Odin Viking adventure book 6)

Blair Underwood, Joe McClean, Sins of Survivors, Amistad (crime family saga set in the Black Bottom neighborhood of Detroit in the dark and dangerous days of the 1930s)

Isabelle Valeri, Letters From the Dead, Atria/Emily Bestler Books (debut novel set in a world of old money, privilege, and family intrigue, as a young heiress returns home from a decade-long exile to face powerful enemies)

Alex Vede, Yucatan 1512, Dark Horse Comics (Spanish soldiers enter the Yucatan seeking a legendary city of gold)

Aurora Venturini, trans. Kit Maude, We, the Casertas, Soft Skull (a novel about the horrors of family life and the loneliness of womanhood in mid-20^th-century)

Michelle Vernal, The Dressmaker’s War, Bookouture (book 3 in the Brides of Bold Street series)
Also: The Dressmaker’s Chance, Bookouture (fourth book in the Brides of Bold Street series)

J. A. Wainwright, The Blind Viper, Mosaic Press (set on a secluded Greek island in the shadows of the Spanish Civil War, story follows Leo Dalca, a blind painter whose artistry transcends sight)

Anneka R. Walker, The Rules of Matrimony, Shadow Mountain (an unexpected marriage and a love worth fighting for in London, England, 1823)

Betty Walker, Brighter Days for the Cornish Girls, Avon (new instalment in the Cornish Girls saga series set in Cornwall, 1947)

Susan Wands, Emperor and Hierophant, SparkPress (book 3 of Arcana Oracle series finds Pamela Smith having to protect her tarot deck from Aleister Crowley once again)

Paul Wedel, Yuangrat Wedel, Dark Karma, River Books Press (book two of the Beads on a String trilogy immerses readers in the cultural and personal conflicts of exotic southern Siam a century ago)

Alison Weir, The Cardinal, Headline Review/Ballantine (in the Tudor court, readers bear witness to the rise and fall of Cardinal Wolsey)

Tim Welsh, Ley Lines, Guernica (novel set in the waning days of the Klondike Gold Rush)

Raymond Wemmlinger, The Queen’s Cousin, Sapere (biographical historical novel of Anne of Denmark, wife of King James and Queen of Scotland during the Tudor era)
Also: The Queen’s Daughters, Sapere (part four of the Tudor Royals series- coming in August 2025)

David Whitfield, The Unravelling of Mary Reddish, Legend Press (inspired by real events that took place at England’s first publicly funded asylum in Nottingham)

Glenda Young, Secrets of the Toffee Factory Girls, Headline (as the Great War rages, Jack’s toffee factory in the market town of Chester-le-Street, Durham, is threatened with closure when sugar rations begin)

Eiji Yoshikawa, trans. Alexander Bennett, Musashi: Earth, Fire and Water, Tuttle Publishing (novel set in Japan, 1600, interweaving themes of unrequited love, misguided revenge, filial piety and dedication to the Way of the Samurai. New unabridged trilogy translation)
Musashi: Wind and Void
Musashi: Sun, Moon and Perfect Clarity

Yudori, Raging Clouds, Fantagraphics (in 16th-century Netherlands, a proper Dutchwoman and her husband’s slave mistress collaborate on a scientific discovery that could free them from the bounds of patriarchal society)

June 2025

Sophie Austin, The Lamplighter’s Bookshop, HarperCollins (set in an old bookshop full of literary treasures combined with an enemies-to-lovers romance)

D. R. Bailey, The Fire Maidens, Sapere (third military war-time adventure novel in the Secret Sirens Aviation Thrillers Series)

Laney Katz Becker, In the Family Way, Harper (set in the 1960s before Roe, novel about the friendship between a group of suburban housewives who help one another navigate through their personal challenges, marriages, and pregnancies)

Vicki Beeby, High Hopes for the Bomber Girls, Canelo (finale to the WWII series Bomber Command Girls)

Charles Belfoure, The German Cotton Picker, Severn House (1943; a novel of one man’s life-changing journey as he overcomes his deeply embedded prejudices)

Anya Bergman, The Tarot Reader of Versailles, Manilla Press (in the early days of the French Revolution, two women with powers share a connection)

Ben Bergonzi, A Cruel Corpse, Holand Press (1747; a novel of murder and secrets, inspired by real-life female soldiers who served in the military in the 18th century)

Erin Bledsoe, Mob Queen, Blackstone (set in the 1930s, story follows one woman’s rapid rise through the Mafia as she searches for the truth about what happened to her friend)

Amanda Block, The Haunting of Hero’s Bay, Hodder & Stoughton (dual timeline mystery set in Crescombe, North Devon in 1840 and present day)

Amy Bloom, I’ll Be Right Here, Random House/Granta (multigenerational novel about an unconventional family which embraces the complexity of humanity and the lawlessness of love)

Dennis E. Bolen, Amaranthine Chevrolet, Rare Machines (a teenage boy’s uncanny road trip across a radically changing Canada in 1967)

Jerry Borrowman, Flames of Anarchy, Shadow Mountain (in 1908 America, a storm of anarchy threatens the nation, leading to a tale of betrayal, fear, and the birth of the FBI)

Franck Bouysse, trans. Lara Vergnaud, Clay, Other Press (tensions boil over in a rural mountain community whose able-bodied men have left to fight in World War I)

Verity Bright, Death at a Paris Hotel, Bookouture (golden age cozy mystery set in Paris)

Fern Britton, A Cornish Legacy, HarperCollins (story about fresh starts and finding home in the most unlikely places)

Serena Burdick, A Promise to Arlette, Atria (historical novel following a married couple whose idyllic 1950s suburban life is threatened by the promises they made during World War II)

James Lee Burke, Don’t Forget Me, Little Bessie, Atlantic Monthly (story set in early 20^th-century of a young girl who fights against potentially overwhelming forces)

Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, trans. Robin Myers, We Are Green and Trembling, New Directions (a queer baroque satire which forms a searing criticism of conquest and colonialism, religious tyranny, and the treatment of women and indigenous people)

Francesca Capaldi, Stormy Skies at the Beach Hotel, Hera (a WWI saga continuation in series)

Jack Carr, Cry Havoc, Atria/Emily Bestler (thriller set in 1968, which may make you question all you thought you knew about Vietnam)

Paco Cerdà, trans. Kevin Gerry Dunn, The Pawn, Deep Vellum (examines the geopolitical anxieties of the world in the 1960s during the Cold War)

Kerry Chaput, Wild as the Stars, Black Rose Writing (mother-daughter saga brings Seattle’s roaring twenties to life with magical realism)

Carryl Church, Secrets of the Ambrose Café, Joffe/Choc Lit (1925; courage, forbidden love, secrets and consequnces abound in this between wars tale)

Heather Clark, The Scrapbook, Pantheon/Jonathan Cape (debut novel of a first-love story, haunted by history and family memory, inspired by the WWII scrapbook of the author’s grandfather)

Rosie Clarke, Troubled Times at Harpers, Boldwood (London 1929; new installment of the Welcome to Harpers Emporium series)

Mary Connealy, Legends of Gold, Bethany House (Tilda Muirhead’s life takes an unexpected twist when she takes a position teaching at an orphanage following her cross-country pursuit of two brothers obsessed with a treasure map)

R. M. Cullen, Death’s Long Shadow, Sapere (murder mystery set in 18th century England where two seemingly unconnected murders might be linked. Richard Brinsley Sheridan series book 2)

Carolyn Dasher, American Sky, Lake Union (three generations of women navigate life on their terms in a novel about love and war, family secrets, and mothers and daughters finding the freedom to fly)

Sam Davey, The Chosen Queen, Diversion Books (Igraine, destined mother of King Arthur, takes center stage in a feminist retelling of Camelot)

Dennard Dayle, How to Dodge a Cannonball, Henry Holt (caricature of the American Civil War, told through the story of a white teenager who joins an all-Black regiment of soldiers)

Tatiana de Rosnay, Blonde Dust, Grand Central (American West, 1960; redemptive novel about the unexpected friendship between Marilyn Monroe and a young maid)

Dee DeTarsio, Suellen, Histria (post Civil-War romance set in the Antebellum South)

Christina Dodd, Thus With a Kiss I Die, John Scognamiglio (the irreverent eldest daughter of the not-so-ill-fated Romeo and Juliet returns to sleuth another day in fair Verona)

Paul Doherty, Immortal Murder, Headline (January 1313; as London is gripped by a freezing winter, Sir Hugh Corbett becomes embroiled in a ghoulish game of kings. Book 25 in series)

Tsering Dondrup, trans. Christopher Peacock, The Red Wind Howls, Columbia Univ. Press (portrayal of Tibetan suffering under Mao delves into forbidden history spanning the famine of the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, and the 1958 Amdo rebellion)

Rachel Louise Driscoll, The House of Two Sisters (US) / Nephthys (UK), Ballantine (US)/Harvill Secker UK (1887; a young Victorian Egyptologist traverses the Nile River on a mission to undo a curse that may have befallen her family)

Kelli Estes, Smoke on the Wind, Lake Union (present day and 1801; in the Scottish Highlands, two devoted mothers separated by centuries discover a haunting connection)

Mary Anna Evans, The Dark Library, Poisoned Pen Press (psychological suspense novel set during WWII)

Harriet Evans, The Treasures, Viking/ HarperVia (a story of Alice, Tom, and Sevenstones — a family and a house over fifty years and three generations)

Brooke Lea Foster, Our Last Vineyard Summer, Gallery (novel set in 1965 and 1978 about a graduate student who returns with her sisters to their family’s summer home on Martha’s Vineyard and begins to unravel old family secrets)

Hester Fox, A Magic Deep and Drowning, Graydon House (a gender-flipped historical fantasy retelling of The Little Mermaid set in Holland, 1650)

Dianne Freeman, A Daughter’s Guide to Mothers and Murder, Kensington (Victorian-era mystery in which Frances Hazelton and her husband uncover the secrets of backstage Paris to find out who’s acting the role of a killer to perfection)

Jean Fullerton, The East End Girls, Bookouture (a wartime saga set in the east of London in 1942)

Hazel Gaynor, Before Dorothy, Berkley (long before Dorothy visits Oz, her aunt, Emily Gale, sets off on her own unforgettable adventure – set in Chicago, 1924 and Kansas, 1932)

Peggy Glendenning, That Was Enough, Little Creek Press (an immigrant saga inspired by the true journey of Francesco and Concetta Nardi, who leave Italy in pursuit of the American dream)

Alex Gough, Caesar’s Avenger, Canelo (book three in the Mark Antony adventure series)

Claudia Gray, The Rushworth Family Plot, Vintage (fourth book in series finds amateur sleuths Jonathan Darcy and Juliet Tilney caught up in a murderous scheme involving the family of Edmund and Fanny Bertram)

Amy Lynn Green, The Codebreaker’s Daughter, Bethany House (a tale of courage, danger, and the bond between mother and daughter, based on real experiences of World War II OSS agents and World War I codebreakers)

Michelle Griep, Of Silver and Secrets, Bethany House (romance set in Victorian England in 1889)

Elaine Griffin, Shadows in the Pleasure Gardens, Black Rose Writing (Chester Carter is a crucial witness to the “biggest scandal” early-nineteenth-century Fairmount has seen)

Kristin Harmel, The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau (US) / All the Diamonds in Paris (UK),  Gallery/Mountain Leopard Press (dual timeline novel about two jewel thieves, a priceless bracelet that disappears in 1940s Paris, and a quest for answers in a decades-old murder)

Virginia Heath, Look Before You Leap, St. Martin’s Griffin (second humorous novel in the Miss Pretence’s Protégées Regency romp of a series)

Robert Holtom, A Queer Case, Titan Books (1920s-set whodunnit in which a queer sleuth must solve a murder in a mansion on London’s Hampstead Heath without revealing his sexuality, lest he be arrested)

Anna Lee Huber, A Tarnished Canvas, Berkley (Lady Kiera Darby had planned to spend the winter practicing her painting, but instead, she must find the flaw in a killer’s masterpiece)

Madeline Hunter, The Lady Takes on London, Zebra (a headstrong heiress and an arrogant barrister debate the laws of love and reputation)

Megan Hunter, Days of Light, Grove Press/Picador (dual timeline historical novel about one woman’s unconventional life)

Kelsey James, The Colony of Lost Souls, John Scognamiglio (a young woman in 1930s California goes looking for her missing sister and is drawn into a chilling cult)

Jeff Jones, Fortress of Steel, Sapere (an unruly band of slaves and thieves proves to be toughest legion serving Rome in 59 AD)

Roberta Kagan, The Last Lullaby, Storm (WWII; a story of love and heartache in a Europe where Hitler’s Nazi Party is gaining power and darkness is rising)

Kate Khavari, A Botanist’s Guide to Rituals and Revenge, Crooked Lane (botanist Saffron Everleigh faces her hardest challenge yet when she returns to her childhood home)

Laurie R. King, Knave of Diamonds, Bantam/Allison & Busby (novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes)

Terry Kirk, Pitfall, At Bay Press (depression-era novel set when a head trader at Chicago’s leading brokerage firm loses in fortune in a single day in October, 1929)

Eliza Knight, Confessions of a Grammar Queen, Sourcebooks Landmark (there are no female publishing CEOs in 1960’s New York, until Bernadette Swift plans to change that)

Sarah Landenwich, The Fire Concerto, Union Square (literary novel about a 19th-century female pianist from Poland lost to history and another woman’s quest to ensure she is not forgotten)

Caroline Lea, Love, Sex & Frankenstein, Michael Joseph (retelling of the summer that inspired Mary Shelley to write Frankenstein)

David Lewis, A Beacon in the Night, John Scognamiglio (an unflappable British spy works alongside her aristocratic partner to root out homegrown Nazi collaborators during WWII)

Terri Lewis, Behold the Bird in Flight, She Writes (inspired by real historical figures—Isabelle d’Angoulême and Hugh de Lusignan—novel is set in a period that valued women only for their dowries and childbearing)

Joanna Lowell, A Rare Find, Berkley (queer Victorian era historical romance)

Kyra Davis Lurie, The Great Mann, Crown/Random House UK (retelling of The Great Gatsby set amongst L.A.’s Black elite)

Catherine Mann, Lightning in a Mason Jar, Lake Union (dual timeline novel spanning decades about trauma, survival, and the bonds of female friendship)

Zoë Marriott, The Moonlit Maze, Headline Review (dual timeline mystery and love story, set in 1924 and 2024)

John Matthews, Realms of the Round Table, Pegasus (a famous legend in literature retold for a new generation with some surprises that will capture the imagination of anyone who has ever been enchanted by tales of Camelot)

Mia McKenzie, These Heathens, Random House (a teenager travels to Atlanta to get an abortion and finds herself in the middle of the civil rights movement and the secret lives of queer Black people)

Phil Melanson, Florenzer, Liveright (set in Renaissance-era Florence, debut reimagines the intersecting lives of three ambitious men—a banker, a priest, and a gay painter named Leonardo)

Simon Michael, The Fall Guy, Sapere (tenth book in the Charles Holborne Legal Thrillers, set in London, 1969)

Fenella J. Miller, All Change at Harbour House, Boldwood (continuation of the WWII saga set in Wivenhoe May 1940)

Rowenna Miller, The Palace of Illusions, Redhook (historical fantasy set in Paris in the run up to the 1900s World’s Fair)

Aram Mrjoian, Waterline, HarperVia (in two timelines more than a century apart, a close-knit Armenian American family grapples with the aftermath of losing one of their own)

Elizabeth Musser, From the Valley We Rise, Bethany House (WWII novel about protecting the safety of Jewish children from Nazi retribution)

Harini Nagendra, Into the Leopard’s Den, Pegasus (in 1922, Kaveri Murthy investigates a series of murders that take her from the bungalows of Bangalore to the mist-enshrouded mountains of Coorg)

Jenna Ness, The Home for War Orphans, Bookouture (Orphans of St Agnes Book 1, set during WWII)

Vaishnavi Patel, Ten Incarnations of Rebellion, Ballantine (speculative novel that imagines an alternate version of India that was never liberated from the British, and a young woman who will change the tides of history)

H. G. Parry, A Far Better Thing, Tor (shuttling between London and Paris during the Reign of Terror, generations of violence-begetting-violence lead Sidney Carton, a servant to the faerie realm, to a heartbreaking choice)

David S. Pederson, A Marvelous Murder, Bold Strokes Books (movie star Victor Marvel, aided by his boyfriend, Griffin, and Eve, Victor’s smart, young costar, solve the murder of a film director in 1939)

Mel Pennant, A Murder for Miss Hortense, Pantheon (introduces a fearless sleuth in a new murder mystery series set in Birmingham)

