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...

In Chasing Shadows Back In The Light by Amy L van Rijthoven, we follow Vivian and a young man named Andy as their paths cross. Vivian is consumed by the need to find her missing sister, Rose, who vanished outside a liquor store back in...

In Death of Days by Eliot Pattison, Cato Pike leaves his dangerous world in intelligence because he no longer trusts the leaders. His life is interrupted when his estranged father, a renowned historian, summons him with a favor. Cato travels to an abbey in Scotland’s...

Death By Mail is the 23rd book in the Josiah Reynolds Mystery series by Abigail Keam. Josiah Reynolds is 50 years old, a former art history professor, and now a farm owner and beekeeper. She keeps receiving anonymous notes with death threats in her mailbox...

Bones: A Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Brian Doe follows Brom Bones three years after Ichabod Crane’s disappearance, when life has become far from the victory he thought he'd won. His marriage to Katrina is strained, his home is full of tension, and he’s too...

If you are looking for a thriller with a lot of heart, Glorious Debris by Elisabeth Wathen is an excellent choice. The narrative introduces us to Ann Davenport, a 68-year-old cancer survivor who simply wants a peaceful life running her pier concessions and rental shop...

Lakeside Murder by Katherine Fletcher opens with two small wrongs. Dot Halstead, who runs the archive at Kettle Creek’s Historical Society, spots a donated photograph that does not match the shoreline she knows. Around the same time, the town’s sealed 50th-anniversary time capsule is opened...