A Whale of a Murder: A Venus Bixby Mystery by Valerie Taylor is the very definition of a cozy mystery. Chatham Crossing is a peaceful and historic whaling village in New England. Like all small towns, it is populated by a variety of weird and...

R.A. Williams' Cradle of Life is based on a true story. Dr. Paul Eisen had shown that unguided evolution is impossible, and he was now waiting for validation of his hypothesis from an unbiased laboratory. Dr. Eisen used to live next door to Nathan Buchanan,...

Vice by A. J. Lape is one of the most unusual but interesting books written about police work, especially detectives and undercover work. The main character is Detective Ruby Rivera who goes undercover with various aliases and crosses paths with Alejandro Gutierrez, the leader of...

In Michael Pronko's Shitamachi Scam, the accident of a scooter-riding snatcher and the deaths of an elderly woman and a reclusive student in Shitamachi, an area in the lower east of Tokyo, became suspicious after Detective Hiroshi Shimizu saw their connection with a crime known...

Jake Shepherd is called in to investigate the suspicious case of a home invasion that has gone wrong. With a dead mother on the scene and the only available witness being her young daughter who is too traumatized to talk, Jake suspects there is more...

Dr. Martin Starling was delivering a chemistry lecture when he suffered a debilitating stroke. A rare mutation, possibly inherited from his unidentified biological father, resulted in abnormal blood clotting, leading to the stroke. What if the anonymous sperm donor had fathered other children? In the...

Dead Ringer is a work of fiction penned by author Robyn Nyx in the crime, romance, and suspense subgenres, and is the second part of the Dak Farrell collection. The work is best suited to mature adult readers owing to scenes of a sexual nature....

Pina Colada Calamity by Tanya Westlake sets sail on the high seas in an epic murder mystery. Tess’s luck pays off when she calls in to a radio show and wins big with the adventure of a lifetime that she can’t wait to share with...

Tidy Killing by Vera Mont sees Detective-Sergeant Alec Sims called to investigate a death in a laboratory. While the innocuous appearance of the scene leads the coroner to believe the death was due to an accident or suicide, Sims remains convinced it was a homicide....

As Harlowe Bishop brings other members of the task force to speed, Kasper wonders about a case he had worked on with Detective West in which a DEA agent ended up being a hitman for the Mexican cartel. Bishop had been asked to form the...