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...

"Murder & Mayhem in Goose Pimple Junction" by Amy Metz is a funny mystery story about a small southern town. The story hops back and forth from the present day to 1930s with ease. Tess Tremaine has moved to Goose Pimple Junction after a messy...

It would be unpleasant if I had to say much negative points about a novel whose protagonist drinks my brand of beer. Fortunately, I don’t have to worry about that. “Matinicus: An Island Mystery” by Darcy Scott, that spans generations, makes it unnecessary. Gil Hodges,...

Struggling opera singer Paige Marshall needs more income, so she signs up to work with the show choir at Prospect Glen High School outside Chicago. The first line of Chapter One of "Murder for Choir" says it all: "If Dante ever added a tenth circle...