Drawn into Malice is the third book in the Paxton and Walsh murder mystery series by Staci Troilo. The murder of a prominent defense attorney brings Paxton and Walsh to the posh, sprawling, old-money estate where he lived with his wealthy wife. But the luxury...

The Goat of Magalies: Home Is Where You Owe Something by Julian Redwood centers on Marie Botha, a deeply traumatized South African woman who is working as an English teacher in Taipei. Marie has spent most of her adult life running away from the dark...

Aleksander Szeser’s Dissonance follows Kira Hunt, a thirty-six-year-old Los Angeles physical therapist whose home life with philosophy-professor husband Max revolves around their three-year-old daughter, Rebecca. At a child’s birthday party, Rebecca hands Kira a message from a stranger who somehow knows where to find her....

Iris Sailor, a former competitive figure skater, is reluctantly drawn to the waters of Northern California in The Lemon Twist by Élan Les Vies. The catalyst is a postcard Iris receives bearing a cryptic one-word message: “HELP.” There is also a scratch-and-sniff sticker that is...

Set in 1764 in colonial Pennsylvania, A Player's Exit by Terri Karsten follows newly widowed Penelope Corbitt, who has found a haven, along with her daughter Nabby and son Nathaniel, at a wayside tavern. Miles Tucker, the kind-hearted tavern owner, wants to marry her, but...

In Michelle Ian’s Shadows Are Falling, we follow Dr. Robert Qiu, a brilliant forensic pathologist who is carrying a lot of psychological trauma from his past. The nightmare begins in the quiet town of Fishbone, Montana, when a ten-year-old child named Benji Larsen is found...

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....

In the continent of Riolta, lustite is a useful mineral that’s always in demand. However, man-made schemes and inhuman horrors fill the mines’ depths. Nicolas Brennan lives blissfully unaware of all this, despite ruling the kingdom of Myren. As the “Daft King,” Nic stays in...

Still Here by G.K. Woolf is set in the quiet town of Hartford, in New South Wales. The novel recounts the disappearance of ten-year-old Hattie Monetti, which occurred in 2003 while she was returning from school. The mystery of the missing girl becomes a cold...

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...