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October Reads Worth Falling For

Danger, desire, second chances, and unexpected romanceβ€”discover this month’s Fresh Fiction Featured Books.

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A poisoned cousin, a five-year-old's life, and a family with too many secrets.


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Supernatural sparks fly
between a bookseller
& her hard-boiled ghost.


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If Her Highness thinks I’ll let another man claim her and my child, she’s lost her royal mind. Sophaya’s mine.


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She found a body. Then she started asking the wrong questions.


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He ghosted her ten years ago. Now she’s stuck with him for Christmas.


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She’s the lady everyone overlooks. He’s the prince who can’t look away.

The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year by Ally Carter

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Also by Ally Carter:

It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Murder, October 2026
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook
It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Murder, October 2026
Trade Paperback
The Blonde Who Came In from the Cold, August 2026
Trade Paperback
The Blonde Who Came In from the Cold, August 2025
Hardcover / e-Book
The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year, October 2024
Hardcover
The Blonde Identity, July 2024
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
The Blonde Identity, August 2023
Hardcover / e-Book
All Fall Down, February 2015
Hardcover / e-Book
United We Spy, September 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
Double Crossed, February 2013
e-Book
Perfect Scoundrels, February 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
Uncommon Criminals, July 2011
Hardcover
Only the Good Spy Young, June 2010
Hardcover
Don't Judge A Girl By Her Cover, May 2010
Paperback (reprint)
Heist Society, February 2010
Hardcover
Don't Judge A Girl By Her Cover, June 2009
Hardcover
Cross My Heart And Hope To Spy, December 2008
Paperback
I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You, March 2007
Paperback (reprint)
Learning to Play Gin, November 2006
Trade Size
Cheating at Solitaire, December 2005
Trade Size

THE MOST WONDERFUL CRIME OF THE YEAR
By: Ally Carter

Avon
October 2024
On Sale: September 24, 2024
384 pages
ISBN: 0063276682
EAN: 9780063276680
Hardcover
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Romance Suspense | Romance Comedy

Knives Out gets a holiday rom-com twist in this rivals-to-lovers romance-mystery from New York Times bestselling author Ally Carter.

The bridge is out. The phones are down. And the most famous mystery writer in the world just disappeared out of a locked room two days before Christmas.

Meet Maggie Chase and Ethan Wyatt:

She’s the new Queen of the Cozy Mystery.

He’s Mr. Big-time Thriller Guy.

She hates his guts.

He thinks her name is Marcie (no matter how many times she’s told him otherwise.)

But when they both accept a cryptic invitation to attend a Christmas house party at the English estate of a reclusive fan, neither is expecting their host to be the most powerful author in the world: Eleanor Ashley, the Duchess of Death herself.

That night, the weather turns, and the next morning Eleanor is gone.

She vanished from a locked room, and Maggie has to wonder: Is Eleanor in danger? Or is it all some kind of test? Is Ethan the competition? Or is he the only person in that snowbound mansion she can trust?

As the snow gets deeper and the stakes get higher, every clue will bring Maggie and Ethan closer to the truth—and each other. Because, this Christmas, these two rivals are going to have to become allies (and maybe more) if they have any hope of saving Eleanor.

Assuming they don’t kill each other first.