Labyrinth
Two seemingly unrelated cases enliven Labyrinth, the 23rd entry in the FBI Thriller series. Agent Sherlock hits a running man with her car while caroming around after being struck herself by an SUV running a red light. Waking up in the hospital, she can’t remember her name or recognize herContinue Reading
The Arrangement
What happens in the “sordid, shadowy all-too-real world of sugar dating” when there is a one-sided breakup of The Arrangement? Murder! Waitress Nat is studying art in New York City by day and looking for a sugar daddy by night. She finds Gabe, a rich but, unknown to her, marriedContinue Reading
Escape Room
Co-workers Jules, Sam, Sylvie and their boss Vincent are trapped in an Escape Room puzzle. The four Wall Street team members are sent a memo from HR insisting they attend a team-building exercise late at night. After boarding the elevator, they discover they are already in the Escape Room. AsContinue Reading
Theme Music
Twenty-five years ago Dixie’s entire family was murdered by her father with an axe. Her father then proceeded to cut his own throat leaving eighteen-month-old Dixie alive in her high chair. The Theme Music playing was Baby Blue by Badfinger, which is a break-up song about the singer’s girlfriend alsoContinue Reading
Gods of Jade and Shadow
A mighty quest awaits young Casiopea when she links up with the Mayan god of death in Gods of Jade and Shadow. Casiopea is an eighteen-year-old girl in rural Mexico in the 1920s. After bleeding on a bunch of bones in a chest, she awakens Hun-Kame, the Mayan god ofContinue Reading
Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep
Who wouldn’t want to help their favorite fictional characters escape from the books that entrap them? Even with the occasional blunder like the Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep, a villain from Dicken’s David Copperfield, being a summoner still sounds fun. However, when Charley realizes he is not the only summonerContinue Reading
The Seekers
“Miller Tavern has always had a reputation for being haunted. Very bad things happened here, homicidal crazy people…Serial killers before that was a thing.”—from The Seekers Keri is a true crime writer hired to lend gravitas to a ghost hunter show called Truth Seekers. Carl, a young Hollywood A-lister, buysContinue Reading
Lady in the Lake
“Alive, I was Cleo Sherwood. Dead, I became the Lady in the Lake, a nasty broken thing.” Maddie is feeling unfulfilled in her life as a full-time wife and mother of one. It’s 1965, when women can dream of careers—and Maddie is a good dreamer. She leaves her husband ofContinue Reading
The Helpline
Germaine is let go from her longtime job at an insurance company. Finding herself without many prospects at her age, she takes a job at The Helpline for local senior citizens. Germaine loves numbers and is befuddled by people. While seeing herself as providing helpful input, others see her asContinue Reading
Good Girl, Bad Girl
Good Girl, Bad Girl? Which one is Evie? Evie is known in the press as Angel Face. As a young girl, she is found in a hidden room with a man long dead after being tortured. Evie claims to not remember anything from her former life—not even her name orContinue Reading
Stranger on the Beach
Caroline Stark’s storybook life began to fall apart the night after she met a Stranger on the Beach. Caroline’s daughter, Hannah, is off to college leaving her alone at their swanky beach house. Jason, her husband of twenty years, is cheating on her and asks for a divorce. To getContinue Reading
Stiletto Vol 1
Enzo and Pascal had an easy night planned. Protecting a witness in a secret hotel room is the safest job for a cop, right? True, until both cops are killed and the witness is taken in Stiletto Vol 1. Who knew where the witness was hidden? Only other cops. DetectivesContinue Reading
Murder at the British Museum
In 1894, there is a Murder in the British Museum. Private Inquiry Agent Daniel Wilson and his live-in lover Abigail Fenton, a famous archaeologist, investigate at the request of the museum director. Esteemed Professor Lance Pickering is most famous for his work on the new King Arthur exhibit and forContinue Reading
Shamed
An Amish grandmother, Mary Yoder, is brutally killed and one of her granddaughters is kidnapped in Shamed, an Amish police procedural. Kate Burkholder is the former Amish and current police chief in small town, Painters Mill Ohio. Her first concern is locating special needs Elsie, age seven. The viciousness ofContinue Reading
Bark of Night
Bark of Night had me with the cute French Bulldog on the cover. But I stayed for the hatred of veggies and pronounced love of dogs evident in this conflicted defense lawyer protagonist’s cozy mystery. Truman, a healthy French Bulldog, is brought into a vet clinic to be euthanized. TheContinue Reading
Other Mrs. Miller
Phoebe Miller is hiding inside of a wine bottle inside her house for a number of reasons at the beginning of the Other Mrs. Miller. Phoebe’s father has recently died and left her his fortune. Unfortunately, his death has also triggered a very public outpouring of women accusing him ofContinue Reading