Years ago I was captivated with detective stories, following Travis McGee, Lew Archer, and others as they meted out justice in their search for the truth. I loved the independent characters and the twisting, convoluted trails they followed. Saint George's Children by Dennis Ecklund falls...

A young woman disappears in 1944 without a trace and isn't heard from again until her ghost appears to a twenty-first century manager of a summer lodge in the captivating mystery novel, The Wildwood Ghost Mystery by Lanin D. Thómasma. Steffi is the manager of...

The blast from the shotgun decimated his face, leaving behind a gory mess of brains and blood. That’s how Luther Baggot, a bounty hunter assassin, slays his victims. Employed by Rudolf Palm, a highly placed sadistic police officer in Otto von Bismarck’s secret police, Baggot...

Venice, a city known for romance and intrigue, proves why this is true in A Season for Masquerade by Robbi Perna. Chiara Davis and her stepbrother Chas travel to Venice after her grandmother, Francesca, is found dead in a hotel room. Francesca’s reason for traveling...

Presumed Dead by Martin Knox is a crime mystery that almost has a feel of Perry Mason about it. Jane Kenwood is a maverick local council politician who has been expelled from her party, which currently governs the city of Alexandra. She continues to frustrate...

Death By Stalking: A Josiah Reynolds Mystery is a sleuth mystery novel written by Abigail Keam. Someone had killed Gage Cagle during the Bluegrass Antiques Auction, and Josiah’s friend, Rosie, was being held as the most likely killer. Josiah had actually found Rosie holding a...

The events of Individutopia by Jocelyn Nicholas Sheldon take place in the year 2084. The world has turned into a paradise for individualism. There is no more society. Everyone is his or her own best friend – literally - because you can buy holographic versions...

Two Rivers, One Stream (Book 2 of a trilogy) by John Dolan tells the story of different characters interconnected with one another. While some connections are clear from the start, others become clearer as the reader moves on with this breathtaking story that took me...

Pablo de Silvia is an ex-CIA spy who is happily spending his days with his girlfriend in a remote farmhouse and is very happy in his quiet life, done with the dangers of his past. This is changed overnight when Stuart Bishop, his...

Uncivil Liberties is a legal mystery/thriller novel written by Bernie Lambek. A man found her body while walking his dog in Mahady Park, a thousand-acre wilderness park neighboring Vermont’s capital, Montpelier. She was young, and her body twisted as if it had fallen from the...