Xenobe Purvis, The Hounding, Hutchinson Heinemann/Henry Holt (debut about five sisters in a small village in 18th century England whose neighbors are convinced they’re turning into dogs)

Holly Race, Six Wild Crowns, Orbit (a feminist fantasy retelling of Henry VIII’s wives from their perspective)

Nilima Rao, A Shipwreck in Fiji, Soho Crime (a young Indian police sergeant investigates a bizarre chain of events when a purported sighting of Germans in 1915 Fiji turns deadly)

Katherine Reay, The English Masterpiece, Harper Muse (set in the art world of 1970s London as one young woman races against the clock to uncover the truth about a Picasso)

Heather Redmond, Death and the Runaways, Kensington (London 1814; Mary Godwin becomes captivated by the murder of a pregnant shopgirl and the disappearance of her stepbrother)

Cathy Rigg, That Which Binds Us, Keylight Books (in the 1860s, on Virginia’s Appalachian frontier, the fates of five people are forever linked as they navigate love and loss amid the strife and turmoil of the civil war)

M. J. Robotham, Mrs Spy, Head of Zeus/Aria (a laugh-out-loud ride through 1960s London as Maggie Flynn, unexpected MI5 operative and single mum, unravels the intelligence agency’s secrets)

David Rotenberg, City Rising: The Ivory Compact, At Bay Press (the Shanghai Tetralogy book 3, after The Bend in the River)

Shari J. Ryan, The Singer Behind the Wire, Bookouture (WWII story of hope and faith in humanity and the power of love to triumph over evil)

Riley Sager, With a Vengeance, Dutton/Hodder & Stoughton (in 1942, six people destroyed Anna Matheson’s family and twelve years later, she’s ready for retribution)

Hiroaki Samura, Snegurochka of the Spring Breeze, Kodansha Comics (transports readers to the frigid fringes of the nascent Soviet Union of the 1930s)

Katharine Schellman, Last Dance Before Dawn, Minotaur (fourth in the mysterious queer Nightingale mystery series set in 1920s New York)

V. E. Schwab, Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil, Tor (genre-defying novel about immortality and hunger, set Santo Domingo de la Calzada, 1532, London, 1827 and Boston, 2019)

Caroline Scott, The Best of Intentions, Simon & Schuster UK (a story of friendship, community and staying true to yourself)

Julia Seales, A Terribly Nasty Business, Random House (London provides deadly opportunities for a fledgling inspector in the follow-up to A Most Agreeable Murder)

Olive Senior, Paradise Once, Akashic Books (brings to life the resiliency of the indigenous Taíno people in the Caribbean whose culture was virtually destroyed within two generations of their “discovery” by Christopher Columbus in 1492)

B. A. Shapiro, The Lost Masterpiece, Algonquin (mystery follows 19th-century Impressionist painter Berthe Morisot and her 21st-century great-great-great granddaughter, who inherits a Nazi-looted Edouard Manet painting)

Robert W. Smith, A Gamble on Liberty, Meryton Press (novel shadows the struggles of an East Tennessee community during the American Civil War)

Sally Smith, A Case of Mice and Murder, Raven Books (first in a new mystery series introducing eccentric sleuth, barrister Gabriel Ward. Set in 1901)

Maggie Stiefvater, The Listeners, Viking/Headline Review (1942; the owner of a sophisticated hotel makes a secret deal with the State Department to fill the hotel with captured Axis diplomats, while most of the staff have sons and fathers heading to the front lines)

Christine Hill Suntz, The Lawyer and the Laundress, Tyndale (Canada, 1837; when lawyer James Kinney and laundress Sara O’Connor’s paths cross in a British colony on the brink of rebellion, a marriage of convenience may be their best hope of survival)

Matthew Sweet, The New Forest Murders, Simon & Schuster UK (in summer, 1944, one last chance of success for the Nazis depends on a traitor in an English village in the New Forest)

Rachel Sweasey, The Girl from Normandy, Boldwood (dual timeline historical novel set in Paris 1940 and in 1998 Normandy)

Denis Thériault, The Samurai of the Red Carnation, Pushkin Press (a romantasy historical adventure, set in medieval Japan and revolving around the art of waka poetry)

Jeremy Tiang, State of Emergency, World Editions (follows an extended family from the 1940s to the present day as they navigate the choppy political currents of the region)

Anna Trench, Florrie, Jonathan Cape (story of female footballer Florrie and the hidden history of the women’s game told in this debut graphic novel)

Christopher C. Tubbs, Farnborough, Lume Books (high-stakes naval thriller explores the courage and deadly danger of the Q-ships)

Chrissie Walsh, A New Dawn for the Mill Girls, Boldwood (historical saga set in the mills of West Yorkshire, 1897)

Ashley Weaver, One Final Turn, Minotaur (final installment in the Electra McDonnell series brings safecracker Ellie on a mission across World War II-era Europe to Lisbon to rescue a group of escaped POWs)

Amanda Weinberg & Silvia Mazzola, The Lost Secrets of the Italian Post Office, Embla (Italy, 1943; in a world where everyone is keeping secrets, two friends must be careful who they trust)

G. J. Williams, The Cygnet Prince, Legend Press (in 1561, a young German prince arrives in England claiming to be the rightful heir – the son of Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves)

Gerri Willis, Lincoln’s Lady Spymaster, Harper (a wealthy Southern belle risks everything to become a Union spy)

Mary Wood, A Lasting Promise, Pan (dual timeline story set in France 1943 and London 1963)

Emma Pei Yin, When Sleeping Women Wake, Quercus/Hachette AU/Ballantine (historical debut of three women who are forced on a journey of survival during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong in World War II)

Ovidia Yu, The Rose Apple Tree Mystery, Constable (Singapore, 1947; in this installment Le Froy is on a protection assignment for Max Moreno and his wife Elfrieda, whose associates have been brutally murdered)

July 2025

Jann Alexander, Unspoken, Black Rose Writing (novel set in the Texas Panhandle during the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl era)

Richard Babcock, A Small Disturbance on the Far Horizon, Regal House (in the stark Nevada landscape of the 1950s, storyline explores the aftermath of a murder through the intertwined lives of three individuals)

Tracy Baines, Stormy Times for the Dockyard Girls, Boldwood (historical saga series set around the hardworking women of Grimsby Dockyard)

Alli Barker, Until the Red Leaves Fall, HarperCollins AU (a tale of secrets and betrayal in the aftermath of war)

J. D. Barker and Kyle Dunn, The Finer Things, S&S/Hampton Creek (as a sculptor’s art evolves into something terrifying, a trail of bodies begins to surface across New York and Detective George Snyder must unravel the connection)

Amy Barry, Seven Brides for Beau McBride, Atria AU (with seven brides vying for his attention, Beau McBride’s heart is pulled to the one who wants nothing to do with him)

Pepper Basham, The Highland Heist, Barbour (fourth in the romance Freddie and Grace Mystery series)

Nishant Batsha, A Bomb Placed Close to the Heart, Ecco (novel of love, radical ambition, and intellectual rebirth set at the dawn of World War I)

Amy Rose Bennet, The Nanny’s Handbook for Magic and Managing Difficult Dukes, Kensington (a recent graduate of the Parasol Academy for Exceptional Nannies and Governesses finds her supernatural abilities are little help when it comes to falling for her employer)

Amelia Blackwell, A Crime Through Time, Macmillan (debut featuring a new series where Jane Austen, time travel and crime collide)

Karen Brooks, The Whisky Widow, HQ Digital (1780; story of bravery, adventure, love and murder in the Scottish Highlands)

Benedict Brown, Arsenic and Old Lies, Storm (book 5 of the Marius Quin Mysteries series, set in 1920s London)

Carolyn Brown, The Paradise Petition, Montlake (in nineteenth-century Texas, two tough-minded women dare to challenge the status quo)

Faddei Bulgarin, trans. Michael R. Katz, Ivan Vyzhigin, Northern Illinois Univ. Press (an amusing picaresque filled with local color and comical portraits, narrated by its hero, an orphaned peasant in 19^th-century Russia)

Joel Burcat, David S. Burcat, Whiz Kid, Milford House (coming-of-age novel set in 1950 Philadelphia)

Gabriela Cabezon Camara, trans. Robin Myers, We Are Green and Trembling, New Directions (novel finds glimmers of hope for the future in the brutal history of colonial Latin America)

Anita Chapman, The Italian Vineyards, Bookouture (novel is the unravelling of a romantic mystery at the heart of the Verona vineyards)

Susan Choi, Flashlight, Jonathan Cape/Farrar, Straus & Giroux (story of one family swept up in the tides of the twentieth century, ranging from post-war Japan to suburban America)

Cara Clayton, Mistress of the Manor, Sapere (first installment of a new historical series set in an English Manor House in 1342, Lincolnshire, England)

Meg Waite Clayton, Typewriter Beach, Harper (1950s Hollywood— story of an unlikely friendship between a screenwriter and a young actress)

Rowan Coleman, Never Tear Us Apart, Hodder & Stoughton (situated on the island of Malta in WWII, this time-slip story tells about the power of fate)

Iris Costello, The Paris Bookshop Secret, Penguin (a story of love and heartbreak, centred around a bookshop in 1950s Paris, and written by a reclusive woman in her eighties)

Nick Croydon, The Turing Protocol, Affirm Press (thriller blends historical fact with fiction to tell the extraordinary story of a machine that allows the user to send messages to the past)

Ellie Curzon, The Lost Orphans, Bookouture (novel set in 1944, inspired by a true story about runaway evacuees)

Janet Dailey, Calder Strong, Kensington (familial saga set in 1929 Montana, where even as the future burns bright, old rivalries, heartbreaks, buried secrets, and ranching feuds still loom)

Lindsey Davis, There Will Be Bodies, Minotaur (a decade after the destructive eruption, Flavia Albia finds herself investigating family secrets and possible crimes buried in the ash of Mount Vesuvius)

Giovanni De Feo, The Secret Market of the Dead, S&S/Saga (Italian-inspired gothic historical fantasy in which a young woman competing with her twin brother to inherit the family forge finds her power in a nocturnal world)

Louise Douglas, The Emerald Shawl, Boldwood (dark gothic historical novel of love, murder, madness and secrets)

JC Duncan, Wolves of the Empire, Boldwood (new Dark Age military adventure beginning in 1041 AD, Constantinople)

Jim Eldridge, Murder at the Colosseum, Allison & Busby (a husband-and-wife archaeological team find themselves at the heart of a murder investigation in 1900 Rome)

Diana English, The Well of Sorrow, She Writes (story of a child’s survival of family violence and trauma, set in California and England in the 1960s and 70s)

Mario Escobar, A Bookseller in Madrid, Harper Muse (Madrid, 1934; inspiring story in the face of the horror of intolerance and a tribute to literature)

Jess Everlee, To Sketch a Scandal, Carina Adores (Victorian romance in which a rule-breaking bartender falls for a Scotland Yard detective, set in the high-stakes world of London’s underground queer community in 1885)

Conor Farrington, The Maiden Faust, Galileo Publishers (a retelling of the Faust legend)

Natalie Fergie, 25 Library Terrace, Unbound (multi-period novel about determined women who grasp their own destiny and help other women to grasp theirs)

Elizabeth Fremantle, Sinners, Michael Joseph a tale of rage and resistance of young noblewoman Beatrice Cenci)

Kelly Gardiner, Sharmini Kumar, Miss Caroline Bingley, Private Investigator (US) / Miss Caroline Bingley, Private Detective (UK), HarperVia/HQ Fiction (the search for a missing maid leads Caroline Bingley into murder and mayhem in Regency London)

Sally Gardner, The Bride Stone, Head of Zeus/Apollo (in 1796, Duval Harlington, recently released from a French prison, is on his way home to inherit his father’s estate where several conditions apply)

Francesca Giannone, trans. Elettra Pauletto, The Letter Carrier, Crown/Headline Review (story of a woman ahead of her time, in Salento, Italy, 1934, who reads books no one has ever heard of, wears pants just like a man, and thinks a woman should have rights)

Elizabeth Gill, A Widow’s Courage, Quercus (1909 Northumberland; unjustly blamed for an accident, widowed Shona finds herself alone and friendless in a village that has always seen her as an outsider)

James Grady, American Sky, Pegasus (novel set in mid-century Montana, from blue-collar life in the heartland to Kent State and the Civil Rights movement)

Molly Green, The Wartime Librarian’s Secret, Avon (WWII saga in which Esme faces an uncertain future after she loses her dream job due to wartime budget cuts)

Eliza Graham, The Girl from the Fjords, Storm (spanning the fjords of Norway to post-war Germany and Stockholm, novel explores the impossible choices faced during wartime)

Elly Griffiths, The Frozen People, Pamela Dorman (time travel mystery in which Ali Dawson finds herself trapped in 1850)

Lisa Hall, The Strange Disappearance of Kitty Fox, Hera (a twisty time-hop mystery set in the 1950s)

Barbara Hambly, Murder in the Trembling Lands, Severn House (New Orleans, 1841; musician, sleuth and free man of color Benjamin January is caught up in another crime in this 19th-century mystery)

MK Hardy, The Needfire, Solaris (sapphic Scottish Gothic tale of supernatural magic)

C.C. Harrison, The Women of Bandit Bend, Artemesia Publishing (Old West historical fiction in which Tally Tisdale and her 16-year-old sister arrive in Summit Creek to take over their missing father’s rugged homestead)

Samuel Hawley, Daikon, Avid Reader (fiction premised on the possibility the US delivered three atomic bombs to the Pacific, not two, & the first falls into the hands of the Japanese Imperial Army, who try to figure out how it might be used against Americans)

Anna Fitzgerald Healy, Etiquette for Lovers and Killers, Putnam (set in 1960s Maine, a murder mystery following a young woman who just wishes something interesting would happen in her life)

Jane Healey, The Women of Arlington Hall, Lake Union (a female codebreaker puts her future and her heart on the line in a novel about love, loyalty, betrayal, and Cold War spy games)

Nydia Hetherington, Sycorax, Pegasus (a reimagining of what came before Shakespeare’s The Tempest)

Catherine Hokin, The Secret Locket, Bookouture (WWII romance in which a member of the Hitler Youth vows to save the Jewish girl who long ago took his locket, and his heart)

Rachel Hore, The Secrets of Dragonfly Lodge, Simon & Schuster UK (dual timeline novel set on the Norfolk Broads in 2010, and in London in the ’40s and ‘50s)

Jenelle Hovde, No Stone Unturned, Tyndale (inspirational Regency romance set in rolling hills of West Sussex)

Theresa Howes, A Matter of Persuasion, HQ Digital (retelling of Jane Austen’s Persuasion, set in Gilded Age New York, 1882)

Graham Hurley, Kane, Head of Zeus/Aries (1941; one man at the heart of American power must undertake a wartime mission that will take him into enemy territory before he leaves US soil)

Sophie Irwin, How to Lose a Lord in Ten Days, HarperCollins (new rom-com Regency series)

Roy Jacobsen, trans. Don Bartlett, trans. Don Shaw, The Unworthy, MacLehose/Quercus (WWII novel about a gang with no name —teenage boys growing up in a working-class area of Oslo under the shadow of Nazi occupation)

Sarah James, Last Stop Union Station, Sourcebooks Landmark (Hollywood, 19424; when an aging Hollywood starlet is forced to join the Victory caravan to save her continued stardom, she becomes entwined in a potential murder tied to a group of homegrown Nazis)

Claire M. Johnson, City Lights, Level Best (while struggling to keep the Moore Detective Agency afloat, Maggie Laurent is led deep into the world of labor unrest, the IWW, & the Sedition Act)

Lynn Johnson, Heartache For the Tram Girls, Hera (book 5 in the Potteries Girls romantic saga series set in WWI)

Hilary Jones, Under Darkening Skies, Mountain Leopard (concluding story in trilogy of the twentieth century, covering a time of upheaval, conflict and extraordinary leaps in medicine)

Kathleen Kaufman, The Entirely True Story of the Fantastical Mesmerist Nora Grey, Kensington (dual timeline 1866 and 1900; as spiritualism reaches a fever pitch, a Scottish girl crosses the veil to unlock a connection within an infamous asylum)

Allison King, The Phoenix Pencil Company, William Morrow/Fourth Estate (literary cross-generational novel that is part contemporary family drama, part WWII-era historical, part grounded fantasy, part queer romance)

Stefanie Koens, Daughters of Batavia, HarperCollins AU (a woman searching for answers in her own life finds them – and much more – in the wreckage and haunting stories of the Batavia shipwreck)

Daniel Kraus, Angel Down, Atria (novel about five World War I soldiers who stumble upon a fallen angel that could hold the key to ending the war)

Jacek Król, Without Pity, Histria (WWII fiction beginning in September, 1939, when Germany invades Poland; the Soviets join in the invasion and Warsaw falls)

