This Month From BookEnds… January 2019!

Team BookEnds is back from Holiday Break and better than ever! We’re kicking off the year with a couple great romances and 2 killer cozy mysteries for you all! Enjoy

Monthly Spotlight:

Pub owner Maura Donovan is settling into a charmed life in Ireland—until a mutilated body on her property ends her lucky streak. 

Boston expat Maura Donovan came to Ireland to honor her grandmother’s last wish, but she never expected to stay in provincial County Cork—much less to inherit a house and a pub, Sullivan’s, in the small village of Leap. After a year-long struggle to stay in the black, Sullivan’s is finally thriving, and Maura has even brought back traditional Irish music to the pub. With a crop of new friends and a budding relationship with handsome Mick Nolan, Maura’s life seems rosier than ever—but even in Ireland, you can’t always trust your luck. 

It begins with Maura’s discovery of a body in the ravine behind the pub. And then, the Irish gardaí reveal that the victim’s face has been battered beyond recognition. Who is the faceless victim? Who wanted him dead? And why was his body dumped in the backyard of Sullivan’s Pub? Even after the dead man is finally given a name, nobody admits to knowing him. In the tight-knit world of Leap, no one is talking—and now it’s up to Maura to uncover the dark secrets that lurk beneath the seemingly quiet town. 

Laced with warm Irish charm, a delightful small-town setting, and a colorful cast of characters, New York Times bestselling author Sheila Connolly’s seventh County Cork mystery, The Lost Traveller, conspires to delight.

MYSTERY:

Sarah Grayson and her feline ally Elvis get a chance to see if their sleuthing skills are up to scratch in the sixth installment of the New York Times bestselling Second Chance Cat Mysteries.

It’s fall in North Harbor, Maine, where Sarah owns a charming secondhand shop. A cold case heats up when Mallory Pearson appears at Sarah’s doorstep. Mallory’s father is in prison for negligence after her stepmother’s mysterious death in a house fire, but Mallory believes he’s innocent and asks the quirky team of senior citizen detectives who work out of Sarah’s shop to take on the case. With Sarah and Elvis lending a paw, they decide to try to give Mallory’s father a second chance of his own…

ROMANCE:

He lives by the law. She’s running for her life. After forensic accountant Beth Greenwood uncovers a money-laundering scheme tying her company to the organization that murdered her mentor, she knows she needs to go into hiding. With ruthless killers in pursuit, she’s forced to rely on homeland security agent Corbin Ross’s protection—even as his investigation suggests Beth is complicit in embezzlement. Can their uneasy alliance develop into something deeper—and keep them alive?

Up-and-coming Broadway actor Jeremy was given two days to get up and get out. Dumped by his long-term boyfriend and suddenly homeless, he needs a sofa and a sympathetic ear, stat.

Enter Max, aspiring makeup artist and Jeremy’s BFF and former roommate. 

Max has been in love with his best friend forever. Now that Jeremy is back in his home, his old feelings are back, too. He’s happy to help his friend, but this time…it’s complicated.

When Jeremy gets his big break in a new show, the message of the play hits home. “Live life to the fullest” means recognizing how he really feels about Max, and that’s not complicated at all. Jeremy’s in love, and wants to move full steam ahead. 

But Max has waited too long for Jeremy to look at him this way, and he doesn’t want to risk his heart. If this is just a rebound fling, or if Jeremy is only interested in Max because he’s convenient, it will not only shatter him—it will ruin the best friendship he’s ever known.

COMING SOON:

Author of PORTRAIT OF A SISTER Laura Bradford’s next two Amish women’s novels, to Esi Sogah at Kensington, by Jessica Faust at BookEnds.

Laura Bradford’s seventh installment in the Amish Mystery Series featuring Claire Weatherly, to Michelle Vega at Berkley, by Jessica Faust at BookEnds.

Faye Snowden’s A KILLING FIRE, an #OwnVoices crime thriller featuring an African-American homicide detective in Louisiana, to Don D’Auria at Flame Tree Press, for publication in August 2019, by Jessica Faust at BookEnds.’

Elle Ire’s VICIOUS CIRCLE, in which an ex-assassin, burdened by a recent betrayal, must learn to trust—and love—again, to Lynn West at Dreamspinner Press, by Naomi Davis at BookEnds (world English).

Elle Ire’s PATCHWORK and WOVEN, the next two books in the Storm Fronts trilogy, featuring an AI mercenary and her beloved empath handler, to Lynn West at Dreamspinner Press, in a nice deal, in a two-book deal, for publication in 2020, by Naomi Davis at BookEnds (world English).