Severn House

14/08/2025

“The obvious motives may not be the answer, giving the heroine plenty to ponder” - Kirkus Reviews

It’s harvest time and trouble is fermenting for Virginia winemaker Lucie Montgomery in this warm-hearted, twisty mystery featuring small-town rivalries, buried secrets and full-bodied murder.

DEEDS LEFT UNDONE by Ellen Crosby is available in hardback and ebook now!

09/08/2025

💖𝓗𝓪𝓹𝓹𝔂 𝓝𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷𝓪𝓵 𝓑𝓸𝓸𝓴 𝓛𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓻𝓼 𝓓𝓪𝔂!💖

Which of these books would you pick up first?! Tell us in the comments!✍️

Featuring new & upcoming THRILLERS, a ROM-COM, POLICE PROCEDURALS, COZY MYSTERIES featuring dogs, magical mermaids, a neurodivergent sleuth, and more!🌟

To make the most of this Book Lovers Day, don’t forget to share a book rec with a friend, post something book-related here on Instagram, or set aside an hour (… or two or three or four!) to keep grinding through that - you got this!📚

06/08/2025

Come witnesss… THE HOLY TERRORS😱

Miles away from town or city, and centuries away from civilization, three witches dance around a great brass cauldron, singing songs of horror and hatred. The Crone raises her voice to ask: ‘When shall we three meet again?’ . . . only for the cauldron to emit a thick, poisonous smoke, sending her, and her fellow actresses, fleeing for their lives.

WHICH WITCH is the latest creepytastic paranormal mystery from author Simon R. Green.
Available in hardback and ebook format NOW🔮

05/08/2025

Happy Publication Day! 📚🗣️

We’re kicking off August with these SEVEN spectacular new books 👽🔮🏛️👹🌊

QUANTUM CAGE by Davis Bunn
A group of physicists achieve something remarkable – a communication link to aliens that possess a groundbreaking enigma with the potential to transform life on Earth.

WITCH WITCH? by Simon R. Green
Talented actress Diana and young bishop Alistair, her partner in crime-solving and supernatural sleuthing, face the terrifying curse of the Scottish Play in this witty, creeptastic paranormal mystery.

THROWING SHADOWS by Claire Booth
Fans of Steven F. Havill’s Posadas County and Lisa Regan’s Josie Quinn series will enjoy this fascinating and complex story set in small-town Missouri.

MURDER IN THE GREEK ISLES by Wendy Church
Smart-mouthed Jesse O’Hara and her friends find themselves in the midst of a Greek crisis involving a radical nationalist group, mysterious spies and lots of Greek food!

WHERE SHE LIES by Caro Ramsay
A celeb wedding venue. A life gone viral. A dead It Girl. The stunning new DCI Christine Caplan thriller from critically acclaimed author Caro Ramsay.

THE FACE STEALER by Sarah Rayne
A puzzling mystery pulls the thieving Fitzglen family back to a shocking crime committed in the time of Catherine the Great in this third instalment of the spellbinding Theatre of Thieves gothic mystery series, set in Victorian England.

DEED LEFT UNDONE by Ellen Crosby
It’s harvest time and trouble is fermenting for Virginia winemaker Lucie Montgomery in this warm-hearted, twisty mystery featuring small-town rivalries, buried secrets and full-bodied murder.

01/08/2025

“Urgent, rhythmic prose and incisive character portraits . . . Compulsively readable”
KIRKUS REVIEWS

“For fans of dark, depraved, shiver-inducing horror stories with plenty of diabolical
twists”
BOOKLIST

Traffic cop Sal Delaney has to solve another twisted and dark case in this pulse-pounding and gritty police procedural set in the north of England, with a complex, intriguing female protagonist.

DON’T SAY A WORD by available in print and ebook now!

20/07/2025

Happy International Chess Day!

Like your chess with a twist? Get lost in the haunted pages of Sarah Rayne’s THE SIN EATER ♟️

The sins of the past break through to the present in this chilling tale of supernatural suspense

“Rayne keeps suspense simmering with controlled, intelligent prose and a provocative weave of haunted yarns” KIRKUS REVIEWS
“another strong take on classic ghost stories. The twists are often as melancholy as they are sudden” PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

When Benedict Doyle finds himself the owner of his great-grandfather’s North London house, he is dismayed. For it was in that house, as a frightened eight-year-old, that the strange glimpses into his great-grandfather’s life began; eerie shutter-flash images that have gradually revealed sinister darkness in his family’s past.

