Severn House

07/10/2025

Happy Publication Day!

This October we have SEVEN new cozy, crime and horror fiction books to get you into the spooky spirit 🎃

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THE EXECUTIONER BOX
Ben Taylor failed to heed the warning: do not open! The question is, what did he unleash?

THE BLUEST NIGHT
A Black cop turned PI. An unspeakable crime. A Californian beach town ready to combust. The new shocking, completely gripping Trevor Finnegan thriller.

POISON & POOCHES
Introducing Arial Kingston—dog-sitter, amateur sleuth, and owner of a guest house with a body under the floorboards.

MURDER IN MATRIMONY
Countess-turned-advice columnist Amelia Amesbury has a wedding to plan alongside a new murder in this charmingly deadly historical mystery.

A RAGE OF SOULS
Dark secrets. Perplexing murders. A tangled puzzle. Leeds, 1826. Thieftaker Simon Westow is watching Frederick Fox – a local crook who recently returned to Leeds with his wife after receiving a mysterious pardon from the gallows.

MRS PARGETERS PATIO
A gambler on the run. A widow with deep pockets. A pair of criminal brothers with a secret agenda. The new instalment of the quirky, inventive and charming mystery series featuring widow Mrs Pargeter – whose late husband was absolutely NOT one of the most notorious villains in Essex (the very idea).

ANTIQUES ROUND-UP
Yee-haw! Saddle up for adventure as former sheriff, talented thespian, and delightfully eccentric true-crime author Vivian Borne gets mixed up in murder in the heart of Texas in the new Trash ‘n’ Treasures cozy mystery.

23/09/2025

COVER REVEAL 🎉

We are super excited to reveal the cover art for the first, funny, fast-paced cozy mystery in the Alphabet Girls Mystery series from award-winning author Laura Jensen Walker, THE ALPHABET SLEUTHS!

Publishing 3 February 2026, Pre-order yours now!

“Move over, Thursday Murder Club - The Alphabet Sleuths are the new game in town!”
MADDIE DAY, author of the Cozy Capers Book Group Mysteries

19/09/2025

Hope and Summer Bailey are gearing up for their infamous Halloween party, but a tarot reading featuring the Magician spells doom. Especially when a dead body is found at the party venue!

Everything a magician does is an illusion. A trick. A lie . . .

In the fun fourth instalment of the Fortune Telling Mysteries, the Bailey sisters find themselves once again in the middle of a murder investigation foretold by the Tarot. Fans of Wendy Corsi Staub and Anne George will enjoy!

16/09/2025

We're hugely excited to announce we'll be publishing the final novel from queen of romance Julie Garwood, THE SWAN, in 2026! 🦢

https://www.thebookseller.com/rights/severn-house-nabs-final-novel-by-late-queen-of-romance-julie-garwood

Severn House has scooped The Swan, a romantic suspense novel from the late New York Times-bestselling author Julie Garwood, to be completed by her son Bryan Garwood.

16/09/2025

We had the best time at !

Enjoy some highlights of the weekend 📸

12/09/2025

“A clever series kickoff featuring a sleuth who opens the often misunderstood world of autism to a wider audience” Kirkus Reviews Starred Review

“[Harrison] movingly highlights the ways in which Ada’s neurodivergence serves as a sleuthing strength . . . Readers will be charmed” Publishers Weekly

“This well-plotted story gives readers a good sense of how autism affects daily life (the author herself is autistic) in addition to being a compelling mystery” Booklist

A brilliant neurodivergent female sleuth colliding with an FBI agent with a secret. A crime that is not all it seems. A page-turning, red-herring-filled murder mystery, perfect for fans of Nita Prose, Richard Osman and Anthony Horowitz.

11/09/2025

🎸What’s more rock n’ roll than solving crime? 🔍

We are super excited to share the cover for Nicholas George’s new YOU’VE LOST THAT LIVIN’ FEELIN’ an irresistibly charming page-turner and the first in a new series! 📚

Publishing January 6th 2026
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Introducing Adam Parrall—retired drummer, vinyl record store owner . . . and amateur sleuth!

Adam Parrall’s wild days as a drummer in a rock band are far behind him. Now semi-retired and running a record store in the sleepy town of Cordoba on the mid-California coast, life is considerably calmer, with pleasant surprises such as winning a lifetime achievement award (which Adam learns, depressingly, is intended for deceased artists).

There’s plenty of life left in Adam yet, though sadly the same can’t be said of Righteous Brother tribute artist Barry Haddon, whose dead body is discovered by Adam outside a nightclub. Suddenly Adam discovers an exciting new hobby—sleuthing! Is a knife-wielding robber terrorizing the locals responsible for Barry’s murder? As panic and confusion sweep through the town, Adam can’t rule anything—or anyone—out. Unfortunately, his meddling may mean that he’ll qualify for that lifetime achievement award sooner than he thought!

06/09/2025

⚠️ Are you ready for a reckoning? ⚠️

Get ready for Kelli Stanley's gripping new novel, THE RECKONING – an explosive thriller set in the 1980s introducing fierce heroine Renate Drake.