Mark Kurlansky, Cheesecake, Bloomsbury (novel follows one Manhattan block as an ancient cheesecake recipe-and a conniving landlord-change the Upper West Side forever)

Eleni Kyriacou, A Beautiful Way to Die, Head of Zeus/Aries (1950s Hollywood and London; historical crime novel explores the dark underbelly of the movie industry and the lengths people will go to protect their reputations)

Lizzie Lane, Bleak Times at Orchard Cottage Hospital, Boldwood (new installment of the 1930s Cottage Hospital saga where hope springs eternal)

Christy K. Lee, The Fort, Rising Action (a novel set during the Canadian fur trade era, where a resilient single mother defies conventions to forge a new life on the frontier)

Pierre Lemaitre, The Silence and the Rage, Little, Brown/Tinder Press (a dive into France in the “glory days” of the 1950s, through the lens of one ambitious, troubled family)

P. D. Lennon, The Case of the Mad Doctor, Canelo (1772; novel inspired by the true story of Jamaica’s first serial killer)

Marie Léticée, trans. Kevin Meehan, Camille’s Lakou, Vanderbilt Univ. Press (story of a young Caribbean girl living with her single‑parent mother in a 1960s urbanized zone in Guadeloupe, and following her through her adult life)

Norman Lock, Eden’s Clock, Bellevue Literary Press (a disabled Civil War veteran makes a journey toward a fateful encounter with author Jack London, only hours before the 1906 San Francisco earthquake)

Adam Lofthouse, Eagle and the Flame, Boldwood (military adventure set in Britannia, AD367)

Steven Mayfield, Sixty Seconds, Regal House (as the clock ticks down the final minute of World War II in Europe, novel tells the stories of nine people on both sides of the Atlantic)

Terrence McCauley, The Twilight Town, Level Best-Historia (a Dallas ’63 mystery thriller)

Lesley McDowell, Love and Other Poisons, Wildfire (dual timeline mystery set in Glasgow, 1857 and New York, 1927)

Linda McQuaig, The Road to Goderich, Dundurn Press (tale of love, deception, and betrayal unfolds against the backdrop of the 1837 rebellion in Upper Canada)

Tom Mead, The House at Devil’s Neck, Mysterious Press/Head of Zeus-Aries (locked-room mystery set in London and an island off the English coast during the late 1930s)

Rupande Mehta, Noor and Vera, Neem Tree Press (tale of two women whose destinies converged amidst the chaos of Nazi-occupied France during World War II)

Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Bewitching, Del Rey/Arcadia (three women in three different eras encounter danger and witchcraft in this multigenerational horror saga)

Shannon Morgan, Grimdark, Kensington (gothic story set in a sinister English manor house where a woman discovers her destiny winding through centuries of previous incarnations. Present day, 1645, and 1216)

Lindsay Marie Morris, Beneath the Sicilian Stars, Storm (from an American internment camp to Sicily’s bombed villages, story follows one family’s fight for survival, identity, and hope during World War II)

Eliza Morton, Betsy’s War, Pan (third part of the Liverpool Orphans Trilogy set at the outbreak of WWII)

K. L. Murphy, The Great Forgotten, CamCat Books (inspired by the great train wreck near Nashville on July 9, 1918, this is the story of five men whose lives were intertwined that fateful day)

D. J. Nix, The Shakespeare Secret, Alcove Press (when three women writing under one name become suspects in a plot to kill Queen Elizabeth, their secret identity is suddenly at risk)

Timothy David Mack, All the Tea in China, Blackstone (historical adventure full of treasure, thrills, and a ruthless pirate queen)

Melissa O’Connor, The One and Only Vivian Stone, Gallery (novel about a pair of estranged lovers reconnecting over mysterious tapes found in an attic and the old Hollywood secret hidden within them)

Emily Organ, The Poison Puzzle, Storm (Emma Langley returns in book two of the Victorian mystery series)

Kaarina Parker, Fulvia, Manilla Press (Fulvia, daughter of a wealthy family, is drawn into a world of debauchery and learns just how precarious the balance of power in the Republic is)

Alan Parks, Gunner, Baskerville (new thriller partly inspired by the true story of Rudolph Hess’s secret mission to broker appeasement with Britain during WWII)

Lesley Pearse, The Girl with the Suitcase, Michael Joseph (1941; after waking up in hospital a nurse mistakes a woman for someone else and hands over a suitcase full of money and tickets to Ireland)

Cathy Pegau, A Murderous Business, Minotaur (mystery set in turn-of-the-20th-century NY with two queer business women as sleuths)

Tracie Peterson, Designed With Love, Bethany House (this historical romance continues The Hope of Cheyenne series)

Matthew Plampin, These Wicked Devices, The Borough Press (Rome, 1650; behind the gilded façade of the Vatican, power is unravelling)

MJ Porter, Warriors of Iron, Boldwood (next in series of Dark-Age Adventure set during Britannia’s tribal age in AD541)

Markus Redmond, Blood Slaves, Dafina (reimagining of the vampire origin story as the last surviving member of an ancient African vampire tribe leads an army of enslaved people in a battle for freedom and revenge)

Kelly Rimmer, The Midnight Estate, Piatkus (told across dual timelines, novel weaves a tale inviting readers into the heart of a family’s darkest secrets)

Elaine Roberts, Victory for the Foyles Bookshop Girls, Boldwood (London, 1918: the war in Europe is drawing to an end, presenting new challenges for the Foyles girls)

Rosália Rodrigo, Beasts of Carnaval, Mira (fantasy debut follows a woman recently freed from slavery as she searches for her missing brother, and explores the Indigenous history and folklore of the Caribbean)

Josh Rountree, The Unkillable Frank Lightning, Tachyon (retelling of Frankenstein in the Wild West, with a resourceful woman struggling with the man she loved before she made him into a monster)

Morgan Ryan, A Resistance of Witches, Viking/Bantam (as World War II rages, a witch abandoned by her coven must journey to find a book of unspeakable power before it lands in Nazi hands)

Shelly Sanders, The Night Sparrow, Harper (novel inspired by real female snipers and interpreters who worked in the Red Army during World War II)

Fiona Schneider, The Perfumer’s Secret, Michael Joseph/Penguin (as a woman delves deeper into the past, the lives of two women intersect in the present)

Neema Shah, A Thread of Light, Picador (1941; during the London Blitz, air raid warden Ruby is drawn into the world of the India Forum, where a group of Londoners are working to free India from British rule)

Shylashri Shankar, Blood Caste, Canelo (1890s historical crime debut set in Victorian India, where an outcast Brahmin detective teams up with and English inspector to solve a series of Ripper-style killings)

Irina Shapiro, Murder on Platform Four, Storm (a mysterious woman’s murder leads Sebastian and Gemma to risk everything to find a remorseless killer. Tate & Bell book five)

Rick Skwiot, The Bootlegger’s Bride, Blank Slate Press (two corpses— one suicide, the other a murder— are linked by a St. Louis bootlegger’ s killing three decades earlier)

Michelle Sloan, Mrs Burke and Mrs Hare, Polygon ( in Edinburgh’s Old Town, sixteen people are murdered to feed surgeon Dr Robert Knox’s insatiable need for his anatomy classes)

Luanne G. Smith, The Golden Age of Magic, 47North (against the backdrop of 1920s Hollywood, a young fairy godmother on a mission is embroiled in magic, mystery, and murder in this historical fantasy)

Sally Smith, A Case of Life and Limb, Raven Books (book two of The Trials of Gabriel Ward, set in winter 1901)

Wilbur Smith, David Churchill, Crossfire, Zaffre (a race-against-time WWII thriller set in 1943)

A. L. Sowards, Roads of Resistance, Covenant (a romance set amidst war and resistance)

Laraine Stephens, The White Feather Murders, Level Best-Historia (a Reggie da Costa murder mystery, book 5)

Nell Stevens, The Original, W. W. Norton/Scribner UK (in a grand English country house in 1899, an art forger must unravel whether the man claiming to be her long-lost cousin is an impostor)

Karen Swan, The Hidden Heart, Macmillan (conclusion to the historical series based upon the dramatic evacuation of the Scottish island St Kilda in the summer of 1930)

Allie Therin, Viscounts & Villainy, Carina Press (third novel in the Roaring Twenties Magic books set in 1925 New York)

Sarah Loudin Thomas, These Blue Mountains, Bethany House (when pianist Hedda Schlagel sees a photo of an American memorial to German POWs with her dead fiancé’s name, it sends her on a journey to the US to uncover long-buried secrets)

Hillary Tiefer, The Secret Ranch, Histria (dual timeline story where elderly Jean relives her experiences during the war when she was in the Women’ s Army Corps. Set in 2006 and 1940s)

Harry Turtledove, Powerless, CAEZIK SF & Fantasy (alternate history inspired by the historical model of Alexander Dubcek’s “socialism with a human face” in 1968 Czechoslovakia)

Harald Voetmann, trans. Johanne Sorgenfri Ottosen, Visions and Temptations, New Directions (in the eleventh century, in the city of Regensburg, Othlo of St. Emmeram lies on his sickbed and takes a journey through Heaven and Hell)

Mollie Walton, The Shopgirl of Ironbridge, Mountain Leopard (Victorian saga set in Ironbridge, 1893)

Jeri Westerson, The Misplaced Physician, Severn House (London, 1895 — when Doctor Watson is kidnapped while Sherlock Holmes is out of the country, private investigators Timothy Badger and Benjamin Watson must find the missing physician)

Roseanna M. White, The Collector of Burned Books, Tyndale (World War II historical about the power of words, where two people form an unlikely friendship amid the Nazi occupation in Paris. Inspirational fiction)

Susan Wiggs, Wayward Girls, William Morrow (in 1968 six teens are thrust into confinement at the Good Shepherd—merely for being gay, pregnant, or simply unruly)

Carolyn Marie Wilkins, Murder at the Wham Bam Club, Kensington (1920s Illinois; a psychic uses her abilities to help the Black community of Agate, Illinois, fight against crime and corruption)

Beatriz Williams, Under the Stars, Ballantine (the destinies of three women converge across centuries, as a true disaster at the dawn of the steamship era evokes a legacy of family secrets in modern-day New England)

Ellen Marie Wiseman, The Lies They Told, Kensington (in rural 1930s Virginia, a young immigrant mother fights for her dignity and those she loves against America’s rising eugenics movement)

Olga Wojtas, Miss Blaine’s Prefect and the Uncharted Island, Saraband (Fifty-something librarian Shona McMonagle is sent spinning through time and space for another mission)

Benjamin Wood, Seascraper, Viking/Scribner (portrait of a young man confined in by his class and the ghosts of his family’s past, dreaming of artistic fulfilment)

Daisy Wood, The Banned Books of Berlin, Avon (novel set in Berlin, 1933 and inspired by the true stories of the early Nazi resistance)

Felicity York, The Quiet Wife, HarperNorth (1887; based on a true story, a slow-burn tale of a woman reinventing herself, while embarking on a forbidden love affair with James Whistler)

August 2025

Shana Abe, A Crown of Stars, Kensington (1915; account of the Lusitania’s last days, drawn from the true story of a young actress who survived)

Giaime Alonge, trans. Clarissa Botsford, The Feeling of Iron, Europa (from the horrors of WWII to the spy games of the Cold War, comes a haunting tale of survival, vengeance, and the enduring shadows of history)

Donna Jones Alward, Ship of Dreams, One More Chapter (two women seek to escape their troubled lives only to have their plans irrevocably altered aboard the Titanic)

Rebecca Anderson, Whispers of Shadowbrook House, Shadow Mountain (1880; governess Pearl Ellicott and heir Oliver Waverly unravel a haunting mystery while confronting their growing forbidden love)

Mesu Andrews, Noble: The Story of Maakah, Bethany House (through Maakah’s lens of nobility, courage, and love, readers get a biblical tale of King David and his royal household)

Maya Arad, trans. Jessica Cohen, Happy New Years, New Vessel Press (an epistolary novel inviting the reader to read between the lines of a series of letters written between 1966 and 2016)

Jennifer Ashley, A Silence in Belgrave Square, Berkley (amateur sleuth Kat Holloway must uncover the secrets of Victorian London’s most elite noblemen to save the man she loves)

Jan Baynham, The Silent Sister, Joffe/Choc Lit (mid-twentieth century story about a secret that spans generations, set in Greece, 1953 and Wales 1973)

Ella Berman, L.A. Women, Aria/Berkley (novel about the complicated friendship between two ambitious and talented female writers in 1960s Los Angeles)

Rachel Brimble, Winter Wishes for the Home Front Nurses, Boldwood (Winter, 1942; secrets abound for the Home Front Nurses in this WWII saga series)

D. V. Bishop, Carnival of Lies, Macmillan UK (historical thriller set against the backdrop of the Medici dynasty in 1530s Renaissance Italy)

Shelley Blanton-Stroud, An Unlikely Prospect, She Writes (novel, set in post–WWII San Francisco, about a young female newspaper publisher and a story that could change the course of her city’s future)

Giles Blunt, Bad Juliet, Dundurn (literary novel set in the Adirondacks in 1916, when the mountain air was considered a treatment for tuberculosis)

Rhys Bowen, Mrs. Endicott’s Splendid Adventure, Lake Union (blindsided by betrayal in pre-WWII England, a woman charts a daring new course)

Anna Bradley, What Happens in the Highlands, Kensington (new historical romance series set in Georgian Scotland, in which three unusually gifted sisters must protect their family fortress from those who would steal its rumored treasures)

E. Joe Brown, A Cowboy’s Dilemma, Artemesia Publishing (Kelly Can saga, book two, set in post-WWI 20^th-century American west)

Paula Byrne, Six Weeks by the Sea, Pegasus/William Collins (fictional biography of Jane Austen explores whether Jane ever fell in love like her fictional heroes)

Isabel Cañas, The Possession of Alba Diaz, Berkley (1765; when a demonic presence awakens in a Mexican silver mine, the young woman it seizes must turn to the one man she shouldn’t trust)

Andrea Catalano, The First Witch of Boston, Lake Union (biographical fiction about Margaret Jones, first woman prosecuted and hanged for witchcraft in the Massachusetts Bay Colony)

Rory Clements, Evil in High Places, Viking (Munich, 1936; as athletes fight for gold and the Nazis fight for power, Hitler’s right-hand man, Goebbels’ mistress disappears and Detective Wolff has to find her)

David Clensy, For Those in Peril, Sapere (first instalment of a new WWII naval adventure series)

Genevieve Cogman, Damned, Tor UK (in England, The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel discover earth-shattering secrets that could change their world forever in final instalment of Scarlet Revolution trilogy)

Sara Goodman Confino, Good Grief, Lake Union (a hopeful novel about widowhood, set in 1963)

Connilyn Cossette, Splendor of the Land, Bethany House (a tale of redemption, courage, and sacrifice, et against the backdrop of ancient Israel)

Dilly Court, Poppy’s Choice, HarperCollins (historical saga in which, desperate to protect her family, Poppy must put her trust in a stranger)

Beth Cowan-Erskine, Only Murders in the Abbey, Hodder (1930s Golden Age murder mystery)

Nick Croydon, The Turing Protocol, Simon & Schuster UK (speculative historical suspense debut told in alternating timelines asking if the most powerful invention in history will save the world—or destroy it)

Richard Cullen, Valour, Boldwood (continuation of the historical adventure series set in Burzenland 1223AD and featuring The Black Lion, Estienne Wace)

Angus Donald, Templar Traitor, Canelo (new adventure series set in 1241, featuring an English knight, a Mongol conqueror and an alliance that shook the world)

Kate Eastham, Changing Seasons for the Country Nurse, Boldwood (describes the quiet heroism of a woman making a difference, one visit at a time)

Tochi Eze, This Kind of Trouble, McClelland & Stewart (spanning the 20th century, the story asks how we are beholden to the past and what we owe the future)

Juliette Fay, The Harvey Girls, Gallery (1926; novel transports us to 1920s America with this tale of two very different women who must learn to trust each other)

Natalie Fergie, 25 Library Terrace, Unbound/Embla (novel about strong and determined women who grasp their own destiny and help other women to grasp theirs, set in one house over the course of a century)

June Francis, Secrets and Lies, Canelo (20^th-century romantic family saga)

Hayley Gelfuso, The Book of Lost Hours, Atria/Atlantic (multi-period novel moving from pre-WWII Germany to Cold War-era America to the mysterious time space, a library filled with books containing the memories of those who bore witness to history)

Alex Gerlis, The Second Traitor, Canelo (second novel in Double Agent series takes readers from 1940 wartime London to Berlin and from German intelligence headquarters in Hamburg to Rotterdam)

