In Miriam Ferraresi's The Guardian Angel: The Recruit, Jay is captured after surviving an assault on a cartel compound near Caracas. He is moved through criminal networks until Tony, leader of a Colombian cartel in Los Angeles, purchases him from Yakuza intermediaries and brings him...

A nurse searches for answers in an unexpected death in the thrilling historical mystery, One Remembers Yet by Raymie Martin. Winnie Watling is a volunteer in the Voluntary Aid Detachment caring for the soldiers in France. After suffering from pneumonia, Winnie is still too weak...

Mayhem in the Mulch by Janet Fix is book one in the Betty Benino Mystery series. The story follows Roberta “Betty” Benino, a widow who finds herself still trying to adjust after her husband’s murder two years ago. She’s settling into her Lake Pointe cottage...

Gail Meath’s Hellcat, book nine in the Jax Diamond Mysteries series, is set in October 1923, when detective Jax Diamond responds to a fatal fall inside the Plaza Hotel and recovers a gold heart-shaped locket from an elevator shaft, a detail that quietly unsettles what...

The Dead Don’t Pay (A James Wolf Murder Mystery) by James Arthur Donzella is a fast-moving detective murder mystery with smuggling thrown in for good measure, and a bit of romance on the side. From the start of the book, I found myself turning the...

Your Story Told by Another by Stanley Livingstone is a thought-provoking read. The author recounts the story of Jacob, a boy who meets a mysterious old man whom only he can see. This old man, possibly his inner self, seeks to mentor him and guide...

In Bad Faith by Geoffrey Carter follows the fortunes—and misfortunes—of Nelson West. Once a homicide detective in Chicago, West now works as a private investigator. When Lionel Bing hires him to investigate a large loan, West finds himself deep in a conspiracy that stretches from...

In Eva Barber’s Misunderstanding: The Tiger in Me, Alice Williams forms a bond that feels unbreakable with Lilly Labarre, even though their homes and upbringings could not be more different. Years later, after meeting a man known as Colin Carter, Alice suddenly vanishes. When Alice...

The Brighter the Light, the Darker the Shadow is an intriguing story about spirituality and life by Verlin Darrow, in which a spiritual leader follows the signs from the universe that lead him through the challenges of being human. Kade Tobin is a mentor in...

The Washashore by Christopher Mirabile opens on a storm-lashed morning in Provincetown, where newly appointed police chief Silas Lopez responds to a foundered boat before dawn. The uneasy calm shatters when a body is discovered near Town Hall, brutally injured in what first appears to...