Out of the Past is the latest in Renée Pawlish’s comic mystery series featuring Denver Private Eye, Reed Ferguson. In this tale, Reed is strong-armed – both physically and metaphorically – into baby-sitting the spoiled, brattish daughter of local businessman, Forrest McMahon. Reed’s charge, Stephanie...

Reese's Leap is the second instalment in the Island Mystery Series by Darcy Scott, following 2012’s Matinicus. Botany’s answer to Indiana Jones, whisky- and women-loving Dr Gil Hodges, is back. This time he is a rather unwelcome visitor to Mistake Island, gate-crashing a women-only, back-to-basics...

Demise of the Horse Fairy by Laurie Loveman brings us to the summer of 1935 where 13 starving horses and ponies and one fat pony and a goat are left in Woodhill, Ohio. Thankfully, the town of Woodhill wants to help the abused and neglected...

Neal Havers receives a mysterious phone message from his brother, Steven, and is thrust into a mystery that he would prefer to avoid. The Secret Letterbox by John Kemp details Neal’s trip from his home in Florida to his native England to search for his...

Atticus Finch said it is the nature of the law that every man will get at least one case that will affect him personally. For lawyer Max Gildea, that case is Sophie Suriano. Sophie’s husband died when the Chinese freighter, Nereus, hit the Suriano yacht...

Death by Probability is a suspense novel surrounding the death of Willard, a scientist at the HAL facility. The main character, Evan Olsson, is thrown into the deep end when he tries to solve this murder mystery. Evan was being trained by Willard for...

Saving Faith by Patrick Garry is one of those books whose greatness will creep up on you as you gradually allow yourself to be absorbed into the storyline. A hospital is about to be demolished and an unidentified, comatose patient will, in all likelihood, be...

The dragon head of Pearl River Triad, Huang Long Wei, makes his dying request. He wants Inspector Kwong kidnapped and publicly embarrassed. The Inspector has arrested many of the Triad’s members in his fight against crime. Tam, the new dragon head, accomplishes this feat with...

In Ritzforg 127 by Cher Griffin, the main character Marla Mesconti is a much sought after horse trainer who finds herself dabbling in the field of crime investigation when a friend’s prize Friesian stallion is stolen and soon after its owner turns up murdered. With...

Disciples of the Inverted Cross by Stanley Ohanugo is a powerful story. It is the inspirational story of Ikenna Obiajulu, a young man haunted by the death of a younger sister during his early childhood. He was so young at the time of her death...