I have been seeing the covers of James J. Cudney's Braxton Campus Mysteries for some time now. I was lucky enough to snag Academic Curveball. Not only is it the first book of the series, but it is a well-structured sleuth novel that holds promise...

A Broken Reality by Robert Kaufman is a blend of crime and thriller with strong psychological hints. After Danny Madsen has been missing for four days, Danny’s godfather, Jesse Carlton, sets out in his car in search for him in very inclement weather. An accident...

A woman murdered in her pottery studio opens an investigation into other crimes in the murder mystery, A Time to Kiln (A Jade Blackwell Mystery) by Gilian Baker. A blogger and ghostwriter, Jade Blackwell's creative side seems dull lately. Her relationship with her husband, Christian,...

A Knife’s Edge is an action-packed work of thriller fiction by author Eliot Parker. Following the exploits of Charleston police sergeant Ronan McCullough from previous books, this particular crime drama finds our hero deep in the midst of a drug war in the city he...

There are no leads in the murder of a well-liked Santa Fe school teacher and the killer still roams free to kill again in the suspenseful murder mystery, A Pilgrimage to Death (A Reverend Cici Gurule Mystery Book 1) by Alexa Padgett. Since Reverend Cici...

Adam’s Witness by J.C. Paulson is a murder mystery set in the town of Saskatoon in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Grace Rampling is a beautiful young newspaper reporter for the Saskatoon StarPhoenix. She literally stumbles on the dead body of a bishop in the...

A Heritage of Death by Alexa Padgett is the second installment in the Reverend Cici Gurule Mysteries series, preceded by the first book, A Pilgrimage to Death. A Heritage of Death reads as a standalone, although skipping over the first book would be a shame...

The Vietnam War may have officially ended in 1975, but repercussions are still felt in 2008 in Abandoned Homes: Vietnam Revenge Murders by Frank E Hopkins. Retired history professor Paul O’Hare plans to write a book about the abandoned farm houses dotting the southern peninsula...

Angelina, Myra, Clara and June are as different as can be, but they have always been a Mah Jongg foursome and good friends. Unfortunately, that is all about to change now that Myra has been found dead. Angelina has always watched detective television -- Murder...

In An Uncertain Accomplice you will find that author Donald Levin has spun a mystery around one death that led to another death which led to yet another death. Private Investigator Martin Preuss decided to take a case after the prospective client died. His curiosity...