T.T. Mann, Ace Detective by Gerald W. McFarland is a fun throwback to the days of film noir, with private eyes, gangsters and femmes fatales. The main character, Thin Mann, along with his brother, Flat Mann, brings a touch of fantasy to these cozy mysteries...

The Rabbit Skinners by John Eidswick is fully comparable and sometimes superior to any Jack Reacher or Lucas Davenport novel on the market. Such comparison is meant to convey just how good this book is. Besides the meticulously satisfying plot (more on that later,) this...

Wildchild Sidney Davenport has seen one possible future of the planet and it is bleak in The Guardian’s Wildchild by Feather Stone. As a young Guardian, Sidney will do everything she can to prevent the use of Sun Crystals by unscrupulous people to take over...

“A mind is a terrible thing to waste.” Jack Young proves this in his suspenseful story, The Lost Men of St. Aldo’s. Retired detective Gil Conroy agrees to help Kanada, a psychology teacher, locate her missing brother. His last known address was St. Aldo's New...

A day trader and seven-year divorcee, Linda has vowed never to be attached — not in the way her mom is attached, anyway — to any man. Marked for death, she finds solace in a small town on the coast of Oregon, making Sea Crest...

After enjoying the first novel, Scablands, in the Carmen Carillo series by EJ Averett, I was keen to get stuck into The Yellow. In this series, Carmen is a forensic psychologist often called in as a police consultant in nasty crimes, especially those of a...

The Milanese Stars is a romantic suspense novel by author Pamela Q. Fernandes, which focuses on the beautiful and bustling Italian city of Milan. The objects of the book’s title are a valuable collection of pink diamonds, which go missing from the famous Buccatino boutique...

The Obituary R.I.P. is a murder mystery novel written by Bill H. Reedy. Cosgrove James was a murder mystery novelist who delighted in conjuring up unusual plots and springing totally unexpected endings on his readers, but he was in no way prepared for the unlikely...

Tales of Dom Pedro by Toni Cor is a collection of mysteries set in Portugal during medieval times. Pedro I was often known as Pedro the Cruel; he didn’t believe in light sentences for criminals. He didn’t have one rule for the rich and one...

The Fortune Teller and Other Short Works is a collection of stories by author Nanette L. Avery. Featuring more than thirty stories which vary from short flashes to fuller tales, this collection hangs on a common theme of mystery and intrigue, with strong female narration...