Inspired by the British classic Four Weddings and a Funeral, The Big Thrill brings you Four Mysteries and a Horror (Collection). Like its namesake, we’re confident that the twisty tales included will surprise and delight, despite a lack of Hugh Grant between their covers.
Death Plays With Fire: A Cotswald Crimes Mystery
by Sharon Lynn
The third book in the Cotswald Crimes series finds Maddie McGuire invited to go sightseeing around Glastonbury. Imagine her surprise to come across an Arthurian king floating in a pool at the Chalice Well, a broadsword stuck in his chest. Going to the police may mean her friend is accused of the crime and her boyfriend, Constable Edward Bailey, isn’t allowed to help her. Maddie must work with another constable, one who seems determined to make Maddie a victim herself.
Danse Macabre in New Orleans
by Robert White
Karissa Scott takes a shot at restarting her stalled journalism career based on a tip. She takes her best friend, chess prodigy and computer geek J. J., along for the ride into a former slave plantation in New Orleans, only to discover a stolen art masterpiece. But her path to a Pulitzer Prize is blocked by Guy Devereaux, the mansion’s owner, and leader of a gang of art thieves. Karissa and J.J. run for their lives through a myriad of dangerous and disreputed places around the Crescent City with a hired killer on their tracks.
Hidden Angels
by Carolyn Arnold
Detective Amanda Steel is back, and her 13th adventure centers around the discovery of a body inside the walls of a Woodbridge church. The victim is a girl who has been missing for over thirty years, and old secrets and suspicions start to surface. Soon, the investigation takes another twist when they find a faded photograph that unravels yet another cold case.
Murder at First Light
by Christine Knapp
This is the fourth book in the Modern Midwife Mysteries. Nurse midwife Maeve O’Reilly Kensington is taking it easy after the birth of her daughter. While her family has found peace and tranquility, she’s set to become the first faculty midwife at Rosemont College in the quaint New England town of Langford.
But trouble finds Maeve on an early morning row in the bay: she sees a jogger stumble out of the town’s iconic lighthouse. When his death is ruled a homicide, Maeve, her sister, and her sharp-tongued mother are on the case.
Eric J Guinard’s A Graveside Gallery: Tales of Ghosts and Dark Matters
There is no denying that Eric J. Guinard is an accomplished writer, editor, and anthologist of dark and speculative fiction. His accolades include the Bram Stoker Award and our own International Thriller Writers’ Award. This book is a collection of 19 stories that range from the literary odd to the macabre, including:
- “A Kingdom of Sugar Skulls and Marigolds”: a gay Hispanic teen in 1950s Los Angeles, mourning the loss of a friend, has a chance to make amends during Day of the Dead.
- “Bummin’ to the Beat of the Road”: a Beat-era youth leaves home to travel the land, only to find madness, murder, and the teeth of a new generation.
- “Perchance to Dream in Voices of a Fiend: A Fanciful Epilogue to Frankenstein”: an intimate epilogue is suggested to the famous novel Frankenstein, offering a more hopeful closure to characters’ lives.
Make sure the doors are locked before sitting down to immerse yourself in these dark and captivating worlds.
