Clara Whitmore, a solicitor’s assistant at the London firm of Dallow & Fiske, has been sent to Ravenscroft Hall, an estate in a remote village, to settle a will. She thinks it is a quick assignment, but has no idea how wrong she is. On...

The Harlot of St. Cecelia’s is a fabulous, cozy murder mystery that opens the Inspector Garrett Mysteries series by talented author Darcy Graves. The story transports us to London, 1923. The assistant head librarian at St. Cecelia’s Library in Dayneton discovers the body of a...

In David Wraith’s The Last Quest For Water, the year is 1935, with Ethiopia facing invasion by fascist Italy as Emperor Haile Selassie sends palace eunuch Semayawe “Sema” Melaku west across Africa on a secret mission. Sema must use a Ge’ez codex to locate a...

Rich Petrelli’s The Black Chalice explodes from the very first page. Dr. Konstantin Volkov releases a bioweapon into a subway in Manhattan, creating a Piston Effect: each arriving train becomes a piston, driving the aerosolized mist through crowded platforms and into the lungs of thousands....

Adam Smith brings us historical fiction saturated in mystery in The Journey of the Snake. Charlotte Savatier is on her way to Charleston, South Carolina, with her Wacataw uncle, to join her husband. Major Savatier was sent to Charleston to investigate the murder of a...

The Quantum Gate by Bill Combs is the first book in The Ascension Chronicles series. The story is a metaphysical thriller that blends quantum theory with history and the supernatural. Ethan Cross, a disgraced physicist cast out of academia for his "wild" theories of quantum...

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...