Popular Book Releases: February 2026

By Graeme McGawJan 30th, 2026

What a great month February looks to be for new books.

It starts off strong with the highly anticipated Read Between the Lies by Jesse Q. Sutanto, a Mindy’s Book Studio production, which releases on February 1st.

We’ev got the latest entries in a few series that have been going on for decades, such as the Alex Delaware series and J.D. Robb’s In Death series.

James Patterson is back with a new Alex Cross novel.

If you’re a fan of lone badasses, then you’ve got a new Orphan X and Gray Man to read.

If you prefer standalones, B.A. Paris is back with another great psychological thriller guaranteed to keep you up at night, and the incredible Catherine Coulter releases “The Heir of Whitestone”.

Here’s a complete list of all of the new books releasing in February by the most popular authors on Book Notification:

Author	Title	Series	Date
Kelley Armstrong	First Sign of Danger	Haven's Rock #4	Feb. 17th
Kristen Ashley	Perfect In Every Way	Manors and Mysteries #2	Feb. 17th
M.C. Beaton	Death of a Groom	Hamish Macbeth #41	Feb. 10th
Steve Berry	The Devil's Bible	Cotton Malone #24	Feb. 17th
C.J. Box	The Crossroads	Joe Pickett #26	Feb. 24th
Carolyn Brown	From Fantasy to Reality: A Small-Town Romance	Standalone	Feb. 3rd
James Lee Burke	The Hadacol Boogie	Dave Robicheaux #25	Feb. 10th
Lucy Connelly	The Curious Case of the Poisoned Professor	Welsh Village #1	Feb. 24th
Catherine Coulter	The Heir of Whitestone	Standalone	Feb. 24th
Mark Dawson	Heatwave	Charlie Cooper Thrillers #11	Feb. 1st
Jeffery Deaver	Untouchable	Special Agent Constant Marlowe #1	Feb. 17th
Matt Dinniman	Operation Bounce House	Standalone	Feb. 10th
Heather Fawcett	Agnes Aubert's Mystical Cat Shelter	Standalone	Feb. 17th
Nicci French	What Happened that Night	Maud O’Connor #3	Feb. 24th
John Gilstrap	Scorched Earth	Jonathan Grave #18	Feb. 24th
Heather Graham	Valentine Valley	Collection	Feb. 4th
Mark Greaney	The Hard Line	Court Gentry / Gray Man #15	Feb. 17th
Elly Griffiths	The Killing Time	Ali Dawson #2	Feb. 12th
Kim Harrison	Secondhand Luck	The Shadow Age #2	Feb. 10th
Gregg Hurwitz	Antihero	Evan Smoak/Orphan X #16	Feb. 10th
Jonathan Kellerman	Jigsaw	Alex Delaware #41	Feb. 3rd
JD Kirk	Him	Standalone	Feb. 12th
Mary Kubica	It's Not Her	Standalone	Feb. 3rd
Kerri Maniscalco	Throne of Nightmares	Princes of Sin #3	Feb. 10th
Alexander McCall Smith	The Lost Language of Oysters	Professor Dr. Von Igelfeld #6	Feb. 3rd
Jenn McKinlay	Booking for Trouble	Library Lover's Mystery #17	Feb. 24th
Leslie Meier	Easter Egg Murder	Lucy Stone #41	Feb. 24th
Carlene O'Connor	Murder at an Irish Session	Irish Village Mystery #12	Feb. 24th
B.A. Paris	When I Kill You	Standalone	Feb. 17th
Brad Parks	The Flack	Standalone	Feb. 3rd
James Patterson	Cross and Sampson	Alex Cross #33	Feb. 9th
Blake Pierce	Close To Darkness	Kari Blackhorse Suspense Thriller #9	Feb. 6th
Blake Pierce	Wrong Place	Miles Sterling FBI Suspense Thriller #4	Feb. 25th
Blake Pierce	So Damaged	Faith Bold #27	Feb. 28th
Meghan Quinn	Just For the Cameras	Bay Area Players #1	Feb. 3rd
Kate Quinn	The Astral Library	Standalone	Feb. 17th
J.D. Robb	Stolen in Death	In Death #62	Feb. 3rd
James Rollins	Trust No One	Standalone	Feb. 24th
Rainbow Rowell	Think Of The Children	Graphic Novel	Feb. 10th
L.T. Ryan	Blind Trust	Jane Cannon #1	Feb. 10th
L.T. Ryan	The Devil's Bargain	Jack Noble #19	Feb. 24th
Jill Shalvis	Free Falling	Colburn Brothers #2	Feb. 3rd
Irina Shapiro	Murder in the Maze	Redmond and Haze Mysteries #18	Feb. 2nd
Jesse Q. Sutanto	Read Between the Lies	Standalone	Feb. 1st
Adrian Tchaikovsky	Pretenders to the Throne of God	The Tyrant Philosophers #5	Feb. 12th
Brad Thor	Cold Zero	Standalone	Feb. 10th
J.R. Ward	Crown of War and Shadow	Kingdoms of the Compass #1	Feb. 17th

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Graeme is the founder of Book Notification. Born in Scotland and now living in Canada, his lifelong love of reading began with Enid Blyton. He enjoys spy thrillers, psychological thrillers, light sci-fi, and anything to do with time travel. His favorite book is Replay by Ken Grimwood.

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