Red's Romance and Mystery Reviews

Forget Me Not Author:  Stacy Willingham Release Date: August 26, 2025 Publisher:  St. Martin's Press Genre: Thriller/Mystery Add it to Goodreads A pulse-pounding new Southern thriller from the author of the runaway bestseller A Flicker in the Dark. Twenty-two years ago, Claire Campbell’s older sister, Natalie, disappeared shortly after her eighteenth birthday. Days later, her blood was found in a car, a man was arrested, and the case was swiftly closed. In the decades since, Claire has attempted to forget her traumatic past by moving to the city and climbing the ranks as an investigative journalist... until an unexpected call from her father forces her to come back home and face it all anew. With the entire summer now looming ahead—a summer spent with nothing to do in her childhood home, with her estranged mother—Claire decides on a whim to accept a seasonal job at Galloway Farm, a muscadine vineyard in coastal South Carolina less than an hour away from where she grew up. At f...

The Gilded Heiress Author:  Joanna Shupe Release Date: August 26, 2025 Publisher:  HarperCollins Genre: Historical Fiction/Romance Add it to Goodreads From USA Today bestselling author Joanna Shupe comes a spicy Anastasia story full of secrets and betrayal, set among the glittering streets of New York City's Gilded Age. In 1880 a baby was stolen from the wealthiest family in America. Though no ransom was ever demanded, the Pendelton family never gave up hope . . . and their reward became the stuff of legend. After being raised in a children’s asylum, Josie Smith ends up on the streets and quickly learns how to take care of herself. Her singing voice draws crowds on every corner, and she’ll stop at nothing to become famous and travel the world, loved and adored by all. Maybe then she won’t think about the family who gave her away as an infant. Leo Hardy isn’t afraid to use his charm and wits to make a fast buck, especially with a mother and five siblings to support. When he st...

We are thrilled to reveal the cover for SADDLED IN SECRETS by Harloe Rae, coming September 22nd! Make sure preorder this small town, grumpy cowboy/sunshine cowgirl romance TODAY! SADDLED IN SECRETS BY HARLOE RAE Release date: September 22nd Photographer: Eric Battershell Model: Drew Truckle Discreet Cover Designer: Neptune Designs Genre/Tropes: Grumpy Cowboy x Sunshine Cowgirl / Older Brother’s Best Friend / Suspense in a Small town / On the run / Forced proximity / Obsessive bodyguard that dabbles in stalking and kidnapping Bianca This entire mess started when my older brother’s best friend got hired to be my bodyguard. Colton Keller has been keeping an eye on me ever since he came to live on our ranch. The wall of muscle wrapped in mysterious darkness has spoken less than five words to me in the same amount of years. But now that Colton’s position is official, he follows me like a reclusive shadow. I try to ditch him at every turn, but he never lets me get too far. Just as I’m about...

The Battle of the Bookshops Author:  Poppy Alexander Release Date: August 19, 2025 Publisher:  HarperCollins Genre: Romance/Fiction/Women's Fiction Add it to Goodreads A charming literary-themed novel about a young woman determined to save her great-aunt’s beloved bookshop from extinction by the shiny new competition—which also happens to be run by the handsome son of her family’s rivals. The cute, seaside town of Portneath has been the home of Capelthorne’s Books for nearly a hundred years… The shop, in the heart of a high street that stretches crookedly down the hill from the castle to the sea, may be a tad run-down these days, but to Jules Capelthorne, the wonky, dusty world of literary treasures is full of precious childhood memories. When her great-aunt Florence gets too frail to run it alone, Jules ditches her junior publishing job in London and comes home to make the bookshop’s hundredth birthday a celebration to remember. Jules quickly discovers things are worse than s...

Knife in the Back Series:  New Orleans Series #4 Author:  Karen Rose Release Date: August 12, 2025 Genre: Romantic Suspense/Fiction/Thriller/Mystery Add it to Goodreads Officer Naomi Cranston was framed for stealing cocaine from the evidence locker and coerced—through threats to her young son—into not fighting the charges. After five years in prison, she has tried to put the ordeal behind her, but the crooks who framed her have returned, this time demanding she move drugs along with her flower shop’s deliveries. They threaten her son once again, but this time she’s not capitulating quietly. She hires Broussard Investigations to protect her and her son, to prove her innocence, and to put the real bad guys away. As a former cop, Burke Broussard is well aware of the corruption in the New Orleans police department. He had always believed Naomi Cranston to be guilty and isn’t inclined to take her case. Until he sits down to listen to her side of things. Until he sees her tortured i...

Let’s celebrate! It’s release day for SINGLE-MINDED by Amy Knupp!  Grab it at your favorite book vendor! Single-minded focus can get you far in business. In love? Not so much… Presley Giving up my soul-sucking career and moving to a small town was supposed to simplify my life. It didn’t. Because relaxing isn’t as easy as I’d hoped it would be. Plus, the hot contractor in charge of my home reno is all kinds of distracting. Especially when he’s so determined to keep our relationship strictly professional… West As a single dad with a military background, I’d seen it all. So, I was prepared for anything life could throw at me . Until her. Presley Holiday is so perfect she almost makes me forget that sleeping with a client is forbidden. But I can’t afford to make another mistake when it comes to love. Keeping our relationship platonic is the right thing to do. Too bad doing the right thing has zero appeal when it comes to Presley… Single-Minded, book 4 in the Single Dads of Dragonfly La...