In Murder Stings: The Anderson Chronicles Book 6 by Kit Karson, a wildfire is spreading to a mountain town. As the wildfire closes in, the mayor plans to escape before the flames reach the town. Not everyone agrees. Emily, the owner of a shop specializing...

As the owner of the Windermere Hotel on St. Mary’s, Geraldine has a busy life, full of daily challenges. Her marriage seems to be falling apart, and she will soon be alone because her three children will all be away at school. Then there is...

Killing Time, by M.W. Taylor, begins with the discovery that reincarnation is a fact and that past lives can be accessed through a connection to the present. But as so often occurs in newly developed sciences, they tend to have a downside: they are not...

Alan Warren’s Frozen Asset introduces Geraint Matthews, a vodka-loving artist. Consumed by envy of his more successful wife, Seren, he hurls a paperweight at her head, and when she dies in her sleep, he makes a disturbing decision. Instead of calling the police, Geraint, with...

Still Here by G.K. Woolf is set in the quiet town of Hartford, in New South Wales. The novel recounts the disappearance of ten-year-old Hattie Monetti, which occurred in 2003 while she was returning from school. The mystery of the missing girl becomes a cold...

Detective Cat Crearo of the Indiana State Police and Sheriff Robert Delaney are on the hunt for a killer in Clear Creek. In The Hometown Hero’s Last Shot by Karen L West, Johnny Sinclair, a basketball star player and local hero, is found dead in...

Proof Positive is the fourth installment in the Lauren Beck Crime Novel series by award-winning author Donna Huston Murray. The story takes us to Worthy, a small town in Ohio, USA. Thirty-two-year-old Lauren Beck, a former police officer, is looking for her mother, Nina Claire...

The Baggers by James Hale is a story about the gangs in Saint Albans, Kanawha County. The streets of Saint Albans are ruled by the Baggers, most of whose members are young adults who commit theft and other petty crimes. An older generation of scavengers...

Edd Ahearn's In the Shadow of Beauty takes readers to the Yorkshire village of Norton, as veteran Tomasz “Ski” Bankowski enters a burning tradesmen’s office, where electrician Ben Carmichael lies dead beside scattered diamonds. After Ski rescues injured plasterer Aiden Anson, he learns that the...

In Tracey Phillips’ Deepest Secrets, Detective Morgan Jewell is still haunted by memories of the murder of her best friend, Fay Ramsey, that took place seventeen years ago. She is struggling with addiction to painkillers after a hand injury. She takes an undercover job in...