My 17-page 2025 Winter Reading Guide is live! The guide contains 45 recent and upcoming releases plus new titles in book series, fiction/nonfiction pairings, stellar mystery series and some anticipated spring and summer releases. All of these will make great reads for this winter and many are books you won’t see many other places; I strive to find those under-the-radar gems. If you are interested, fill out the Google form and submit a tip of your choosing.

Sophia Bennett

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SJ Bennett grew up reading mystery stories and travelling the world as an army child. She wrote several award-winning books for teens before turning to adult crime novels with the Her Majesty the Queen Investigates series. Her books have been published in over twenty languages, from Japanese to Catalan. She is a Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund, and lives in South London, where she also runs a writing podcast for aspiring authors called Prepublished.

Sept. 26, 2023

Interview with S.J. Bennett - MURDER MOST ROYAL

In this interview, S.J. Bennett and I discuss Murder Most Royal, setting a book in Norfolk, her fabulous website, writing about the queen even though Sophia is not a royalist, how varied her book covers are in different countries, what …

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