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An independent publisher of mystery, suspense, and crime fiction based in NYC. Alcove Press: @AlcovePress.bsky.social
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🌷Spring into Action with Our May Mysteries🔍, Out Today! Happy #pubday to @vickidelany.bsky.social's 📚SHOT THROUGH THE BOOK📚 and @jadamswrites.bsky.social's 💀A POISONOUS SILENCE💀! #bookrecs #mysteryreads #historicalfiction #bookbirthday #cozymystery #cozymysterybooks #amateursleuth #readingrecs

Thank you for another great #ewgc! Please let us know if you have any questions about today's titles and be sure to check them all out on NetGalley! 🤩We'll see you next month. #libraryreads

A true crime author helps in a desperate hunt for a killer in SPIDER TO THE FLY by J. H. Markert, a dark and twisted thriller from the deviously inventive horror author that Peter Farris calls the “clear heir to Stephen King.” #ewgc 📖Available on NetGalley: www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

When an embattled detective investigates the suspicious death of a wealthy young socialite, she unearths long-buried family secrets in THE LOST HOURS by Lynn Tavernier, a tense thriller for fans of Lisa Gardner. #ewgc 📖Available on NetGalley: www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

A haunted house and the occult are the least of Carissa Blackwood’s problems when her eccentric aunts are accused of murder in MURDER AT BLACKWOOD INN by multiple award–winning author Penny Warner. #ewgc 📖Available on NetGalley: www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

Katie Tietjen’s MURDER IN MINIATURE, the second installment in the Maple Bishop historical mysteries, continues the adventures of intrepid amateur sleuth Maple Bishop. #ewgc 📖Available on NetGalley: www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

Sid Halley is brought in to investigate a stalking turned murder case in DARK HORSE by Felix Francis, a thrilling addition to the Dick Francis novels, perfect for fans of Harlan Coben. #ewgc

A woman fights her own mind and memory to understand how she got here: the passenger seat of a car speeding away from a murder scene. In LAST ONE SEEN by Rebecca Kanner nothing is as it seems. #ewgc 📖Available on NetGalley: www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

A food truck run by twins serves up a clucking good murder in A MURDER MOST FOWL by Carmela Dutra, a cozy debut mystery, perfect for fans of Lucy Burdette and Joanne Fluke. #ewgc

A killer is hunting down survivors of lightning strikes in SCAR THE SKY by J. Todd Scott, a dark and twisting thriller, perfect for fans of J. H. Markert and Richard Chizmar. #ewgc 📖Available on NetGalley: www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

The Monkeewrench team is back in THE DEEPEST CUT by P. J. Tracy, a brand-new nail-biting thriller from New York Times bestselling author P. J. Tracy. #ewgc 📖Available on NetGalley: www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

After Professor Moriarty survives Reichenbach Falls and Sherlock Holmes dies, Moriarty finds himself caught up in a locked-room mystery Holmes couldn’t solve in Jack Anderson’s THE RETURN OF MORIARTY. #ewgc 📖Available on NetGalley: www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

#Galleychat is starting now🤩! #ewgc #libraryreads

📚Join us for #galleychat at 4PM! We'll be featuring some exciting upcoming titles from our authors! #ewgc #libraryreads

✈️From Napa Valley to a Transcontinental Airship, take a journey with our April books, out now! Happy #pubday! 💍A LETHAL ENGAGEMENT💍by April J. Skelly 🍇BLOOD ON THE VINE🍇 by J.T. Falco ☠️EVERY SWEET THING IS BITTER☠️ by Samantha Crewson!

Thank you for another great #ewgc! Please let us know if you have any questions about today's titles and be sure to check them out on NetGalley! 🤩We'll see you next month. #libraryreads

A weary detective must team up with a brazen influencer to solve a cold case that has left a mark on both of their careers. I FOUND A BODY by Becky Brynolf is a twisty thriller, perfect for fans of Phoebe Morgan. #ewgc 📖Available on NetGalley: www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

The copycat of a killer made famous by a true crime author kidnaps a classmate of the author’s daughter in NOT WHO YOU THINK by Arbor Sloane, a twisty thriller, perfect for fans of Paula Hawkins. #ewgc 📖Available on NetGalley: www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

In A LONESOME PLACE FOR MURDER by Nolan Chase, a dark mystery, perfect for fans of C. J. Box, one wrong step leads Ethan Brand to the most dangerous case of his career...and the most personal. #ewgc 📖Available on NetGalley: www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

Motherhood and murder link five very different women when a working-class detective clashes with wealthy moms in BLESS YOUR HEART by Leigh Dunlap, an upmarket thriller in the vein of May Cobb and Jeneva Rose. #ewgc 📖Available on NetGalley: www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

A dedicated group of jigsaw puzzle enthusiasts must put their problem-solving skills to the test when one of their own is murdered in PICKING UP THE PIECES by J. B. Abbott, for fans of Kate Young and Richard Osman. #ewgc 📖Available on NetGalley: www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

The sudden disappearance of a local woman reopens an old case in a small English town where everyone knows everyone’s business. Maria Malone’s DEATH IN THE COUNTRYSIDE is a debut police dog mystery that will delight fans of Ann Cleeves and Margaret Mizushima. #ewgc

The search for two missing children goes terribly wrong in THE GUEST CHILDREN, a haunting and insidiously creepy ghost story debut by acclaimed showrunner Patrick Tarr. #ewgc

Entrepreneur Rayne McGrath’s wedding venue is open for business until a dead and unburied body is found at the cemetery in Ellie Brannigan’s DEATH AT AN IRISH VILLAGE, the third Irish Castle cozy mystery. #ewgc 📖Available on NetGalley: www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

