Knock ten years off Miss Marple, give her a gun and put her in America, and you've got 55-year-old ex-FBI agent Kate Wise in Blake Pierce's If She Knew, book one of the Kate Wise mystery series. Joking aside, If She Knew is far from...

Benny Dupree’s life has been relatively calm for 30 years in spite of the secret and heartache preoccupying him the whole time in Turtle Point, featuring Harper Sturgis in the Iron Lady Mystery/Suspense Series, Volume 1 by DL Havlin. Quite unexpectedly, strangers seem to be...

Climatized: A Max Ford Thriller by Sally Fernandez follows the story of Max Ford’s first investigative case as a private investigator. Senator Sherman Spark dies mysteriously and his wife, Isabelle Spark, refuses to accept the official version that her husband committed suicide. Max takes on...

There are mystery/detective thrillers that move straight and sure and true, and there is nothing wrong with that. But there are others more mysterious than thrilling, more psychological than active, and more nuanced than generic. One Night Only by G.P. Ritchie is a wonderful example...

Angelina, Myra, Clara and June are as different as can be, but they have always been a Mah Jongg foursome and good friends. Unfortunately, that is all about to change now that Myra has been found dead. Angelina has always watched detective television -- Murder...

Seventeen-year-old Elizabeth Gray was an enigma to everyone that knew her. When she was found dead, hanging from a tree, it shocked everyone. The case becomes more mysterious when the police find out that she had no birth records. Mack Mackenzie, Lillian Harris, and Vanessa...

Orchestrating Murder is a police procedural mystery novel written by Heather Osborne. Someone had been sexually abusing and killing young girls, and Palo Alto Detective Gregory Shaw had hoped they finally might get some answers when they found little Corrine Evans still alive. The little...

Out of Tupelo by Mark Gilleo is a well-crafted crime drama about murder, grief, and the consequences of revenge. The story follows Edward, a grieving husband whose happy life is shattered by his wife’s sudden disappearance. At first, Edward puts his trust in the local...

Maidstone: Lust, Murder, Greed, and a Cover Up in a Small New England Town by Sven Anderson is the tale of a small town described as having the look of an Andrea Smythe painting, with the new clean snow, and is the journey of ex-marine...

In Locker 32 by Gregory L. Baltad, rookie police officer Brian O’Callahan asks to be assigned to the notorious 77th division of the LA police department because it is where he thinks he will feel at home. Needing to prove something, whether to himself or...