As the archivist with the Foundling Historical Society and Museum, Wrenn Grayson is employed to restore the mansion to its 19th-century original state as much as possible. The original owner of the mansion – a millionaire industrialist – prohibited the destruction of any family history...

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....

Rejection is Murder by Carol E. Ayer is the first book in the Cat and Mowse Mysteries. Catherine Lynley is a cozy mystery writer, writing under the pen name of Cat Summers. Her stories are always neatly tied up – her life, not so much....

Sinner’s Prayer by Dwain Lee is the second book in the Dan Randolph/Greg Zhu mysteries. Plumbers discover a skeleton in a concrete trench beneath the youth room floor of the Parkvale Presbyterian Church in Louisville. It is the remains of a former youth leader and...

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...

It’s an ordinary day at the police precinct for coffee connoisseur and adept magicker Detective Valor Lovell. The robberies of high-end homes in the district continue to stymie him and his elephant‑shifter partner, Paul. That is, until Lovell is assigned a new partner who shakes...

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...

Battered is the first book in the Whipped and Sipped mystery series by G.P. Gottlieb. At the heart of the story is Alene Baron, owner of the vegetarian café Whipped and Sipped. When Gary Vanza, the man who once owned the café before selling it...