2026 Reading List

1. The Outcast Dead (Ruth Galloway #6) by Ellie Griffiths
2. Starter Dog by Rona Maynard
3. Rain Gods (Hackberry Holland #2) by James Lee Burke
4. Out of Range (Joe Pickett #5) by C.J. Box
5. Knife Skills for Beginners (Chef Paul Delamare #1) by Orlando Murrin
6. A Cafe on the Nile (Anton Rider #2) by Bartle Bull
7. One Good Thing (Ten Beach Road #5) by Wendy Wax
8. Murder Takes a Vacation (Mrs. Blossom #1) by Laura Lippman
9. Devil's Food Cake Murder (Hannah Swensen #14) by Joanne Fluke
10. The Island (Compass Key #1) by Maggie Miller
11. The Devil's Steps (Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte #10) by Arthur W. Upfield
12. The Horsea Marina Murders (DI Andy Horton #3) by Pauline Rowson
13. The Yard (Scotland Yard's Murder Squad #1) by Alex Grecian
14. A False Mirror (Inspector Ian Rutledge #9) by Charles Todd
15. Irish Love (Nuala Anne McGrail #6) by Andrew M. Greeley
16. The Girl from Venice by Martin Cruz Smith
17. A Bella Flora Christmas (Ten Beach Road #5.5) by Wendy Wax
18. Beach Therapy (Tuckaway Bay #1) by Madeleine Jaimes
19. Murder by Lamplight (Dr. Julia Lewis #1) by Patrice McDonough
20. A Lady's Guide to Gossip and Murder (Countess of Harleigh #2) by Dianne Freeman
21. The Vig (Dismas Hardy #2) by John Lescroart
22. Trap Door (Home Repair is Homicide #10) by Sarah Graves
23. Treachery at Lancaster Gate (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt #31) by Anne Perry
24. Best Beach Ever (Ten Beach Road #6) by Wendy Wax
25. Comfort Food by Rick Rodgers
26. Ironhorse (Virgil Cole & Everett Hitch #5) by Robert Knott (as Robert B. Parker)
27. The Return of the Raven Mocker (Alafair Tucker #9) by Donis Casey
28. The Disappearance of Miss Sarah Oswald (Captain Lacey #4.7) by Ashley Gardner
29. After the Rain (Falling Home #2) by Karen White
30. Bless the Bride (Molly Murphy #10) by Rhys Bowen
31. Void Moon (Harry Bosch Universe #9) by Michael Connelly
32. Summer on Cape May by Monica Garner
33. Anchored Inn (Gray Whale Inn #10) by Karen MacInerney
34. Dark Tide Rising (William Monk #24) by Anne Perry
35. The Queen's Accomplice (Maggie Hope #6) by Susan Elia MacNeal
36. If Onions Could Spring Leeks (Gram's Country Cooking School #5) by Paige Shelton
37. Dust to Dust (Diane Fallon #7) by Beverly Connor
38. The Murder Hole (Jean Fairbairn / Alasdair Cameron #2) by Lillian Stewart Carl
39. Snowblind (Dark Iceland #1) by Ragnar Jonasson
40. Mad River (Virgil Flowers #) by John Sandford
41. A Quilter's Holiday (Elm Creek Quilts #15) by Jennifer Chiaverini
42. First Bones (Temperance Brennan #0.5) by Kathy Reichs
43. Red Flags (Kate Reilly #4) by Tammy Kaehler
44. One Dog Night (Andy Carpenter #9) by David Rosenfelt
45. Monday Mourning (Temperance Brennan #7) by Kathy Reichs
46. The Chocolate Castle Clue (Chocoholic #11) by Joanna Carl
47. Sharpe's Trafalgar (Sharpe #4) by Bernard Cornwell
48. Book of the Dead (Kay Scarpetta #15) by Patricia Cornwell
49. The Brutal Telling (Armand Gamache #5) by Louise Penny
50. The Original Miss Honeyford (Love and Temptation #1) by M.C. Beaton
51. Murder on the Serpentine (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt #32) by Anne Perry
52. Midnight Rose by Lucinda Riley
53. The Mauritius Command (Aubrey & Maturin #) by Patrick O'Brian
54. Black Seconds (Konrad Sejer #6) by Karin Fossum
55. The Mensa Murders (Deb Ralston #) by Lee Martin
56. Blackout (Dark Iceland #2) by Ragnar Jonasson
57. The Pearl Sister (Seven Sisters #4) by Lucinda Riley