Multiple POVs

THE MARIGOLD COTTAGES MURDER COLLECTIVE by Jo Nichols
9781250356543 | 8/19/25

Mrs. B, the landlady of The Marigold Cottages, is a stubborn idealist who only rents to people she cares about: Sophie, an anxious young playwright with a dark past; Hamilton, an agoraphobe who likes to overshare; Ocean, a queer sculptor raising two kids alone; the perfectionist Lily-Ann; and Nicholas, a secretive finance bro.

The tenants live contentedly in their doll-house bungalows in Santa Barbara, just minutes from the beach, until their peace is shattered when Anthony, a quiet, hulking, but potentially violent ex-con moves in. Three weeks later, a dead body is discovered on the streets of the peaceful neighborhood. Anthony is arrested, and the tenants heave sighs of relief. Until Mrs. B, convinced that he’s innocent, marches down to the police station and confesses to the crime herself. The tenants band together and form “The Marigold Cottages Murder Collective” to save their beloved landlady. As clues are unearthed and secrets are revealed, the community of misfits only grows more tight-knit . . . until a second body is found. Full of eccentricity, humor, community, THE MARIGOLD COTTAGES MURDER COLLECTIVE will keep you hooked until the last page

THE LOCKED WARD by Sarah Pekkanen
9781250349514 | 8/5/25

It was the crime of the decade. Pathological sibling rivalry. Bitter, all-consuming envy. Whatever the cause – and everyone has an opinion—it led Georgia Cartwright, who was adopted as a newborn, to kill the younger, biological daughter of her wealthy, socially prominent family.

Georgia is being kept at an institution where the most violent offenders are held while she waits to see if she is ruled not guilty by reason of insanity. When her estranged twin sister, Amanda, visits her, Georgia’s first words are, “You’ve got to get me out of here. I didn’t do it.” Her sister can’t walk away. She has always felt a strange hollowness that she has hidden from everyone.

Can Amanda really trust Georgia, or is she being led into the web of a master manipulator? Nothing is as it seems in Sarah Pekkanen’s new psychological thriller, THE LOCKED WARD.

HIGH SEASON by Katie Bishop
9781250283931 | 8/12/25

On a beautiful summer’s night twenty years ago, troubled seventeen-year-old Tamara Drayton was found floating face-down in the pool of her family’s idyllic mansion in the south of France, leaving her twin brother, golden-boy Blake, to pick up the pieces of their shattered family.

Also left behind was their sister Nina, who at six years old became the youngest person ever to testify in a French murder trial. Because she’s the only one who saw what happened—who watched as her babysitter, Josie Jackson, pushed Tamara under the water, and held her there until she stopped breathing. . . Didn’t she?

Twenty years later, Nina’s memories have faded, leaving her with no idea what really transpired that night. When a new true crime documentary about her sister’s murder is announced, Nina thinks this might be her chance to finally find out.

The truth always comes at a cost. Who will pay the price?