Night Before

The less you know about the plot, the better the surprises will be in The Night Before. Rosie forces her sister, Laura, to go on a date arranged on a dating website. When Laura doesn’t return that night or the next morning, Rosie investigates what happened. The Night Before isContinue Reading

Bone Parish Vol 1

There is a new drug in town in the horror/crime graphic novel, Bone Parish Vol 1. Just don’t ask what they make it out of… Ash is a new hallucinogen that allows user to experience someone else’s life. It is incredibly popular but also so strong it kills some inexperiencedContinue Reading

Nothing to Hide

FBI Agent Lucy Kincaid is working with County Investigator Jerry Walker on a serial killer case in Nothing to Hide. Unfortunately, Jerry has a distrust of FBI psychological profiles due to an earlier case. The victims seem to have nothing in common besides being male, under 40 and married. TheContinue Reading

The Invited

The Invited is a ghost story of multigenerational family drama rather the mystery I expected. Helen and Nate decide to quit their teaching jobs and move to rural Vermont. They buy a large parcel of land and begin building their house. The land includes a bog where a suspected witch,Continue Reading

Little Darlings

Little Darlings is an unusual mix of dark fairy tale and thriller. It is a enthralling ride down a rabbit hole where anything is possible. In olden days, people believed that witches took newborn babies. Sometimes they exchanged them for demons who looked exactly the same as the newborns, butContinue Reading

Antiques Ravin

Antiques Ravin’ is a humorous cozy mystery with unique characters. Meet Brandy and her mother, Vivian. Vivian was elected County Sheriff in the preceding series entry when everyone else running was disqualified. Vivian has a revoked driver’s license for driving while not under the influence—of her bipolar medicine—so Brandy isContinue Reading

Mother-in-law

The Mother-in-law is a fine domestic thriller that also touches on some hot button social topics. Lucy’s mother-in-law, Diana, is not her favorite person though she adores her father-in-law, Tom. Diana is not demonstrative, even toward her two children, Ollie and Nettie. She is more concerned with her work withContinue Reading

Before She Was Found

Shy Cora, newcomer Violet and assertive Jordyn are friends—or possibly frenemies—in a rural Iowa middle school in Before She Was Found. Cora and Violet are forced by their teacher to add “mean girl” Jordyn to their group researching urban legends for a class project. Jordyn suggests using Joseph Wither, aContinue Reading

Someone Knows

It literally pains me to write this negative review of Someone Knows by one of my top three authors, Lisa Scottoline. Teenagers Sasha, Julian, David, and Allie find a gun buried in the ground. Nothing good can come of that. When another teenager is shot dead playing Russian roulette, guiltContinue Reading

Foul Play on Words

Foul Play on Words is a cozy mystery set at a writer’s conference with dogs and a possible kidnapping on the side. Charlee, a mystery writer, is forced to run a writer’s conference when her best friend, Liv, tells her she has to look for her daughter Hanna, who hasContinue Reading

Saving Meghan

Why does fifteen-year-old Meghan seem so sick when doctors can find nothing wrong with her? Despite a disinterested husband and questioning doctors, Becky, Meghan’s mother, is intent on Saving Meghan. Becky was raised by Cora, her mother, to be able to mimic disease symptoms to achieve Cora’s goal—getting government disabilityContinue Reading

The Last

An isolated hotel in Switzerland after multiple nuclear bombs are detonated is the setting of The Last. Jon, an American historian at the hotel for a conference is the book’s narrator. After the bombs drop, the Internet soon fails. Most of the hotel’s guests drive or walk to the cityContinue Reading

Scot & Soda

Scot & Soda is a humorous fish-out-of-water tale and the second in the Last Ditch Mystery series. Lexy Campbell is a Scottish therapist in rural Northern California. During a small Halloween party on her houseboat home, a body is found caught on the rope holding the party’s cold beers inContinue Reading

Ghost Manuscript

Old manuscripts! Ghostly monks! Treasure! Ghost Manuscript has something for every adventure fan! Carys is a rare book authenticator. When the eccentric old man who owns the rare Dark Ages library she is authenticating asks her to follow the leads in a sixth century manuscript to find a king’s burialContinue Reading