Kelly J. Goshorn, The Undercover Heiress of Brockton, Barbour (second book in the Enduring Hope series of Christian historical novels)

Donna Gowland, The Lost Girls, Sapere (Mary Shelley Investigations, book two set in London 1815)

R. L. Graham, The Spies of Hartlake Hall, Macmillan (historical crime novel set in the closing stages of the First World War)

Nataly Gruender, Selkie, Grand Central (Quinn is a selkie: an ancient mythological creature who can turn from a seal into a human, and this is the story of when she dares to do it and to step onto land)

Janice Hadlow, Rules of the Heart, Mantle (a married woman of high social standing in 18th century England tries to hide from the judging eyes of her elite circle)

Evelyn Hood, A Widow’s Hope, Boldwood (Scottish historical saga of loss, love and hope, set in Scotland, 1865)

Alois Hotschnig, trans. Tess Lewis, My Mother’s Silver Fox, Seagull Books (one man’s search for truth and identity in the long shadow of WWII)

Emily Hourican, A Kennedy Affair, Mobius/Hachette Books Ireland (three young women navigate an ever-changing city in London 1943 and find themselves less sure than ever of what tomorrow will bring)

Nana Howton, Burning Seasons, Scribe UK (story of survival, sisterhood, and the fight for a brighter future, set in 1970s Brazil)

Anna Lee Huber, A Moment’s Shadow, Kensington (1920 Dublin; former Secret Service agent Verity Kent must deal with the possession of poisonous gas by a ruthless adversary)

Lindsey Hutchinson, The Orphan’s Promise, Boldwood (despite her aunt’s attempts to barter her off, young Rose is determined to marry for love)

Douglas Jackson, Blood Vengeance, Canelo (1943; third instalment in the Warsaw Quartet which tasks resistance double agent, Investigator Jan Kalisz with an agent’s murder)

Barbara Josselsohn, The Secret Orphanage, Bookouture (story of resistance in World War Two France, during the dangers of Nazi occupation)

Toni Jordan, Tenderfoot, Hachette AU (coming-of-age of a girl in 1970s Brisbane who wants to become a greyhound racer)

Jessica Francis Kane, Fonseca, Penguin (fictionalizes Penelope’s Fitzgerald’s real and momentous trip to northern Mexico in 1952)

Lana Kortchik, Angels of War, HQ Digital (The Philippines, 1941; Rose Williams is sent to Manila for her first assignment as a US Navy nurse where it seems like paradise until Pearl Harbor is bombed)

David Farrell Krell, This Dagger, My Heart, SUNY Press (fiction centered around the life and tragic death of the German Romantic poet and philosopher Karoline von Günderrode)

Sharon Kutzman, The Lost Baker of Vienna, Viking/Headline Review (novel inspired by the experiences of the author’s own family after the Holocaust)

Leopold Lahola, trans. Julia Sherwood, trans. Peter Sherwood, The Last Thing, Karolinum Press/Charles University (translation of a collection of short stories that face the atrocities and paradoxes of World War II)

Veronica Lancet, Fairydale, S&S AU/Atria (gothic historical and paranormal romance meet in a tale about an orphaned English teacher’s journey to a mysterious coastal town to claim her inheritance in 1955)

Soraya M. Lane, The Secret Librarian, Lake Union (inspirational story of two women prepared to risk everything to help others survive the horrors of World War II)

Mariely Lares, Dawn of Fate and Fire, Harper Voyager (Zorro reimagining weaves Mesoamerican mythology and 16th-century Mexican history into a historical fantasy filled with magic, intrigue, and romance. Sequel to Sun of Blood and Ruin)

Jane Lark, The Forbidden Love of an Officer, Boldwood (conclusion to The Marlow Family Secrets Regency Romance saga)

Catherine Law, The Girl from the War Room, Boldwood (romance set during World War Two)

Debra Lee, Pullman, Histria (story set in New Orleans during Prohibition, seen through the eyes of a naïve Pullman porter)

Eva Leigh, The Sea Witch, Canary Street Press (fantasy set in an early 18th century alternate-universe Caribbean world; a fresh feminist twist on colonialism, toxic masculinity, and the politics of freedom)

Charles N. Li, Lord Guan, Regan Arts (highlights Guan Yu’s journey and tells the story of the making of a timeless 2^nd-century hero)

Judith Little, Glorious Ruins, Lake Union (novel set in 1920s Paris, based on the friendship between Coco Chanel and world-famous muse Misia Sert)

Peter Mann, World Pacific, Harper (novel of intrigue, adventure, and the perils of self-invention, set in San Francisco and the Asian Pacific during the outbreak of the Second World War)

Shirley Mann, Maggie’s War, Zaffre (story of friendship, love and courage in the face of war. Next in series to Bridget’s War)

Clare Marchant, Daughter of the Tarot, Boldwood (two women, linked by the cards, unravel a secret spanning the decades)

Madeline Martin, The Secret Book Society, Hanover Square (novel set in 1895 Victorian London about a forbidden book club, dangerous secrets, and the women who dare to break free)

Alyssa Maxwell, Murder at Arleigh, Kensington (reporter, sleuth, and new mother Emma Cross Andrews comes to the aid of a distraught wife who’s convinced her husband is trying to kill her)

Patricia McBride, Wedding Bells for the East End Library Girls, Boldwood (a wartime story of resilience, love and the power of friendship)

Marie McWilliams, The Secrets of Blackthorn House, Quill & Crow (gothic horror set on the Yorkshire Moors)

Catherine Merridale, Moscow Underground, William Collins/Fontana (Moscow, 1934; novel of life, death and politics in the world of Stalin’s tyranny)

Nicholas Meyer, Sherlock Holmes and the Real Thing, Mysterious Press (Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson delve into the world of art forgery in this new historical mystery)

Ellie Midwood, To Save Her Husband, Bookouture (1933, Berlin; story of a woman who flees Germany with her Jewish film director husband, who has attracted the wrong kind of attention)

Stacy Lynn Miller, The Rio Affair, Severn River (when a disgraced singer is snared in the undercurrents of WWII espionage, she must learn to become a shadow in the limelight. Second Hattie James novel)

Audrey Minutolo-Le, Gray Ledges, Down East Books (inspired by true events about a coastal Maine village in the 1930s, novel explores the lives of two women who operate competing hotels in an idyllic summer resort)

Tonya Mitchell, Needle and Bone, Bloodhound (a gothic revenge story set in Philadelphia, 1841)

Santa Montefiore, Shadows in the Moonlight, Simon & Schuster (Timeslider, book1; timeslip romance in which Pixie Tate is summoned to the wild Cornish coast to unravel a mystery at St Sidwell Manor)

Tara Moss, The Italian Secret, HarperCollins AU (post-war mystery where investigator Billie Walker follows a trail of secrets to Italy’s Neapolitan coast)

Peter Orner, The Gossip Columnist’s Daughter, Little, Brown (the cold case of a young Hollywood starlet’s death sets a contemporary writer on a quest to uncover the truth and its connection to his own family)

Philip Paris, A Fire in Their Hearts, Black & White (Scotland, 1662; a tale of love, faith and survival, inspired by true events of the seventeenth-century)

Suzanne Parry, The Communist’s Secret, She Writes (WWII tale of betrayal and second chances details how a woman trapped in occupied Russia fights the Nazis)

AJ Pearce, Dear Miss Lake, Scribner/Picador (conclusion to a quartet of novels set in London during World War II)

Linda Bennett Pennell, Gilead’s Physician, Black Rose Writing (in 1890, what begins as an ordinary life as a country doctor for James, becomes a life of extraordinary circumstances)

Princess Joy L. Perry, This Here is Love, W. W. Norton (1690s, Tidewater, Virginia; three people—two enslaved, one indentured— must carve out choices from the narrowest of circumstances and confront heartrending questions)

S. W. Perry, Cairo Gambit, Corvus (thriller featuring the hunt for a missing person, set in Cairo 1938)

Eric Pope, Macedonian Sun, Prende Publishing (story of King Philip II of Macedonia who had become the most powerful man in Greek history when he was assassinated in 336 BCE)

Xenobe Purvis, The Hounding, Henry Holt (debut about five sisters in a small village in 18th century England whose neighbors are convinced they’re turning into dogs)

Kate Quinn, Vicky Alvear, Simon Turney, Russell Whitfield, Stephanie Thornton, Libbie Hawker, David Alexander Blixt, A Song of War, William Morrow (seven authors recreate the Trojan War: its heroes, its villains, its survivors, its dead)

Sarah Rayne, The Face Stealer, Severn House (a puzzling mystery pulls the thieving Fitzglen family back to a shocking crime committed in the time of Catherine the Great)

Mary-Jane Riley, Beattie Cavendish and the White Pearl Club, Allison & Busby (Beattie Cavendish, formerly of the Secret Operations Executive, must rely on her skills to survive a game of deception at the dawn of the Cold War)

Matt Riordan, While the Getting is Good, Hyperion Avenue (amid the gangland wars of Prohibition, one fisherman’s long-shot play to secure his family’s future brings disaster to everyone he loves)

Erika Robuck, The Last Assignment, Sourcebooks Landmark (1956; story of photojournalist Dickey Chappelle as she risks everything to show the American people the price of war through the lens of her camera)

Michael Russell, The City in Year Zero, Constable (Stefan Gillespie crime thriller Book 10, set in WWII, 1945)

J. R. Sanders, Blues in the Dark, Level Best-Historia (a Nate Ross mystery set in the 1930s)

Paula Saunders, Starting from Here, Random House (a story of facing the many challenges and terrors of girlhood, and finding your way from wherever you are to wherever you need to go)

Thomas Schlesser, trans. Hildegarde Serle, Mona’s Eyes, Europa Editions (a story across five centuries of art history and the cultural significance of iconic masterpieces)

Laura Shepherd-Robinson, The Art of a Lie, Atria/Mantle (in 18th-century England, a widowed confectioner is drawn into a web of love, betrayal, and intrigue and a battle of wits)

Douglas Skelton, Ship of Thieves, Canelo (next in Company of Rogues series)

Sarah Stewart Taylor, Hunter’s Heart Ridge, Minotaur (1965; Detective Frank Warren and his formerly CIA-connected neighbor Alice Bellows return to investigate the death of a federal judge. Sequel to Agony Hill)

Linda Stratmann, Sherlock Holmes and the Power Principle, Sapere (in 1878 Homes takes on a case at the beginning of his career as a detective)

Ken Tentarelli, The Blackest Time, Black Rose Writing (a novel of Florence, Italy, during the Black Plague)

Michelle Vernal, The Irish Adoption House, Bookouture (in 1920 Ireland a young woman, pregnant and single, has her baby taken away and sent to Savannah, Georgia)

Erica Vetsch, A Scheming in Parliament, Kregel (book two of the Of Cloaks & Daggers Regency series with a mystery and compelling faith journeys)

James Wade, Narrow the Road, Blackstone (Southern Gothic odyssey, a young man’s quest to reunite his family takes him on a life-altering journey through the wilds of 1930s East Texas)

Alexandra Weston, The Hollywood Runaway, Boldwood (1932; a new life in Hollywood is forged from the ashes of an old one in Liverpool)

Darcie Wilde, The Heir, Kensington (the future queen becomes a rebellious sleuth when she solves the mystery of a dead man discovered on the grounds of Kensington Palace)

John Willingham, The Last Woman, Texas Christian Uni. Press (inspired by true events, story follows three young women whose lives become intertwined as they flee up the Mississippi River in 1877)

Bruce Wilson, Muckrakers 1917, Artemesia Publishing (1917; reporters for an Arizona newspaper expose a political assassination in Phoenix during the Spanish Flu epidemic)

Jennifer L. Wright, Last Light Over Galveston, Tyndale (amid the 1900 Galveston hurricane, one woman’s perseverance is severely tested)

Samantha York, The Foreshore, Salt Publishing (gothic historical fiction debut using familiar tropes of the shipwreck and abandoned island to explore community, grief, religion, relationships and the fear of the unknown)

September 2025

Sara Ackerman, The Guest in Room 120, Mira (novel inspired by one of America’s most famous, mysterious deaths, that of Stanford University’s founder Jane Stanford in Waikiki)

Tasha Alexander, The Sisterhood, Minotaur (Lady Emily investigates the murder of a glamorous debutante in next in series set in 1907)

Jack Anderson, The Return of Moriarty, Crooked Lane (after Professor Moriarty survives Reichenbach Falls and Sherlock Holmes dies, Moriarty finds himself caught up in a locked-room mystery Holmes couldn’t solve)

Lainie Anderson, Murder on North Terrace, Hachette AU (Miss Cocks and Ethel Bromley return for Book Two in the cosy Petticoat Police Mystery Series, inspired by one of Australia’s first policewomen)

Jean-Baptiste Andrea, Watching Over Her, Atlantic (during an infamous sculptor’s final hours, he reveals his impoverished childhood, his unlikely rise to fame and his meeting with Viola, the daughter of a powerful aristocratic family)

Richard Aronowitz, Night Comes Down, Guernica (novel set in a remote town in the borderlands between England and Wales in the early years of Queen Victoria’s reign)

Ronald H. Balson, The Righteous, St. Martin’s Press (novel of bravery, betrayal, exile, and hope set in World War II Budapest)

Lesley Pratt Bannatyne, Lake Song, Mad Creek Press (novel told in stories against a backdrop of historical events―bootlegging, Klan attacks, gold smuggling, the Albany Ketchup Murders, the 1965 Northeast blackout―as a generations-long mystery unwinds)

John Banville, Venetian Vespers, Faber and Faber (supernatural mystery puzzle taking place in 1899)

J. S. Barnes, Frankenstein’s Monster, Titan (a writer finds his rural English life disrupted by the arrival of mysterious doctor with a legendary past)

Karen Barnett, Through Water and Stone, Kregel (split-time historical romance novel set in 1948 and present)

Damien Barr, The Two Roberts, Canongate (novel spans from 1930s Chicago to wartime London)

Susanna Bavin, A Baby for the Home Front Girls, Bookouture (fifth and final book in The Home Front Girls series romantic saga)

Madeline Bell, The Austen Affair, St. Martin’s Griffin (two feuding co-stars in a Jane Austen film adaptation accidentally travel back in time to the Regency Era)

Renée Belliveau, A Sense of Things Beyond, Vagrant Press (in the aftermath of the First World War literary fiction explores what is commemorated and what is forgotten)

James R. Benn, A Bitter Wind, Soho Crime (to solve a murder at an English airbase, Billy Boyle must immerse himself in the world of WWII radio espionage)

Matthew Blake, A Murder in Paris, Harper (an expert in memory must uncover the truth about her family’s wartime past)

Meihan Boey, The Formidable Miss Cassidy, Harper Perennial (historical fantasy in which a Scottish governess arrives in Singapore to take up her new post, only to find a host of problems await that require her unique skills)

Verity Bright, Murder at the Royal Palace, Bookouture (Lady Eleanor Swift cosy mystery, book 23)

Michael Burge, The Watchnight, Histria (1852; reimagining of the untold story of the Methodist settlers who colonized Australia’s Jenolan Caves during the Frontier Wars)

Charles Bush, The Boy with the Jade, HTF Publishing (novel explores a young aristocrat’s quest for identity amid love, loss, and betrayal in 18th-century China)

Dan Chaon, One of Us, Henry Holt (macabre tale about orphaned twins on the run from their murderous uncle who find refuge in a travelling carnival)

Jerome Charyn, Maria La Divina, Bellevue Literary Press (humanizes Maria Callas, revealing the mythical artist as a woman who survived hunger, war, and loneliness)

Ann Yu-Kyung Choi, All Things Under the Moon, Simon & Schuster (a tale set in 1920s Korea, of one seemingly ordinary woman who rises from illiterate villager to reluctant revolutionary)

Alys Clare, The Skeleton in the Rose Bed, Severn House (a killer is loose on the streets of London and he has set his sights on private investigators Lily Raynor and Felix Wilbraham)

Chanel Cleeton, The Lost Story of Eva Fuentes, Berkley (a librarian defies the Castro regime in Post-Revolutionary Cuba to protect a mysterious book with a legacy that spans from the beginning of the 20th century)

Bridget Collins, The Naked Light, The Borough Press (a haunting gothic tale of ancient darkness and a love that defies convention)

L. D. Colter, While the Gods Sleep, Solaris (first book in a new fantasy trilogy where ordinary people stumble into the twisted games of the gods)

Rebecca Connolly, A Carol for Mrs. Dickens, Shadow Mountain (inspired by real individuals, novel reminds us that the true spirit of the holiday lies in love, faith, and the joy of giving)

Mia Couto, trans. David Brookshaw, The Cartographer of Absences, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (novel about a father and son in the waning days of colonial Mozambique)

