Keith Landry’s The Garden Detectives is set at Riverview condominium, where the annual rush for garden plots coincides with the arrival of Cletus Hughes, whose confident manner quickly secures him a place among the residents. Bridge nights, committee meetings, and seasonal gatherings knit the community...

Carrie Rubin’s The Missing Au Pair is set in 1985 Paris, when Kelly Burke arrives in the city of lights to start her new job as an au pair for Camille and Philippe Garron, right in the heart of the posh sixteenth arrondissement. From her...

The Badass Widows by Valerie Saul is an excellent book. The widows are not your typical mature women. One fixes boat engines. Another is a tech guru. The main character, Beth, is a retired FBI agent, which puts her in a formidable league of her...

The Tuscarawas County Baking Contest is coming up. Miss Fannie is set to enter with her special biscuits. She’s come close to winning in previous attempts. In Wanda E. Brunstetter and Martha Bolton’s The Rise and Fall of Miss Fannie’s Biscuits, will Miss Fannie stand...

In The Portal by Lou Pugliese, after an unfortunate water skiing accident puts her in a coma, Vicki Roadcap discovers she can see beyond the real world. In her unconscious mind, Vicki roams the realm between the afterlife and Earth known as the Portal. She...

In The Lines Between, Danielle M. Wong tells a suspenseful Hollywood story through Stevie Young, a personal assistant scraping by, and Lana Lim, a movie star, revealing the tricky, sometimes dark world behind fame. Stevie, weighed down by debt and desperation, lands a job with...

Murder in Deacon’s Corner is the sixth book in the Take it to the Limit series by Linda Opdyke, a nail-biting murder mystery that keeps you guessing. Ethan and Mickey Jenks are private investigators in Nashville. When they discover a body in an abandoned building,...

The Sins of a Mermaid by Ettore Piroso unfolds in Amorosa, a small coastal town in California. Two strangers—Munir Abi Khalil and Summer Olsen—cross paths at the most vulnerable points of their lives. Munir is a marine researcher on a crucial mission. He is on...

The Spider and the Web by S. Sebastian is a slow-burning psychological thriller that will have you on the edge of your seat. Rachel has suffered enough in her life, but will things be any better when she swaps the dangers of London for the...

The Charabanc of Death by Brian Kavanagh is a murder mystery drama that follows Belinda Lawrence and Hazel Whitby as they embark on a trip to France. This journey allows Belinda to reminisce about a teenage backpacking adventure she had twelve years prior in the...