The Filbert Steps by Lila Blake follows Vivian Salvatore, a retired San Francisco teacher living on Telegraph Hill, after developer Bradford Loeb is found dead on the stairway below her home. Police treat his death as an accidental fall, but Vivian notices details at the...

In The Buried Bloom: A Larkspur Hollow Garden Club Mystery by Jody Chaffin, word search meets cozy mystery. In it, the puzzle player/reader is asked to solve the murder of Cora Whitaker, who went missing thirty years ago in a Vermont town named Larkspur Hollow....

The Casserole Code is a fabulous debut cozy mystery by Maissie Wren. The whimsical town of Harmony Creek in Tennessee is known for its long-standing traditional Annual Church Potluck. Nora Beth Hensley, the town’s nurse practitioner, bakes her grandmother’s Blueberry Buckle for the event. At...

In Twisted Flip, we meet Katelyn again, the star of the Home Renovator Mystery series by M. E. Bakos. Newly married and somewhat at a loose end in the mansion she now shares with her husband, Don, and Boots the cat, Katelyn decides to buy...

Trolling for Murder by Charlotte Stuart is the second book in the Vashon Island Mystery series. The story begins when Lavender Lewis, better known as Lew, finds a dead body near the well-known twenty-foot-tall wooden troll sculpture. A typical early-morning stroll soon became an unforgettable...

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....

The Gossip Chronicles of Gladys Ouellette by Marie Shannon is a story about starting over, with a little help from new friends. Abby has moved north to Maine to get away from the unhappiness of a messy divorce. She buys an old house that belonged...

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...