A young child’s fate is at stake in a deadly battle between his deceased parents in WHAT THE DEAD CAN DO by Peter Rosch this gripping and profoundly original psychological thriller, perfect for fans of What Have You Done. #ewgc 📖Available on NetGalley: www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

The turquoise waters of Key West are stained with pink in THE MANGO MURDERS, the explosive 15th installment of the Key West Food Critic mysteries from USA Today bestselling author Lucy Burdette. #ewgc 📖Available on NetGalley: www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

From Denmark's bestselling suspense giants Sara Blædel and Mads Peder Nordbo comes WOUNDS, the sizzling conclusion to this crime duology, perfect for fans of Jo Nesbø and Lars Kepler. #ewgc 📖Available on NetGalley: www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

#Galleychat is starting now🤩! #ewgc #libraryreads

📚Join us for #galleychat at 4PM! We'll be featuring some exciting upcoming titles from our authors! #ewgc #libraryreads

Save the date! On FRIDAY, APRIL 11TH, at 6 PM Wes Browne, Author will be at Fountain Bookstore, Inc. in Richmond, VA, to discuss 🌲THEY ALL FALL THE SAME🌲! loom.ly/CAHT-QA

📣We're excited to be sharing the cover for Jack Anderson's ♟️THE RETURN OF MORIARTY🔍! Coming 9/9/2025! Request on NetGalley➡️ www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

🤩The new paperback cover of🔎ELEMENTARY, SHE READ🔎 the first book in the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop mystery series by bestselling author @vickidelany.bsky.social is out today!

🔥Hot Off The Presses - Here are 3 new thrillers hitting shelves today! Happy #pubday to these March authors! 💜MY SISTER'S SHADOW by January Gilchrist 🔪SERIAL KILLER SUPPORT GROUP by Saratoga Schaefer 🏙️THE TEN WORST PEOPLE IN NEW YORK by Matt Plass #bookbirthday #mysterybooks #thrillerbooks

Thank you for another great #ewgc! Please let us know if you have any questions about today's titles and be sure to check them all out on NetGalley! 🤩We'll see you next month. #libraryreads

A charming yet wickedly imaginative mystery ghostwriter finds herself at the center of a murder investigation with more twists and turns than any story she's ever written in A GHOSTWRITER’S GUIDE TO MURDER by Melinda Mullet. #ewgc 📖Available on NetGalley: www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

Someone is killing women and staging their bodies in strange, evocative scenes in THE MYTH MAKER by @aliedh.bsky.social, a Greek-mythology-inspired serial killer thriller perfect for fans of Alex Michaelides and Tana French. #ewgc 📖Available on NetGalley: www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

It’s summertime in Virginia, but things are about to get out of hand when murder darkens the annual arts festival in DEATH AND THE LIBRARIAN by @vgilbertauthor.bsky.social. #ewgc 📖Available on NetGalley: www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

#Galleychat is starting now🤩! #ewgc #libraryreads

📚Join us for #galleychat at 4PM! We'll be featuring some exciting upcoming titles from our authors! #ewgc #libraryreads

📣It's #coverreveal time! The Monkeewrench team is back in a brand-new nail-biting thriller from New York Times bestselling author PJ Tracy. Check out the electrifying cover for ⚡THE DEEPEST CUT⚡ coming 9/9/2025! Preorder now➡️ loom.ly/5eErQpY #tbrlist #mysterybooks #thrillers #policeprocedural

#SupportNewAuthors! The Last Hamilton by jennbregman.com. You can get it here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/767125....

📣It's #coverreveal time! We're thrilled to reveal the cover for Rebecca Kanner's ✨LAST ONE SEEN✨! In this riveting, dual-timeline psychological thriller, perfect for fans of Riley Sager, nothing is as it seems. Request on Netgalley➡️ loom.ly/RDDR9Xc Coming 9/23/25

Thank you for another great #ewgc! Please let us know if you have any questions about today's titles and be sure to check them all out on NetGalley! 🤩We'll see you next month. #libraryreads

In Gerri Lewis’s GRAVE WORDS, obituary writer Winter Snow faces her biggest challenge yet when the body of a homeless man is found in a burning building and her best friend is the main suspect. #ewgc 📖Available on NetGalley: www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

A forensic psychiatrist’s investigation into an infamous Louisiana serial killer leads him down a dangerous path of obsession as he discovers they share the same cursed blood in OF FLESH AND BLOOD by N. L. Lavin and Hunter Burke! #ewgc 📖Available on NetGalley: www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

Brilliant botanist Saffron Everleigh faces her hardest challenge yet when she returns to her childhood home in @authorkkhavari.bsky.social’s A BOTANIST’S GUIDE TO RITUALS AND REVENGE. #ewgc 📖Available on NetGalley: www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

Detective Nate Fisher must go back to the Amish community he left behind and confront his past to help the woman he once loved in THE SECRETS WE KEEP by Amy Lillard, a dual-POV mystery perfect for fans of Linda Castillo. #ewgc 📖Available on NetGalley: www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

A woman wronged and the detective investigating her husband’s suspected crime must work through a chilling and puzzling case in BELIEVE ME NOW by S. M. Govett, a twisty dual-narrator thriller. #ewgc 📖Available on NetGalley: www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

Four strangers time travel to the past and find themselves stuck on the day all their lives were changed in THE MEMORY COLLECTORS by Dete Meserve, a stunning speculative mystery, perfect for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold. #ewgc 📖Available on NetGalley: www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

When a film star is poisoned in Prohibition-era Philadelphia, private investigator Edie Shippen is on the case in A POISONOUS SILENCE by @jadamswrites.bsky.social, the second Deadly Twenties mystery. #ewgc 📖Available on NetGalley: www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...