Winter Books

Check out these wintry books, sure to be delicious with a warm drink and a cozy blanket!

A KILLING COLD by Kate Alice Marshall
9781250343055 | 2/4/25

A LADY WOULD KNOW BETTER by Emma Theriault
9781649377449 | 1/28/25

There are many things an English lord might encounter on the grounds of his wintry estate. Trees. Birds. Perhaps a wandering gamekeeper. Instead, the Earl of Belhaven finds a woman in the snow, unconscious and nearly frozen to death. Then her luminous gray eyes open just long enough for her to plead, “Don’t let them get me.”

Now Jasper Maycott has his hands full with a woman who has absolutely no memory of who she is or where she came from—to say nothing of her name! Just a gold ring, some fine clothes, and a penchant for pert conversation. But while “Jane” dresses and speaks quite like a lady, Jasper can’t make any assumptions. After all, she could be a crafty fortune hunter…albeit a charming and unutterably beautiful one.

Only there’s no room for romantic love in the Earl of Belhaven’s world. There is just grim duty, a lingering sense of loss, and the knowledge that love—in any form—can only bring heartbreak in its wake.

But while a lady should know better, the heart heeds no rules…even if its every beat portends the danger she was running from.

THE LOST HOUSE by Melissa Larsen
9781250332875 | 1/14/25

Forty years ago, a woman and her infant daughter were found buried in the Icelandic snow, lying together as if sleeping. Except the mother’s throat was slashed and the infant drowned. The case was never solved, and there were no arrests, no convictions. Just a suspicion: the husband did it. When he took his son and fled halfway across the world to California, it was proof enough of his guilt.

Now, a year after his death, his granddaughter, Agnes, is ready to clear her grandfather’s name. Still recovering from his death and her own devastating injury, Agnes is desperate to escape the shambles of her once-stable life—which is why she agrees to an interview on Nora Carver’s popular true crime podcast. Agnes hops on a last-minute flight to the remote town of Bifröst, Iceland, where Nora is staying, where Agnes’s father grew up, and where, supposedly, her grandfather slaughtered his wife and daughter.

But when a local girl goes missing the same weekend Agnes arrives, Agnes and Nora’s investigation is turned upside down. Suddenly, everyone in the small Icelandic town is once again a suspect. Unearthing old and new truths alike, Agnes finds herself in a web of secrets that threaten the redemption she is hell-bent on delivering, as well as her life.

COLD BURN by A. J. Landau
9781250877369 | 4/29/25

In Alaska’s Glacier Bay National Park, a frozen woolly mammoth is uncovered by a geological survey team. When all of them are found dead at the site of the thawed-out carcass, National Park Service ISB special agent Michael Walker is called in to investigate.

In Florida’s Everglades National Park, FBI special investigator Gina Delgado traces the murder of an environmental science intern back to another U.S. Geological Survey team’s ongoing experiments that are decimating the fragile ecosystem.

Beneath the icy waters of Alaska’s Elfin Cove, the crew of a stranded Los Angeles class attack submarine is wiped out by a mysterious contagion, inexplicably causing their lungs to freeze.

The link between these apparently disparate events lies in a deadly, prehistoric microbe that killed the mammoth the same way it did the USGS survey team in Glacier Bay and the crew members of the submarine. A microbe that a rogue billionaire is desperate to attain, and a Russian strongman will do anything to weaponize to achieve even greater, wide-ranging power. Fighting a battle on several fronts—militarily, intellectually, and biologically—Walker and Delgado are running out of time to stop a devastating attack that would reshape the entire world.

SOME LIKE IT COLD by Elle McNicoll
9781250335517 | Available Now

After a long absence, 18-year-old Jasper is finally heading home for the holidays – and she’s keeping secrets.

Arthur, a budding filmmaker, is turning the town of Lake Pristine into a small town story worthy of the big screen. His plans are disrupted by the arrival of the town’s golden girl – the antagonist of his school days; a girl he’s never forgotten.

Jasper Montgomery is back in Lake Pristine for one reason: to say goodbye. But before long small-town tensions start to rise, and a certain brooding film buff starts to look like a very big reason to stay . . .