A day early, and a little rushed. If you read Monday’s post, you know I was trying to get ready for a family visit, write Treasures, and still work this week. So, I’ll summarize some titles, and any others will end up on the list. Then, you’ll know they’re coming in September.

Jeffrey Archer’s Nothing Ventured introduces Detective William Warwick. Archer intends to follow Warwick’s rise in the Metropolitan Police in this new series that follows him as a young police constable. He’s then assigned to Art and Antiques as a detective because of his university education and knowledge of art. It’s there that he follows the track of a master at art manipulation. (Release date is Sept. 3.)

I’ve really grown to like Bree Baker’s Seaside Cafe mysteries. The third in the series, Tide and Punishment is set at Christmastime in Charm, North Carolina. Everly Swan’s Great-aunt Fran is running for mayor against her long-time nemesis. When her opponent turns up dead just before the first debate, all eyes turn to Fran. (Release date is Sept. 24.)

Andrea Camilleri may have just died, but we still have his mystery, The Other End of the Line, to read. Inspector Montalbano and his team have been stationed at the port in Sicily to manage a crowd of recently arrived refugees. In the midst of all of that turmoil, he also has to get a new suit tailored for a friend’s wedding. He meets the charming master seamstress, Elena Biasini, but while the police are occupied at the docks one night, Elena is murdered. Now, Montalbano has to weave together the loose threads to close the case. (Release date is Sept. 3.)

Tracy Chevalier’s A Single Thread introduces a woman who lost both her beloved brother and her fiancé during the Great War. Violet Speedwell is now one of the “surplus women”, one of the generation consigned to an unmarried life after the war killed so many young women. So, she finds a job in Winchester, home to one of England’s greatest cathedrals. She’s drawn into a society of broderers, women who embroider kneelers for the cathedral, carrying on a centuries-old tradition. When another war threatens her new-found independence, Violet must fight to keep her new life. (Release date is Sept. 17.)

I’m looking forward to Meg Waite Clayton’s World War II novel, The Last Train to London. It’s actually a pre-war story based on the Kinder transports that carried thousands of children out of Nazi-occupied Europe. When the Nazis take control, Truus Wigismuller, Tante Truus, is a member of the Dutch resistance. She risks her life smuggling Jewish children out of Nad Germany to nations that will take them. But, the mission becomes even more dangerous after Hitler annexes Austria, and countries all across Europe close their borders to refugees. (Release date is Sept. 10.)

“For the first time in twenty years, …Ann Cleeves has created a new mystery series, this time taking place on the English beaches where she grew up, in North Devon.” The Long Call takes Detective Matthew Venn to North Devon where he stands outside the church as his father’s funeral takes place. The day Matthew left the strict evangelical community he grew up in, he lost his family, too. As he turns to walk away, he receives a call from one of his team. A body has been found on the beach nearby. It’s a case that calls Matthew back into the community he thought he had left behind. The case with its deadly secrets brings his past and present  into a collision. (Release date is Sept. 3.)

Elizabeth J. Duncan’s mystery, Remembering the Dead, is a tribute to the young men lost in World War I. Penny Brannigan agrees to assist at a formal dinner party that commemorates the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that ended the war. But, when she finds the body of a young waiter and a priceless antique chair goes missing, Penny assists the local police in their investigation. (Release date is Sept. 10.)

Martin Edwards’ Gallows Court is something new for him, a historical crime novel. London in 1930 is a sooty city in which a number of violent deaths, details too foul to print, have kept people off the streets at night. But, Rachel Savernake is no ordinary woman. “To Scotland Yard’s embarrassment, she solved the Chorus Girl Murder, and now she’s on the trail of another killer.” When a reporter on The Clarion‘s crime desk pursues a story about Rachel Savernake, he finds himself deep in a labyrinth of deception and corruption, swept murder by murder closer to the ancient place of execution, Gallows Court. (Release date is Sept. 17.)

In Hester Fox’ The Widow of Pale Harbor, Gabriel Stone takes a position as a minister in the remote village of Pale Harbor, Maine. When the town is plagued by strange and escalating crimes, and a reclusive widow is accused of being a witch, Stone realizes someone has been inspired by the wildly popular stories of Edgar Allan Poe. (Release date is Sept. 17.)

Iced in Paradise is Naomi Hirahara’s first Leilani Santiago Hawai’i mystery. Because her mother has cancer, Leilani returned home from Seattle to help run the family business, a shave ice shack. But, when her father becomes the primary suspect in the murder of a young surfer he was mentoring, Leilani turns amateur sleuth. (Release date is Sept. 3.)

Watch for Sara E. Johnson’s debut mystery, Molten Mud Murder. It’s a fascinating introduction to New Zealand and American forensics expert Alexa Glock who manages to worm her way into an investigation when a body that was partially submerged and boiled in the molten mud pots needs to be identified. (Release date is Sept. 3.)

