5 new mystery novels whisk readers around the globe

For fans of comedy of errors, big bickering and loving families, and accidentally getting roped into crime!

Meddy Chan started her life of crime in the first book when she accidentally killed her date in self-defense, and then her family spent a weekend trying to keep the body hidden while planning a wedding. Now Meddy is newly married and she’s brought her husband Nathan to Jakarta, where he is going to meet a lot of relatives at once during Chinese New Year. While Meddy is at first nervous that he’s going to not understand her culture and family, her worries soon shift to crime when an old beau of her aunts, now in organized crime, decides to woo her again. Except something, of course, goes wrong during the courtship, and now Meddy, her mom, her aunties, and Nathan are in the crosshairs of a business rivalry that will put them in danger…

The audiobook series is narrated by Risa Mei, who does a great job with all the big personalities!

If you want to start at the beginning, pick up Dial A For Aunties.

For fans of female serial killer leads, revenge, dark humor, and past and present storylines!

Claire kills people who piss her off and has managed to not get caught. But when she’s shortlisted for a prize, and then the follow-up email informs her it was a mistake, she has a new target, one that puts a target on her!

After her kill — he was not apologetic at all — Claire has to join a bereavement group because her doctor won’t give her meds for her headaches, thinking they are caused by her grief over her father’s recent passing. So off she goes, only to discover that one of the grievers in the group witnessed Claire’s killing and is going to tell the cops if Claire doesn’t join her blackmailing business. What’s Claire to do?

I picked this up based solely on the title, knowing nothing about it, and was not disappointed! Grab this one if you like dark humor and not feeling bad about “liking” a fictional serial killer.

The audiobook is narrated by Fiona Hardingham, who has a ton of work under her belt, including Sabaa Tahir’s An Ember in the Ashes series!

(TW child abuse, mostly emotional/ suicide, suicidal thoughts scene, almost attempt/ dementia/ bereavement groups: discussion of loved one’s deaths including parent death from cancer/ memory of mental health facility abuse/ elder abuse/ panic attack/ recounts past miscarriages, not graphic)