“Look, people come and go in places like this. You don’t ask questions unless you want to get stuck with the answers.” This sentiment captures the essence of Sins in Black by Dita Dow, where many questions seek answers and countless dirty secrets yearn for...

In Shiny Happy Psycho by Stacy Walsh, thirty years ago, a group of friends at the Rockway High School called themselves the Rockway Five. Their peers knew them; they had beauty and brains and were athletic. Two members of the group were found murdered in...

Sydney ‘Syd’ Livingstone had recently quit professional tennis, hoping for a quiet life as a cop with her fiancé Enzo. Nothing could be further from the truth. Now a rookie police detective in the Walsh County Police Department, Ohio, she struggles to find her place...

Veronica and her search and rescue dog, Leda, are on the hunt again. After finding and rescuing an injured hiker, high up in the mountains, the two find themselves drawn into an investigation where wildlife is threatened. In Tracy Carter’s Sick as a Dog, the...

In Alexander Julian III's Shadow Men, Candice Johnson was promoted to lead banker at First City Bank. Candice had plans to dine with her parents, but was murdered in her residence. Detective Del Stringer, who was old, demoted, and struggling with alcoholism, found himself assigned...

Sins and Murders by Rocky Burton is the lead story in the Manatee Murders series. Sam stumbles onto a horrible scene. He sees a naked girl, gagged and bound, on a worn-out mattress on the floor. A shadow-like figure is using her for sex as...

Something in the Blood by H. H. Mika is a chilling murder mystery set in the remote, snowbound town of Bloodrun, Alaska. When Detective Terry Volker is called to investigate a gruesome murder where the victim has been cleanly severed at the waist, he and...

Swine and Swindle by Max Parrot is the twelfth book in the Ruff McPaw Mysteries series. Angela Atkins was looking forward to the Hummings Hollow Rodeo, expecting nothing more than a bit of entertainment and food. She didn’t expect the owner of a prized pig...

Secret Places by Don Stuart is a thoroughly educational and enthralling murder mystery set in the windswept and wildly rugged salmon fishing fields of the Alaskan panhandle. As he has done for decades, Johnny Ingman heads out from his Sweetwater base to find his favorite...

In Switched at Death: A Venus Bixby Mystery by Valerie Taylor, the body of Mayor Simon Duffy was discovered beneath the stage set for the yearly tree lighting event. Initial reports indicated that the mayor had succumbed to cardiac arrest, but something felt off, prompting...