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Read about all the Buzz Books for Spring/Summer 2025 here! –> https://buzz.publishersmarketplace.com/

Preorder your copy here! –> https://bookshop.org/p/books/house-of-monstrous-women-daphne-fama/22033646?ean=9780593817582

Add it on Goodreads here! –> https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/207767929-house-of-monstrous-women

See all nominees here!–> https://mysterywriters.org/2025-edgar-award-nominations/

Read more about the Earphone Award here!–> https://www.audiofilemagazine.com/reviews/read/261319/the-quiet-librarian-by-allen-eskens-read-by-ilvana-muratovic/

Preorder your copy here!–> https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-quiet-librarian-allen-eskens/21533858?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiA-aK8BhCDARIsAL_-H9l4utuqNZU-cMsALrzURNa6CNEZAA_i2htX5K4sUpVsmkHC6moZSYoaAgcWEALw_wcB

After the murder of her best friend, a librarian’s search for answers leads back to her own dark secrets in this sweeping novel about a woman transformed by war, family, vengeance, and love, from award-winning writer Allen Eskens.

Hana Babic is a quiet, middle-aged librarian in Minnesota who wants nothing more than to be left alone. But when a detective arrives with the news that her best friend has been murdered, Hana knows that something evil has come for her, a dark remnant of the past she and her friend had shared.

Thirty years before, Hana was someone Nura Divjak, a teenager growing up in the mountains of war-torn Bosnia—until Serbian soldiers arrived to slaughter her entire family before her eyes. The events of that day thrust Nura into the war, leading her to join a band of militia fighters, where she became not only a fierce warrior but a legend—the deadly Night Mora. But a shattering final act forced Nura to flee to the United States with a bounty on her head.

Now, someone is hunting Hana, and her friend has paid the price, leaving her eight-year-old grandson in Hana’s care. To protect the child without revealing her secret, Hana must again become the Night Mora—and hope she can find the killer before the past comes for them, too.

Read more about the event here!–> https://www.bookpassage.com/event/l-john-harris-kimberley-cameron-portrait-red-corte-madera-store

Read the full list here!–> https://www.forbes.com/sites/entertainment/article/best-young-adult-books-2025/

Preorder your copy here!–> https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-payback-girls-alex-travis/21575763

To read the full list of nominations and categories, click here!–> https://leftcoastcrime.org/2025/Awards.html

Check out the full list here!–> https://www.owlcrate.com/blogs/community/debut-authors-2025

Add it on Goodreads here!–> https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/217420653-mistress-of-bones

Preorder your copy here!–> https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/mistress-of-bones-maria-z-medina/1146167677

Why get over your cheating ex when you can get even? John Tucker Must Die meets One of Us Is Lying in a gripping, page-turning debut thriller.

His first mistake was underestimating them.

Senior year is going to be perfect. Meghan won’t settle for anything less. She’s already crushing her classes and dating the star of the basketball team. Nate’s friends have been less than welcoming, but it’s never easy being one of the only Black kids at a mostly white prep school. Still, Meghan did not expect the scene at pep rally.

Robin and Bria dated Nate too. Correction: are dating him. He never broke up with them, and Meghan is furious.

When Nate is found bloodied and unconscious in the locker room after the big game, suddenly the three teens are prime suspects–and a tenuous alliance may be the only way to clear their names. Except Meghan doesn’t remember everything that happened that night, and she’s starting to have feelings for one of the exes. One thing is for sure: the more clues they uncover, the more Meghan, Bria, and Robin each look responsible…

Read the full list here!–> https://lgbtqreads.com/2024/12/16/most-anticipated-lgbtq-young-adult-fiction-january-june-2025/

Preorder your copy here!–> https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-payback-girls-alex-travis/21575763?ean=9781464217715

Congrats to Izzy Wasserstein for THESE FRAGILE GRACES, THIS FUGITIVE HEART for winning the 2024 Transfeminine Review Reader’s Choice Awards for Outstanding Mystery/Thriller/Suspense!

“Nothing hits quite like an expertly paced and plotted thriller… My favorite part about this book, though, was the dialogue about anarchism and its political prerogatives that unfolded through the commune and its internal drama, a compelling layer of depth beneath an already-excellent pulp.” –Transfeminine Review

Read more about the award and award-winners here!–> https://thetransfemininereview.com/2024/12/31/the-2024-tfr-readers-choice-awards/

Get your copy of THESE FRAGILE GRACES, THIS FUGITIVE HEART!–> https://bookshop.org/p/books/these-fragile-graces-this-fugitive-heart-izzy-wasserstein/20606554