Hook, Line, and Murder by GG Calpo opens when an ordinary spring morning in Whitman's Port turns grotesque in an instant. A fisherman's line pulls in a severed human hand. Meg Brightbook, a retired kindergarten teacher, recognizes the diamond-encrusted signet ring on the hand as...

Kerry Blaisdell’s A Lamentation of Swans: Wicked Portland #1 is a terrifying and suspenseful murder mystery. The story is set in turn-of-the-20th-century Portland, Oregon. The story was inspired by real historical figures, like the American Lola Greene Baldwin (1860 – 1957), who was one of...

To Catch A Monster by Rale Miller takes place in the seemingly quiet town of Lexington, Virginia, where Officer Chrissy and her bike squad suddenly find themselves caught up in a strange murder investigation. The town's usual calm is shattered when a victim is discovered...

Daiyu had traveled a long way from China to the US for one reason: vengeance. Born in 1976, her parents were murdered when she was young by a figure she only knew as the Golden Mirror, the leader of the Zufu triad. It takes years,...

In The Butcher and the Liar, author S.L. Woeppel tells the story of Daisy Bellon, a woman living in the long shadow of her father’s gruesome reputation as a serial killer. Growing up in the gritty reality of her father’s butcher shop in Hellene, Nebraska,...

Jill Carol’s Is It Someone You Know? starts with a crime that turned Levittown upside down when a young boy was found brutally beaten to death with a blunt object. The body was thrown in a trash bin, and it was the town’s first murder....

Award-winning journalist Lexie Logan wakes up in a hospital with absolutely no memory of the previous night. A former addict, she’s horrified to learn that the alcohol and drugs in her system could have killed her. But her years of sobriety make her certain she...

When Detective Ava Martinez and her partner, Dan Riley, arrive at a crime scene in the small coastal town of Crystal Cove, they find the lifeless body of April Seagram, a guide at Biosphere Marine Institute. From the body’s wounds and witness statements, it was...

In Chicago, Warren Stevick, a prominent tax and corporate attorney, had been the go-to guy for every crook who had a problem with the law and their money, and was a favorite among the mob. Life and business had been good until he was forced...

The Depths of Marla Adams by Patrick Hanford is a blend of crime thriller and marine mystery. DEA Special Agent Marla Adams is preparing for a well-deserved week-long Caribbean vacation, but SAC Davies abruptly redirects her to the Gulf Coast. The South Padre Police Department...