When the first decapitated corpse was found in a Queens garage, it seemed like just a “routine” murder in New York City. However, when the next victim was found, the press is convinced someone is targeting the ultra-rich. Pendergast is pulled into the case by his NYPD friend, Vincent D’Agosta.Continue Reading
Perfect paranormal suspense for fans of early Stephen King like Stand by Me. Eddie, Fat Gav, Metal Mickey, Hoppo and Nicki are 12 year old friends in an English market town one summer in 1986. At the suggestion of their school’s new art teacher, Mr. Halloran, they use different coloredContinue Reading
The Wife Between Us is the whiplash-inducing thrill ride of 2018! Nellie is about to marry the man of her dreams, Richard a hedge fund manager in New York City. Vanessa is jealous of her ex-husband Richard’s new fiancée and attempts to stop the wedding. The Wife Between Us startsContinue Reading
Good solid cozy with authentic characters. Kate owns a yoga studio. Michael, her live-in boyfriend, owns a pet store. Together they are renovating the house they live in that Kate inherited in Seattle. After not getting the engagement ring she was expecting, Kate asks Michael why they aren’t moving forwardContinue Reading
A deadly cat and mouse game between a bomber and the LAPD Bomb Squad. Dick Stahl is the owner of a security company. He is famous for doing whatever it takes to rescue American business people from kidnappers in foreign lands. Dick was also a former head of the LAPDContinue Reading
In the Shadow of Agatha Christie highlights female writers of crime fiction from 1850-1917. These writers opened the door for the golden age, 1920-1939, of detective fiction led by many female authors like Christie, Margery Allingham, Ngaio Marsh, and Dorothy L. Sayers. The introduction gives a comprehensive history of pre-goldenContinue Reading
Next book following the PBS/Acorn mystery series. Agatha’s fiancé, James, dumps her in the previous book in the series, Agatha Raisin and the Murderous Marriage. In Agatha Raisin and the Terrible Tourist, Agatha chases after him all the way to North Cyprus, where he has gone on their honeymoon tripContinue Reading
Something wicked this way comes. Something evil is loose in small British village of Dalmering. A woman is stabbed in a wood right before her wedding. What could be the possible motive for killing someone liked by the entire village? Could the murderer be her last dinner companion with whomContinue Reading
Originally published in 1947, Death Makes a Prophet is one golden age mystery that deserves to find a new audience. The Children of Osiris, or Cooism for short, is a church/cult based on a mishmash of Egyptian gods, astral bodies, meditation and vegetarianism. Its founder, Eustace Mildmann, is the HighContinue Reading
Captivating character study of what happens when two young sisters disappear one morning. Kylie is 10 and a fire-cracker who back-talks her mother and uses her makeup. Bailey is 8 and loves school especially vocabulary. Jamie, their mother, needed to pick up a quick kid’s birthday gift for a partyContinue Reading
Ms. Daheim begins again at A with this alphabetic cozy mystery series. Alpha Alpine is the 27th in the Emma Lord series. It’s Labor Day in Alpine, a small town in the Cascade Range of mountains in Washington state. Emma is investigating a mysterious death of a new waitress atContinue Reading
Formulaic mystery with a small town atmosphere and a refreshing romance. Amy Webber has run back to her aunt’s house in small town Taylorsford Virginia following a disastrous and public breakup with her boyfriend. Her job as a public library Director with only one employee, Sunny Fields, is fun butContinue Reading
Precious has one case and two personal issues to resolve in the latest novel in the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series. Charity is fired for rudeness to a customer but she swears she wasn’t rude. However, her mother says she is sometimes unexpectedly discourteous. Who is the lady withContinue Reading
Jane Hawk continues to hunt down her husband’s killer in this action-packed sequel to The Silent Corner. Jane is searching for the top man at Far Horizons, David James Michael, to record his confession. His company is using brain nanobots to control people. Some are used as submissive sex slaves,Continue Reading
Riveting character-driven police procedural set in February in the Colorado Rockies. Gemma has just returned from maternity leave to her job as a Cedar Valley Colorado police detective. She is conflicted about letting her baby-daddy and live-in boyfriend work from home while watching her daughter. Her first case is theContinue Reading
Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes? Layers of secrets abound in Heaven’s Crooked Finger. 50-year-old Earl Marcus returns to his hometown in the mountains of Georgia that he left after a failed snake handling forced on him by his father RJ almost killed him at seventeen. RJ isContinue Reading