A woman visiting her North Carolina family is brushed off by the small town's law enforcement when she claims to witness a beast, fitting the description of a local urban legend, mauling her father and brother in the spine-chilling supernatural novel, Return to Porter's Hollow...

River Bones, Book One in the Sara Mason Mysteries by Mary Deal is an enthralling tale that will have the reader on the edge of their seat. Sara returned to her hometown after many years of not wanting to face a tragedy that took away...

I love books with characters that are real, flawed and relatable, and a setting that is, of course, colorful. Roses, Wine & Murder: In the City of Steeples by Rose Young didn’t disappoint me. I must say that I found more than what I bargained...

Rippling Red by Brigid George is the third book in the Dusty Kent Mystery series and follows investigative journalist Dusty Kent and her steadfast assistant, Sean O'Kelly, as they try to solve a cold case (well, two actually) in Australia's lush Northern Territory. Traveling to...

Rip Tides is the ninth Lei Crime novel by Toby Neal. In the continuing saga of Detective Lei Texeira, the body of surfing champion Makoa Simmons washes ashore, and it is Lei’s job to investigate his murder. Meanwhile, her husband, Michael Stevens, struggles to overcome...

The idea of writing a modern book based on the ancient Greek plays with a chorus, and action from two different viewpoints is intriguing and innovative. This is the framework in Remember Me? Faukon Abbey Mysteries Book 1 by A.K. Lakelett. Set in the present...

Red Widow by Nathan Wilson is Book One in the Vivian Xu series, a good murder and mystery story, every bit as entertaining as it is engaging. Life has never been easy for Vivian. She’s been used by the crime-riddled world of the Czech Republic....

Rag Doll (A Jana Lane Mystery) by Joe Cosentino is a sleuth murder mystery story about an actress who solves mysteries. Wherever Jana Lane is, murders seem to follow. Jana Lane is making a comeback after being out of the movies for several years. Now...

Rogues and Rascals in Goose Pimple Junction by Amy Metz is a delightful murder mystery. Caldonia Culpepper is a southern woman living in a southern town. After being married twenty years, Caldonia Culpepper knew something was wrong. She is beginning to think that her husband,...

A rape, a murder, a politician, a detective and a medium are an aberrant combination that makes River Road by C.M. Albrecht a riveting murder mystery. Bill Madigan, a divorce lawyer, is having a fling with Sherri Dunlap, one of his clients. Because Bill is...