“The last time I saw the pendant, it was on Becca’s neck. She was my best friend. And I killed her.”—Heather, Now, from the Dead Girls Club. There were four members of the Dead Girls Club. Dead Becca didn’t send the pendant. Heather didn’t send it to herself. That leftContinue Reading
The Wheels of Cady Grey Cady Grey Mysteries Book 1 by Paul L. Arvidson Genre: Thriller Publication Date: August 21, 2019 Guest Post by the Author Can you, for those who don’t know you already, tell something about yourself and how you became an author? I started writing in betweenContinue Reading
The Kill Club Wendy Heard On Sale Date: December 17, 2019 9780778309031, 0778309037 Trade Paperback $15.99 USD, $19.99 CAD Fiction / Thrillers / Psychological 368 pages My Review: The Kill Club is an enthralling update to Strangers on a Train where a network of people are killing despicable people forContinue Reading
Mellie’s working as an apprentice undertaker when she comes across a horrible automobile accident at a nearby Crossroad. Three people are dead, one is barely hanging on, and a newborn is found alive on the Oregonian desert floor. When the bodies disappear, Mellie is suspected. Mellie decides to investigate toContinue Reading
Load Up (Lark Davis Mysteries) by Annabelle Hunter My Review Load Up has the best murder victim ever! Who hasn’t wanted to kill their HOA President? And Gerald is worse than most. The only person he recently argued with is single mother Lark Davis over the spacing of her fairyContinue Reading
Realm of the Unknown by James McPike Genre: Thriller Publisher: Paper Gold Publishing Publication Date: December 11, 2019 My Review Vince Ramsey is a forensic expert and a Ritual Investigator in Israel. He is called in to investigate a mass murder in Masada. A dozen townspeople were viciously mauled toContinue Reading
It’s about time that the British Library Crime Classics had a challenger from across the pond. American Mystery Classics is republishing Dread Journey from 1945. It is an excellent example of an American golden-age mystery. It begins with a murder on a luxurious train speeding across the US with aContinue Reading
Death by Proxy: A DIY Diva Mystery by Paula Darnell Guest Post Pets and Cozies Cozy mystery authors face a bit of a dilemma when writing their books because these novels have a completely different vibe than hard-boiled, noir, gory, or forensic-oriented mysteries do. Like other books in the mysteryContinue Reading
Riley Wolfe has a problem. He is just too good at what he does. And what is that you ask? Riley is a cold-blooded master thief. When he sees a $15 billion Iranian diamond is coming to an American museum, he decides to steal it. Even with state-of-the-art electronic security,Continue Reading
Secrets and Lies: A Claire Callahan Mystery by P.H. Turner Author Interview Your first Claire Callahan mystery, Unspeakable Grudges, had a serial killer at its center. Secrets and Lies has a completely green killer. What made you change your focus? The urge to murder lies coiled within all of us. What promptsContinue Reading
Bottle Toss by Howard Odentz Genre: YA Horror, Thriller, Suspense Publisher: Bell Bridge Books Publication Date: October 29, 2019 A beer bottle thrown carelessly at the windshield of a passing car sends the vehicle careening off the road, and the lives of high school seniors Denny Ford, his foster sisterContinue Reading
Brewed Awakening (A Coffeehouse Mystery) by Cleo Coyle My Review I have read almost all of the Coffeehouse Mysteries. Brewed Awakening is my favorite so far. Using an innovative plot device like amnesia refreshes the series because Claire is thrust back to the beginning. She only remembers what happened tenContinue Reading
In the first in a new thriller series, Thin Ice, Beth Rivers is a popular thriller writer, who has just escaped a crazed fan. During her escape, she was injured and her stalker vanished. To avoid him, Beth moves to remote Benedict, Alaska. When a local woman is killed, BethContinue Reading
No Way to Die: A Ming Dynasty Mystery by P.A. De Voe Author Guest Post I am often asked about how I write. That is, where do I get my ideas and what’s my process? I write Chinese historical mysteries set in the early Ming Dynasty (late 1300s and earlyContinue Reading
I have found my future retirement community in Fairhope Alaska. While there are a lot of deaths at Harbor Village, that is a boon for a cozy mystery fan such as me. I want to be Cleo Mack. She has such an exciting life even though her job helping retiredContinue Reading
Death on the Danube: A New Year’s Murder in Budapest (Travel Can Be Murder Cozy Mystery Series) by Jennifer S. Alderson My Review Lana is having a horrid decade. She is fired from her dream investigative journalist job after her confidential informant refuses to testify in the lawsuit against herContinue Reading