“Vivid and haunting. I’m eager to hear more from the tenacious and resourceful Renata Drake“ –Meg Gardiner, No. 1 NYT bestselling author

Coming January 6, 2026 and available for preorder now!

SHE KILLED A MAN.
HE DESERVED IT.
BUT JUSTICE ISN'T DONE YET...

1985. Renata Drake steps off a Greyhound bus and into Garberville, Southern Humboldt county, hoping to disappear. She checks the papers. She’s not headline news. Not yet.

But there's something going on in this small California town. A teenage girl is missing, and when she turns up dead, the third in three years, it’s clear a serial killer is amongst them.

Renata knows about murdered girls and the burning desire for justice—and for revenge. She decides to investigate, and what she uncovers will trigger a final reckoning: for herself, for a killer, and for all of Southern Humboldt.

05/09/2025

🧜🏻‍♀️🔍 Genre Fiction Mood Board ⏳🔮

A BREW FOR CHAOS by Esme Addison

“A sparkling supernatural cozy” PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Pumpkins, craft beer and mermaid magic! Alex Daniels must solve a puzzling serial killer cold case in the magical third Enchanted Bay Mystery, set in a cozy small coastal town

CALICO by Lee Goldberg

“If you have time for only one mystery, one Western, and one SF this year, this will ding all three targets” KIRKUS REVIEWS
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Goldberg, comes an explosive, page-turning investigative thriller – with a mind-blowing twist

MURDER IN THE TREMBLING LANDS by Barbara Hambly

“Characters are drawn with impressive depth . . . An excellent read” HISTORICAL NOVELS REVIEW
Masked balls, duels and murder: musician, sleuth and free man of color Benjamin January is caught up in a shocking crime in this gripping nineteenth-century mystery set in New Orleans

LIE IN THE TIDE by Holly Danvers

“An exciting thriller with a shocking denouement few will anticipate” KIRKUS REVIEWS
Theirs is a reunion . . . to die for! Four friends are meeting at a beautiful Cape Cod beach house for a long overdue reunion. But before the trip is over, one of them will wind up dead

WHICH WITCH? BY Simon R. Green

“Theater lore, plenty of suspects, and a soupçon of witchy activity add up to a delightful puzzle” KIRKUS REVIEW
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

03/09/2025

GET YOUR TICKETS NOW!🎟️

Dealing With Crime: Morgan Cry, AA Dhand and Nina Bhadreshwar

Drug trafficking and its sidekicks of violence, money, and corruption are the driving force for these three gritty and powerful crime novels.
Chaired by Dr Jacky Collin, this isn’t a panel you’ll want to miss!

Grab you tickets now in the link below:

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02/09/2025

Happy Publication Day!

As we roll into autumn our books turn even more magical, mystical and mysterious 🍂

A big congratulations to these wonderful books and their fabulous authors on their publication day!

We’re delighted to share some of the love these books have been receiving on NetGalley. If we posted your review, let us know in the comments!

A BREW FOR CHAOS by Esme Addison
Pumpkins, craft beer and mermaid magic! Alex Daniels must solve a puzzling serial killer cold case in the magical third Enchanted Bay Mystery, set in a cozy small coastal town.

A SPECIAL INTEREST IN MURDER by Mette Ivie Harrison
A brilliant neurodivergent female sleuth collides with an FBI agent with a secret and a crime that is not all it seems. A page-turning, red-herring-filled murder mystery, perfect for fans of Nita Prose, Richard Osman and Anthony Horowitz.

THE MAGICIAN’S DECEPTION by Carol Miller
Mystic boutique owners Hope and Summer Bailey are gearing up for their infamous Halloween party, but a tarot reading featuring the Magician spells doom . . . especially when a dead body is found at the party venue!

TAILS FROM THE CRYPT by Sarah Fox
Halloween, magic and a touch of romance. Return to the charming coastal town of Twilight Cove with the latest instalment in USA Today bestselling author Sarah Fox’s enchanting Magical Menagerie Mystery series!

THE SKELETON IN THE ROSE BED by Alys Clare
A killer is loose on the streets of Victorian London and he has set his sights on private investigators Lily Raynor and Felix Wilbraham. The latest in the gripping World’s End Bureau historical mystery from critically acclaimed author Alys Clare.

BURIED ABOVE GROUND by Mike Ripley
An original spin on the crime novel in which the race to gain the rights to an author’s backlist proves to be more head-scratching – and deadly! – than the plots in his books.

25/08/2025

“As shocking, strange, and tragic as any case she’s ever investigated” - Booklist

Koi, ex-supermodel and face of lifestyle brand the Sunflower Company, is in a Scottish castle with her famous family of nepo babies and influencers. Everything they do is posed, filtered and spun for the perfect story. Even when Koi is found on the rocks at the foot of a cliff, the media juggernaut rolls on, with the image of her body, battered and bleeding, splashed across every social platform around the world.

This gripping Scottish police procedural meets twisted psychological thriller, featuring a complex and fascinating female protagonist, is a perfect choice for fans of tartan noir and authors Val McDermid, Ian Rankin and Elly Griffiths.