Flamingo Express by Kenneth D. Michaels is a remarkable cozy crime mystery with touches of LGBT romance. Detectives Nick Scott and Norm Malone travel to Key West to help their friends Jojo and Lola, private detectives, to investigate a complex and high-risk case of fentanyl...

Sometimes the people who seem the most guarded are the ones with the heaviest history, and in For You Always by Hannah Jordan, Cammie knows that better than anyone. She left her hometown in search of a fresh start and happened upon Peace Falls, where...

Have you ever had to start your life over again? In Forever Kind of Love by Susan Elizabeth Bagby, Willow Mason heads back to her small Ohio hometown to do just that. Once there, she’s forced to take a job managing a local bookstore after...

In Brad Graber's Friends for A Season, after eighty-three-year-old former novelist Helena Greenblatt collapses alone inside her Phoenix home, she leaves the isolation of her gated community and moves into Ventana, a retirement residence connected to Arizona State University, where older residents live alongside college...

After a decade away from his hometown of Philadelphia, thirty-five-year-old Evan is back to bury his recently murdered grandfather. During the funeral, the family learns from the press that Evan’s uncle, Michael O’Brien, is running for mayor. Apparently, after the death of the incumbent Republican...

Debora Masterson’s Freedom Quest: A Love Story begins with musician Michael Griffin and his band performing before a roaring crowd in San Diego, their song climbing the charts, and their future suddenly filled with possibility. From there, the novel moves backward to the San Fernando...

Elizabeth Diane Adams' Fully Average is the story of Melissa Jolene Bonetti, who, in spite of her constant sense of dread, considers herself lucky. She has a long-term boyfriend and a steady accounting job, but her life implodes spectacularly when she discovers that her boyfriend...

In Finding Sutton's Choice by Brenda Haas, Charlotte Sutton returns to Lakeside, Ohio, after a phone call reveals her estranged father, former baseball writer Chuck Sutton, is developing Alzheimer’s disease. Charlotte plans to stay only long enough to help manage his medical appointments before returning...

In Mikael Carlson’s Finding Santa, days before Christmas, Santa Claus disappears from his office inside Santa Claus Village in Rovaniemi, Finland, after three men force him onto a private jet headed across Europe. Wyatt Huffman, a former Washington political figure now living quietly in Vermont...

Vicky Oliver’s Firebrands takes place in 1908 Manhattan, where suffragist Helena James begins investigating Derrick Dupré, the wealthy fiancé of her younger sister Summer, after overhearing him discuss bomb construction shortly following an explosion in Union Square Park. Helena discovers that Derrick operates a labor...