18/07/2025

Woohoo! A fantastic ⭐️ Booklist Starred Review ⭐️ just in for Alys Clare's THE SKELETON IN THE ROSE BED – the latest instalment in her deliciously gothic World's End Bureau Victorian mystery series!

“Perfect for fans of gothic thrillers and historical mysteries” –Booklist

When ancient bones are found in the garden of an old house tucked away behind Tower Hill in London, it's up to private investigators Lily Raynor and Felix Wilbraham to uncover the sinister secrets buried in the rose bed... 🌹💀

⭐️⭐️

17/07/2025

For fans of , and comes a gripping, creepy mystery inspired by ‘s Measure for Measure, set in eerie Appalachia 🐍⚖️

HOLLOW BONES hits the shelves on the 6th August 2025!

“Creepy, suspenseful, and dark” BOOKLIST
“An incredibly rich work of literature” NASHVILLE SCENE

An eerie Appalachian town. A fatal fire. Three women whose fates intertwine . . .

Essa Montgomery and her brother Clyde were brought up in New Hope, a serpent-handling church in Vintera, West Virginia, until the shocking deaths of both their parents closed the church down. Now twenty, reclusive Essa lives alone in her childhood home in the shadow of New Hope, which to her horror has been taken over by a new charismatic, unsettling pastor who continues the dangerous practice. So when the church burns down, she’s glad – until she learns that two people died in the blaze, and her brother’s the prime suspect . . .

Life has made Juliet Usher, who scratches a living as a psychic medium, both assertive and ruthless. With a baby on the way, it’s the worst possible time for her partner Clyde to be arrested. She’ll do anything to survive and keep him out of prison – no matter what it takes!

Merrit Callahan has always been ambitious. A striving news reporter, she’s willing to go the extra mile and break the rules to get the big scoop. And in small-town Vintera, she thinks she might have found the story that will be the making of her career.

16/07/2025

Anyone else longing for a Mediterranean summer? 🌞

Take a trip to Italy with THE PIAZZA MURDERS by Michael Jecks⛱️🍉

“A big part of the fun is the nicely drawn setting with its vivid descriptions of local art and architecture. Fans of the series will enjoy Nick’s usual clever deductions” BOOKLIST

Artist-turned-amateur sleuth Nick Morris is back, and this time he’s swapped the English countryside for beautiful Italy. Only it’s not long before another dead body (or two) lands in front of him! This witty mystery is perfect for fans of Anthony Horowitz.

11/07/2025

🔊 Sound on for an audio preview of WHERE SHE LIES by Caro Ramsay, the latest in the gritty and gripping thriller series!

When a lifestyle influencer is found dead at the foot of a cliff in the Scottish highlands, it's up to DCI Christine Caplan to unpick a web of lies and curated social media facades to uncover the truth of what happened.

A gripping Scottish meets twisted that will have you turning the pages late into the night.

WHERE SHE LIES is out in hardback and ebook on 5 August 2025. Preorder yours now.

09/07/2025

"If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to read a Hallmark Mystery movie in book format, wonder no more"
COZY CRIME MYSTERY

Newly retired mystery writer Charley James returns to her small hometown only to find herself amidst a real-life murder mystery in this first book in the brand new Cozy Bookshop mystery series by award-winning and national bestselling author T.C. LoTempio.

MURDER ON THE BOOKS by T. C. LoTempio is available in hardback and ebook NOW!

08/07/2025

We're so delighted to continue to publish the beloved Owen Archer series by the incomparable Candace Robb!

If you love perfectly researched medieval mysteries that drip with atmosphere, this series is for you! Start reading now with book one, THE APOTHECARY ROSE, and get ready for the latest instalment: A LION'S RANSOM, coming January 2026!

I’ve been away from this blog for a long stretch, so before I dive into musings about life in medieval York in my next post I am here to bring you up to date on what is happening on my publis…