M.L. Condike’s The Doll from Dunedin: A Genealogy Mystery follows forensic genealogist RaeJean Hunter. A jogger discovers the body of Jill Harriet Hamilton in Central Park, with her loyal dog lying beside her. A lawyer hires RaeJean to locate the primary beneficiary named in Jill’s...

In Nick West’s Treasure River, Federal Game Warden Charlie Palmer investigates reports of armed trespassers inside Florida’s Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge after hurricane damage exposes the wreck of the Spanish galleon Santa Isabella along the Gulf Coast. The discovery draws archaeologists, federal agents, organized...

James Snyder’s The Brothers Shaughnessy is set in 1880s New Orleans. Detective brothers Dawson and Michael Shaughnessy are pulled into a series of crimes that begin when Melissa Singleton disappears after Sunday Mass, and her severed hand is delivered to her husband’s law office. As...

‘It’s a matter of degree, that’s all. We all prostitute ourselves when it suits us; we only differ in how far we’re prepared to go.’ Two stories for the price of one await readers in The Seven Stars, a novel by Simon Leighton-Porter. And in...

The Body on the Bricks by Leonard Krishtalka is a historical crime mystery that will have readers guessing throughout the narrative. When the small town of Lawrence, Kansas, experiences three murders in one day, local reporter and amateur sleuth Mary Fanning is pressed into service...

In Anne M. Kennedy’s The Baku Inheritance, book one in The City of Winds series, in 1890, Anton Nikolayevich Sabroski arrives in Baku with tanker plans that could open a new route through the Suez Canal. He learns that his father has died, and the...

In Judith Kendall’s The Tangled Web, railway payroll officer James McConnolly leaves Adelaide in December 1912 carrying the Christmas wages for the South Australian Railways, but never reaches his first delivery stop. His disappearance leaves his wife, Lizbeth, to rebuild her life in New Zealand...

Confucius said, “Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves,” which is a sentiment one character does not consider in The Reckoning by Ann Nolder Heinz. It opens in 1873 with a mysterious man standing outside a quiet residence, wrestling with a...

A passenger on the Victoriana, a luxury ocean liner travelling between England and America in the late 1920s, is missing. In The Silent Film Star Murders by Melodie Campbell, the main characters, Lady Lucy Revelstoke and her maid and companion, Elfreda, start asking questions about...

I wasn't totally sure what I was getting into when I picked up The Romanov Episode by Clive Radford, but I’m glad I did. It’s one of those books where you realize pretty quickly that you're holding something special. It isn't just another mystery; it’s...