Someone is targeting the Irish Guard (police) in the unusual and twisty thriller, Galway Girl. Jack Taylor, is a former Guard and currently alcoholic private detective who is trying to get over his daughter’s recent murder when he witnesses a Guard shot point-blank in front of his apartment. In addition,Continue Reading
The sister of the Psychic Eye cozy series, Cat, pairs up with the sidekick from the Ghost Hunter Mysteries, Gilley, in the first book in the Life Coach Mysteries, Coached to Death. Heather is what happens when a bully grows up. She becomes even more vindictive and vicious. After all,Continue Reading
A Legacy of Murder: A Kate Hamilton Mystery by Connie Berry Interview with Kate, lead character in A Legacy of Murder Hi Kate. After stumbling across two bodies in less than a month, are you concerned about the same occurring on your next antiquing expedition? Have you been talking toContinue Reading
Apple Cider Slaying (A Cider Shop Mystery) by Julie Anne Lindsey My Review Set in a small town in the Blue Ridge Mountains of West Virginia, Apple Cider Slaying is the first book in the Cider Shop Mystery series. And it’s a great start! Winnie and her Granny Smythe areContinue Reading
In Murder Can Mess Up Your Masterpiece, Celeste Cabot, with her Chihuahua Van Gogh, is embarking on a new life as a freelance artist. Living in her tiny bright pink trailer, Celeste has good sales at her first craft fair until she finds the organizer murdered and she is theContinue Reading
Raymond Chandler has been reincarnated in the expressive prose of Shamus Dust. On Christmas Day, a man is found dead on the porch of a church in post-WWII City of London. By all accounts, the victim, Raymond Jarrett, was up to no good. Pictures of young boys in compromising positionsContinue Reading
The Big Book of Reel Murders is chockful of well-known authors like Dashiell Hammett, Arthur Conan Doyle, Ian Fleming, and W. Somerset Maugham. Even better, it has some of my favorite silver-age short story writers from 1950-1989 Alfred Hitchcock and Ellery Queen mystery magazines like Cornell Woolrich and Stanley Ellin.Continue Reading
Serf and Turf: A Silicon Valley Mystery by Marc Jedel Author Interview How did you get started writing cozy mysteries? I’ve wanted to write a book forever. For the longest time, it seemed I couldn’t come up with a good plot. Unfortunately for my prospective writing career, I had learnedContinue Reading
Beware the East Wind (The Mah Jongg Mysteries) by Barbara Barrett Author Guest Post The Mysteries of Mah Jongg I decided to use the game of Mah Jongg as the focus of my first mystery series for two reasons. First, it was a subject with which I had some familiarityContinue Reading
It’s the day before her one-year wedding anniversary and Elise has a problem in the new gaslight-esque thriller, Poison Garden. When Elise arrives home one day early from a trip, she finds her husband, Kieran, in their marital bed with another woman. He swears it was a one-time fling, butContinue Reading
“It takes a stroke of luck to find your vocation. I might have spent my whole life searching. Hare Krishna? Hairdressing? Water polo? But the universe blessed me with a taste of the perfect crime.”—from Of Vengeance. Welcome to the mind of an unnamed sociopath, who is also a thirteen-year-oldContinue Reading
The Fixer: The Last Romanov by Jill Amy Rosenblatt on Tour October 21 – November 23, 2019 Synopsis: “My name is Katerina Mills. Make sure I disappear.” Katerina Mills is getting out . . . Desperate to escape a psychotic former client, a vengeful mobster, and a dirty DEA agent,Continue Reading
Meg is helping her Grandfather run Owl Fest 2019 at the Caerphilly Inn at Christmas. When its 200 ornithologist guests are stranded by a snowstorm, one of the most cantankerous and least-loved professors is killed. Time for Meg to step in, with help of her extensive family, to solve theContinue Reading
You don’t have to have lived in the 1950s to enjoy The Man that got Away. However, it is eminently easier to understand if you’re from England. There is a murder, a con man, and a criminal mastermind in Brighton, a beach town on the English coast in1957. Only youngContinue Reading
The game is afoot in the excellent Sherlock Holmes tale of spies and revolution, the Adventures of the Peculiar Protocols. Sherlock Holmes’ brother Mycroft enlists Holmes’ help with a mysterious French manuscript. The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion is ostensibly a book recording a conference of Jews describingContinue Reading
Molded 4 Murder (Sophie Kimball Mystery) by J.C. Eaton My Review When an acclaimed local potter is killed by suffocation, he is truly Molded 4 Murder. In Glendale Arizona, Phee is a bookkeeper at Williams Investigations, a private detective firm. One day two acquaintances come in asking for Phee’s help.Continue Reading