Stephanie Cowell, The Man in the Stone Cottage, Regal House (follows Charlotte Bronte’s early writing and Emily’s secret romance with a local shepherd)

Erin A. Craig, A Land So Wide, Pantheon (historical fantasy blend of dark fairytale and romance set in the Canadian wilderness)

Lesley Crewe, The Spirit of Scatarie, Nimbus (novel set on Nova Scotia’s remote Scatarie Island, follows three friends whose lives are inextricably bound, and the spirit who guides them)

H. S. Cross, Amanda, Europa Editions (a meditation on love, trauma, and redemption and the infinite varieties of human experience, set in a post WWI nation of upheaval)

Carolyn Newton Curry, Trudy’s Awakening, Mercer Univ. Press (novel set in Georgia, latter half of the 19th-century, tells of three women whose lives were intermingled as they worked to overcome society’s barriers to their progress)

Celeste Daniels, Only You, Hera (story of two musicians who have loved each other in different incarnations over many lifetimes)

Jason Diamond, Kaplan’s Plot, Flatiron (debut novel about mothers and sons, crime and consequence, unspoken family secrets, and being Jewish in America)

Victoria Dowd, Death in the Aviary, Datura Books (locked room murder mystery set in 1928/29 in which Charlotte Blood investigates)

Lacey Dunham, The Belles, Atria (coming-of-age story in 1951 is an excavation of the dark side of girlhood, privilege, and desire to belong)

Anne Echols, Roland’s Labyrinth, She Writes (a story set in 1400s Provence about a young, passionate doctor who falls in love with a mentally ill young woman)

Sarah M. Eden, Echoes of the Sea, Shadow Mountain (historical romance in which a modern-day London actor time-travels to 1803)

Martin Edwards, Hemlock Bay, Head of Zeus/Aries (fifth novel in the Rachel Savernake Golden Age Mystery series)

Cynthia Ellingsen, The Cut of the Moon, Lake Union (a mystery and a longing for love link two women, a century apart, in a novel about family secrets and lies)

Sarah Emsley, The Austens, Pottersfield Press (in a world hostile to art, love and the idea of women’s choices, novel contrasts Jane Austen’s choice to write fiction, with her sister-in-law Fanny’s choice to marry for love)

Christine Estima, Letters to Kafka, House of Anansi (a tragic romance and feminist adventure about translator and resistance fighter Milena Jesenská’s love affair with Franz Kafka)

Janis Falk, Not Yet Lost, She Writes (a Polish immigrant woman fights against worker oppression in Depression-era Detroit)

Liz Fenwick, The Secrets of Harbour House, HQ (romantic dual timeline novel set in 1930s Paris and Venice)

David Field, The Belvedere Scandal, Sapere (an Esther and Jack Enright mystery set in 1901 as the crown is passed to Edward VII)

Charles Finch, The Hidden City, Minotaur (aristocratic sleuth Charles Lenox makes a triumphant return to London from his travels to America, to investigate a mystery hidden in the architecture of the city itself)

Ken Follett, Circle of Days, Grand Central/Quercus (through characters such as a miner named Seft and the priestess Joia, readers explore the famous and ancient stone circle in England)

Emerson Ford, Every Bend in the River, Storm (true story of a woman caught between freedom and duty, set against the backdrop of the American Revolution)

Mariah Fredericks, The Girl in the Green Dress, Minotaur (mystery about the 1920 murder of the gambler Joseph Elwell)

Sarah Freethy, The Seeker of Lost Paintings, Simon & Schuster UK (interweaving war-torn Rome, 1939, with modern-day London, 1997, this historical novel is about love, betrayal and a quest for the truth)

Rosza Gaston, Maid of Honour, Sapere (tale of Anne Boleyn at Margaret of Austria’s court)

Peter Gibbons, Camelot, Boldwood (next installment of the Chronicles of Arthur series)

Anthony Graziano, Teddy’s World, Guernica (a tale of love, strength, and perseverance by a family confronting a world hostile to those who are “different.”)

David Greig, The Book of I, Europa Editions (novel set on a remote Scottish isle in 825 AD serves as a philosophical commentary on guilt and redemption, but also humanity, love, and the things we choose to believe in)

Brit Griffin, The Haunting of Modesto O’Brien, Latitude 46 (against a landscape ravaged by human greed in 1907, O’Brien must make hard choices about loyalty, sacrifice and revenge)

Annie Groves, Three Sisters in the Snow, HarperCollins (1942 on Victory Walk in East London where the Harrison sisters are wishing for some winter magic; book 3 in series)

Xiaolu Guo, Call Me Ishmaelle, Grove/Black Cat (feminist retelling of Moby-Dick through the eyes of one woman during which, as the American Civil War breaks out, Ishmaelle boards the whaling ship Nimrod)

Gilbert Hackforth-Jones, Chinese Poison, Sapere (first book in a series of British Royal Navy thrillers)

Nathan Harris, Amity, Little, Brown/Tinder Press (New Orleans, 1866; delves into the years of the Civil War’s aftermath to deliver a tale of what freedom means in a society still determined to return its Black citizens to bondage)

Elodie Harper, Boudicca’s Daughter, Union Square/Apollo (follows Boudicca’s rise and fall through the eyes of her youngest daughter, Solina, who seeks revenge against Rome)

Sarah Hawkswood, Feast for the Ravens, Allison & Busby (September 1145: when the body of a Templar knight is discovered it’s up to Bradecote, Catchpoll and Walkelin to bring a killer to justice)

Natalie Haynes, No Friend to This House, Mantle (retelling of the myth of Medea, and her turbulent relationship with the questing Jason)

Rosie Hewlett, Medusa, Transworld (reimagining of the myth of Medusa, as the snake-haired Gorgon sets the record straight about her monstrous reputation)

Tim Hodkinson, The Blazing Sea, Head of Zeus/Aries (warrior prince Einar reunites with the Wolf Coats as they voyage south to Byzantine lands)

Robert Hough, Anarchists in Love, Douglas & McIntyre (recreates the political violence and revolutionary idealism that flowed through New York City during the Gilded Age of the 1890s)

Lorena Hughes, The Night We Became Strangers, Kensington (two young journalists try to uncover what happened to their families when an Ecuadorian radio station replicated The War of the Worlds in 1949)

Faulkner Hunt, The Ballad of Innes of Skara Skaill, Regalo Press (a bereaved son takes up with two young brothers living outcast on the village streets and moors of Skara Heath)

Michael Jecks, Ashes of Rebellion, Boldwood (1358; A free company of English men and boys, led by John Hawkwood, previously of Sir John de Sully’s Vintaine, have only their wits, combat skills and each other to rely on)

Maureen Johnson, Jay Cooper, The Creeping Hand Murder, Crown (interactive mystery set in November 1933, London. Seven people receive mysterious letters. Someone knows all their secrets)

Dan Jones, Lion Hearts, Head of Zeus/Aries (third and last installment in the Essex Dogs series, set in 1351)

Teddy Jones, A Family of Good Women, Stoney Creek Publishing (inspired by historical events – can a new life be built from the ashes of hardship on the plains of the 1920s Texas Panhandle?)

Don Keith, Elaine Hume Peake, The Kaboom Boys, Severn River (saga of courage, sacrifice, and friendship, set during WWII and based on true events)

Julia Kelly, A Dark and Deadly Journey, Minotaur (typist-turned-field agent Evelyne Redfern is ready for her next assignment with Britain’s secretive Special Investigations Unit)

Katherine Kirkpatrick, To Chase the Glowing Hours, Regal House (1922; novel explores themes of love, greed, loss, privilege, and self-discovery, set against the backdrops of Egypt and England)

Julie Klassen, A Sea View Christmas, Bethany House (Regency coming of age romance; companion novella to the Summers Sisters)

Gerrit Kouwenaar, trans. Michele Hutchison, Fall, Bomb, Fall, Pushkin Press (story of a teenager’s coming-of-age at the outbreak of war)

Jane Lark, The Great Western Railway Girls Do Their Bit, Boldwood (story of friendship, courage and women’s strength on the home front)

Sue Lawrence, Whispers in the Glen, Saraband (tale inspired by real events of sisterhood and resilience in a Highland village home front in World War II Scotland)

Erryn Lee, What Remains, Historium (dual-timeline mystery that bridges centuries-and secrets-between ancient Rome and the modern world)

Jen Sookfong Lee, The Hunger We Pass Down, Erewhon (horror-tinged intergenerational saga set in modern- day Vancouver and 1940s Hong Kong)

Mackenzi Lee, Lady Like, Dial Press (two women set their sights on marrying the same duke)

Amanda Lees, Secrets of Villa Eden, Bookouture (a romance story set in Cairo 1942 and the present day)

Marianne Leone, Christina the Astonishing, Akashic (sardonic coming-of-age novel told from the perspective of Christina, who with Catholic school nuns, Italian mothers, and small-town Massachusetts in mid-20^th-century)

Paul Levine, Midnight Burning, Amphorae/Blank Slate (Charlie Chaplin and Albert Einstein battle fascists when the LAPD and the FBI will not)

Michael Robert Liska, Alice, or the Wild Girl, Skyhorse (story about the unlikely bond between an aging naval commander and the feral child he picks up on a deserted island in the South Seas in mid-19th century)

Catherine Lloyd, Miss Morton and the Missing Heir, Kensington (a cross between a Regency romance and a detective story)

Ruth Frances Long, The Book of Gold, Hodderscape (first book in The Feral Gods historical fantasy trilogy, set in 16^th-century)

Edward Marston, Murder on the Great Northern Railway, Allizon & Busby (Lincoln city bursting at the seams for the annual Horse Fair, further complicates a challenging case for the Railway Detective)

Madeline Martin, The Secret Book Society, Graydon House (set in Victorian London, tracing the lives of four women and the clandestine book club that frees them from the constraints of their husbands and homes)

Ilana Masad, Beings, Bloomsbury (novel rooted in true events asks how our beliefs, memories, and pain tie us to one another and to our history)

Sarah McCoy, Whatever Happened to Lori Lovely?, William Morrow (novel based on a true story: a beautiful young movie star of Hollywood’s Golden Age gives up her career to become a nun)

Fiona McIntosh, The Soldier’s Daughter, PRH AU (Charlie must prove his bravery, but it is Violet, Charlie’s daughter, who will fight to claim his lasting legacy)

Heather B. Moore, Julia, Shadow Mountain (fictional biography charts Julia Child’s journey from intelligence officer to beloved chef)

Syd Moore, The Great Deception, Magpie (1940. Britain invades Iceland, and an agent is dropped into this occupied territory to assess a clairvoyant in Reykjavik)

Shani Mootoo, Starry Starry Night, Book*Hug (gives voice to a young girl living in 1960s Trinidad and spanning her life between the ages of four and twelve)

Louisa Morgan, The Faerie Morgana, Redhook/Orbit (reimagines the story of Morgan Le Fay, one of the women in Arthurian legend)

Judi Morison, Secrets, S&S Bundyi (family saga spanning more than half a decade, about three generations fractured by secrets, and the three strong women who must bring them into the light)

Walter Mosley, Gray Dawn, Mulholland (next installment of the Easy Rawlins novels set in 1970s Los Angeles)

P. Moss, Screwing Sinatra, IDW Publishing (focuses on one of the most celebrated performers in pop culture and his connections to the mob and political power in Golden Age Las Vegas)

Heather Mottershead, No Women Were Harmed, Sphere (set against the realities of a Victorian asylum, debut sees one woman take her revenge on the men who would keep her caged)

Donna Mumma, First Comes Marriage………..Then Comes Murder, Barbour (in 1956 Levi City, Florida, a renowned bridal gown designer is facing the greatest challenge of her career when someone starts killing brides)

Jenna Ness, The Last War Orphan, Bookouture (Paris, 1940 – when the orphanage is taken over by the Nazis, orphan Lucie hides a baby left on the doorstep, along with the help of a kind soldier)

Anna Newallo, Fragile Wicked Things, Open Road (dark gothic romance paranormal reimagining of Charlotte Brontё’s Jane Eyre)

Max Nightingale, Murder in Tinseltown, Pegasus (murder mystery set against the glamorous backdrop of Hollywood’s golden era)

Kevin O’Brien, Everyone a Stranger, Kensington (historical suspense thriller set during World War II, as a young war widow is unwittingly drawn into a web of intrigue and murder)

Liz O’Neill, Ways of Virtue, She Writes (1950s New England; literary romance about a young socialite and a pilot who take a chance on each other against extreme odds)

Emily Organ, Murder in the Soho Graveyard, Storm (next installment of the Emma Langley Victorian mystery series, set in London, 1890)

Elizabeth Bass Parman, Bees in June, Harper Muse (in a Tennessee small town in the 1960s, one woman finds the courage to stand up for her life with a little help from the bees)

Cathy Pegau, A Murderous Business, Minotaur (historical mystery about two queer women in turn-of-the-century New York)

Stacia Pelletier, The Deliverance of Barker McRae, Mercer Univ. Press (a tale about trespass, frontier religion, fathers and daughters, and friendships between unlikely companions)

Andrea Penrose, Murder at Somerset House, Kensington (next installment in the Lord Wrexford and Charlotte Regency mystery series)

Angela Petch, The Lost Garden, Bookouture (novel about the risks people took in wartime, family secrets, loss and love)

Tracie Peterson, Misty M. Beller, and Karen Witemeyer, On a Midnight Clear, Bethany House (three Western-themed Christmas romance novellas)

Scott Phillips, The Devil Raises His Own, No Exit Press (noir set in 1916 Hollywood dives into the dark origins of the film industry)

Carol Pouliot, Murder at the Moulin Rouge, Level Best-Historia (next installment in the The Blackwell and Watson Time-Travel Mystery series)

Thomas Pynchon, Shadow Ticket, Penguin Press (in 1932 Great Depression, private eye Hicks McTaggart thinks he’s found job security until he gets sent to locate the heiress of a Wisconsin cheese fortune)

Oriana Ramunno, Smoke in Berlin, Hemlock Press (detective crime thriller set in Berlin during The Second World War)

Victoria Redel, I Am You, Zando/SJP Lit (in 1600s Amsterdam, two women—a painter and her assistant—defy the norms of their time as they take on the male-dominated art world and fall in love)

Michael Redhill, The Trial of Katterfelto, Knopf Canada (in late-18th century, conjurer Gustavus Katterfelto and colleague,  Roger Gossage, travel across the English countryside with a bag of tricks)

Sophie Rickard and Scarlett Rickard, This Slavery, SelfMadeHero (graphic novel adapted from a novel by the feminist poet Ethel Carnie Holdsworth about what it was like to grow up female in prewar industrial Britain)

Tony Robinson, The House of Wolf, Sphere (a witty recreation of the Anglo-Saxons, Alfred the Great, and the making of England)

Heather Rose, A Great Act of Love, Allen & Unwin (Van Diemen’s Land, 1839; a young woman of means must navigate an insular colony of exiles and opportunists to create a new life on the island)

Gareth Rubin, The Waterfall, Simon & Schuster UK (four interconnected mysteries take the reader from Shakespeare’s day to a 19th-century Gothic former Priory, to 1920s Venice, and 1940s California)

A. Rushby, Slashed Beauties, Verve/Berkley (gothic feminist body horror in two timelines revolving around three Anatomical Venuses that come to life to murder men who have wronged them)

Patrick Ryan, Buckeye, Random House (story weaves the intimate lives of two midwestern families across generations, from World War II to the late twentieth century)

Suzanne Uttaro Samuels, Seeds of the Pomegranate, Sibylline Press (a story of one woman’s struggle for survival in a brutal early 20^th-century world)

Park Seolyeon, trans. Anton Hur, Capitalists Must Starve, Tilted Axis (historical novel about labour activism in Japanese-occupied Korea)

Chrystal Schleyer, A Rather Peculiar Poisoning, Park Row (in 1910, celebrations for twin brothers’ marital engagements take a turn when one is poisoned, and everyone becomes a suspect)

Tamar Shapiro, Restitution, Regal House (family drama set against the backdrop of German reunification)

Cathy Sharp, The Evacuee’s Promise, HarperCollins (young Georgie Greene is evacuated to the English countryside to keep him safe from the London Blitz)

Michelle Shocklee, The Women of Oak Ridge, Tyndale (two women work at a Manhattan Project site during World War II and uncover truths that change their lives)

Sarah Sigal, The Paris Spy, Lume Books (in Paris 1938, Lady Pamela More takes on a dangerous assignment to infiltrate the Parisian circles of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor)

Joan Silber, Mercy, Counterpoint (story of a moment of fear and abandonment that reverberates across decades, and set against the changing social and sexual mores from the 1970s onward)

