In Carrie Rubin's thriller, Malignant Assumptions, Liza Larkin does not have interpersonal skills, but her father assures her that she can always help someone, even if she cannot ease their pain. Megan Carlson, a coworker of Liza's, is concerned that something has happened to her...

When her ninety-eight-year-old aunt Gretchen “Gret” Prescot dies of an overdose of her medication, sixty-five-year-old Lyric Adler believes Gret was murdered. Her three cousins, on the other hand, seem to believe the old woman may have mistakenly overdosed herself. Lyric hires her friend Vett Brayborn,...

The Blue Prussian is a sleuth mystery thriller by Eve Penrose. Blake O'Brien is a highly successful executive working for a green energy company. Recently divorced from her toxic ex-husband, Milton Oxley, Blake's life turns upside down when she discovers that she has been slowly...

C.D. Hancock brings us a colorful murder mystery in Madam Ricketts. When John Wesley Jr. finds some old photographs in his father’s belongings, he is delighted when Maudie agrees to shed some light on the events leading up to that one instance. As a second-generation...

Web Weavers of Codington is the second installment in the Codington Crimes Series by Linda Chamley Johnson. Fresh from her one-year break in England, twenty-four-year-old Arliss Nolan is eager to get her life back on track. She has purchased a two-story cottage on a solitary...

With all the charm of a small coastal town, Seaside Cove is back in focus in the eighth installment of the Seaside Cove Bed & Breakfast Mystery series. The Secret Ingredient to Murder by Terry Ambrose brings another murder mystery for ex-reporter and B&B owner...

All Money Ain’t Good Money by Tracey Lampley is book one of the Jinx Curry Mystery series. An amateur private investigator, Jinx Curry spends her days spying on and photographing cheating partners. Capricorn Hayes, Jinx's boss and love interest, assigns her the case of Elena,...

It’s been four years since I discovered the excellent writing of Yvonne Eve Walus when I read her book, Serial Wives. Though not her first novel, it was her first mystery murder featuring New Zealand policewoman, Zero Zimmerman. I loved both the story and the...

In Knife Edge, a murder mystery by Terri Maue, Zee Morani, author of a syndicated opinion column, wants to become a "serious" journalist. To do this, she has secured an interview with disgraced scientist Dr. Ian McNeary, but when she arrives at his office, she...

Rapid Death by Julie Titterington is the second book in the Desert Pines Mystery series. Another day, another mystery. When a raft is found abandoned and a girl goes missing, Jane is sent spinning as she searches for answers. Her life has since settled down...