Poisoned Pen Press

27/01/2025

Curl up with a beautifully, creepy tale about a newly widowed father and his twin daughters obsessed with an imaginary friend.

LET HIM IN by William Friend the everyday is made hair-raising with a seemingly omnipresent imaginary friend.

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22/01/2025

Looking for a stellar mystery? Here's a good list, brought to you by the Mystery Writers of America:

Edgar nominations are live!
🔍 THE MYSTERY WRITER by Sulari Gentill https://srcbks.com/3rV8q2b
From 2023 Edgar Award nominee and bestselling author Sulari Gentill comes a literary thriller about an aspiring writer who meets and falls in love with her literary idol—only to find him murdered the day after she gave him her manuscript to read.

"A mischievous twist on mystery novels and the people who write them." — Benjamin Stevenson

🕵️ MURDERS IN GREAT DIDDLING by Katarina Bivald
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Reginald Trent was a pompous ass, so someone blew him up.
The villagers of Great Diddling know how to hide the truth, and they’re desperate to save their town.
***Cue the book and murder festival.***
Come away to Great Cornwall, (not by the sea) where a small town full of nosy nellies are drunk on of copious amounts of tea with a capital T.

"With its focus on books and book lovers, eccentric villagers and frauds, this first mystery from the author of The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend is a delightful traditional, filled with fascinating characters. Those who escape to Louise Penny’s Three Pines might want to check out Great Diddling."
― Library Journal, Starred Review

🧀 DEATH AND FROMAGE by Ian Moore
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From UK comedian Ian Moore comes another "laugh-out-loud caper" (Shelf Awareness, starred review for Death and Croissants).

Middle-aged B&B owner Richard Ainsworth is enjoying his quiet life in the Val de Follet—that is, until the local cheese supplier is found dead in one of his own pasteurization tanks…

Congrats Poisoned Pen Press authors Sulari Gentill, Ian Moore, and Katarina Bivald

15/01/2025

📣COVER ANNOUNCEMENT 📣

NetGalley and Goodreads users, we have two exciting opportunities for you to be an early reader of STAY AWAY FROM HIM! The first 100 people to head over to to NetGalley can be an instant early reader! Make your way over to Goodreads to enter for a chance to win a physical ARC of the book 😏

In Andrew DeYoung's upcoming, pulpy, domestic thriller, newly single mother Melissa begins a whirlwind romance with Thomas Danver, a charming pediatrician who seems too good to be true. Then she discovers a shocking secret: his ex-wife was murdered, and he was charged with her murder.

With its irresistible tension and a neighborhood filled with secrets, STAY AWAY FROM HIM is an unputdownable, must-read summer thriller and cautionary tale of letting strangers, and their hidden pasts, into your life.

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14/01/2025

✨COVER REVEAL✨
A huge thank you to our friends over at Reactor Magazine for helping us reveal the stunning cover of A FELLOWSHIP OF BAKERS & MAGIC publishing April 15th ✨🍰💖

Can we take a moment to admire this GORGEOUS cover? We are beyond thrilled to be working with J Penner to introduce cozy fantasy to the Poisoned Pen lineup!

The Hobbit meets The Great British Bake-Off in A FELLOWSHIP OF BAKERS & MAGIC where magic and adventure go hand in hand.

Magicless human Arleta Starstone is reeling after her neighbors enter one of her baked treats to the Langheim Baking Battle—and it wins her a spot in the magical baking competition. Magic and the mundane collide during Arleta’s journey to the magical bake off. Follow along as your new favorite cast of lovable misfits navigate friendship, romance, and self-discovery in a realm filled with marvel and mischief.

We are partnering with Barnes & Noble for an exclusive preorder sweepstakes for anyone who preorders A FELLOWSHIP OF BAKERS & MAGIC with B&N. Enter for a chance to win a marmalade tasting kit, a kitchen smock, assorted Nordic Ware baking pans, and a signed copy of A FELLOWSHIP OF BAKERS &MAGIC. Sweepstakes ends 4/14/25.

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14/01/2025

13/01/2025

This is a reminder to avoid FOMO by preordering the limited edition of BLOOD ON HER TONGUE with the stunning 🩸 blood drip designed edges 🩸

For those who devoured (and got devoured by) Nosferatu, and are craving another Gothic treat, Johanna van Veen has just the fix.

BLOOD ON HER TONGUE blends classic horror elements with unexpected twists, that Publisher's Weekly has described as "Gothic horror for the ages."

BLOOD ON HER TONGUE publishes March, 25. Don't miss your chance to snag a copy with the designed edges! Preorder now:
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09/01/2025

Let’s be honest, nobody likes a snoop in their library, but what’s the worst they could find? Guilty pleasure romances? Sure. Chicken scratch annotations in book margins? ~guilty~ Old family secrets that could devastate your life and community? No? Only in THE DARK LIBRARY then.

NetGalley is set to READ NOW so you can be one of the first to read this gothic, women-led mystery coming in June.

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03/01/2025

Need something to satisfy the craving for all the Gothic vibes after seeing Nosferatu? BLOOD ON HER TONGUE coming from Johanna van Veen publishes this March.

