The Warrior Spirit Murders is the fifth book in the Leilani Kealoha Island thriller series by Chuck Morgan. Three bodies are found at Kaena Point, a place whispered about as where everything ends. The bodies are staged in positions that resemble ancient burial rites. The...

Nick Drake is a war veteran turned ranger and game warden for the US Fish and Wildlife Service stationed in Harney County, Oregon. He was on Malheur Lake trying to catch a bird poacher when he witnessed a fighter jet pilot fall into the water....

A passenger on the Victoriana, a luxury ocean liner travelling between England and America in the late 1920s, is missing. In The Silent Film Star Murders by Melodie Campbell, the main characters, Lady Lucy Revelstoke and her maid and companion, Elfreda, start asking questions about...

Stevie Guthrie's plans to take a job as a reporter with the Space Coast Tattler have not gotten off to a good start. He has been in the city for barely a day, yet he has already gotten into trouble. It takes the efforts of...

C.A. Larmer brings readers back to the Murder Mystery Book Club series with its eighth installment, The Mysterious Affair at Styled Magazine. This time, amateur sleuth and journalist Alicia Finlay receives tragic news about her longtime friend and beauty assistant at Styled Magazine, Virginia “Ginny”...

The Dead Don’t Pay (A James Wolf Murder Mystery) by James Arthur Donzella is a fast-moving detective murder mystery with smuggling thrown in for good measure, and a bit of romance on the side. From the start of the book, I found myself turning the...

The Washashore by Christopher Mirabile opens on a storm-lashed morning in Provincetown, where newly appointed police chief Silas Lopez responds to a foundered boat before dawn. The uneasy calm shatters when a body is discovered near Town Hall, brutally injured in what first appears to...

The Badass Widows by Valerie Saul is an excellent book. The widows are not your typical mature women. One fixes boat engines. Another is a tech guru. The main character, Beth, is a retired FBI agent, which puts her in a formidable league of her...

Jane Dougherty did not expect housesitting for her cousin, Elizabeth, to go awry in Two Hours To Bedlam, a Route 66 Mystery by J.G. Macdonald. Yet, she finds herself in a mystery far deeper than expected. When a body is discovered in a sulfur pond,...

The Killer’s Remorse by Jimmy Ray Conner is a historical mystery set in 1960s San Francisco. The story follows homicide detective Holly Webb, who is the city’s first woman to be assigned to the division. Along with her partner, Grant Parker, she’s launching a cold...