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Hi reader,
Some weeks I have one piece of news. This week I have three.
On Tuesday, June 30, JL Collins Publishing releases three new books on the same day, and they could not be more different from one another. That is on purpose. One house, several moods, so there is something here whether you came for crime, for cozy magic, or for heat.
Here is what lands Tuesday.
🖤 A Murder of Crows (Jessie Clark)
The Winifred Baxter Mysteries, Book Two. A fair-play paranormal cozy.
A stranger buys a remedy he doesn’t need. A playing card appears on the counter. The crows settle on the church roof in a silent row, and the town remembers the old saying: when the crows sit the roof, the house gives up a soul. When the historian is found dead, everyone calls it the Wexford omen. Winifred Baxter calls it a motive.
🔮 The Provenance Problem (Jennie Wren Foster)
The Crabapple Antiques Mysteries, Book Two. Cozy mystery, sweet slow burn.
Six weeks after a killer was led out of her shop, Addie Wrent wanted quiet. Instead she got a Victorian desk that reorganizes her filing overnight, a clock chiming an hour it has no business chiming, and a historian dead in the archive, at the same hour, in the same room, as a death sixty years gone. The desk witnessed both. It just can’t tell the decades apart.
🔥 Quiet Money (Kira Deveraux)
The Rowe Capital Series, Book Two. High-heat contemporary romance, 18+, standalone, guaranteed HEA.
He can read everyone in the room. She’s the one person he can’t. A widowed CFO who knows where every body in the firm is buried. The independent counsel who hunted his deposition for a reason she can tell no one. He guesses her secret on the third day, and chooses not to use it. That is where the trouble starts.
A first taste of each
A Murder of Crows: “The first thing I did every morning was count the things Copernicus had moved overnight, and on the second Tuesday in April the count came out wrong before I had even finished my tea.”
The Provenance Problem: “The desk had been in my shop for forty minutes, and it had already corrected me twice.”
Quiet Money: “There is a sound a building makes when it has decided something, and Rowe Capital made it that morning at 7:14.”
Monday and Wednesday I will give you the full opening pages: Jessie on Monday, the romance releases on Wednesday. For now, just pick your Tuesday.
Mark Tuesday, June 30. All three live here: https://www.jlcollinspublishing.com/books
Want to read the next one before anyone else?
My ARC (advance reader) teams get each book early, free, in exchange for an honest review. Pick your author and email them directly to join:
• Mystery and thriller: [email protected]
• Romantasy and romance: [email protected]
• Spicy romance: [email protected]
• Over-40 romance: [email protected]
Already looking ahead: a second wave arrives July 10, with Love at First Brew (Jennie), Silent Echo (Jessie), and The Fracture Courts. More on those soon.
Tell me one thing: which of Tuesday’s three are you starting first, the crows, the desk, or the deposition? Hit reply, I read every one.
Thanks for being here for a big week.
Lori Collins, Publisher