On the Bookshelf: New Releases of Favorite Series

 New Releases!!

It's a bountiful season for new releases of favorites this spring.  Maisie Dobbs, Lane Winslow and the D'Apliese Sisters all have new books out in the space of a few weeks. Yippee!! Put the kettle on and get ready for a lovely read.

Maisie Dobbs #16 (Mar 23)

Hard to believe but one of my all time favorite series is now up to the 16th installment! I vividly recall receiving the uncorrected proof of #1 Maisie Dobbs in 2003. I voraciously read it and fell in love with the world Jacqueline Winspear created. The opening scene takes place at the Bond Street Tube Station, one that I was in thousands of time as a college student. This was my "local tube" and a quick walk up to my dorm room on Marlebone Lane. Reading about Maisie transported me back to London, albeit sixty years before I walked the same steps as Maisie. In fact the shop's name is inspired by this book! After all these years I am thrilled when a brand new Maisie arrives and I can sit and devour it. With a pot of tea, biscuits of course! Order copies here

 

Lane Winslow #8 (Apr 27th) It's Here Early!

My second all time favorite series gets a new addition too in April....and guess what?! They just arrived today at the shop! I discovered this gem of a series few years back. It kept many of us happily distracted all last year during the shutdowns. Apart from Maisie Dobbs, this series is our best-selling since we opened nearly 12 years ago. Many of us can't wait for it! There's something about Lane Winslow, King's Cove and all it's inhabitants that sucks the reader in and makes you long to live there too....regardless of the body count!

Set in rural British Columbia in the West Kootenay region after the close of WW2, we follow the newly arrived Lane as she settles down to a quiet life along the lake, to write poetry and restore herself after being a secret agent during the war. This author also writes with such a wonderful sense of place you feel transported. Interesting historical bits are interwoven throughout, with secondary characters becoming important and bringing this little rural corner of Canada to life. Teaser: started reading this morning and there's lots of snow and intrigue immediately! Along with holiday preparations that now have me craving boozy soaked christmas cake!

Available Now!  Order your copies here.

Seven Sisters Series #7 (May 27th)

Long time favorites in the shop due for the next and final installment: The Missing Sister. It clocks in at a hefty 576 pages.....and 2.29lbs hardcover. That's close to being a door stop! Lucinda Riley fans will be thrilled to get their hands on this final and 7th book of the D'Apliese Sisters Saga. Not sure if the photo above will be the final US cover or not....Guess we'll find out on May 27th! 

New to this series? Here's the synopsis of this popular family saga: Six sisters gather at childhood home to mourn their adoptive father's death. They are each sent upon a journey to uncover their familial story with only enigmatic clues as a guide. Each of the books follows a sister on her journey to various far flung locations. Pure wonderful escapist, heart-felt story telling at its best. The author set out to create an family saga based allegorically upon the Greek Myth of the Pleiades,the seven daughters of the Titan Atlas and the Nymph Pleione: Maia, Electra, Taygete, Celaeno, Alcyone, Sterope, and Merope. Also  known as the Pleiades constellation or Weeping Sisters.Order all here

 One final great escapist series.....

Kendra Donovan Mystery Series

Few months ago I blogged about this gobble-it-up-fast-paced-omg-time-travel-series. In about an hour I'm set to head home, make tea and finish up the final pages of #5 in this absolutely fun series. I'm dreading the awful "end of the series" depression....Luckily #8 Lane Winslow arrived today so I can just happily pop over to King's Cove to see things are in 1940s Canada! LOL

Great escapist murder mystery / time travel series about FBI Profiler, Kendra Donovan. She's swept back in time via a vortex or wormhole as she's literally running for her life from a deadly assassin. One minute it's 2021 and the next she's bursting into the Duke of Aldridge's study in 1815....much to the surprise of the Duke seated at his microscope.

Heads Up: Language is a bit saltier, action more graphic than our usual cozier mysteries. Picture a FBI Profiler tracking sadistic serial killer in 1815 England. Opening scenes definitely get your attention! Once story firmly in 19th century, things settle out . . . with only occasional blunt profanities uttered by our intrepid heroine - much to the shock and horror of her new friends and acquaintances. Fortunately they chalk it up to Kendra being American!

For those who are ploughing through this series.....guess what....there's a #5! It's still in hardcover. Was set to come out in paperback in June but publisher pushed it out until Dec. If you can't wait that long (ahem like myself) I'll order up a copy for you! I'm hoping this means there's another installment in the works or....better yet.....a new tv series perhaps? The books were optioned for a tv series earlier this year, so fingers-crossed! In meantime we can play Who To Cast to bide time until #6 is out.

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Now it's closing time...so that means I'm off to my garden with tea, homemade peanut butter cookie treats and my final chapter of Shadows in Time!