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...

Vicki Tyley continues her rise to be one of the best modern thriller writers around with Brittle Shadows, a disconcerting but compelling mystery about one woman’s belief that her recently deceased sister did not, as recorded, take her own life. Jemma Dalton flies into Melbourne...

Haunting Memories from a Troubled Past: A Hera Hunter Mystery by Ellie DeFarr is an exciting story. Hera Hunter is a private investigator in Centreville. Thanks to Hera's former training in the Marines, she became an expert sniper, and her job was to seek justice...

Sleight Malice is the second in Vicki Tyley's series of stand-alone thrillers set in Melbourne, Australia. Following her recent separation from cheating husband, Trent, website designer Desley James, has been leaning on best friend, Laura, for support. After waving Laura off home after a wine-filled...

Thin Blood is the first of Vicki Tyley’s exciting, Australia-set mystery thrillers. Jacinta Deller is a tenacious, but recently out of work, investigative journalist looking around for a career-enhancing scoop. Set on the trail of a missing, presumed dead, local woman by her newly moved...

Women are disappearing and strange, lifelike statues are appearing in prominent places. It doesn’t take long for people to realise that these statues are so lifelike because they are the bodies of the missing women, immortalised forever. Sleep When You’re Dead by Chris Hollenback tells...

Fatal Liaison by Vicki Tyley is a good story. Dinner for Twelve is a dinner dating agency and the heart of this murder mystery. Megan, at the insistence of her best friend Brenda, attends a dinner against her better judgment. Brenda thinks it is a...

After reading another book by Giacomo Giammatteo, I decided that I should also try A Bullet For Carlos - A Connie Gianelli Mystery. I was not disappointed! In this novel, the reader is introduced to Connie, short for Concetta, a police woman with quite a...

Thomas M. Cirignano is the author of "The Constant Outsider" and "67 Cents: Creation of A Killer." This is a review of the latter. Our tale begins with Nick meeting someone in an alley to collect $1000. Instead he is stabbed repeatedly in the back...