New Series Debuts From Kensington Publishing
Do you love reading a mystery series from the very beginning? Well, Kensington Publishing Corp. is releasing plenty of first-in-new series in 2024! Here are our series debuts that have released, or will be releasing soon!
OUT NOW
CONTEMPORARY MYSTERY: A USA Today bestseller!
THE BUSY BODY: A Ghostwriter Mystery by Kemper Donovan
Veep meets Agatha Christie in this intelligent, wildly funny, literary mystery for fans of Richard Osman, Anthony Horowitz, and Nita Prose! The host of the “All About Agatha” podcast injects the spark and fizz of a Golden Age murder mystery into the present-day, as a ghostwriter is chosen to collaborate on a presidential candidate’s memoir, only to discover just how much trouble a smart woman with time on her hands can get up to…
HISTORICAL MYSTERY:
MURDER BY LAMPLIGHT by Patrice McDonough
As a deadly cholera pandemic burns its way through Victorian London in the winter of 1866, a trailblazing female physician and a skeptical Scotland Yard detective reluctantly team up to stop a sadistic killer in this dark, atmospheric, historically rich mystery for readers of Andrea Penrose and Deanna Raynourn.
COZY MYSTERY:
MURDER MARKS THE PAGE: A Tomes & Tea Mystery by Karen Rose Smith
The first in a new series spun off from the Daisy Tea Garden Mysteries, Daisy’s daughter, Jazzi Swanson has opened her own book and tea shop, providing a variety of literature and flavored beverages for a rural New York community. But Jazzi has not only inherited her mother’s gift for brewing tasty drinks—she also has a nose for sniffing out murder.
COZY MYSTERY:
A DEADLY WALK IN DEVON: A Walk Through England Mystery by Nicholas George
For fans of M.C. Beaton, Martha Grimes, and Alexander McCall Smith, the first in a charming new mystery series set in the English countryside, as a retired San Diego police detective embarks upon group walking tours in England’s most scenic counties…… until a local murder takes him on a deadly detour . . .
HISTORICAL MYSTERIES:
TO SLIP THE BONDS OF EARTH: A Katharine Wright Mystery by Amanda Flower
While not as famous as her older siblings Wilbur and Orville, the celebrated inventors of flight, Katharine Wright is equally inventive – especially when it comes to solving crimes – in USA Today bestselling author Amanda Flower’s radiant new historical mystery series inspired by the real sister of the Wright Brothers.
UNDER THE PAPER MOON by Shaina Steinberg
Mr. and Mrs. Smith meets The Thin Man’s Nick and Nora Charles in this intrigue-filled debut from film and television writer Shaina Steinberg, as two former spies who shared more than just missions during WWII reunite in 1948 Los Angeles. Can they let go of heartbreak long enough to team up for one last operation? A tightly- plotted, emotionally rich postwar mystery for fans of The Rose Code by Kate Quinn and The Lost Letter by Jillian Cantor, as well as readers of mysteries by Ashley Weaver, Allison Montclair, and Jacqueline Winspear.
COZY MYSTERIES:
A CYCLIST’S GUIDE TO CRIME & CROISSANTS: A Cyclist’s Guide Mystery by Ann Claire
Vicariously tour the sundrenched Mediterranean Coast in this perfectly escapist new cozy mystery series starring American expat-turned-bike tour company owner in Southern France. Perfect for fans of Donna Leon’s The Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries, M.L. Longworth’s Provençal Mystery series, and armchair travel!
A POSE BEFORE DYING: A Cat Yoga Mystery by Alex Erickson
Fledgling entrepreneur Ashley Branson is thrilled to open her dream business—a cat yoga studio. But helping clients find balance and felines find homes soon becomes one unhealthy exercise in murder . . .
COMING SOON
June 25th, 2024
HISTORICAL FICTION WITH MYSTERY SUBPLOT:
DAUGHTER OF FAIR VERONA: A Daughter of Montague Novel by Christina Dodd
Knives Out meets Bridgerton in Fair Verona, as New York Times bestselling author Christina Dodd kicks off a frothy, irreverent, witty new series with an irresistible premise—told from the delightfully engaging point of view of Romeo and Juliet’s clever, rebellious, fiercely independent daughter, Rosie Montague.
COZY MYSTERY:
COME SHELL OR HIGH WATER: A Haunted Shell Shop Mystery by Molly MacRae
From the acclaimed author of the Highland Bookshop Mysteries is the first in a charming new series set on a beautiful barrier island off the coast of North Carolina and featuring a widowed folklorist, a seashell shop, and the ghost of an 18th century pirate!
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