Safety in Blunders (The Worst Detective Ever)
By Christy Barritt (River Heights)
Release date: March 13, 2024
not available at this time.
Sassy Cinderella and the Valiant Vigilante (Ruby Taylor Mysteries, Book 2)
By Sharon Dunn (Kregel Publications)
Release date: December 16, 2003
Ruby Taylor’s job at the university turns interesting and it isn’t long before she’s in a crash course on real love and deadly university politics. It’s a mystery with more twists than a silly straw. This award-winning title is guaranteed fiction!.
Scoop (Occupational Hazards, Book 1)
By Rene Gutteridge (WaterBrook)
Release date: October 10, 2006
And now back to our regularly scheduled insanity. Channel 7 news producer Hugo Talley dreams of working with first-class professionals. Instead he’s saddled with a weatherman who can’t admit when he’s wrong, an aging anchorwoman who refuses to release her clawlike grip on the newsdesk, a conscience-stricken reporter who’s reluctant to focus on sensationalism, and a new assistant–former homeschool student Hayden Hazard–who can’t just seem to leave her faith outside the newsroom. When the Channel News 7 team inadvertently stumbles on a hot news story, Hugo is frantic to exploit this rare opportunity. But a series of crises–including a Botox disaster and the disappearance of a colleague–threatens to destroy his chance for ratings success and send him completely over the edge.
The Scum of All Fears (Squeaky Clean Mysteries)
By Christy Barritt (River Heights)
Release date: March 14, 2024
not available at this time.
Searching for Home
By (OakTara)
Release date: February 12, 2014
He told her he’d kiss every freckle when he came back from Haiti. But he never returned. Two years have passed since Hannah Forbes’ fiancé left for an ill-timed trip to Haiti. A blanket of nothingness has covered her like asphalt ever since. But as she visits a friend on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, excitement stirs for the first time since Vance’s murder.
Season of Secrets
By Elizabeth Adams (Guideposts)
Release date: May 4, 2018
As the frenzy of the Christmas-shopping season descends on the Swiss Miss, Lydia Troyer, an Amish girl on rumspringa who helps Cheryl in the shop, receives a cryptic text message from an unknown phone number: I know what happened to Mark Troyer. Lydia is shaken and explains that Mark is her cousin, a teenage boy who vanished three years ago. Some people said the talented young craftsman simply ran off, having been quite taken with the English lifestyle. But Lydia is convinced Mark would never have left home without telling her good-bye. She and other family members worry that something bad happened to him.
Shadow of Intrigue (Lantern Beach Romantic Suspense) (Volume 2)
By Christy Barritt (River Heights)
Release date: October 20, 2018
For her entire life, Lisa Garth has felt like a supporting character in the drama of life. The designation never bothered her—until now. Lantern Beach, where she’s settled and runs a popular restaurant, has boarded up for the season. The slower pace leaves her with too much time alone. Braden Dillinger came to Lantern Beach to try to heal.
Shadows of Ladenbrooke Manor: A Novel
By Melanie Dobson (Howard Books)
Release date: June 16, 2015
When Heather Toulson returns to her parents’ cottage in the English countryside, she uncovers long-hidden secrets about her family history and stumbles onto the truth about a sixty-year-old murder. Libby, a free spirit who can’t be tamed by her parents, finds solace with her neighbor Oliver, the son of Lord Croft of Ladenbrooke Manor. Libby finds herself pregnant and alone when her father kicks her out and Oliver mysteriously drowns in a nearby river. Though theories spread across the English countryside, no one is ever held responsible for Oliver’s death. Sixty years later, Heather Toulson, returning to her family’s cottage in the shadows of Ladenbrooke Manor, is filled with mixed emotions.
Shadows on the Sand: A Seaside Mystery (Seaside Seasons)
By Gayle Roper (Multnomah)
Release date: July 19, 2011
She serves him breakfast at her café every morning … but he never seems to notice her. Carrie Carter’s small café in Seaside, New Jersey, is populated with a motley crew of locals … although Carrie only has eyes for Greg Barnes. He’s recovering from a vicious crime that three years ago took the lives of his wife and children—and from the year he tried to drink his reality away. While her heart does a happy Snoopy dance at the sight of him, he never seems to notice her. When Carrie’s dishwasher is killed and her young waitress disappears, Greg finds himself drawn into helping Carrie solve the mysteries … and into her life.
Shoo, Fly, Shoo!
By Amy Lillard (Guideposts)
Release date: September 21, 2018
When Albert Yoder is arrested for illegally transporting and selling raw milk across county lines, Cheryl and her mystery-solving sidekick Naomi step up to help. And just in time! Albert’s very pregnant wife has to be rushed to the hospital for an emergency C-section, leaving their six young daughters to milk the cows and care for the dairy farm. Things get more complicated as an environmentalist begins to picket at the Yoders’. Is he responsible for all the missing milk? Or is it the owner of the farm-to-table restaurant who wants it for his organic dishes? What about the crotchety neighbor across the road who has been in competition with them for years? Add in a strange English girl who has long-ago ties with Albert, along with a mysterious barn fire, and Cheryl and Naomi may have stumbled across a mystery too big for even them to solve.