It’s 1890 in Bath, England. Independent-minded Lady Amy finds her recently ex-fiancé dead in the new historic cozy mystery, A Study in Murder. “How dare St. Vincent come here uninvited and then land on the floor in her library with a knife in his chest? The whole thing was soContinue Reading
My Review Win is finally re-opening her family’s ice cream shop in small town Ohio in A Deadly Inside Scoop. Construction delays have forced her to open Crewse Creamery on the first snow day of the year. In Ohio. Not exactly ice cream weather. Even Win knows what to doContinue Reading
When a murdered girl’s Doc Marten is found twenty-five years later, the police reopen the case. The death of Eve, her best childhood friend, had been tragic for Maggie. finding her body with Eve’s younger sister, Nola, was especially painful. Now one of only two detectives in the small ruralContinue Reading
The Last Day is about what happens to the world when a rogue star causes the earth to stop spinning. No more sunrises or sunsets. Freezing cold and darkness in one area. Burning heat and abandoned cities in another. There is one thin sliver of temperate climate. How do youContinue Reading
In The Goodbye Man, Colter Shaw is searching for two boys. The reason? For the $50,000 reward, of course. That’s his job. Adam and Erick are accused of painting racist graffiti and burning a cross on a church lawn. Worse, they shot the church’s janitor and its lay preacher. WhenContinue Reading
Hollis is a gifted songwriter, who gives his songs away for peanuts to his ex-girlfriend, who is now both rich and famous. You see Hollis has a physical deformity, a hunchback, that has caused him to recede from life. But when The Poison Flood of toxic chemicals hits his smallContinue Reading
The Herd is a female-only shared workspace run by Eleanor. There is waiting list a mile long but Katie cuts the line. Katie’s sister, Hana is the company’s freelance publicist—and Eleanor’s confidante. On Katie’s first day, the company has a break-in overnight with nothing stolen—but an anti-women slogan is foundContinue Reading
Be forewarned! Castle Skull is not your typical John Dickson Carr mystery. It has many melodramatic elements tacked onto the traditional golden-age mystery. A castle that looks like a skull. Its owner, a magician, missing from a train car who is later found drowned in a nearby river. A closeContinue Reading
About R.I.P. in Reykjavík R.I.P. in Reykjavík: A Traveler Cozy Mystery Cozy Mystery 2nd in Series Independently Published (May 19, 2020) Print Length: 149 pages Digital ASIN: B08477CQTR Traveling with your family can be murder. One wedding party + one estranged mother = another vacation that goes array forContinue Reading
Karen is the unabashedly most famous member of Pure Club, a miniskirted all-girl pop band. After being stabbed at a fan event, she quits the group. Hikaru is a judo jock. Nina Kamiyama is the only girl in their high school who wears pants. How they relate to each otherContinue Reading
A Case For the Yarn Maker Ainsley McGregor Book 2 by Candace Havens Genre: Cozy Mystery Spin a yarn…at your own risk. Everyone at Bless Your Art in Sweet River, Texas, is excited about the Yarn Goddess (yes, that’s her real name) coming to town. Ainsley McGregor has set upContinue Reading
“‘What are you doing here?’ he demands. ‘It’s my first day back.’ ‘What are you talking about?’ He steps closer, his eyes burrowing into me. ‘You haven’t worked here in years.’” So begins the new thriller, Have You Seen Me?, by Kate White. Ally Linden is thirty-four. And that’s allContinue Reading
The Split is a superb twisty thriller with multiple layers of mystery waiting to be unfolded. Felicity is working on South Georgia Island near Antarctica studying glaciers. She is also hiding from someone in her past. Felicity was hoping no one could find her in such a remote location. SheContinue Reading
My Review In the first book in a new cozy mystery series, Seas the Day, “Chili Bolz is missing.” His mother, Estelle, tells Shell Island caterer, River, to look for Chili because the police aren’t making much of an effort to find her grown son. It’s bad enough that EstelleContinue Reading
It’s the Mystery Writers of America’s seventy-fifth anniversary! To celebrate they are throwing a party and we’re all invited. Luckily, we readers get the present—an anthology of nineteen short stories by the best mystery writers around. All the stories have an anniversary theme. In fact, they are all Deadly Anniversaries.Continue Reading
From the first page, In Her Shadow grabs you by the throat and won’t you go. “‘Help.’ My voice is hoarse. Fading fast. Someone help me. But no one’s coming. No one knows I’m down here.” And then the first trickle of smoke appears, the house where Colleen is trappedContinue Reading