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Books Like the Grantchester Mysteries

07.02.2025 by Jen Ryland // Leave a Comment

Grantchester is back for a new season, which is perfect for fans of cozy mysteries, British mysteries, and mysteries featuring crime solving clergy. I have a list of cozy books with vicars, cozy mysteries set in Cambridge and more!

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Categories // Lists Tags // adult fiction, mystery

Book Club Picks for Summer 2025

06.25.2025 by Jen Ryland // Leave a Comment

What are the Best Book Club Picks for Summer 2025? My picks are all page-turners and include suspense, psychological suspense, coming of age stories, Southern Noir, and historical romance. All this summer book club fiction is extremely discussable and I will link to book club discussion questions for most of them (and my discussion posts if you don’t have a book club!) NO dry lit fic that will make you fall asleep in your beach chair! I may be adding more titles, so if you want to be in the loop subscribe to my emails at the link below!

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Categories // Lists Tags // adult fiction, book club, book guide, new books

New Mystery and Thriller Books for July 2025

06.24.2025 by Jen Ryland // Leave a Comment

I’m here to run down the New Mysteries and Thriller Books for July 2025! This is a HUGE list of sizzling summer titles. Which of these New Mysteries, Thrillers, and Suspense Books for July 2025 are you going to grab for your summer reading? I’m here to help!

Brand new Mystery and Thriller Books for July 2025
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Categories // Lists Tags // adult fiction, mystery, new books, suspense, thriller

New Historical Mysteries to Read in July 2025

06.24.2025 by Jen Ryland // Leave a Comment

If you love historical mysteries, I have a list of New Historical Mysteries to Read in July 2025. The list includes lots of nineteenth century mysteries, World War II and 1950s mysteries.


Brand new historical mysteries to read in July 2025

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New Historical Mysteries set before 1900

Photo collage of three July 2025 historical mysteries set before 1900

There Will Be Bodies (Flavia Alba #13) by Lindsey Davis

The Shakespeare Secret by D.J. Nix

Venetian Heretic by Christian Cameron

New Historical Mysteries Set in the Nineteenth Century

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A Crime Through Time by Amelia Blackwell

Miss Caroline Bingley, Private Investigator by Kelly Gardiner and Sharmini Kumar

Death and the Runaways (Mary Shelley #3) by Heather Readmond

Murder in the Trembling Lands by Barbara Hambly

Love and Other Poisons by Lesley McDowell

Murder at the Colosseum by Jim Eldridge

The Misplaced Physician by Jeri Westerman

Blood Caste by Shylashri Shankar

New July Historical Mysteries Set from World War II to the 1950s

Photo collage of three July 2025 Historical mysteries set in the 1940s and 1950s

The Map Maker by Tom Young  

Edinburgh Murders by Catriona McPherson

The House at Devil’s Neck (Joseph Spector #4) by Tom Mead


Etiquette for Lovers and Killers by Anna Fitzgerald Healey I read this one! It has a fun early 1960s setting but a VERY weird ending. My Goodreads review is here!

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A Small Disturbance on the Far Horizon by Richard Babcock

The Briar Club by Kate Quinn


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Categories // Lists Tags // adult fiction, historical fiction, mystery, new books

Mysteries and Thrillers Set at the Beach

06.13.2025 by Jen Ryland // Leave a Comment

These Mysteries and Thrillers Set at the Beach take summer beach reading to a new (meta) level. How can the beach be sinister? These beachy thrillers will give you the chills even when it’s hot outside!

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Categories // Lists Tags // book list, mystery, suspense

New Paperback Mystery and Thriller Books for Summer 2025

06.10.2025 by Jen Ryland // 2 Comments

Welcome to recession reading. These New Paperback Mystery and Thriller Books for 2025 are in the $10 range (or less!) and are perfect for dropping in a beach tote or backpack.

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Categories // Lists Tags // adult fiction, new books

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