Marisa Silver, At Last, Simon & Schuster (explores a mid-century American family centered on two matriarchs whose intertwined lives reflect the complexities of family, tradition, and personal ambition)

Esperanza Hope Snyder, Orange Wine, Bindery Books (a story of sisterhood, love, passion, and betrayal set against the backdrop of early twentieth-century Colombia, where the Catholic Church exercises total control over women)

José Sotolongo, The Optimistic Cuban, Histria (in 1959 Havana, middle-class student activist Fernando fights against the corrupt, U.S.-backed Batista regime)

Barbara Stark-Nemon, Isabela’s Way, She Writes (coming-of-age tale of one fourteen-year-old girl’s escape from early-17th-century Portugal’s Inquisition)

Susan Stokes-Chapman, The Twelve Days of Christmas, Harvill Secker (the snowy village of Merrywake celebrates the Christmas season after the Napoleonic Wars)

Anna Stuart, The President’s Wife, Bookouture (novel of one woman’s bravery, determination and courage, inspired by the life of Eleanor Roosevelt)

Seamus Sullivan, Daedalus Is Dead, Tordotcom (story of fatherhood and masculinity, told through the reimagined Greek myth of Daedalus, Icarus, King Minos, Ariadne, and the Minotaur)

Defne Suman, The Last Apartment in Istanbul, Head of Zeus/Apollo (story of Istanbul’s deterioration, beginning from COVID-19 era and weaving its way backwards to the 1950s)

Melinda Taub, The Shocking Experiments of Miss Mary Bennet, Grand Central (queer story that recasts Mary Bennet as a scientist, one who creates a monster in an attempt to save herself from spinsterhood)

Andrew Taylor, A Schooling in Murder, Hemlock Press (historical mystery set in the last days of WWII)

Maisie Thomas, Hopeful Hearts at the Wartime Hotel, Boldwood (an uplifting saga of female friendship, set in Manchester)

Jane Thynne, Appointment in Paris, Quercus (Harry Fox, an MI5 Watcher, now suspended, and his associate Stella Fry are reunited in this espionage war thriller)

Katie Tietjen, Murder in Miniature, Crooked Lane (continues the adventures of amateur sleuth Maple Bishop, owner of a dollhouse business)

Seána Tinley, The Irish Midwife, Hodder & Stoughton (in an era when midwifes/handywomen can be arrested, young Peggy leaves Belfast for Dublin, to train as a legal midwife)

Simon Tolkien, The Room of Lost Steps, Lake Union (second Theo Sterling book, following The Palace at the End of the Sea, set in 1929)

Mariana Travacio, trans. Will Morningstar, trans. Samantha Schnee, All That Dies in April, World Editions (an ancestral tale rooted in Latin American history of rural displacement and perpetual inequality)

Lydia Travers, Murder on a Scottish Island, Bookouture (Lady Poppy Proudfoot is on the case of a dead body and a missing sapphire in Scotland, 1924)

Fiona Valpy, The Dark of the Moon, Lake Union (dual time line novel set in WWII and present day; a young man uses maths, logic and persistence to track down a man’s final resting place)

Alexandra Vasti, Ladies in Hating, St. Martin’s Griffin (two Gothic novelists trade rivalry for love in this sapphic Regency)

Rose Warner, The Teacher Evacuees, Canelo (1939; evacuated to the countryside, teacher Victoria McKaye realises there are more dangers than German bombs in wartime)

Kathy Watson, Orphans of the Living, She Writes (follows the Stovall family’s early 20th-century quest for home and redemption as they confront racism, poverty, and inequality)

Pam Weaver, The West End Nannies, Hera (a family saga set in 1960s in London’s West End)

Doris Webster, Mary Alden Hopkins, Consider the Consequences, Pushkin Prress (interactive 1930s romantic time capsule where readers decide what the characters do)

Marty Wingate, The House for Lost Children, Bookouture (WWII 1940 tale of a little orphan girl and the woman who would do anything to protect the children in her care)

Kimberley Woodhouse, A Song in the Dark, Bethany House (against the backdrop of the impending WWII, blind virtuoso pianist Chaisley Frappier embarks on a concert tour through a rapidly changing Europe)

Norman Woolworth, The Bolden Cylinder (tent.), Level Best-Historia (early 20^th-c story revolves around Buddy Bolden, a New Orleans cornetist and band leader who is sometimes referred to as the first jazz musician)

Seishi Yokomizo, trans. Bryan Karetnyk, Murder at the Black Cat Café, Pushkin Vertigo (to solve this mystery, set in post-war Tokyo, scruffy detective Kosuke Kindaichi will have to untangle a complex web of love, jealousy, and betrayal)

Kitty Zeldis, One of Them, Harper (a story of secrets, friendship, and betrayal about two young women at Vassar in the years after World War II)

October 2025

Eliette Abecassis, trans. Johanna McCalmont, A Couple, Arctis (told in reverse chronology against the backdrop of Paris and the major historical upheavals of the last decades)

Nekesa Afia, As Long as You’re Mine, Lake Union (beneath the glitter of 1930s Hollywood, dangerous secrets connect two generations of women)

Rose Alexander, The Letter from the Island, Bookouture (a dual timeline novel of family set in present day London and 1944, Crete)

Skye Alexander, When the Blues Come Calling, Level Best-Historia (fifth mystery, taking place in NYC during the summer of 1926, has Lizzie Crane about to make her recording debut when tragic events occur)

Kimberly Bea, The Changeling Queen, Erewhon (fantasy inspired by the “Ballad of Tam Lin” and weaving mystical folklore through a story set in medieval Scotland)

Pepper Basham, Sense and Suitability, Thomas Nelson (old flames turned enemies reunite and despite their best attempts, can’t seem to stay apart)

Mathieu Belezi, trans. Lara Vergnaud, Attacking Earth and Sun, Other Press (novel  set in the early days of the 19th-century French colonization of Algeria)

Alexandra Bell, The White Octopus Hotel, Del Rey (two lost souls living in different centuries meet and discover if a second chance awaits them behind its doors)

Michelle Bennington, Widow’s Peak, Level Best-Historia (next in mystery series featuring former actress and spy Lady Ravenna Birchfield. Set in early 1800s)

Lucy E. M. Black, A Quilting of Scars, Now or Never Publishing (a frontier meditation on aging and remorse, highlighting the confines of a community where strict moral codes are imposed upon its members and fear of exposure terrifies queer youth)

Sara Blaydes, The Restoration Garden, Lake Union (1940; a landscape architect unearths the tangled history of a once-celebrated English garden)

Diane Botnick, Becoming Sarah, She Writes (examines how the Holocaust shapes the life of one tough survivor and the toll it takes on her daughters and granddaughters)

Sasha Butler, The Marriage Contract, Salt Publishing (portrays life in an unforgiving Elizabethan era, exploring love’s many forms)

Colleen Cambridge, Two Truths and a Murder, Kensington (1930s mystery in which Agatha Christie’s housekeeper, Phyllida decides to crash a party and an investigation)

Deborah Carr, The Witching Hour, One More Chapter (dangerous secrets lie beneath the surface on Jersey during the Nazi occupation in this historical fantasy)

Beth Cato, A House Between Sea and Sky, 47North (1920s California; historical fantasy in which two people in need of healing find strange refuge in a house with a mind of its own)

KJ Charles, All of Us Murderers, Poisoned Pen (Edwardian Gothic in which two warring lovers uncover the murderous mysteries of Lackaday House―and live to tell the tale)

Adrienne Chinn, The Queen’s Necklace, One More Chapter (a saga in two timelines)

Rosie Clarke, Better Days on Dressmakers’ Alley, Boldwood (Lady Diane’s business continues to thrive in London’s East End, 1926, but there’s trouble ahead)

Denise Smith Cline, The Resettlement of Vesta Blonik, Regal House (family saga of life-changing choices made against the backdrop of the Great Depression)

Mary Connealy, Riches Beyond Measure, Bethany House (conclusion to the Golden State Treasure series, as Cord and Annie realize that some treasures are far more valuable than earthly goods)

Donovan Cook, Woden’s Storm, Boldwood (continuation of the adventure of turmoil, coming of age and survival set when Britannia was on its knees and fighting for its very existence)

Lorna Cook, The Distant Daughter, Lake Union (family saga set in Singapore, 1941 and Cornwall, 2025)

C. J. Cooke, The Last Witch, Berkley/HarperCollins (an accused witch in Innsbruck, 1485, must use her voice to fight for her life—and the truth)

Tea Cooper, The Tangled Web, HQ (Maitland, 1892; the sudden death of her brother leads a young woman on a quest to find a missing boy)

Andreina Cordani, A Scrooge Mystery, Zaffre (reformed miser, Ebenezer Scrooge, sees the spirit of a girl, whose murder he must solve if he is to avoid the dreaded vision of The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come)

Joanne Bischof DeWitt, The Heart of Bennet Hollow, Tyndale (Virginia 1904; an Appalachian farmer’s daughter and a wealthy businessman find a surprising love but must reckon with what divides them)

Christina Dodd, Much Ado About Mistletoe, Kensington (Daughter of Montague Christmas novella)

Anton Du Beke, The Winter Ball, Orion (next installment of the Buckingham Hotel series set in London 1942)

Caroline Dunford, Hope Against Evil, Headline Accent (new series set around WWII featuring Euphemia Martin’s (previous mystery series) perceptive daughter Hope Stapleford)

C. F. Dunn, Degrees of Affinity, Sapere (book three in the Wars of the Roses series, set in England 1472)

Mari Ellis Dunning, Witsh, Honno Welsh Women’s Press (a woman seeks the help of a healer in 16^th-century Wales)

David Elias, Into the Ark, Radiant Press (family saga set in the early sixties in a southern Manitoba valley)

Natalie Meg Evans, The Irish Nurse at the Lodging House, Bookouture (nurse Grace Whelan is full of hope for a fresh start and hopes the family she’s desperately running from don’t catch up with her)

P. W. Finch, The Devil’s Knight, Canelo (first installment of The Thurstan Wildblood series, set during the Third Crusade in 12th-century)

Betty Firth, A Little Miracle in the Dales, Canelo (n inspirational historical romance, set in World War Two)

Jillian Forsberg, The Porcelain Menagerie, History Through Fiction (two timelines, bound by a king’s obsessions: art and survival intertwine as Johann and Fatima navigate the king’s unpredictable demands and the deadly allure of court life)

Mario Fortunato, trans. Julia MacGibbon, The Innocent Days of War, Other Press (a group of young people’s lives and passions collide in unexpected ways as World War II transforms Italy and England)

A. E. Goldin, Murder in Constantinople, Pushkin Vertigo (London, 1854; the chance discovery of an enigmatic letter and a photograph brings Ben Canaan on a dangerous adventure in this first in series)

Suzanne Goldring, Her Husband’s Return, Bookouture (dual timeline World War Two novel about the dark secrets one woman was forced to keep)

Philippa Gregory, Boleyn Traitor, William Morrow/Harper Collins UK (brings the Boleyn traitor, Jane, Lady Rochford, out of the shadows in a groundbreaking tale of love, betrayal and survival)

Lisa Groen, The Cassatt Sisters, Black Rose Writing (takes place during Mary Cassatt’s years with the Impressionists, while living with her sister Lydia and their parents in a Montmartre apartment)

Chris Hadfield, Final Orbit, Mulholland (Cold War thriller set against the backdrop of the real 1970s “Space race” between the US, USSR, and China)

Jill G. Hall, On a Sundown Sea, She Writes (a novel of Madame Tingley and the early 20^th-century origins of Lomaland)

Carissa Halton, Revolution Songs, NeWest (debut novel based on the little-known true history of the 1932 battle for Alberta between the Ku Klux Klan and the Communists)

Sophie Hannah (Agatha Christie), The Last Death of the Year, HarperCollins (New Year’s Eve, 1932; Hercule Poirot and Inspector Edward Catchpool arrive on the Greek island of Lamperos for a little holiday and a little murder)

Alix E. Harrow, The Everlasting, Tor (genre-defying fantasy adventure through time, as a reluctant lady knight and a historian with dreams of being a hero, fight to rewrite their tragic fates)

Alis Hawkins, The Hunters Club, Canelo (book 3 in The Oxford Mysteries; the uncovering by Basil of a secret society and the murder of a student, cause Non and Basil to join forces again)

Terri J. Haynes, The Daughter of Shiloh, Barbour (part of the Enduring Hope inspirational series)

Alan Hlad, A Secret in Tuscany, Kensington (set in World War II Tuscany and near-present day, novel draws on real-life events, and spans two generations)

Mike Hollow, The Bloomsbury Murder, Allison & Busby (1941; a woman who has taken victims of the Blitz and the war that’s torn Europe apart and given them refuge in her home, is now a victim of murder)

Gill Hornby, The Elopement, Pegasus (a romance novel of the Austen family, set in 1820)

Sam K. Horton, Ragwort, Solaris (sequel to Gorse, this second novel is filled with magic, folklore and faith, set in 19^th-century Cornwall)

S. D. House, Dead Man Blues, Crooked Lane (historical crime novel set in the South pulls the past into the present)

Chloe Michelle Howarth, Heap Earth Upon It, Verve Books (story of sapphic obsession set in 1965)

Angela Hunt, Rescued Heart, Bethany House (a series starter that transports readers to the Old Testament world of Sarah, the first Matriarch and a witness to the steadfast covenant of God)

Aamir Hussain, Under the Full and Crescent Moon, Dundurn Press (a young woman realizes her power and place in the world while defending her city from zealotry in a battle of words and beliefs during the Islamic Golden Age)

Margaret Hutton, If You Leave, Regal House (WWII through 1973; story exploring motherhood, love, and art, as three women carve a wayward path toward reconciliation)

Shotaro Ikenami, trans. Yui Kajita, The Samurai Detectives, Penguin (first in series portrayal of one of the most intriguing periods in the history of Japan)

Gish Jen, Bad Bad Girl, Knopf (a novel about a mother and a daughter forced to reckon with one another across decades)

Adam Johnson, The Wayfinder, MCD (epic novel set in the Polynesian islands of the South Pacific during the height of the Tu’i Tonga Empire in 10^th-c)

Jenni Keer, The Peculiar Incident at Thistlewick House, Boldwood (in Norfolk, England, 1895, not everything at Thistlewick Tye is quite what it seems in this ghostly mystery)

Jason Kingsley, Lord of Blackthorne, Rebellion (historical fantasy in which a young knight is gifted a ruined castle and faces a battle to rebuild it and gain the trust of the surrounding village)

Jonas Kreppel, trans. Mikhl Yashinsky, Adventures of Max Spitzkopf, White Goat Press (available for first time in English, rare 20^th-century detective stories feature Max Spitzkopf — legendary private eye and defender of the Jewish people)

Soraya Lane, The Hidden Daughter, Bookouture (story about the importance of following your heart, set in present day and Norway 1951)

Daniel M. Lavery, Christmas at the Women’s Hotel, HarperVia (a novella about one lively Christmastime at the Biedermeier Hotel)

Wen-yi Lee, When They Burned the Butterfly, Tor (historical fantasy set in Singapore, 1972)

Judy Lev, Bethlehem Road, She Writes (twelve stories one iconic street in Jerusalem where immigrants young and old struggle to find themselves between the years 1967 and 1999)

Beth Lewis, The Rush, Pegasus/Viper (in 1898 Canada, a lawless land stricken with gold fever, the struggle for survival and fortune takes a turn towards murder)

Kristen Loesch, The Hong Kong Widow, Berkley/Allison & Busby (in Hong Kong, 1953, in a remote mansion, witnesses insist a massacre took place, but the police declare it a collective hallucination, until decades later, when one witness returns)

Adam Lofthouse, War Lord: Scourge of Rome, Boldwood (final instalment in the Enemy of the Empire trilogy)

Brenda Lozano, Mothers, Catapult (tale of two women in 1940s Mexico—one whose daughter has just been kidnapped and another who has just adopted a little girl)

John A. McDermott, The Last Spirits of Manhattan, Atria (based on a true story, set in 1956 Manhattan, where famed director Alfred Hitchcock is hosting a star-studded party in an allegedly haunted house)

Imogen Matthews, Only I Can Save Them, Bookouture (Nazi-occupied Holland, 1942; inspired by the true story of wartime photographer Rudolf Breslauer)

Alice G. May, A New Recruit, Boldwood (inspired by the true-life stories of The Women’s Secret Army during WWII)

Fiona McIntosh, The Chocolate Tin, Storm (in post-war France, Captain Harry Blakeney discovers a dead soldier clutching a love letter tucked inside a tin of chocolates)

Denzil Meyrick, Murder at Holly House, Poisoned Pen (Yorkshire, 1952; murder mystery begins when a dead stranger is found lodged up the chimney of Holly House)

