A Bad Reputation is the latest Madeleine Maclin mystery by Jane Tesh, starring former beauty queen turned artist and private eye. In A Bad Reputation, Wendall Clarke becomes the talk of the town when he comes back to the small town of Celosia, North Carolina...

Vicki Tyley continues her rise to be one of the best modern thriller writers around with Brittle Shadows, a disconcerting but compelling mystery about one woman’s belief that her recently deceased sister did not, as recorded, take her own life. Jemma Dalton flies into Melbourne...

Brenda Limpert’s debut novel is Blue Martinas, a mystery thriller set in the heavy-drinking, coke-snorting, back-stabbing, movie-making world of modern-day California. Following a dramatic prologue, the story centres on an ostensibly friendly party that actually hides a multitude of sins, simmering tensions, and dirty secrets....

Brett is a detective who thinks he is an Adonis (even though he has no idea what an Adonis is!). He is handsome (or so he thinks)and is apparently proud of his mustache. Looks like a blonde bimbo does not need to be a girl...

In "Bangkok Rules" by Harlan Wolff, Carl Engel is an ex-pat Londoner who has been in Bangkok, Thailand, for over 30 years working as a private investigator surviving through the twists and turns of Thailand’s chaotic political history. Engel is an interesting character and I...

“Bad News for a Ghost” by Jim Guigli is touted as being a "Bart Lasiter Mystery", implying there are or will be more 'Bart Lasiter Mysteries'. Bart Lasiter is a barely-scraping-by private investigator, formerly associated with the Berkeley Police Department, currently working out of a...

The residents of the island could set their watch by Wayne’s evening walk on the beach He was searching for pieces of driftwood to create his art when he saw the large beautiful black orchid lay in the sand. He put on his gloves so...

"Bloody Murder" by Kate Kulig provides the reader with murder, romance, an accurate picture of the life and food of New Orleans and an all around good story. Zofia Smith is the heroine of the story. She had been forced to leave behind a career...

Liss MacCrimmon is attempting to manage her family's Moosetookalook Scottish Emporium and her upcoming wedding to true love Dan Ruskin. Liss' parents, Vi and Mac, are in town for their daughter's day and Vi is "helping out" with everything and driving poor Liss totally crazy....

"Betrayal of Trust" is a very interesting book that has a unique mystery story. We have a murder, that of a young girl that isn't a murder, then it is a murder. A suicide in the Governor's Mansion is the next. Our detectives are Beaumont...