In Fighting Edge by Margaret Mizushima, Deputy Mattie Walker and her K-9 partner, Robo, are called to a crime scene. They discover a young mother dead on the couch. The mother’s two-year-old daughter, Emma, is found crying in her crib, and she bonds with Mattie....

Hypnotized by W. B. Edwards takes us back to the sweating Southern California summer of 1969, when the lives of several young Whittier residents are on a direct collision course. Nick O’Brien has just left the Army and accepted a mundane factory job; a path...

In Death of Days by Eliot Pattison, Cato Pike leaves his dangerous world in intelligence because he no longer trusts the leaders. His life is interrupted when his estranged father, a renowned historian, summons him with a favor. Cato travels to an abbey in Scotland’s...

Death By Mail is the 23rd book in the Josiah Reynolds Mystery series by Abigail Keam. Josiah Reynolds is 50 years old, a former art history professor, and now a farm owner and beekeeper. She keeps receiving anonymous notes with death threats in her mailbox...

Bones: A Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Brian Doe follows Brom Bones three years after Ichabod Crane’s disappearance, when life has become far from the victory he thought he'd won. His marriage to Katrina is strained, his home is full of tension, and he’s too...

If you are looking for a thriller with a lot of heart, Glorious Debris by Elisabeth Wathen is an excellent choice. The narrative introduces us to Ann Davenport, a 68-year-old cancer survivor who simply wants a peaceful life running her pier concessions and rental shop...

Lakeside Murder by Katherine Fletcher opens with two small wrongs. Dot Halstead, who runs the archive at Kettle Creek’s Historical Society, spots a donated photograph that does not match the shoreline she knows. Around the same time, the town’s sealed 50th-anniversary time capsule is opened...

As the archivist with the Foundling Historical Society and Museum, Wrenn Grayson is employed to restore the mansion to its 19th-century original state as much as possible. The original owner of the mansion – a millionaire industrialist – prohibited the destruction of any family history...

Who said competition must be fair? In Lethal Succession by Ruben Elustondo, John Whitney, CEO of Whitney Corporation, decides to retire when he is diagnosed with cancer and given six months to live. To determine his successor, he sets a challenge for his right-hand man,...

In Occupied Alaska by Holly A. Bell, Alaska is struggling economically, but it does have an abundance of one great needed resource – natural gas. When the State and Federal government decide they cannot afford the necessary infrastructure to develop and ship this resource to...