Senator Bernie Sanders is the star of his own cozy mystery in Feel the Bern. A man is drowned in maple syrup. Senator Sanders investigates. New England leaf peepers, small town quirks, mittens, and progressive politics ensue. Take what you think about this great elevator plot pitch and make itContinue Reading
Sheriff Sunshine Vicram is still trying to break up a local moonshine gang while in love with its boss. It’s unfortunate that her fixation is causing her to overpour tequila for herself leading to A Hard Day for a Hangover. A Hard Day for a Hangover is not a standaloneContinue Reading
Reward hunter Colter Shaw is back looking for a frantic woman and her teenage daughter. The woman’s employer is looking for her because she is an irreplaceable nuclear engineer. Unfortunately, her psycho ex-husband was recently released from prison and has vowed to kill her and their daughter. It’s Hunting Time!Continue Reading
Wormhole is a police procedural set on a world far far away and also an almost ruined Earth. Cold case detectives on Earth must solve an eighty-year-old case that was recently revived after a spaceship thought lost arrives at a new planet. The spaceship sets up a quick path toContinue Reading
People from the city, beware the suburbs! Stephanie, her husband Pete and their fifteen-year-old son, Danny, move into an upscale London suburb. Danny soon makes friends with the kid across the street. But Stephanie finds the parents are just plain odd. What secrets are they hiding in The Locked Attic?Continue Reading
Paperback Jack is advertised as a noir thriller, but instead reads like a period piece/memoir. Pulp fiction writer Jacob returns stateside after WWII and finds the pulps dead. What is a writer to do to make a living? He turns to creating lurid paperback fiction as his meal ticket. ButContinue Reading
In Flight Risk, Leda is a part-time psychic/full-time travel agent who finally has a psychic-needing client looking for a missing sister—not another lost cat. Her friend, Detective Grady, has a personal interest in the puzzle of a missing man. The good news is that Grady’s dog is found after beingContinue Reading
Murder at Black Oaks is really two plots locked haphazardly together in one book. First, there is Frank, a former prosecutor who discovers the man he sent to prison for life, Jose, is innocent. Unfortunately, his evidence cannot be used in court, so he uses his considerable wealth to getContinue Reading
Grilled 4 Murder is a delightful cozy mystery set at an Arizona retirement community. Phee works full-time at a private investigation firm as an accountant but her zany retired mother, Harriet, keeps volunteering her to investigate local crimes. This time Food Network is hosting a BBQ competition. It’s down toContinue Reading
Ten-year-old Lukas is The Collector of images that looked like faces. He is also missing. Detective Erik Schafer is investigating but the clues have led to nothing. Heloise is Schafer’s friend but also an investigative journalist. It’s Copenhagen in February. A young boy wouldn’t last long in the frozen streets.Continue Reading
The Prisoner is Amelie, who wakes up imprisoned in an unknown location. Are her captors looking for easy money by asking her new husband’s family for ransom in exchange for her release? Or is something even darker happening here? Even with the short plot summary that I provided; you shouldContinue Reading
My Review Ominously, Norma, a proponent of #vanlife, arrived in a small Rhode Island town accompanied by a murder of crows. The local school even closed for a “crow day” due to the feathery infestation. The townspeople embraced Norma anyway. However, when priceless jewels are stolen from a guest’s room,Continue Reading
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is an awesome golden-age mystery book, arguably the best in the Agatha Christie canon. I actually guessed the murderer’s identity because of reading some non-spoiler reviews so I’m not going to say anything about the plot. However, I love mysteries and have read 100s probablyContinue Reading
My Review Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery. However, mystery writer, Victoria, is not amused when her biggest stan (stalkery fan) is found dead posed like a death in her book. The local prosecutor is suspicious of both Victoria and her boyfriend, Tim. What can Victoria do butContinue Reading
Harriet has a bestselling thriller and is newly engaged to Edward, heir to a huge family fortune. While Harriet has some secrets lurking in her past, she has no idea how many secrets simmer just under the surface of Edward’s outwardly gentile family. But then his intimidating and powerful father,Continue Reading
Meg and her whole crazy extended family are back in the extra-Christmas-e, Dashing Through the Snowbirds. Meg’s brother Rob is hosting (at Meg’s house of course) a Canadian team of software developers as part of a new contract his company just landed. However, there are big troubles brewing within theContinue Reading