Fenella J. Miller, Blitz Spirit at Harbour House, Boldwood (next installment in the Harbour House series, set in September, 1940)

Linda Lael Miller, The Silver Hills Boarding House, Canary Street (frontier story about a woman who risks everything to protect her younger siblings …and the widower who sees a second chance at love)

Stacy Lynn Miller, The Secret War, Severn River (Hattie James, book three in which, in a factory in the Brazilian jungle, the Germans are developing a long-range bomber capable of reaching the US)

Ada Moncrieff, Murder at Midwinter, Harvill Secker (in 1937, Daphne suspects that she and her friends are being sent messages – or threats – related to the disappearance of a classmate twenty years ago)

Ross Montgomery, The Murder at World’s End, Penguin (Cornwall, 1910; Secrets, murder and mayhem collide as an under-butler and a foul-mouthed octogerian hunt a killer)

Michael Moorcock, Mark Hodder, The Albino’s Secret, S&S/Saga Press (story weaves elements of fantasy, action, and adventure into an alternate history reflecting the world of the 1930s)

Keith Moray, Desolation, Boldwood (a dark medieval mystery set in York, 1361. Ralph de Mandeville book 1)

Hugo Moreno, Where the North Ends, Univ. of New Mexico Press (story of love, fate, and redemption in which an aspiring writer finds himself trapped in the body of a seventeenth-century Franciscan novice accused of heresy)

Andie Newton, The Ghost House, One More Chapter (the proprietress of Chateau Ten in occupied France, 1944, discovers some of her guests are dangerously obsessed with the pursuit of an object hidden within Zone Rouge)

Chris Nickson, A Rage of Souls, Severn House (in Leeds, 1826, thieftaker Simon Westow takes on dark secrets and perplexing murders)

Anna North, Bog Queen, Bloomsbury (flashing between post-Brexit England and the druidic order of Celtic Europe at the dawn of the Roman era, novel connects across time two gifted young women learning to harness their strange strengths)

Judy Nunn, Pilbara, HarperCollins AU (set in the Pilbara in late 1800s, the tale of a family on a mission to restore the honour of its name)

Tiffany Odekirk, Winterset, Shadow Mountain (gothic Regency romance set in northern England, 1820)

Ambrose Parry, The Death of Shame, Canongate (last in series takes Raven and Sarah into a treacherous labyrinth of exploitation, corruption, high-level complicity and Victorian-style revenge porn)

Kate Pearce, Only Rakes Need Apply, Kensington (three Regency ladies each seek lovers with no strings attached)

Tanya Pell, Her Wicked Roots, Gallery (in a queer retelling of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Rappaccini’s Daughter, a young woman is lured to an estate owned by a botanist who might be hiding dark secrets)

Tracie Peterson, A Moment to Love, Bethany House (Cheyenne, Wyoming; a journey of healing and forgiveness on the frontier in The Hope of Cheyenne, book 3)

Néhémy Pierre-Dahomey, trans. Nathan H. Dize, Duels, Seagull Books (set in 1842, a tale of education, violence, and hope, in which one man’s dream for a better future collides with a community on the edge of transformation)

MJ Porter, Shield of Mercia, Boldwood (book 8 of The Eagle of Mercia Chronicles set in AD836)

Laura Purcell, House of Splinters, Raven Books (gothic horror set in England, 1774)

Domnica Radulescu, My Father’s Orchards, Histria (story of a Romanian family caught in the crossfire between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia during World War II)

Allyson Reedy, Mrs. Wilson’s Affair, Union Square (retelling of The Great Gatsby from the perspective of Tom Buchanan’s mistress, Myrtle Wilson)

Alyson Richman, The Missing Pages, Union Square/Harper Collins (a love story, a ghost story, and an elegy to the healing power of books; set in 1912 and present day)

Lev AC Rosen, Mirage City, Minotaur (Evander Mills book 4 set in 1950s San Francisco)

Eden Royce, Psychopomp & Circumstance, Tordotcom (southern Gothic historical fantasy featuring Phee St. Margaret, a daughter born to a family of free Black business owners in New Charleston)

Shari J. Ryan, The Nanny Outside the Gates, Bookouture (a Jewish girl is given a choice to work as a nanny in a Nazi officer’s home or be sent to the camps)

Anbara Salam, The Salvage, Tin House/Baskerville (gothic literary thriller set in 1962)

Catori Sarmiento, But the Wicked Shall Perish, Running Wild (follows a young Jewish woman, as she is brought back to life in 1920s Venice and navigates the political and societal landscape of 1920s Italy and Austria)

Marina Scott, The Night Guests, Lake Union (gothic ghost story set in 1903, Omaha, Nebraska)

Victoria Scott, The House on the Cliff, Boldwood (dual timeline tale of forbidden love, buried secrets, and ghostly whispers, set in 1966 and present)

Robert Scully, Robert J. Corber (ed.), A Scarlet Pansy (1932), Fordham-New York ReLit (celebrating its early 20^th-c effeminate and sexually adventurous protagonist, literary work illuminates our understanding of queer history)

Irina Shapiro, Murder on the Prince Regent, Storm (London, 1859;  nurse Gemma Tate boards the American packet ship the Prince Regent to aid Inspector Sebastian Bell in investigating the death of a British aristocrat)

Angela M. Shupe, In the Light of the Sun, Waterbrook (two sisters, separated by oceans and global conflict, are bonded through music and love. Novel based on true events from World War II)

Rosemary Simpson, In Deadly Fashion, Kensington (a killer has designs on ruining the wedding of heiress Prudence MacKenzie and ex-Pinkerton Geoffrey Hunter)

Wilbur Smith, House of Two Pharaohs, Zaffre (next installment of the Ancient Egyptian series featuring the great mage Taita)

Chevy Stevens, The Hitchhikers, St. Martin’s Press (in 1976 Canada, a couple make an RV road trip to repair their marriage and heal the wounds of recent tragic events)

Bonnie Suchman, What Remains is Hope, Black Rose Writing (second novel after Stumbling Stones about Alice Heppenheimer, daughter of a prosperous German Jewish family)

Matthew Sweet, Bookish, Mobius (set in post-war London in 1946, about an enigmatic independent bookshop owner who helps the local police solve crimes)

Klaus Teuber, Catan: The Order of the Ravens, Blackstone (book 2 returns to Catan, Island of the Sun, where Thorolf rules with an iron fist over the unfree, who fight to reclaim their futures)

Charles Todd, A Christmas Witness, Mysterious Press (a seasonal Ian Rutledge novella)

Gary W. Toyn, From Malice to Ashes, American Legacy Media (spanning Nazi-occupied Lithuania, Soviet labor camps, and the refugee corridors of wartime Europe, novel follows three families torn apart by two brutal regimes)

Lida Turpeinen, trans. David Hackston, Beasts of the Sea, MacLehose/Little, Brown (debut that explores the lives touched by one of history’s most intriguing extinct animals. Novel set in 1741 and 1859)

Peter Tremayne, Grave of the Lawgiver, Headline/ Severn House (the thirty-sixth Sister Fidelma Celtic mystery, set in AD 673)

Carrie Vaughn, The Glass Slide World, 47 North, (sequel follows a young scientist unlocking her magical abilities amid a high-seas adventure in 1902)

Boo Walker, Before We Say Goodbye, Lake Union (an epic love story prequel to the Red Mountain Chronicles)

Catherine Walker, A Watch of Nightingales, Inanna (historical mystery novel re-imagines a little-known time in the life of famous Canadian painter Emily Carr)

Alexandra Walsh, Daughter of the Stones, Boldwood (a dual timeline layered tale of sisterhood, legacy and the enduring power of love across the ages, set in present day and Iron Age Britain)

Jenni L. Walsh, Sonora, Harper Muse (inspired by a true story of one of the first female horse divers, novel is set in the heyday of the American carnival scene)

Martha Waters, And Then There Was The One, Atria (historical romance set in 1930s England with a murder mystery twist)

Paul Waters, Murder in Moonlit Square, No Exit Press (new series set in Delhi, featuring an Irish nun and an Indian hotelier)

Amanda Wen, Echoes of a Silent Song, Kregel (dual timeline romance; first book in the Melodies and Memories duology)

Joshua Wheeler, The High Heaven, Graywolf (multi-genre debut novel tracing one woman’s quest for faith across the American West during the 1960s Space Age & suffused with the absurdist history of American space travel)

Howard Whitehouse, The Gray Blade, Zmok Books (first in The Viking’s Daughter trilogy)

Mary Winters, Murder in Matrimony, Severn House (countess-turned-advice-columnist Amelia Amesbury has a wedding to plan alongside a new murder in this historical mystery)

Jaime Jo Wright, The Bell Tolls at Traeger Hall, Bethany House (in 1890, the ominous tolling of the bell announces that death has come to Traeger Hall, leaving orphaned Waverly Pembrooke to piece together the puzzle behind her uncle’s and aunt’s murders)

Felicity York, The Quiet Wife, Harper North (based on a true story, the tale of a woman reinventing herself, while embarking on a love affair with James Whistler)

Larry Zuckerman, To Save a Life, Cennan Books (1909; a young Jewish woman steals her dowry to flee Russia and an arranged marriage)

November 2025

Tessa Afshar, The Royal Artisan, Bethany House (rooted in biblical truths, story paints a tale of life, love, and intrigue in Queen Esther’s royal court)

Jess Armstrong, The Devil in Oxford, Minotaur/Allison & Busby (next in the historical gothic murder mystery with Ruby Vaughn)

Jina Bacarr, The Stolen Children of War, Boldwood (World War Two novel of courage, love and survival)

Kerry Barrett, The Bookshop of Secrets, HQ Digital (in a bookshop nestled in the streets of Lisbon, a shopkeeper leads a double life)

A.D. Bell, The Bookbinder’s Secret, HQ (a story of mystery and romance set in Oxford, 1901)

S. J. Bennett, The Queen Who Came in from the Cold, Crooked Lane (amateur sleuth Queen Elizabeth II is back on the case in 1960s England)

Sian Ann Bessey, The Maid of Sherwood Forest, Shadow Mountain (historical romance fantasy time travel in which Mariah, who thought Robin Hood was just a legend, is pulled her into his world)

Millicent Binks, Murder at the Scottish Ball, Bookouture (an Opal Laplume Mystery, set in 1934)

Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz, trans. Philip Boehm, Berlin Shuffle, Metropolitan Books (a lost novel rediscovered and published for the first time, follows a group of Berliners on the skids in 1920s Germany as society begins to spin out of control)

William Boyd, The Predicament, Atlantic Crime (1963; novel starring the travel writer-turned-reluctant spy Gabriel Dax, who finds himself implicated in a dangerous conspiracy)

Paula Brackston, The Cathedral of Lost Souls, St. Martin’s Press (in book two Hecate Cavendish must draw upon all her gifts, and the assistance of her family of ghostly allies, if Hereford is not to be lost to darkness forever)

J. C. Briggs, The Prisoner of Raven’s Gaze Hall, Sapere (a Gothic mystery set in England after the First World War, exposing family secrets and the legacy of trauma from the war and its aftermath)

Benedict Brown, The Holly Village Murders, Storm (cosy mystery, book 6 of the Marius Quin Mysteries)

Jessica Bull, The Austen Christmas Murders, Michael Joseph (‘tis the season for Jane to embark upon festive delights, making merry, and solving murders)

Graeme Macrae Burnet, Benbecula, Biblioasis (1857, story of Angus MacPhee who bludgeoned his parents and aunt to death in the crofting community on the remote Hebridean island of Benbecula)

Brisa Carleton, Last Call at the Savoy, Grand Central (a young writer brings to light the story of Ada Coleman, the woman who crafted the cocktail recipes The Savoy popularized in its handbook a century ago)

Kerry Chaput, The Death of Primrose Whittaker, Black Rose Writing (in 1924, put to work as a fortune teller, reluctant psychic Primrose communes with the souls of the lost and lonely)

Meagan Church, The Mad Wife, Sourcebooks Landmark (historical suspense following a 1950s housewife who begins to unearth dark secrets about her neighborhood and her own mind)

Joanne Clague, The Rebel Daughter, Canelo (Victorian saga continuation of The House of Help for Friendless Girls series)

Georgina Clarke, A Kiss from the Devil, VERVE (Lizzie Hardwicke Mystery, book 4 set in 18th century London)

Celeste Connally, Revenge, Served Royal, Minotaur (Regency-era Lady Petra Inquires mystery series set in September 1815)

Vivian Conroy, Trouble in the Alps, One More Chapter (book six of the 1930s Miss Ashford cosy mystery series)

Kendra Coulter, The Tortoise’s Tale, Simon & Schuster (a century of American history unfolds through the eyes of a giant tortoise snatched from her ancestral lands)

Christina Courtenay, Ripples Through Time, Headline Review (dual-time novel travels from the present day to the battles of West Mercia)

Susan Coventry, Till Taught By Pain, Regal House (explores the dawn of modern medicine in America in late 19th-century)

Anna Cowan, The Duke, St. Martin’s Griffin (a sapphic Regency romance about the duke who fears nothing… until the woman she never forgot walks through her door)

Josephine Cox, A Daughter’s Secret, HarperCollins (hoping to one day own her own teashop, a servant below stairs at the big house, carefully saves her wages each week)

Norma Curtis, The Bridge Between Friends, Boldwood (story of forbidden love, wartime secrets and the healing power of friendship, set in 1992 and 1944)

Ellie Curzon, The Lifeboat Orphans, Bookouture (WWII story of 15-year-old Connie who leaves war-torn England for the safer shores of America, with a nine-year old orphan boy in her care)

Brigitte Dale, The Good Daughters, Pegasus (story of three suffragettes in London and the battle for equality in 1912)

Erica Lucke Dean, Chasing Stardust, Lake Union (Zoey Jones is spreading her late mother’s ashes along a path her eccentric grandma G-Lo followed in 1972: David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust tour)

Samir Machado de Machado, trans. Rahul Bery, The Good Nazi, Pushkin Press (a zeppelin leaves Nazi Germany for Rio de Janeiro; a luxury holiday for those on board, until one of them is murdered in the airship’s bathroom)

Helena Dixon, Murder Most British, Bookouture (The Secret Detective Agency Book 3)
Also: Murder at Midwinter Farm (Kitty Underhay Mystery, book 22)

Catherine Fearns, The Fault Mirror, Quill & Crow (Belle Époque, Paris, 1900: American heiress Lydia Temple falls in love with aristocrat Séraphine de Valleiry and builds her a castle in the Swiss mountains —the Chateau des Miroirs)

Marshall Fine, Hemlock Lane, Lake Union (a story of family bonds and buried truths, set in 1967 when a young woman’s homecoming becomes a reckoning)

Anita Frank, Small Acts of Resistance, HQ (the survival of a downed pilot depends on the courage and compassion of a local family in occupied Northern France)

Darry Fraser, The Adventuress of Albany, HQ AU (historical romance adventure set in Albany, Western Australia, 1881)

Jean Fullerton, Winter Wishes for the East End Girls, Bookouture (festive wartime saga about love, courage and friendship)

Andrew Furman, The World That We Are, Regal House (delves into themes of love, family, the quest for meaningful work, and the search for a true home; dual timeline set in present and 1837 Massachusetts)

C. P. Giuliani, The Man From Morocco, Sapere (set in London, 1589; the seventh in the Tom Walsingham Mysteries series)

Julia Golding, The Austen Intrigue, One More Chapter (1812 London; up-and-coming novelist Jane Austen joins forces to solve the brutal murder of a French count and his opera singer wife)

Adrian Gostick, Jack Slade: Song of the Butcherbird, Arcade (tale of frontier justice in the early days of the Pony Express)

Lily Graham, Her Forgotten Hours, Bookouture (a WWII story about love, strength and sacrifice when a female pilot’s plane is shot down over France)

Ayana Gray, I, Medusa, Random House/Bonnier (portrays a young woman caught in the cross currents between her desires and the cruel, careless games of the Olympian gods)

Annie Groves, Three Sisters in the Snow, HarperCollins (WWII saga set around Christmas time)

Barbara Havelocke, Estella’s Fury, Hera (a dark Victorian Gothic crime thriller)

Elizabeth Hobbs, Murder Made Her Wicked, Crooked Lane (bicycle-riding, aspiring archaeologist Marigold Manners is ready for adventure in Boston, 1894)

Evelyn Hood, An Heiress’s Courage, Boldwood (a Scottish saga of grit and determination, set in Port Glasgow, Scotland 1930)

John Irving, Queen Esther, Simon & Schuster (revisits the orphanage in St. Cloud’s, Maine, in the 1920s, where Dr. Wilbur Larch takes in Esther—a Viennese-born Jew whose life is shaped by anti-Semitism)

