By Tim O’Mara A body goes missing from the morgue and is later discovered in a parked car. Why was it taken? How did it get where it was found? And does…
Mysteries
Hired to investigate the murder of an 84-year-old widow, PI Joe Coopersmith hits one dead end after another in his search for leads. With few clues and no suspects, he nearly gives…
In a reimagining of Charles Dickens’s classic The Pickwick Papers, Heather Redmond’s fourth Victorian-era mystery in the Dickens of a Crime series finds a young Charles tossed into Newgate Prison for a…
Ballerina Leah Siderova belongs onstage. Not in an interrogation room at Manhattan’s 20th Precinct. And yet, for the second time in less than a year, that’s where she has a starring role.…
By George Ebey In THE COUNSEL OF THE CUNNING, Steven C. Harms brings us the next in his Roger Viceroy mystery series. In this installment, Viceroy receives an unexpected knock on his…
By Azam Gill HOW TO MURDER A MARRIAGE is the first book in author, screenwriter, editor ,and successful relationship advisor Gabrielle St. George’s Ex-Whisperer Files, a soft-boiled mystery series starring Gina Malone,…
When gunshots echo off the shopping mall walls, the phrase “shop till you drop” takes on new meaning. Single mom Cameron Chandler is an investigator with Pennywise Investigations, a discount detective agency…
Adjusting to his newfound wealth, Monk meets his youngest brother, Jacob, a Marine. Withdrawn and anxious, Jacob joins Monk in LA only to run off after an accusation of sexual assault from…
Of the two Flores girls, Marisa was the one people pegged for trouble. Her younger sister, Lena, was the quiet daughter, dutiful and diligent—right until the moment she vanished. Detective Jo Wyatt…
By Rebecca Fields In Daniella Bernett’s VIPER’S NEST OF LIES, the discovery of a blood-encrusted stiletto knife in journalist Emmeline Kirby’s bag at Heathrow Airport triggers an avalanche of trouble stretching from…
By Austin S. Camacho To stand out, a police procedural has to have emotional depth and a cop on the edge. If those are your measures, they don’t get much better than…
What price is too great to stop a killing spree? Elizabeth Benoit ran for sheriff to wipe out the corruption in the good old boys’ network of Eckardt County, but she has…
A sniper attack on a controversial judge propels Jimmy Vega on a twisted hunt for the crime’s sole witness: a Guatemalan child who has vanished into the unforgiving landscape of upstate New…
Billy Boyle is sent to the heart of the USSR to solve a double murder in this latest installment of critically acclaimed James R. Benn’s WWII mystery series. In September 1944, the…
There are no softball cases in the FBI…especially when an agent gets dirty. Karina Cardinal’s Saturday starts out with a bang, and it’s not the home renovation marathon she’s watching on HGTV.…
1978 San Francisco. When PI and ex-con Colleen Hayes learns that a local neo-Nazi group is talking about shooting the mayor, she thinks it’s just another rumor—until her source, a humble street…
By Charlie Cochrane Prolific author Ann Simas has been writing since her teens, though her first book wasn’t published until years later. Though she has written standalone novels and short stories, most…
By George Ebey Historical intrigue is the name of the game in the latest thriller from author Jeanne Matthews. In it, the audacious young widow of a Union soldier and an unvarnished…
By Susana Kuehne Mark Edward Langley was born in Richmond, VA on July 24th, 1960. When he was nine, he moved to a south suburb of Chicago, where he lived until his…
Adam Norcross recently buried his mother. His boss, Shapiro, interrupts Norcross’s bereavement to give him an assignment: find out how the country’s most eminent climate scientist ended up dead in a mountain…
A crafty killer uses homeowner association (HOA) feuds to make murder appear to be the latest craze sweeping HOAs—a recreational activity growing faster than pickleball. Too bad some neighbors wind up dead.…
By Susana Kuehne Lissa Marie Redmond was born and raised in Western New York. As a detective, she handled a number of high-profile cases and appeared on numerous television shows, including Dateline,…
Thomas Marks, a young, intelligent man, admits to being with two women just before they were murdered, but he claims to be innocent. Investigating detectives don’t believe him because none of the…
Welsh criminal psychologist and globetrotting sleuth Cait Morgan and her retired-cop husband Bud Anderson are enjoying some well-deserved peace and quiet at home, in moody, mountainous British Columbia. The sudden death of…