"Defensive Wounds" is one of a series by Lisa Black. You may benefit from reading previous books (if you want to know more about the main character of Theresa McLean) but this novel stands on its own as a thriller which may keep you up...

Allison Weathers is starting a new life in Dawson Mills. She bought a big old house and wanted to fix it up. She hired Paul Bradford to do the work on it. But before work could start Allison started getting strange feelings in the house....

It is 2010 in Davis, California, and Scott Anchorage knows how to kill women without leaving a trace. First he scalps them, rips off their fingernails, and then cuts out their tongue and finally cleans up the murder scene. Nice guy! It seems that Scott...

Laura Levine's latest mystery entitled "Death of a Neighborhood Witch" is a good afternoon's read for those not wanting to concentrate too hard on the plot. The characters are funny and seem to be representatives of the Hollywood film genre. In this novel, there is...

Anita, the nanny of the children of Molly and Mitch, decides to hunt for a four-leaf clover. She completes her search but finds more than what she expected: a man in a tuxedo lying in a ditch. Before she has a chance to do anything,...

A Pointed Death is a riveting read. The strong female personality in the person of Nola Billingsley provided mystery, action and wit in one neat little package. The story is set in San Francisco and describes the city so beautifully that one is literally transported...

“A Hard Death”, a novel of suspense by Jonathan Hayes is a good book. This is the second book about forensic pathologist Edward Jenner. I did not read that book, “Precious Blood”, but it was not necessary. “A Hard Death” is a great stand alone...

The setting is Seattle, 1901, when University of Washington Electrical Engineering Professor Benjamin Bradshaw discovers the corpse of Professor Wesley Oglethorpe electrocuted inside the Electric Machine's Faraday Cage as the Tesla Coil. Because Bradshaw and Oglethorpe were rivals with particular dislike for each other, and...

With the proper training, an ordinary man can become a stone cold killer, especially when his mind is clouded by mood altering drugs. But, what happens when he loses everything he loves? Does the intense grief of his loss cause him to become a lethal...

Death by Drowning by Abigail Keam is the second book of Ms. Keam's murder mystery series. Middle-aged Josiah Reynolds, a Kentucky beekeeper, falls forty feet off a cliff and is severely injured. After multiple surgeries and extensive rehabilitation, she is ready to begin the pursuit...