
The Champagne Conspiracy: A Wine Country Mystery
by Ellen Crosby
Minotaur Books
After a five-year hiatus, Ellen Crosby is back with more mystery in Virginia wine country. Lucie Montgomery, the vintner-turned-sleuth protagonist of Crosby’s series, investigates a presidential scandal that is somehow connected to Prohibition-era D.C. What makes matters more intriguing? Montgomery’s business partner’s family is tied up in the mess and, almost a century later, is being blackmailed for it. (November 2016)

Caged: Book One in V to Z Trilogy
by JP Robinson
Self-published
At first, society tried to live peacefully with the vampires, but soon the tables turned. Cate was just a teen when the government started the National Vampire Intelligence Agency, and as an adult she becomes one of the lead scientists working on a vaccination for vampirism. Things go awry at the lab, and she is stuck with a horde of hungry vampires who make up the vampire revolution. As vampires fight for their freedom, another foe announces itself: zombies. (October 2016)