Lilith by Theodore Jerome Cohen is one of this author’s fascinating Detective-Investigator Louis Martelli suspenseful murder mysteries. Martelli, NYPD‘s answer to Sherlock Holmes, is seldom inconvenienced by his prosthetic leg, courtesy of a tour of duty in Iraq. In fact, he learns that it is...

In Fear Itself by Duffy Prendergast, Mathew is accused by the police of murdering his wife. He knows he didn’t do it, but he now suspects his little seven-year-old daughter, Sarah, after he finds out Catherine was poisoned with some antifreeze, something Sarah is familiar...

Murder, Most Sincerely: A Romantic Backstage Mystery by Beverly Nault is a very light, quick read. Lucy Lambert is a stage director for a community theater performing The Wizard of Oz. It is Lucy’s dream job and she has done good work until closing night...

Cliff Diver (An Emilia Cruz Novel) by Carmen Amato is a murder mystery set against the backdrop of Mexico. Emilia Cruz, Acapulco's only female police detective, is investigating the death of a dirty cop. Though she faces a lot of non-cooperation from the other cops...

Night Shadows by Theodore J. Cohen, PhD, is a murder mystery right out of NYPD case files, or so it seems. Detective-Investigator Louis Martelli and his partner, Sean O’Keeffe, found themselves with an unexpected murder on their hands when Deputy Coroner Michael Antonetti’s assistant discovered...

When Nature Calls, the first book in the Nature Station Mystery Series, is Jannifer Powelson’s first novel, following her series of nature books for children. Kristen Matthews is the owner of the Nature Station, a complex of forest, wildflowers, wildlife, and hiking trails in Eklund,...

Susan Cory’s first novel, Conundrum, is a modern whodunit set in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. The story focuses on Iris Reid, a 40-something architect, and her forthcoming 20-year Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) class reunion. Two decades earlier at the group’s graduation party, Iris’s friend,...

One often reads blurbs and reviews that talk about “fast paced”, “edge of your seat suspense” or “I couldn’t put it down.” In some cases these phrases are a bit exaggerated; in the instance of Vengeance is Mine by Harry James Krebs these phrases...

The Dancing Boy, by Michael Matson, is a mystery set in the Pacific Northwest. Treat Mikkelson lives on Drake Island in a small cabin by the water with his cat Ackerman. He's retired from a lifetime of studying and writing about crime, and keeps himself...

In Bitter Nothings, Vicki Tyley presents another complex and thrilling tale of dysfunctional families, determined women, and mysterious deaths and disappearances. Graphic designer, Dervla Johns, and her brothers, Gabe and Emmett, are still missing their mother, following her suicide two years earlier. Several years before...