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By Jackie Layton (Bell Bridge Books)

Whoâ??d have thought mulch could cause such a stink?Low Country dog walker Andi Grace Scott is happy to score some free mulch from one of her brotherâ??s landscaping jobsâ??until she discovers the dead body buried beneath the bark. Worse, her brotherâ??s landscaping tools were used to commit the murder. Once the police arrest her brother and seem happy to have â??caught their man,â? Andi Grace has no choice but to track down the real killer. Sheâ??ll risk everything to prove her brotherâ??s innocence. Even if it means turning over every rock in town.

By Marilyn Leach (Barbour Books)

For lovers of classic Agatha Christie mysteries and Jan Karon village characters, this English set mystery is sure to please. Berdie Elliott, the wife of the new parish priest, thought she left her old life as an investigative reporter behind her, but she soon discovers a village full of secrets when a man dies at a Christmas celebration. Could a clue to his demise be hidden in an advent wreath? Can Berdie curb her natural instincts to get involved in both a mystery and a romance, or will she let the local law handle things?

By Marilyn Leach (Pelican Book Group)

Ascension Sunday balloons are not the only things disappearing in the English village of Aidan Kirkwood. When the villagers celebrate the first Ascension Sunday Processional in fifty years, someone goes missing. A well off widow who was amongst the crowd has vanished into thin air. And she’s not the only one who’s nowhere to be found. Berdie Elliott, the local vicar’s wife, goes into sleuth mode as eccentric cat lovers, a secretive informant, Portuguese holidays, an enigmatic “tree” house, and tangled family dynamics all add to the perplexing affair.

By Lisa J. Lickel (Barbour Publishing, Inc)

JUST HOW HIGH A PRICE DOES EARTHLY TREASURE COMMAND? School teacher Judy Winters sets out to solve the mystery surrounding her only living relative’s murder back on the farm where Aunt Louise grew up. She encounters Hart Wingate, a young man renting the adjoining farm who had helped Aunt Louise with farm chores. When Judy learns that her boyfriend, Graham, has been secretly visiting Louise, Judy takes the opportunity to move away from him for the summer and think over the situation.  Judy loves her teaching job, but is intrigued by her heritage in the farmstead and particularly the old house. She stays on the farm and renovates the house, but whether to sell or stay, she has yet to decide.

By Elizabeth Ludwig, Nancy Mehl, Cara Putman, Tricia Goyer, Elizabeth Adams (Guideposts)

New challenges for each of the new seasons of their first year of marriage. This is a series finale four- in- one collection of novellas. Join Cheryl, Levi and Naomi as they solve 4 fun mysteries. Five authors took turns writing different seasons of this book to wrap up the series. I don’t think anyone will be disappointed in how this ends.

By Robin Luftig (Elk Lake Publishing, Inc.)

Can a woman on the run find herself again?

The late 1960s sets the newly-widowed Lily-Rose Pembrick reeling as she flees Lincoln, Nebraska, with her children. Only taking the cash from the house safe and what she can get her hands on at the family bank, she leaves the recently-inherited and successful Pembrick Transportation company behind. Exhausted from driving all night, she stops in Applegate, Ohio, and decides to start a new life on Norwood Street. There, she meets Fiona Kasey, an African-American no-nonsense housekeeper/companion to an elderly white woman, and Sugar Bowersox, a Southern spitfire who has lost herself in motherhood. Together, they enjoy Lily-Rose’s backyard fire pit, where dreams are spoken and secrets revealed.

By Deborah Lynne (BARBOUR BOOKS)

A string of murders in the Big Easy could be reporter Taylor Jaymes’s big break. but she’ll have to convince detective John Bradley that she’s more than a redheaded vixen with a hunch. Samantha Cain is on the case—twice: after witnessing a terrifying scene, she finds herself a serial killer’s target; the when her boss is murdered, her own innocence is on the line.

By Christine Lynxwiler, Jan Reynolds, Sandy Gaskin (Barbour Publishing, Inc)

Jenna and Carly share a dry wit and sharp sleuthing skills that give these three stories universal appeal. Wherever these small-town Arkansas sisters go murder is sure to follow. When they search for the murderer of a newspaper editor, they could end up in the obit column. In Branson for a break, they find out that murder doesn’t take vacations. And when the Carly opens a diner, murder is on the menu.

By Christine Lynxwiler, Jan Reynolds, Sandy Gaskin (Barbour Publishing, Inc)

 DEATH FOR DESSERT?When Jenna Stafford quits her dead-end job to help her sister Carly open a diner, she may havejumped from the frying pan into the fi re. Even though business is really cooking, last time the sisters checked, murder was NOT on the menu. So who’s the dead guy out back? And why are there more police offi cers on the scene than there are paying customers? Can Jenna and Carly sort out their scrambled love lives and still find the missing ingredient in time to solve the crime before their goose is cooked? .

By Christine Lynxwiler, Jan Reynolds, Sandy Gaskin (Barbour Publishing, Inc)

FREE BRANSON VACATION. in exchange for a little elbow grease and moral support! Jenna Stafford and her sister Carly dust off their cowboy boots, herd the kids into the SUV, and hightail it up to Branson, Missouri to help with the grand opening of a friend’s theatre. To their amazement, the glittering lights and twanging tunes make a perfect backdrop for.