Oh, I think anyone who loves books will be able to find a book in the March Treasures in My Closet. There’s a wonderful collection of books coming out in March. We’ll jump right in.

Let’s start with a debut, 33 Place Brugmann by Alice Austen. On the eve of the Nazi occupation, in the heart of Brussels, life for the residents of 33 Place Brugmann is about to change forever. Charlotte Sauvin, an art student raised by her beloved architect father in apartment 4L, knows all the details of the building and its people: how light falls on wood floors and voices echo off the marble staircase, the distinct knock of her dear friend, Julian Raphaël, the son of the art dealer’s family across the hall. Then the Raphaëls disappear, leaving everything behind but their priceless art collection, which has simply vanished. In the face of their perilous new reality, every member of this accidental community will discover they are not the person they believed themself to be. When confronted with a cruel choice—submit to the regime or risk their lives to save one another—each learns the truth about what, and who, matters to them the most. (Release date is March 11.)

Martin Edwards is the editor of Playing Dead: Short Stories by Members of the Detection Club. There are twenty-two original stories by members of the prestigious writers’ group in a collection that celebrates Simon Brett’s eightieth birthday. Readers of British crime writers will recognize the names of Ann Cleeves, Martin Edwards, Elly Griffiths, Catherine Aird, Christopher Fowler, and Ruth Dudley Edwards, just some of the other authors who contributed stories to the book. There’s also a section with biographies of the authors. The collection really does feature the best of contemporary British crime authors. (Release date is March 4.)

If you like epistolary novels, you might want to try Kate & Frida: A Novel of Friendship, Food, and Books by Kim Fay. Some of you might remember Fay’s earlier book, Love & Saffron. This one is set in the early 1990s when Frida writes from Paris to the Puget Sound Book Company in Seattle, looking for a book. Frida inspires to be a war correspondent, and Kate is the bookseller who finds the book Frida wants. In the course of a couple years, both young women find books that inspire them, change their lives, and grows their friendship. (Release date is March 11.)

According to Kevin Tipple, there will be one more book in Steven F. Havill’s Posadas County series. If It Isn’t One Thing…features Undersheriff Estelle Reyes Guzman. She and her small team end up juggling two major cases; a domestic dispute escalates and, although a horse survives a car accident, two drivers do not. It’s a wide-spreading case that extends much further than just the New Mexico jurisdiction. (Release date is March 4.)

I just received Patti Callahan Henry’s The Story She Left Behind, so I only know what the blurb says. In 1927, eight-year-old Clara Harrington’s magical childhood shatters when her mother, renowned author, Bronwyn Newcastle Fordham, disappears off the coast of South Carolina. Bronwyn stunned the world with a book written in an invented language that became a national sensation when she was just twelve years old. Her departure leaves behind not only a devoted husband and heartbroken daughter, but also the hope of ever translating the sequel to her landmark work. As the headlines focus on the missing author, Clara yearns for something far deeper and more insatiable: her beautiful mother. By 1952, Clara is an illustrator raising her own daughter, Wynnie. When a stranger named Charlie Jameson contacts her from London claiming to have discovered a handwritten dictionary of her mother’s lost language. Clara is skeptical. Compelled by the tragedy of her mother’s vanishing, she crosses the Atlantic with Wynnie only to arrive during one of London’s most deadly natural disasters—the Great Smog. With asthmatic Wynnie in peril, they escape the city with Charlie and find refuge in the Jameson’s family retreat nestled in the Lake District. It is there that Clara must find the courage to uncover the truth about her mother and the story she left behind. (Release date is March 18.)

Adrian McKinty’s Hang on St. Christopher is the eighth Sean Duffy book. Rain slicked streets, riots, murder, chaos. It’s July 1992 and the Troubles in Northern Ireland are still grinding on after twenty-five apocalyptic years. Detective Inspector Sean Duffy got his family safely over the water to Scotland, to “Shortbread Land”. Duffy’s a part-timer now, only returning to Belfast six days a month to get his pension. It’s an easy gig, if he can keep his head down. But then a murder case falls into his lap while his protege is on holiday in Spain. A carjacking gone wrong and the death of a solitary, middle-aged painter. But something’s not right, and as Duffy probes he discovers the painter was an IRA assassin. So, the question becomes: Who hit the hitman and why? (Release date is March 4.)

