The Other, by R Lawson Gamble, transported me to Elk Wells, Arizona, a tiny town on the Navajo Indian Reservation. Many in the town had long thought that John Roundtree had been dabbling in things of a dark supernatural nature, so when a little...

Sleeping Crimes, A Connie Anderson/Alan Bowering Mystery, is written by Joyce Slobogian. Connie Anderson is the co-owner of a mystery-themed bookstore in Brandon, a small Canadian town where she attended university ten years before that. For the last two years, she's been happily involved with...

Sir Laurence Dies is a detective mystery, written by Christopher D. Abbott, featuring Dutch psychologist, Dr. Pieter Straay, who has a keen interest in crime. He's on his way to England from Amsterdam when he's approached by Sir Laurence Gregson, a retired Lieutenant Colonel. Sir...

Three months ago, amateur sleuth Tandy Angel solved the murder of her parents. Now, a few months free of the mood altering drugs she'd been forced to take by her father, she is faced with other problems. Her older brother, the football hero, is in...

In Secrets, Snapdragons, & A Spirit, Tina D. C. Hayes takes readers back to the small town of Dixon, Kentucky, where Darci Shelton spends her days running Petal Pushers, always trying to find a way to increase her bottom line. The flower shop is actually...

The Woman Who Sparked the Greatest Sex Scandal of All Times by Eli Yaakunah is a dystopian novel that transposes the reader into a fictitious world about love, truths, and world-saving. This book can be read as an allegory of journalism and the political system....

Set in the Sixties, author John Bayliss introduces us to J.F. Springer, a private detective in Five and a Half Tons. He is not the usual noiresque, suave kind of sleuth, but his bumbling personality and lucky streak will keep us amused. It all starts...

Fleeting Memory, an An Enescu Fleet Mystery, is written by Sherban Young. The story opens when a young man wakes up in a cabin. He hears someone knocking at the door, and he sees a young woman looking confused. She has no idea who she...

Shadow Trap by Devi Anderson Anton is about murder in a castle-like mansion occupied by more or less eccentric scientists who work on very intriguing projects. Or is it about possession by ghosts? About madness? About accidental poisoning? Nobody seems to be sure what the...

In Ghost Music, Detective Marcus Brace finds his card on a brutally bludgeoned female body. The killer wants him to handle the crime, plain as day. A burned-out cop with a strenuous job and a failed marriage, a death of someone in his past will...