Diamond on the High Seas by Karen Gilleland is about Hope Diamond, a tenacious woman who heads Diamond Security, one of the elite firms providing protective services to high-risk individuals. She is hired for a job by her cousin Ruth Austin, whose husband Leonard's life...

Wrenn Grayson is the Foundling Museum’s archivist. She works with a team to prepare the museum for opening next year. It's an old mansion that belonged to a family with many secrets. Wrenn finds a map showing a curious structure called a folly. Amazed, Wrenn...

Lost & Found Cafe by Steven W. Horn is a compelling mystery steeped in atmosphere and emotional resonance, set against the stark backdrop of rural eastern Wyoming. We’re with Sam Dawson and his daughter, Sidney, when they stop at an unmarked roadside cafe during a...

Jane Dougherty is in for the detour of a lifetime as her car suddenly dies out in the middle of nowhere, forcing her to make a stop at the small town of Radio Springs. Filled with strange sights and even stranger people, Radio Springs welcomes...

St. Aster’s Grave Secret by Connie Chappell masterfully blends mystery, history, and human drama into a compelling narrative. The story centers on Wrenn Grayson, a historian and archivist, who is thrust into a web of secrets following the sudden death of Pastor Andrew Mead. As...

Lewis Snyder, an American soldier on duty in Iraq, stumbles across an ancient Sumerian relic inside an old mosque but forgets about it in the turmoil and bloodshed surrounding him. A few years later, he is out the war zone and ‘retired’ from active duty....

Death by Drowning by Abigail Keam is the second book of Ms. Keam's murder mystery series. Middle-aged Josiah Reynolds, a Kentucky beekeeper, falls forty feet off a cliff and is severely injured. After multiple surgeries and extensive rehabilitation, she is ready to begin the pursuit...

Anita, the nanny of the children of Molly and Mitch, decides to hunt for a four-leaf clover. She completes her search but finds more than what she expected: a man in a tuxedo lying in a ditch. Before she has a chance to do anything,...

"Dying for Justice" features Wade Jackson as the lead detective in what turns out to be an old case that involves the murder of Jackson's mother and father and where new information is found. The man who was accused of the crime and who is...

Another outstanding police procedural from L J Sellers featuring detective Wade Jackson and his cohorts of the Eugene, Oregon Police Department. This time it is personal as Jackson’s ex-wife, Renee, is missing. Jackson suspects that alcoholic Renee has climbed back inside the bottle that destroyed...

Even though Darci Shelton's husband Wade is as healthy as a horse it has always been her greatest fear that she would wind up like her mother, a widow forced to work two jobs to support her nine year old son Paxton. This fear was...

Now You See It is the third of the Grace Street Mystery series by Jane Tesh. It's a lovely book that features Private Investigator David Randall. Randall is still reeling from the death of his daughter and he takes on cases to distract himself from...

A Bad Reputation is the latest Madeleine Maclin mystery by Jane Tesh, starring former beauty queen turned artist and private eye. In A Bad Reputation, Wendall Clarke becomes the talk of the town when he comes back to the small town of Celosia, North Carolina...

Loreen has had her share of ups and downs and the roller coaster is just not ready to stop yet! All she wants to do is to get home to her dying mother and one thing after another seems to get in the way, starting...

Sherlock Holmes: The Ultimate Satyr Collection by Pennie Mae Cartawick contains ten of the author’s Sherlock short stories. There are some very good stories in this collection. In each episode, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson are pitted against seemingly insurmountable odds as they unravel...

Sherlock Holmes: The Flight Collection by Pennie Mae Cartawick contains three short Sherlock Holmes stories by this author. Included are: The Case of the Missing Mayan Codices; Murders on the Voyage to India; and The Heist. All three are true to character, imaginative and entertaining....

Sherlock Holmes: The Sphinx Collection by Pennie Mae Cartawick bundles together three new Sherlock Holmes adventures in one cover. Included are The Mystery of the Poisoned Tomb; The Case of the Cracked Mirror; and The Mystery of the Faceless Bride. Each of these three tales...

Cash Kills: An Angelina Bonaparte Mystery is a private detective story written by Nanci Rathbun. Angie was a librarian, homemaker and mom until she got tired of dealing with her husband’s infidelities. She sold the house and became a private detective, and she’s good at...

Fatal Forty-Eight: A Kate Huntington Mystery by Kassandra Lamb is a book that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very last word is read. Sally is drugged and kidnapped. Charles, her fiancé, is devastated by her disappearance when he arrives...

I must confess that I love mysteries, and I’m always looking for new books in this genre. Unfortunately, I’ve been getting a little bit burned out on my favorite books lately. So many of them seem the same, and I often guess the bad guy...