In Retribution by Gail Fowler, we meet Erin McKenna. At 27, Erin is trying to put a broken heart back together so she makes a fresh start as a reporter with the local paper in Summit Springs. Paul Callahan is a police officer in Summit...

Room Service and Murder by Melissa Baldwin is the second book in the Madness and Murder series. Casey Cooper has settled into her new job and thought the most difficult things she’d have to deal with are troublesome guests, arguing co-workers, and a handsome new...

River Wye Dead & Breakfast: A Chief Inspector Cam Fergus Mystery by Frances Powell is a murder mystery set in a small town where things are deadly silent during the festive season. Chief Inspector Cam Fergus was just trying to make things work in the...

“I would love to hear readers’ comments concerning this book, both positive and negative. It was my first attempt...” So writes John W Long, author of Red Blood on White Cotton at the end of this incredible novel, and right off the bat I’d like...

Nikki Garcia is a private investigator, a former international fraud auditor who is running for her life after a death threat. When she arrives in Barcelona with her fiancé, Eduardo Duarte, she is confident that the danger has been left behind her. Besides, only Floyd...

A dog with a unique way of communicating uses his gifts to help his private detective companion search for the missing proprietor of a rescue dog shelter in the brilliant sleuth mystery novel, Requiem for a Rescue Dog Queen (The Talking Dog Detective Agency Book...

Restless Earth by John Dolan brings together four men who, it seems, have little or nothing in common, but somehow they are all inextricably linked. An embittered, sick old man, Jedediah Reichenbach is just looking for revenge against his nemesis, the amoral and evil businessman...

Reported Missing by Sarah Wray is a good read. When Rebecca’s husband goes missing the same day as a 14-year-old girl, he is presumed guilty until proven innocent. Rebecca, however, chooses to believe that her husband is innocent. With the help of too much alcohol,...

I love books with characters that are real, flawed and relatable, and a setting that is, of course, colorful. Roses, Wine & Murder: In the City of Steeples by Rose Young didn’t disappoint me. I must say that I found more than what I bargained...

Rippling Red by Brigid George is the third book in the Dusty Kent Mystery series and follows investigative journalist Dusty Kent and her steadfast assistant, Sean O'Kelly, as they try to solve a cold case (well, two actually) in Australia's lush Northern Territory. Traveling to...