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…
Mysteries
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…
Lisa Jamison has done well for a single mom who got pregnant at fifteen. She’s a reporter at a well-respected newspaper and her teenage daughter is both an athlete and honors student.…
By Dawn Ius As an adult, S. M. Freedman had forgotten most of the horrific nightmares she had as a child. But while writing THE DAY SHE DIED, one kept coming back…
By Dawn Ius Recent graduate Inspector Lu Fei has spent the start of his police career solving small-time crimes in a rural village in Northern China. But when a young woman is…
After a drug-fueled encounter with a random hookup leaves Franco DiMaso the only witness to a murder, he not only makes a most unreliable witness, but quickly graduates to being the cops’…
Death is on the horizon… When recently divorced Chloe Canton is gifted her grandmother’s house in Bermuda in her will, it seems a perfect time for a fresh start. Her chance at…
By Don Helin At once an homage to the classic genre and a timely twist on it, Russ Thomas’s Firewatching introduced an oft-lacking diversity to the genre with its protagonists—Detective Sergeant Tyler,…
By Terry DiDomenico When two bodies are found floating in the shallows off the Florida coast, the hallmarks of the crime are terrifyingly familiar to FBI forensic psychologist Dr. Nadine Finch. The…
When you’re 21 years old, it can be hard under the best of circumstances to balance the expectations of your father and the desires of your girlfriend. For Ben Miller and his…
By April Snellings The opening strains of B.J. Graf’s debut novel GENESYS X will be familiar to any fan of hardboiled crime stories: a pair of wisecracking LA detectives arrive at what…
By Don Helin A new kind of evil has come to the Old West, a killer as cold and hard as the Wyoming winter. He wanders from town to town, slaughtering entire…
With the United States on the verge of entering World War I, tensions run high in Chicago in the spring of 1917, and the city simmers with anti-German sentiment mixed with virulent…
By Dawn Ius When a man who saves lives has his brutally taken, two Metro detectives are tasked with the difficult task of solving the murder. But there’s more to this case…
When someone sets fire to Lincoln High and kills its new principal, chaos threatens to overtake the urban school. Assistant Principal Sally Pearce, hired by the deceased principal to help him revamp…
In STAGED FOR MURDER, the third novel of the Opera Mystery series, violinist Julia Kogan heads to the San Francisco Opera with her significant other, former NYPD detective Larry Somers, and their…
By Millie Naylor Hast How far would you go to unravel the mysteries of your past? In Tessa Wegert’s THE DEAD SEASON, New York State Police senior investigator Shana Merchant’s journey into…
It’s New Year’s Day, and Jude Dillane, owner of The Corner Lounge, is cleaning up after last night’s celebration when she discovers the body of a man with a knife through his…
Buckle up—the squabbling Trapnell siblings are back. Last time they saved the world from destruction. This time the danger is closer to home. Their father has died, leaving them equal shares of…
A clue is left at a murder scene: a page from a paperback novel. The title of the book is Murder by the Dozen, and local author T. L. McGinnis cannot provide…
Echo Valley, Colorado, is a place where the natural beauty of a stunning river valley meets a budding hipster urbanity. But when an internet stalker is revealed to be a cold-blooded killer…
By Jaden Terrell The spark for Daniella Bernett’s latest thriller was kompromat. Russian for “comprising material,” kompromat is used by Putin and the FSB to “persuade” a public figure to do Russia’s…
By Dawn Ius “Redmond nicely blends period details into the storytelling. Cozy fans should enjoy this seasonal fare.” ~ Publisher’s Weekly Heather Redmond has a deep appreciation for Charles Dickens’ work—her acclaimed…
Sheriff Piper Blackwell’s three-day vacation with old Army buddies takes a deadly turn. At the same time, a blatant hate crime along a county road vexes the rest of her department. Their…