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…
Mysteries
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…
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…