Death Takes a Lover by Olivier Bosman is a Victorian mystery set against the grim backdrop of the North Yorkshire moors. It follows the investigations of Scotland Yard’s Detective Sergeant Billings into the untimely and unexplained death of Roger Thornton. Mrs Thornton, the victim’s mother,...

Rose Wood is a paranormal thriller written by Sharon Mikeworth. Aileen is a writer who works for the Southern Aurora Magazine. Her column, Skeptical Traveler, is an ongoing report and record of the paranormal activities and places she's investigated. While she tries not to seem...

The Spanish Memorandum by Guy Southwick is very interesting, to say the least. Set at Christmastime in the 1930s, it's a retro "whodunit" that will make your head whirl. It seems like every possible different aspect of the '30s is represented here. We've got...

Lost Cause: A Grayson Cole Thriller by Sean D. Smith is an action and adventure story featuring a National Park Ranger. Grayson Cole is used to giving lectures on American history, especially the Civil War, to the thousands of visitors to the National Parks where...

The Red Ribbon by Rachel B. Ledge tells the story of a tragic turn of events in 1770s England. Julia Ridler finds herself tormented nightly by the murder of her best friend, Annie, by her almost betrothed, Roland de Claire. In her grief and madness,...

In Richard Steinitz’s Kaplan’s Quest, Shmuel Kaplan is a young Israeli academic who has always been haunted by the figure of his great-uncle Samuel Kaplan, for whom he was named. Samuel, a German Jew, was a champion shot-putter and came to Tel Aviv in 1935...

The Guardian by Aneta Cruz skillfully combines historical fiction, mystery and the paranormal in one fascinating package. In Prague in 1939, Dr. Josef Stein, the head psychiatrist at a sanatorium called the Chateau, seems to be the epitome of upper-middle-class respectability. However, he has lost...

Shifra Hochberg’s The Lost Catacomb is a fast-moving, fascinating journey throughout the centuries into the history of the “Eternal City,” Rome, and its Jewish community. American art historian Nicola Page and Italian-Jewish archaeologist Bruno Recanati have been called by the Vatican to investigate an elaborate...

Harrington Manor is a terrific mystery by Ronald James. Shep and Reggie are impatient for their father, Colonel Harrington, to die so that they can squander their inheritance. Their wish comes true when the Colonel is found dead, but their celebration is short-lived. Detective Snipes...

Beneath the Stone, by Margaret M. Ford, opens with a scene from WWII, when the Nazis, now in their final days of power, seek to do their last damage and perhaps to hide a few treasures along the way. Three such men hold local villagers...