Melancholy Manor: A Hera Hunter Mystery by Ellie DeFarr piqued my curiosity immediately. It is not often that I find a murder mystery intertwined with a ghost story, but Ms. DeFarr provided both, and with an antagonist I will not soon forget. Hera Hunter is a...

Music City, written by Leona Bryant, is a tale of family and friendship. Shelly Shepherd was born to shine. However, her childhood was full of abuse and heartache. Escaping her past, she found true love and was living the American dream of family and...

Margo Fellshur is a recently separated mother of two whose finances are on shaky ground. Her job as a real estate agent has all but dried up, and with her seventeen-year-old daughter Jamie about to head to college, she relies on the extra money she...

Lee Brandt sees his dreams crashing and turning into a nightmare on his wedding night in Maui in Moon over Maalaea Bay by H.L. Wegley. Jennifer Akihara is kidnapped on her wedding night in Maui by an international trafficking group and they have plans to...

Murder Has Consequences (Friendship & Honor, Book 2) by Giacomo Giammatteo is another excellent book by a very interesting mystery writer. I usually don't even read mysteries, yet this is the third book of the same author I've read! In this novel, you follow two...

Watching porn and pleasuring oneself doesn’t really hurt anyone and an addiction to it won’t kill you. That’s what Detective Robyn Tate thought too, in Malicious by James Raven, until she received an email from the “Slave Master” using her daughter’s hacked email account. Slaving...

Moore Field School and the Mystery by Liam Moiser is the first book in a new series for middle grade students. It is reminiscent of the Nancy Drew or The Hardy Boys series. Moore Field School, a private boarding school in England, run by a...

In "Murder in Black and White," the authors Loretta Jackson and Vickie Britton introduce us to Sheriff Jeff McQuede of Coral County. When a class photo goes missing in the newly remodeled museum, it sets off the curiosity button in the sheriff's brain. He wonders...

Mortal Gods by Anne Griffith will raise all of the hairs on the back of your neck when you read it. Step into Albuquerque, New Mexico where expectant Mothers are being tortured, mutilated and their babies taken. Peter Kostas, the Detective attached to the case,...

"Mulholland Dive" by Michael Connelly is an anthology of three short stories. 'Cahoots': The setting is the 1930s. Six men sit around a table playing cards. McMilian is the bad guy, cheat and tempter; he suggests a robbery that should net the men a great...