In Valerie Taylor's A Jewel of a Crime, Venus Bixby expects a routine visit to the newly opened SAM’s Studio in Chatham Crossing, the dance studio she recently sold to Sam and Margo Abbott. Instead, she discovers Margo dead behind a curtain in the office...

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...

In J.R. Lightfoot’s Drop: The Police Annals of Jax Book II, Fort Worth detective Jax Ferris returns to the city after leaving the police department to work with a federal task force investigating supernatural threats. His target is Debro, the leader of the Order of...

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...