New Books by MWA Members – December 2025
Here are the December 2025 books and short stories by some of our members. They may all be found at your local Independent Bookstore. Visit this link to find a store near you: http://www.indiebound.org
Books
Brett Battles, Stuart Woods Blown Away, Penguin Random House – G.P. Putnam’s Sons
Daniella Bernett, Secrets Lie in Wait, Black Opal Books
Connie Berry, A Grave Deception, Crooked Lane Books
Cara Black, Huguette, Soho Press – Soho Crime
Tracy Clark, Edge, Amazon Publishing – Thomas & Mercer
Celeste Connally, Revenge, Served Royal, Minotaur Books
Jessica Fletcher & Terrie Farley Moran, Murder, She Wrote: The Body in the Trees, Penguin Random House – Berkley
Alison Gaylin, Robert B. Parker’s Booked, Penguin Random House – G.P. Putnam’s Sons
Jeffrey James Higgins, The China Gambit, Severn River Publishing
Christina Kovac, Watch Us Fall, Simon & Schuster
Con Lehane, The Red Scare Murders, Soho Crime
Catriona McPherson, Scot’s Eggs, Severn House
Paula Munier, The Snow Lies Deep, Minotaur Books
P.J. Nelson, All My Bones, Minotaur Books
Carlene O’Connor, The Pub Across the Pond, Kensington
James Patterson & Imogen Edwards-Jones, The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe, Hachette Book Group – Little, Brown and Company
Cathy Pickens, True Crime Stories of the South, The History Press
Neil Plakcy, Dog’s Kitchen, Samwise Books
Keith Raffel, The Raffel Ticket: Betting on America, Creators Publishing
Kathy Reichs, Evil Bones, Simon & Schuster – Scribner
Stephen Ross, The Bride Must be Stopped, Clan Destine Press
Terry Shames, The Curious Poisoning of Jewel Barnes, Severn House
Susan Van Kirk, Fabric of Lies, Prairie Lights Publishing
Valerie Wilson Wesley, The Mysterious Death of Junetta Plum, Kensington Books
Robin Yocum, The Last Hitman, Crooked Lane Books
Short Stories
Catherine Dilts, “Real Cowgirls Like it Hot,” AHMM
Kevin Egan, “Second Chance,” AHMM
Terence Faherty, “Margo and the Dixie Clipper,” AHMM
Joseph Goodrich, “Two Men Discuss Murder on a Rainy Night Near Patchin Place,” EQMM
Richard Helms, “Fursona Non Grata,” EQMM
V.S. Kemanis, “Counting Windows,,” EQMM
Avram Lavinsky, “The Bank Heist Before Armageddon,” AHMM
Paul Ryan O’Connor, “Destiny,” EQMM
Rob Osler, “Host to a Murder,” EQMM
Twist Phelan, “Authorized Treatment,” EQMM
Gary Phillips, “Dr. Morbilius,” EQMM
Mark Thielman, “The Tangled Web They Weave,” AHMM
Michael Wiley, “Awfully Cold Around the Hot,” EQMM
