Cookie was fired from her job, accused of embezzlement, and is now playing detective along with her dog Sigmund and her new best friend Rhonda. Cookie is the star of Candy, Murder & Me by Carolyn Chambers Clark. When Cookie discovers that the private investigator,...

She Lies Beneath: A Chief Inspector Cam Fergus Mystery by Frances Powell is the story of a police inspector who is trying to find a killer on a murder spree while also trying to stay alive. Cam Fergus is a Chief Inspector and he absolutely...

Mysteries come in all forms, including the “cozy” form, which accurately describes Dogs Don’t Lie by Lisa Shay. Shay’s protagonist, Kallie, is a veterinarian whose mother is a bit embarrassed by Kallie’s chosen profession, yet is always trying to set her up with eligible young...

The Lovestruck Detective: A Big Muddy Mystery is a work of classic murder mystery fiction with a modern romantic twist, penned by author M. C. Anderson. This mystery begins, like most, with a body, and in this case, it’s a gay African-American man who happened...

I Eat Men Like Air is a dramatic, ensemble cast murder mystery novel penned by author Alice Berman. Sharply modern and intense in its interpersonal relationships, the story follows seven twenty-somethings on a disastrous path that leads one of them to a gruesome death. Unpicking...

A Matter of Honor by George R. Hopkins is a great read for fans of murder, mystery, and thrillers and it is exciting how this author melds three genres into a single story. A priest discovers a victim of murder in his church but does...

An Unnatural Selection by Jannifer Powelson is a murder mystery story. It’s Eklund, Illinois, Saturday night, and Kristen Matthews is having a quiet romantic dinner with Bret, her boyfriend. Just before they get to dessert, Kristen discovers a body – a friend’s body. A naturalist...

Deadly Flip by M.E. Bakos is the second book in the Home Renovator’s Mystery series. Katelyn is working on a house in need of some work when her best friend Myra shares the house’s unfortunate history. A few years ago, a girl was murdered but...

“The body of Dr. Payne Waterhouse lay on top of a potting table in the center of his Victorian greenhouse. Clutched in the palm of his left hand was a small piece of burlap. A pair of yellow handled pruning shears stuck in his chest...

If you’re going to write a long fiction crime thriller, you'd better make sure of three things: you have a really great plot, gripping characters, and most important of all, the skill to create a true page-turner. Well, Francine Rodriguez certainly followed that mandate in...