House of Cards by Dr. Theodore Jerome Cohen is the second of Cohen’s novels featuring NYPD Detective Louis Martelli. When a prominent philanthropist and CEO of a major Wall Street Investment firm is gunned down in Times Square, Martelli is assigned to the case. For...

The 13th Guest by Ruth S. Daigneault starts with a dinner invitation. Twelve guests are invited to dinner on Halloween and each one is expected to tell a short story at the dinner. One of the invited guests is a clairvoyant and 2 of the...

The underground sex trade of Manhattan is dealing with a problem that is much worse than the cops; prostitutes are disappearing one by one. An excellent but tired cop from the department of missing persons, Detective Larson, is on the case. However, it seems impossible...

Festival Madness by Judith Copek introduces us to Emma Lee Devens, a Boston based computer security consultant, and asks what would you do for a friend? Would you put your job at risk? Your marriage? What about your life? Emma does all of that when...

Stinger Maguire is Mike Bove’s second Bruce DelReno mystery, following on from 2011’s Willowtree. In this instalment, retired postman and current golf coach, Bruce, finds the tortured and battered body of local boy made good - PGA golfer, Taryn ‘Stinger’ Maguire - gruesomely displayed in...

Crystal Rock chief of police Sam Danielson could not have been happier with the way things were going; he finally had a chance at a life with Penny Wentworth after over twenty years of waiting. He did not even mind taking on her special-needs teenage...

Retarded Girl Raised in Dog Pen by Lauren Leigh is a fascinating study of an abused and neglected special needs child. Baby was adopted at birth and was pronounced eyeless and without vocal cords. In addition, she was paralyzed from her waist down and it...

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...