Over the past few years, Maine authors have been churning out a high volume of popular and critically acclaimed fiction, and 2025 has been another banner year. In case you didn’t catch wind of all of these new releases, check out our recap of the year below. Many of these novels, mysteries, and short stories are also set in Maine, and those releases are marked by an asterisk. Click on any title to place a hold in our Minerva catalog. Congratulations to our homegrown and imported Maine talent!
In a Distant Valley (#3 in Dalton, Maine trilogy) by Shannon Bowring*
Departure 37 by Scott Carson (pen name for Michael Koryta)*
Crimson Thaw by Bruce Robert Coffin*
The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne by Ron Currie*
Skin and Bones: and other Mike Bowditch Stories (#12.5 in the Mike Bowditch series) by Paul Doiron*
Shaw Connolly Lives to Tell by Gillian French*
The Frequency of Living Things by Nick Fuller Googins
Hazel Says No by Jessica Berger Gross*
The Whyte Python World Tour by Travis Kennedy
Heart the Lover by Lily King
Never Flinch (#4 in Holly Gibney series) by Stephen King
Maine Characters by Hannah Orenstein*
We Can’t Save You by (#2 in Ryan Tapia mystery series) by Thomas Ricks*
Notes on Infinity by Austin Taylor
The Glass Eel by J.J. Viertel*
*Designates books that are also set in Maine.
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And here are a few bonus reads which are set in Maine, but are not written by authors living in Maine!
Heartwood by Amity Gaige
Etiquette for Lovers & Killers by Anna Fitzgerald Healy (author grew up in Maine, but now lives in Los Angeles)
You Are Fatally Invited by Ande Pliego
Little Great Island by Kate Woodworth
