The Webheads currently rule the streets of Seattle; they’ve already taken out the Killer Owls, and the Black Widows are trying to muscle in. Brothers Max and Jax Barrow lead the Webheads, but a power play is coming through the ranks that they don’t see...

Rustwater by J.G. Macdonald brings wedding photographer Jane Dougherty to a small Arizona town, filling in for her cousin who’s won a prize but can’t attend the ceremony. The first things she sees are the red fountain on Main Street and Greer’s Books & Little...

Always Bet on Death by Miguel Angel Hernandez Jr. follows Detective Griffin Knight as he starts his first shift with the Nassau County Police Department. He gets paired up with a seasoned pro, Detective Sergeant Trenton Barnes, and the two are thrown straight into a...

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...

A Death in Cambodia Town by Christine Burrill follows Kat Hicks, a Marine veteran and homicide detective investigating the murder of a young Cambodian American dance student. Satya’s body was found hanging from an oil pump in Long Beach. Although graffiti at the scene indicates...

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...