Publishers Weekly handed Johanna van Veen a starred review for what they call “gothic horror for the ages…[that] more than merits comparison to Dracula and other genre titans.”

When Lucy receives an alarming note from her beloved sister that she is unwell—and displays alarming signs of madness. As Lucy tries to unravel the mystery surrounding her sister's condition, Sarah dies. And then comes back. HUNGRY.

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18/12/2024

Louise Penny calls DEATH ON THE ISLAND "a brilliant debut!"
Be sure to go ahead and add it to your 2025 TBR on Goodreads: https://srcbks.com/4fPbvo6

International bestselling author and former First Lady of Iceland Eliza Reid’s debut in the mystery genre is “an addictive and edgy murder mystery with wonderfully quirky characters and razor-sharp dialogue. You’ll turn the pages faster than you ever thought possible.” ― Jann Arden, bestselling author of The Bittlemores

Trapped on a remote island by a howling storm, nine people sit down to dinner.

One of them is about to die.

DEATH ON THE ISLAND by Eliza Reid
publishes May 13, 2025

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16/12/2024

Thank you librarians and congrats, Carter Wilson,!

TELL ME WHAT YOU DID by Carter Wilson made the January 2025 Library Reads list!
Poisoned Pen Press Carter Wilson, Author

12/12/2024

“KD Aldyn boldly probes where other authors fear to tread in this...stunningly subversive, ridiculously addictive chimera of crime and horror.”
— James McKenzie Watson, author of Denizen

“The Rowling sisters will get under your skin...and one of them will rip it clean off.”— Noelle W. Ihli, bestselling author of Ask for Andrea

The Rowling sisters have always been people you can understand. People, like all of us, with past indiscretions and secrets, hopes, and futures. And now, they’ve all come home.

And then there is SHE. SHE is one of them, but SHE is not like them at all. SHE is defined only by the acts SHE commits, the carnage SHE lets the world see, the murders that have swept through their coastal community, striking fear all around.

If you love Karin Slaughter and the Butcher and the Wren, SISTER, BUTCHER, SISTER is your next read. Netgalley readers, you know what to do! https://www.netgalley.com/catalog/book/487286

Enter the Goodreads contest for an early arc
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SISTER, BUTCHER, SISTER by KD Aldyn
publishes June 10, 2025

10/12/2024

It's cover reveal day for THE FARMHOUSE! Coming June 2025 from Poisoned Pen Press.

"Masterfully blending supernatural dread and tangible horrors, THE FARMHOUSE pulls readers into the dark heart of a picture perfect rural Nebraska farm."

Enter the giveaway at Goodreads for a chance to win 1 of 15 ARCs of THE FARMHOUSE: https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/402194-the-farmhouse

10/12/2024

Welcome to all my new followers! 👋🏻 I’m Chelsea Conradt and write books that will make you question whether spooky things are real or just in the main character’s head. (I’m very fun at parties.)

About me:
😱 I write speculative thrillers (Gaslighting! Buried secrets! Ghosts! Not enough sleep!)
🚜 My debut spooky thriller THE FARMHOUSE comes out June 17, 2025 from Poisoned Pen Press
📚I read all kinds of genre fiction but thriller, fantasy, soft horror, and romance have special places in my heart (and on my overflowing TBR).
☕️ Fueled by coffee. (SF vanilla latte with nondairy milk, if I’m at a coffeeshop.)
🖍️ Mom to a 4 year old boy
🐾 Dog mom, too! Boone and Luna are lab mixes and snuggle pups.
🛍️ I will always find a local bookstore to visit. I have favorites all over the US. Please tell me yours!
🎶 Probably listening to BMTH, but my playlists are eclectic. Tastes run from metal to indie to TSwift.

05/12/2024

Ready for an early gift this holiday season? Our December giveaway with Fly Paper Products is here to make your holiday season *extra* cozy, bookish and chilling!

One lucky winner will receive candles, tea, a mug, and more from Fly Paper Products, PLUS two books that bring the chills and thrills to this holiday season: KILLER IN A WINTER WONDERLAND by Wendy Sand Eckel and DEAD OF WINTER by Darcy Coates.

Here’s how to enter:
❄️Follow BookTrib AND Fly Paper Products

❄️Tag a friend in the comments and tell them (and us!) which book + item from Fly Paper Products you’d be most excited to receive.

❄️Earn extra entries when you follow these steps above on a second (or third!) platform!

Best of luck, readers!
18+ ❄️U.S. Only ❄️Closes Wednesday, December 11 at 5 PM EST.

04/12/2024

Please join us in congratulating our author, Eriq La Salle!

In addition to writing his recent thrillers in the Martyr Maker series—Laws of Depravity, Laws of Wrath, and Laws of Annihilation—he will be launching On Call, a streaming series for Prime Video, as executive producer in the new year.

All eight episodes of On Call drop January 9th.

We are thrilled to have Eriq as part of our family of authors, and we look forward to more books to come in his Martyr Maker series.

Mystery thriller fans, dive into Eriq's series today. You can download LAWS OF DEPRAVITY for just $1.99 https://books2read.com/u/bxkXeq

02/12/2024

Mystery Lovers Bookshop in Oakmont, Pennsylvania carries all kinds of genres, but it really loves books with a good plot twist.