After a hard time processing loss and change, Chance Cormac, an attorney and author, was now volunteering with the Immigrant Defense Project, filing habeas petitions for immigrants detained by ICE. His latest client is Lyla Abda, a Lebanese doctor on a visa, arrested and detained...

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...

Wednesday Night Whites by Marci Lin Melvin follows Azalea “Zale” Augustine, a lawyer in Chester, Nova Scotia, where women have been disappearing for years, shaking the small town. When evidence begins to point toward suspects connected to her own law firm, she becomes involved in...

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...

Through the Path of the Silent Mockingbird by Alex Gadala is about a haunting crime that lingers long after the initial investigation has closed. Alexandra Murial was found brutally murdered; she was stabbed to death. Alexandra’s boyfriend, Frank, is discovered in an animal pit under...

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,...

The Lemon House Murders by Tucker May follows Francis, a nineteen-year-old young adult, who is sent to the Lemon House, an all-male rehabilitation center, by his religious parents. However, Francis is not a drug addict; his parents believe he has a different kind of “problem”...

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....