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...

The Cardinal Crime by Simon Drayton will appeal to young adult fans of mysteries, crime fiction, and detective novels. Eighteen-year-old John Smith is a detective for Noble Detective Agency, or NDA. John and his older colleague, Rebecca Young, start an investigation in the small town...

In The Glass Marble, by Ozzie Logozzo, haunted by ghosts from her past, Police Detective Francesca Bruno must reconcile with tragedy and the knowledge that she is part of a system that failed. Life quickly spins out of control for Detective Bruno when New York...

In The Daphne Project by Jacqui Lents, Daphne Patterson, a thirty-something librarian, faces her lowest point. She is betrayed by the man she thought would be forever; she is unemployed, and she is living with her overbearing mother. She needs a new start. But how...