Sheriff Pickens is looking forward to a family Christmas celebration when in his small town in Central Florida, the bones of a woman are found buried in a field and a crime needs to be solved. They soon find another grave of bones; a family...

The Scented Bones (Svabodina Case Files) by Angelina Kerner is a thriller that has elements of other genres: crime, sleuth, and the paranormal, following an up-and-coming forensic anthropologist who is enthusiastic about her career. But things take a very unusual turn when she discovers that...

A Pane of Glass by R. Byron Stockdale is a psychological thriller that keeps readers, along with police and FBI investigators on edge, trying to identify a perp who puts brutally painful endings to people’s lives. Why is the perp doing this and what is...

Real Monsters by Brian Gallagher is a horror novel in its own league. When Frank Ort, a former resident of the Bohemian Forest, tells his great-grandson, Sean O’Shea, what he’d seen in his homeland, he has no idea the story would have far-reaching consequences in...

Shades of Justice is the ninth book in the Detective Madison Knight series by Carolyn Arnold, a beautiful meld of crime thriller and detective work with a sophisticated, elaborately developed protagonist. When two murder victims are found naked in Steven Malone’s home, Detective Madison Knight...

Dead Dirty is the fifth book in the Adie Sturm Mystery series by Anastasia Amor, a splendid meld of mystery, murder, and sleuth. It starts with the body of a beautiful girl from a cruise ship washed ashore in Cozumel. The brother, a member of...

The Company of Demons by Michael Jordan is a wonderful blend of crime and mystery, a riveting story with sophisticated characters. Lawyer John Coleman is shocked, like everyone else, at the murder of his friend, a murder that is brutal and that looks like the...

Having read and enjoyed the first in The Dr. Pepper Hunt Mystery Series, I was happy to have the opportunity to read the next installment, On a Quiet Street by J. L. Doucette. Characters that quickly charmed me in the earlier tale were present once...

Broken Heart Attack by James J. Cudney is the second book in the Braxton Campus Mysteries. A night out to see a dress rehearsal becomes a tragedy when one of Nana D's friends dies. Nana D doesn't believe for a second the cause was a...

Peril at the Pawn Shop by Mel Faye is the first book in the A Walk in the Bark series. Annie has big dreams to open up a dog store, but for now, she works with dogs in whatever way she can - from puppy...