I loved Thomas Kies’ first Geneva Chase mystery, but somehow missed the second one. I need to catch up because I understand he connects that storyline with the latest investigation for the journalist in Graveyard Bay. With the newspaper she works for about to be sold and her job in jeopardy, Chase is working hard on the story set in Groward Bay Marina where the nude bodies of a corrupt judge and  a Jane Doe are found, chained to a forklift. Geneva investigates pill mills, crooked doctors, and a massive money-laundering scheme, until she’s kidnapped. (Release date is Sept. 10.)

William Kent Krueger takes four orphans and readers on a odyssey during the Great Depression in This Tender Land. In 1932 Minnesota, Odie O’Banion and his brother Albert are the only two white children at the Lincoln School where hundreds of Native American children are forcibly separated from their parents and sent there to be educated. Odie is not popular with the abusive superintendent, and the day comes when he, Albert, their best friend Mose and a a little girl head out in a canoe, on a journey on the Mississippi. It’s a summer that will change their lives. (Release date is Sept. 3.)

In Edith Maxwell’s latest Quaker Midwife mystery, Judge Thee Not, midwife Rose Carroll is shocked when a society matron snubs Rose’s good friend Bertie for her nontraditional lifestyle. When the woman is murdered, fingers point at Bertie, although Rose is convinced her friend is not a killer. She enlists the help of a blind pregnant client, another woman who has endured her share of prejudice. The women must fight bias and blind presumption to clear Bertie’s name. (Release date is Sept. 10.)

I couldn’t resist Anne Gardiner Perkins’ Yale Needs Women. In the summer of 1969, young women across the country sent in applications to Yale University for the first time. “If Yale was going to keep its standing as one of the top two or three colleges in the nation, the availability of women was an amenity it could no longer do without.” This is the true story of how these young women fought against the backward-leaning traditions of a centuries-old institution and created the opportunities that would carry them, and other women, into the future. (Release date is Sept. 10.)

Peter Steiner’s The Good Cop is not an easy book to read because it deals with the years leading up to Hitler taking power in Germany. And, so much of it is eerily familiar right now. It wasn’t easy to be a good cop, a good journalist, or a good newspaper artist in those years, but three people managed, despite bombings and opposition. (Release date is Sept. 1.)

Ice Cold Heart is P.J. Tracy’s latest Monkeewrench novel. Detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth track a missing wife to a friend’s vacant house, where she’s found brutally slain. Clues indicate Kelly Ramage was living a secret life. As they track backwards to try to find her contact who may have killed her, Roadrunner from the Monkeewrench computer team, rescues a woman in Minnesota’s cold winter, a woman who may hold a key to Magozzi and Rolseth’s case. (Release date is Sept. 10.)

Lisa Unger blurs the line between right and wrong in The Stranger Inside. Twelve-year-old Rain Winter narrowly escaped an abduction, but her two friends were not as lucky. Tess never came home, and Hank was held in captivity before managing to escape. Years later, their abductor was released from prison. Then someone delivered real justice – and killed him in cold blood. When another brutal murderer is found dead, Rain is unexpectedly drawn into the case. Eerie similarities to the murder of her friends’ abductor force Rain to revisit memories she’s worked hard to leave behind. (Release date is Sept. 17.)

Here’s the list of other September releases. I hope you find a book or two to enjoy!

Austin, Nefertiti – Motherhood So White (9/24)
Barber, Lizzy – A Girl Named Anna (9/3)
Brook, Allison – Buried in the Stacks (9/10)
Coates, Ta-Nehisi – The Water Dancer (9/24)
Conroy, Vivian – Last Pen Standing (9/24)
Cullen, Lynn – The Sisters of Summit Avenue (9/10)
Dawson, Janet – The Devil Close Behind (9/9)
De Robertis, Carolina – Cantoras (9/3)
Finck, Liana –Excuse Me (9/24)
Garnier, Pascal – C’est la Vie (9/3)
Greenwood, Kerry – The Spotted Dog (9/10)
Jacobson, Howard – Live a Little (9/10)
Kidman, Fiona – This Mortal Boy (9/30)
Lamanna, Gina – Pretty Guilty Women (9/3)
Levine, Laura – Death of a Gigolo (9/24)
Newitz, Annalee – The Future of Another Timeline (9/24)
Prescott, Lara – The Secrets We Kept (9/3)
Proehl, Bob – The Nobody People (9/3)
Ross, Rick – Hurricanes (9/3)
Rushdie, Salman – Quichotte (9/3)
Truong, Monique – The Sweetest Fruits (9/3)
Watt, Holly – To the Lions (9/3)
Woodson, Jacqueline – Red at the Bone (9/17)