Michael Jecks, Pilgrim’s War, Boldwood (first in new series on the Crusades, set in France, 1096)

Brian Kaufman, Rat Town Blues, Black Rose Writing (Mark “Slag” Ferguson (bartender, ex-boxer) adds unlicensed private investigator to his resume in this noir thriller)

Susanna Kearsley, Named of the Dragon, Simon & Schuster (a novel of love, lies, and loyalty, set against the backdrop of the early Jacobite rebellions)

Vanessa Kelly, Murder at Donwell Abbey, Kensington (Jane Austen’s Emma Knightley navigates changes in her family—while meeting her match in a deadly adversary)

Katrina Kendrick, A Lady’s Handbook of Espionage, Head of Zeus/Aria (a Regency dance of espionage and seduction)

Shona Kinsella, Daughters of Nicnevin, Flame Tree (historical fantasy about two powerful witches who meet in the early days of the 1745 Jacobite uprising)

Christina Koning, Murder in Paris, Allison & Busby (next installment in the Blind Detective Investigates series, set in 1945)

Ann Hanigan Kotz, Wayward Son, Bookpress Publishing (final novel in The Karoline Olsen Series)

Marion Kummerow, The Last Safe Place, Bookouture (novel inspired by the true events of Operation Seven, where a handful of Jewish citizens escaped Berlin in 1942 by posing as German intelligence agents)

Olivia Laing, The Silver Book, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux (a queer love story and a noir-ish thriller set in the months leading up to the murder of Pier Paolo Pasolini in 1975)

Stephanie Landsem, The Fault Between Us, Tyndale (based on events of the 1959 Hebgen Lake earthquake story is an exploration of the bonds of sisterhood)

Callie Langridge, A Twelfth Night Miracle, Storm (when grief threatens to steal her Christmas spirit, baker Freya Harris discovers that some houses hold more than just memories; Mandeville Mystery, book 5)

Shauna Lawless, Daughter of the Otherworld, Head of Zeus/AdAstra (historical fantasy set in the world of medieval Ireland during the time of the Norman invasion)

Con Lehane, The Red Scare Murders, Soho Crime (noir brings 1950s New York to life in a murder mystery)

Hervé Le Tellier, trans. Adriana Hunter, The Name on the Wall, Other Press (World War II historical fiction honors the life of a young French Resistance fighter)

A. M. Linden, The Quarry, She Writes (set in early medieval Britain, fourth installment tells the story of a Saxon sheriff on the hunt for fugitive Druids—unaware that he is being pursued as well)

Hannah Linder, The Red Cottage, Barbour (Meg must confront the past and decide who she trusts in this Gothic style Regency romance)

A. J. MacKenzie, Path of Gold, Canelo (Edward III has opened negotiations with King Alfonso XI of Castile, and sends Derby and Merrivale to bargain with him, in next installment of Simon Merrivale Mysteries)

Amy Mantravadi, Face to Face, 1517 Publishing (novel about the Reformation which follows the lives of Martin Luther, Desiderius Erasmus, and Philipp Melanchthon as their world descends into chaos and violence in the year 1525)

Scott Mariani, The Knight’s Pledge, Hodder & Stoughton (Will Bowman historical adventure crime thriller, book two, set in 1191)

Isolde Martyn, The April King, Sapere (romantic biographical historical mystery novel set in Tudor Elizabethan England, 1593)

Catherine Mathis, Inês, Histria (love, jealousy and revenge at court in 14^th-century Portugal. First of a trilogy)

Clara McKenna, Murder at Cottonwood Creek, Kensington (far from their beloved Morrington Hall, Viscount “Lyndy” Lyndhurst and his American wife find fossils and murder in Montana)

Amie McNee, To Kill a Queen, Crooked Lane (when Queen Elizabeth I is nearly assassinated, the rebellious heir to a criminal legacy seizes an opportunity for a better life. Set in London 1579)

Gabrielle Meyer, Through Each Tomorrow, Bethany House a (tale of love and sacrifice, set in 1563 Elizabethan England and 1883 Newport)

Andrew Miller, The Land in Winter, Europa (in the winter blizzards of 1962, secret resentments harboured in four lives rise to the surface)

Larry Millett, Mysterious Tales of Old Minneapolis, Univ. of Minnesota Press (shining a light on the colorful characters and curious corners of Twin Cities history, novel brings the 19th-century city to life)

Abir Mukherjee, The Burning Grounds, Pegasus (next installment of the mystery series set in late-1920s Calcutta, with Sam Wyndham and Surendranath Banerjee)

Kathleen Novak, Come Back I Love You, Regal House (dual timeline ghost story set in present and a century earlier)

Mirta Ojito, Deeper Than the Ocean, Union Square/Harper Collins (multigenerational novel set in the Canary Islands and Cuba in the early part of the twentieth century, and New York and Key West in the present)

Rachel Parris, Introducing Mrs. Collins, Little, Brown/Hodder & Stoughton (Charlotte Lucas finally becomes the heroine of her own story)

Jonathan Payne, Hotel Melikov, CamCat (in book two, Citizen Orlov discovers a sinister plot that forces him to choose whose side he is on)

Glynis Peters, The Orphan’s Last Goodbye, One More Chapter (last installment of The Red Cross Orphans series as WWII comes to a close)

Ella Quinn, Catching Lady Theo, Kensington (a consummate rake pursues his perfect match in this Regency Here Come the Grooms series)

Michelle Rawlins, Joy for the Steel Girls, HQ (book six in the series set in 1941, with Hattie, Josie and Daisy navigating uncertain times in Sheffield)

Stephen Ronson, The Blitz Secret, Hodder Paperbacks (WWII thriller set in 1940)

Madeleine Roux, These Violet Delights, Dell (can a star-crossed pair overcome a simmering family feud for a chance at love in this Regency romance)

Natasha Siegel, As Many Souls as Stars, William Morrow (romantic speculative novel about two women—a witch and an immortal demon—who make a Faustian bargain)

Gianni Solla, trans. Richard Dixon, There Was a Time for Such a Word, HarperVia (a novel set in small-town 1940s Italy, in which a young illiterate herdsman learns to read with the help of his two friends)

A. L. Sowards, Against a Crescent Storm, Shadow Mountain (next installment in The Balkan Legends where Danilo and Maja must fight to save their people before the sultan exacts his revenge)

Johnny Teague, The Lost Diary of Lucrezia Borgia, Histria (a tale of history, betrayal, and revelation and one man’s quest for answers that could reshape the past and future alike)

Gabriel Valjan, Eyes to Deceit, Level Best-Historia (fourth book in The Company Files series — noir fiction with hardboiled characters, a post-war setting, espionage and crime)

Michelle Vernal, Secrets at the Irish Adoption House, Bookouture (a woman abandoned by her family when she gives birth out of wedlock, searches for her daughter who is taken from her)

George Wallace and Don Keith, Argentia Station, Severn River (a WWII military thriller of bravery, brotherhood, and sacrifice. Book 1 in The Tides of War)

Marlie Wasserman, First Daughter, Level Best-Historia (historical crime fiction centered around the imagined kidnapping of Grover Cleveland’s child)

Iona Whishaw, A Season for Spies, Touchwood Editions (in prequel to the mystery series, Lane Winslow embarks on her first spy mission in wartime England)

Benjamin Wood, Seascraper, Scribner (portrait of a young man confined in by his class and the ghosts of his family’s past, dreaming of artistic fulfilment)

James Zwerneman, Uruk, Diversion Publishing (first in a series inspired by ancient Mesopotamia, following a small band of misfits who find a new tribe and must best bloodthirsty neighbors before they can achieve their dream)

December 2025

Rochelle Alers, Between Good and Evil, Dafina (set in 1960s and 70s three young New York City men walk the fragile line between right and wrong)

D. R. Bailey, The Tipping Point, Sapere (aviation adventures set during the second world war and featuring a team of fighter pilots)

Chris Barkley, The Man on the Endless Stair, Pegasus/Polygon (1950s; a bestselling author entrusts an old friend with finishing his final novel)

Julie Bates, The Enemy Within, Level Best-Historia (Continental Army, winter 1778; trapped by the weather Faith Clarke and allies must discover the unseen enemy who is killing soldiers and taunting Washington after each death)

Cara Black, Huguette, Soho Crime (saga of one young woman’s survival in the lawlessness of post-Libération France)

Sara Gothelf Bloom, Just Enough to Start Over, Paul Dry (follows the three Dubrovsky sisters’ experiences as refugees as refugees in Shanghai and London, and Toronto)

Kay Blythe, A Poisoning at Castle Gloaming, No Exit Press (second 1920s Jemima Flowerday mystery)

Miguel Bonnefoy, trans. Ruth Diver, The Dream of the Jaguar, Other Press (generational saga of a family whose fate is intertwined with that of Venezuela)

David Buzan, The Wrath of Legends, Black Rose Writing (sequel to In the Lair of Legends (c2023), featuring Jolon Winterhawk, a combat veteran of many skirmishes during the American Civil War)

Cara Clayton, Mutiny at the Manor, Sapere (book two in a new medieval saga series, set in 1381, Lincolnshire, England)

Bernard Cornwell, Sharpe’s Storm, Harper (next installment featuring the fictional Richard Sharpe as the war against Napoleon rages across Europe and Britain prepares to invade France for the first time)

Dilly Court, The Winter Belle, HarperCollins (when Kitty and her family fall on hard times, she is determined to save her mother and her sisters from a life of poverty)

Nick Croydon, The Turing Protocol, William Morrow (speculative historical suspense debut told in alternating timelines asking if the most powerful invention in history will save the world—or destroy it)

Nadia Davids, Cape Fever, Simon & Schuster (gothic psychological thriller set in the 1920s)

Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida, trans. Alison Entrekin, Three Stories of Forgetting, FSG Originals (exploration of the memories of three men and the reverberations of slavery, colonialism, and empire, told in three overlapping stories)

Kristi DeMeester, Dark Sisters, St. Martin’s Press (three women must chase a curse through the generations in order to reclaim their power – novel set in 1750, 1953 and 2007)

Kat Devereaux, Daughter of Genoa, Harper Perennial/Aria (adventure set in the war-torn 1940s and inspired by true events)

Renita D’Silva, Heartache on West India Dock Road, Boldwood (WW2 saga of friendship, courage and the power of community)

Janet Rich Edwards, Canticle, Spiegel & Grau (set in thirteenth-century Bruges, debut novel follows a young woman’s explorations of faith, agency, and love among a community of independent women)

Allan Gaw, The Shadows and the Dust, Polygon (next installment of the Dr Jack Cuthbert Mysteries, set in 1930s)

Richard Goodkin, The Magnificent Lies of Madeleine Béjart, Cherry Orchard Books (originally written in French novel is a compelling portrait of a woman who shaped the world of theatre while carefully crafting her own myth)

Donna Gowland, Death at the Altar, Sapere (book 3 of the Mary and Percy Shelley murder mysteries)

Janice Hadlow, Rules of the Heart, Henry Holt (a married woman of high social standing in 18th century England tries to hide from the judging eyes of her elite circle)

Herik Hanna, illus. Charlie Adlard, Altamont, Image Comics (a mix of fact and fiction exploring an infamous moment in cultural history, displaying a disenchanted portrait of a free and dreamy youth, marked by the Vietnam War)

Tessa Harris, The Florence Sisters, HQ Digital (Italy, 1940; with Florence on the cusp of war, Il Scorpione, the no-nonsense Englishwomen of the city, find their genteel livelihoods under threat by the Nazis)

JJA Harwood, A Steep and Savage Path, Magpie (historical fantasy in which a desperate ritual is performed in a Transylvanian village to lay a hungry vampire to rest)

Chris Hauty, Dead Ringer, Atria/Emily Bestler (novel that explores what might have really happened at the JFK assassination in 1963)

Sophia Holloway, An Independent Woman, Allison & Busby (against the backdrop of the social season in Bath, gossip, grandmamas and a climatic duel look set to complicate any chance of a happy ever after for Louisa and Benfield)

Stephen Hunter, The Gun Man Jackson Swagger, Atria/Emily Bestler (a classic-style Western about a Civil War veteran investigating the dark reality of a prosperous ranch)

Eloisa James, The Last Lady B, Gallery (gothic historical romance based on the legend of Bluebeard)

Claire Johnson, For Thee, Level Best-Historia (a novel centring on Pauline Pfeiffer’s marriage to Ernest Hemingway)

Lee Kelly and Jennifer Thorne, My Fair Frauds, Harper Muse (a high society fraud and a scrappy swindler team up to take down Gilded Age New York)

Richard Kirshenbaum, The Hollywood Fix, Post Hill (during Hollywood’s Golden Age, a destitute young man journeys to Los Angeles and becomes the PR fixer to the most important film studio and its studio chief)

Julie Klassen, Whispers at Painswick Court, Bethany House (romance and mystery feature in a novel full of English village charm, intrigue, and love)

Paula Lafferty, The Once and Future Queen, Erewhon (historical fantasy set in present & 7th century AD, Glastonbury & Camelot after a women jumps through a time portal)

Erin Lindsey, Pearls and Poison, Severn House (Rose is back and this time she’s flying solo as she investigates criminal paranormal activity in Gilded Age New York City)

Marc McNulty, An Unexpected Vitality, Amazon (blends historical intrigue with a modern detective narrative, exploring art, deception, and the enduring power of genius; set in 1791 and present day)

Tara Moss, The Italian Secret, Dutton (post-war mystery where investigator Billie Walker follows a trail of secrets to Italy’s Neapolitan coast)

Ginny Kubitz Moyer, The World at Home, She Writes (coming-of-age story about a young woman discovering love, loss, and the power of her own creativity in World War II San Francisco)

Julie Mulhern, Murder in Manhattan, Forever (inspired by one of the first real-life female columnists at the New Yorker, historical mystery follows Freddie Archer as she solves crimes in 1920s Manhattan)

Niklas Natt och Dag, Hope and Destiny, Atria (a new historical series that takes us to 1434 medieval Sweden to unravel one of the country’s most infamous murder mysteries)

James Patterson, Imogen Edwards-Jones, The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe, Little, Brown (a biographical fiction thriller about a woman who changed Hollywood history)

Tim Powers, The Mills of the Gods, Baen (historical supernatural fantasy set in the artistic milieu of Paris, 1925)

G. B. Rubin, Murder at Christmas, Simon & Schuster UK (interactive festive mystery, set in 1932, that casts the reader in the role of the detective)

James D. Shipman, Crossing the Line, Kensington (set against the background of the Krakow Jewish ghetto in WWII, three very different women are brought together through the hardships of war)

Lauraine Snelling with Kiersti Giron, At Morning’s Light, Bethany House (book 2 of Home to Green Creek creates a picture of overcoming grief and embracing love on the Midwestern frontier)

Julian Spalding, Beauty: Botticelli in Florence, Pallas Athene (fictional biography imagines what Botticelli was feeling and thinking as he painted)

A. R. Talley, Between Sunrise and Sunset, Black Rose Writing (book 1 of Montrose Manor – saga of a young woman leaving her life of servitude and making her own way by seeking help from the Montrose estate heir, to find her brother)

Lulu Taylor, A Legacy of Secrets, Pan (can Flick and daughter Etta ever break free from the shadows of a painful past, and the curse that seems to hang over every generation of their family?)

Pamela Taylor, The Last Priest of Tintagel, Black Rose Writing (from Oxford to the papal court in Avignon to the headland of Tintagel, a Cornishman tries to accomplish his dream to become a priest)

Dean Thompson, Imagine Murder, Perfect Bound Books (start of a new series where John Lennon and Yoko Ono help solve a mystery set in New York, 1972)

Simon Turney, Agricola: Commander, Head of Zeus/Aria & Aries (new Ancient Roman historical adventure set In the aftermath of Rome’s civil war, when Agricola returns to Britannia)

Micheliny Verunschk, trans. Juliana Barbassa, The Jaguar’s Roar, Liveright (story of an Indigenous girl’s kidnapping during a colonial expedition, intertwines with a young woman’s modern-day search for identity and ancestral truths)

Chrissie Walsh, Trying Times for the Mill Girls, Boldwood (Yorkshire saga of courage, family and hope in changing times)

Valerie Wilson Wesley, The Mysterious Death of Junetta Plum, Kensington (Harlem Renaissance marks a rebirth of Black cultural in this historical mystery set in the excess of the Roaring Twenties)

Howard Whitehouse, The Grey Girl, Zmok Books (second in The Viking’s Daughter series follows Gudrid and Gisli as they escape from their village to an isolated fjord)

Felicity York, The Secret Sister, HarperNorth (second novel in Stately Scandals series, which unearth a true story about rebellious women who have lived in the stately homes of 19th-century northern England)