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...

In Daniel P. Douglas’s Blood Wing, Jack Morrison, a former police officer turned private investigator in 1951 San Pedro, is approached by Samuel Wilkins, who refuses to accept that his brother Ezekiel died in an accident inside a restricted aircraft plant building military cargo planes....

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...

Lonely When You’re Dead by Roy Chaney begins with journalist Claude “Murph” Murphy caught in a violent sweep following a riot at a Quebec City poetry festival, setting up a story that combines crime, politics, and cultural unrest. Murph arrives in Canada on an assignment,...

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 North Western by Jordan Elizabeth, readers meet Adair, a woman living in Utica who has recently lost her husband. Shortly after his death, she decides to take her daughter, Edith, and return to her childhood home in the small village of North Western. Upon...

Shakespeare’s Vengeance by Ion Parreah opens in 1929 New York, where Thomas Barese, a former actor burdened by doubt and past choices, is drawn back into the theater by an unusual, secretive acting fraternity. The novel blends historical atmosphere with psychological tension, following Thomas as...

It is the summer of 1905. Owen Townsend, a young Ivy League-educated doctor related to a prominent family in New York City, is at a park with his fiancée, Maude, when he has a psychotic episode, wreaks havoc, and blacks out. Having recently been discharged...

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...