"The Perfect Death", a highly well-written police procedural mystery, features Jacksonville, Florida, police detective John Stallings who investigates the disappearance of a teenage girl. For Stallings, separated from his wife and missing his two remaining children, this case reminds him of when his own daughter,...

“A Hard Death”, a novel of suspense by Jonathan Hayes is a good book. This is the second book about forensic pathologist Edward Jenner. I did not read that book, “Precious Blood”, but it was not necessary. “A Hard Death” is a great stand alone...

A Pointed Death is a riveting read. The strong female personality in the person of Nola Billingsley provided mystery, action and wit in one neat little package. The story is set in San Francisco and describes the city so beautifully that one is literally transported...

"The Death of Sweet Mister" by Daniel Woodrell is a well-written, entertaining but gloomy book. In it we meet Shug Akins, a thirteen year old overweight young man. He and his mother, Glenda, live rent free in a mobile home for taking care of the...

Recently widowed interior designer Deva Dunne decides to move to Florida in an attempt to get over the unexpected death of her husband. Deva takes a job of helping to redecorate one of the condos in her building for an ex-exotic dancer named Treasure. The...

12th Man For Death by Gregory Randall is everything you’d expect from this exciting author. Catherine Voss is murdered while taking her revolutionary new trimaran for a test sail. Her twin brother wants answers so he calls in Sharon O’Mara, Facilitator, to solve the mystery....

Forty year old Keene Mason, who describes himself as a "boring engineer", has died. He wishes to have his casket filled with 2005 Saint Emilion wine which costs over 50 dollars a bottle and he wants to lie in his casket, now wine-filled, for a...

S. Thomas Bailey continues the saga of the Jacob Murray family in “Shades of Death: The Gauntlet Runner, Book II.” In book one we met Private Jacob Murray from Pennsylvanian and watched as he became a scout for George Washington’s Provincial Militia, in the Ohio...

What is a girl to do when she finds her grandfather's dead body just hours before her favorite cousin's wedding? Well, that is just the predicament that Carlina Mantoni finds herself in just hours before her cousin Emma's wedding. The thing is, Emma is with...

Cropped to Death by Christina Freeburn creates a cozy mystery that left me itching to learn the art of scrapbooking! The author transports the reader to the tiny town of Eden, WV where everything comes down to family. No one gave it a second...

William Dejor's life has been blessed with a loving home and parents who work hard on their farm in the harsh Southern state. He is comfortable with who he is and where he fits in the grand scheme of things. When his life is touched...

Deuce Winters and his very pregnant wife are working at the 4H food stand at the Carriveau Fair. Even though the weather is so desperately hot, everything seemed to be going well. That is, until Deuce opens the freezer and there is the groundsman, George...

Quinn Matthews is a thirty-something lifestyle journalist with burgeoning psychic abilities. When she scores free tickets to a video shoot for popular Goth-rock band, Mad Love, she is thrilled. Her excitement is replaced by horror after a large piece of plaster falls from the stage...

The Death of the Rose by Selina Bodur is a masterpiece of poetic art. Throughout human history, the rose has been a symbol of love. The rose fits this book of artistic poems very well. The poem "Friend" is so true to the nature...

A brilliantly written, extremely well conceived and superbly researched book about the struggles of an ordinary man caught in the crossfire between a greedy, despicable politician - one of the kind whose only aim is to get rich, thoroughly corrupt and morally way past dead...

School of Deaths by Christopher Mannino has a plot that is quite different from your typical YA novel. Suzie, a teenage girl, suddenly finds herself in the world of deaths where she is supposed to be trained to become a death herself. Deaths are the...

Max Logan McCoy is permanently back from the dead, but her contact with ‘the other side’ is not yet over. In Life After Death by Sharon Saracino, a rude awakening by Alicia, the Superintendent of Spiritual Impediment who has returned from her maternity leave, drags...

B.V. Lawson beautifully portrays a perfect storm in Played to Death, where the reader hopes to make it through the story in one piece. The story starts with Scott Drayco, FBI agent turned private consultant of sorts, inheriting something quite unusual from a former client...

The Birth of Death is an epic high fantasy novel by author Joseph Macolino, set in an exciting new fantasy world known as Evorath. The first of many stories in this diverse and richly developed world, The Birth of Death’s central characters are the enigmatic...

Scientist Dan Adams accidentally falls into a portal he had no idea existed. While working on a project to develop a better energy source for mankind, he disrupted Apep, an entity from ancient Egypt, or Nubia, from 2,500 years ago and now has to pay...