The Persians by Sanam Mahloudji is also a debut novel. Meet the Valiat family. In Iran, they were somebodies. In America, they’re nobodies.First there is Elizabeth, the regal matriarch with the famously large nose who stayed in Tehran during the revolution. She lives in a shabby apartment, paranoid and alone. Except when she is visited by Niaz, her Islamic-law-breaking granddaughter who takes her debauchery with a side of purpose, and yet somehow manages to survive. Elizabeth’s daughters left for America in 1979: Shirin, a charismatic yet outrageous event planner in Houston who considers herself the family’s future, and Seema, a dreamy idealist-turned-housewife languishing in the chaparral-filled hills of Los Angeles. And then there’s the other granddaughter Bita, the self-righteous but lost law student spending her days in New York City eating pancakes and quietly giving away her belongings. When an annual vacation in Aspen goes wildly awry and Shirin ends up being bailed out of jail by Bita, the family’s brittle status quo is cracked open. Shirin embarks upon a grand but half-baked quest to restore the family name. But what does that even mean in a country where the Valiats never mattered? Will they ever realize that life is more than just an old story? (Release date is March 4.)

Chris Offutt’s Mick Hardin novels have their ups and downs for me. I loved the first in the series, The Killing Hills, and then I seem to appreciate all the odd-numbered ones more than the even ones. The Reluctant Sheriff is the fourth to feature Mick Hardin, an ex-Army CID officer. He returns home to the hills of eastern Kentucky, steps in to help his sister, Linda, who is sheriff. But, now that she’s laid up, recovering from a gunshot wound in the line of duty, Mick’s filling in as sheriff. I like Mick. I love the descriptions of the hills and backcountry of the area. But, the divided storyline with one set in Kentucky and one set in Corsica, didn’t work for me. (Release date is March 25.)

The Library Game is the fourth Secret Staircase novel by Gigi Pandian. Tempest Raj couldn’t be happier that the family business, Secret Staircase Construction, is finally getting the recognition it deserves. Known for enchanting architectural features like sliding bookshelves and secret passageways, the company is now taking on a dream project: transforming a home into a public library that celebrates history’s greatest fictional detectives. Though the work is far from done, Gray House Library’s new owner is eager to host a murder mystery dinner and literary themed escape room. But when a rehearsal ends with an actor murdered and the body vanishes, Tempest is witness to a seemingly impossible crime. Fueled by her grandfather’s Scottish and Indian meals, Tempest and the rest of the crew must figure out who is making beloved classic mystery plots come to life in a deadly game. (Release date is March 18.)

Deanna Raybourn’s retired senior sleuths are back in Kills Well with Others. After more than a year of laying low, Billie, Helen, Mary Alice, and Natalie are called back into action. They have enjoyed their time off, but the lack of excitement is starting to chafe: a professional killer can only take so many watercolor classes and yoga sessions without itching to strangle someone…literally. When they receive a summons from the head of the elite assassin organization known as the Museum, they are ready tackle the greatest challenge of their careers. Someone on the inside has compiled a list of important kills committed by Museum agents, connected to a single, shadowy figure, an Eastern European gangster with an iron fist, some serious criminal ambition, and a tendency to kill first and ask questions later. This new nemesis is murdering agents who got in the way of their power hungry plans and the aging quartet of killers is next. (Release date is March 4.)

Broken Fields is the fourth Cash Blackbear mystery by Marcie R. Rendon. Minnesota, 1970s: It’s spring in the Red River Valley and Cash Blackbear is doing fieldwork for a local farmer—until she finds him dead on the kitchen floor of the property’s rented farmhouse. The tenant, a Native field laborer, and his wife are nowhere to be found, but Cash discovers their young daughter, Shawnee, cowering under a bed. The girl, a possible witness to the killing, is too terrified to speak. In the wake of the murder, Cash can’t deny her intuitive abilities: she is suspicious of the farmer’s grieving widow, who offers to take in Shawnee temporarily. While Cash is scouring White Earth Reservation for Shawnee’s missing mother—whom Cash wants to find before the girl is put in the foster system—another body turns up. Concerned by the escalating threat, Cash races against the clock to figure out the truth of what happened in the farmhouse. (Release date is March 4.)

This one’s a little different for me, but I’m looking forward to Lisa Rogak’s Propaganda Girls: The Secret War of the Women in the OSS. Betty MacDonald was a 28-year-old reporter from Hawaii. Zuzka Lauwers grew up in a tiny Czechoslovakian village and knew five languages by the time she was 21. Jane Smith-Hutton was the wife of a naval attaché living in Tokyo. Marlene Dietrich, the German-American actress and singer, was of course one of the biggest stars of the 20th century. These four women, each fascinating in her own right, together contributed to one of the most covert and successful military campaigns in WWII.As members of the OSS, their task was to create a secret brand of propaganda produced with the sole aim to break the morale of Axis soldiers. Working in the European theater, across enemy lines in occupied China, and in Washington, D.C., Betty, Zuzka, Jane, and Marlene forged letters and “official” military orders, wrote and produced entire newspapers, scripted radio broadcasts and songs, and even developed rumors for undercover spies and double agents to spread to the enemy. And outside of a small group of spies, no one knew they existed. Until now. (Release date is March 4.)

Sofie Ryan’s Cat Got Your Killer is the twelfth book in her Second Chance Cat Mystery series. Sarah Grayson is the owner of Second Chance, a repurpose store in North Harbor, Maine. It’s the harbor that takes her away one day when she accompanies her boyfriend, Mac, to see the wooden boat he’s building. Once he begins talking with the man who owns the property, Sarah wanders off. She spies Cleveland Guitard down by the water, but when she sees there’s a body, she hurries to meet him. Cleveland and Sarah bring the body to shore, but neither recognize the dead man. However, other people knew Michael Norris, and none of them can believe he was on the shore at that location. Fifteen years earlier, Michael was part of a quartet of friends in their early twenties. He was present when one of the group died, and another went to prison for her murder. Friends say Michael wouldn’t have returned to the site. (Release date is March 25.)

Lethal Prey is John Sandford’s thirty-fifth Prey novel. Doris Grandfelt, an employee at an accounting firm, was brutally stabbed to death . . . but nobody knew exactly where the crime took place. Her body was found the next night, dumped among a dense thicket of trees along the edge of an urban park, eight miles east of St. Paul, Minnesota. Despite her twin sister Lara Grandfelt’s persistent calls to the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, the killer was never found. Twenty years later, Lara has been diagnosed with breast cancer. Confronted with the possibility of her own death, she’s determined to find Doris’s killer once and for all. Finally taking matters into her own hands, she dumps the entire investigative file on every true-crime site in the world and offers a $5 million reward for information leading to the killer’s arrest. Dozens of true-crime bloggers show up looking for both new evidence and “clicks,” and Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers are called in to review anything that might be a new lead. (Release date is March 25.)

No. 10 Doyers Street by Radha Vatsal  is a novel of New York City on the cusp of modernity, as seen through a unique immigrant perspective, inspired by real events. New York City, 1907. Archana Morley knows what it’s like to be an outsider. As a woman journalist from India making her way through the cutthroat world of tabloid newspapers, she’s always on the lookout for untold stories. In the aftermath of a bloody shooting in Chinatown, Archana finds her most challenging subject-the dreaded gangster Mock Duck. But she realizes that things are not as they seem when the mayor declares Chinatown must be demolished, and the authorities raid Mock’s home and tear apart his family. She embarks on a quest for the truth that leads her from gritty alleys to the back-room politics of City Hall and beyond. (Release date is March 4.)

Lauren Willig’s The Girl from Greenwich Street is subtitled An Intriguing Historical Novel Based on the True Story of Hamilton, Burr, and America’s First Murder. At the start of a new century, a shocking murder transfixes Manhattan, forcing bitter rivals Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr to work together to save a man from the gallows. Just before Christmas 1799, Elma Sands slips out of her Quaker cousin’s boarding house—and doesn’t come home. Has she eloped? Run away? No one knows—until her body appears in the Manhattan Well. Her family insists they know who killed her. Handbills circulate around the city accusing a carpenter named Levi Weeks of seducing and murdering Elma. But privately, quietly, Levi’s wealthy brother calls in a special favor….Aaron Burr’s legal practice can’t finance both his expensive tastes and his ambition to win the 1800 New York elections. To defend Levi Weeks is a double win: a hefty fee plus a chance to grab headlines. Alexander Hamilton has his own political aspirations; he isn’t going to let Burr monopolize the public’s attention. If Burr is defending Levi Weeks, then Hamilton will too. As the trial and the election draw near, Burr and Hamilton race against time to save a man’s life—and destroy each other. (Release date is March 4.)

This Book Will Bury Me by Ashley Winstead features five amateur sleuths whose hunt for an elusive killer catapults them into danger. It’s the most famous crime in modern history. But only she knows the true story.After the unexpected death of her father, college student Jane Sharp longs for a distraction from her grief. She becomes obsessed with true crime, befriending armchair detectives who teach her how to hunt killers from afar. In this morbid internet underground, Jane finds friendship, purpose, and even glory…So when news of the shocking deaths of three college girls in Delphine, Idaho takes the world by storm, and sleuths everywhere race to solve the crimes, Jane and her friends are determined to beat them. But the case turns out to be stranger than anyone expected. Details don’t add up, the police are cagey, and there seems to be more media hype and internet theorizing than actual evidence. When Jane and her sleuths take a step closer, they find that every answer only begs more questions, and begin to suspect their killer may be smarter and more prolific than any they’ve faced before. Placing themselves in the center of the story starts to feel more and more like walking into a trap…(Release date is March 25.)

Is there something here that you might enjoy? Let us know, and tell us what I might have missed with March releases.