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...

Dani and the Haunted House (A Dani P. Mystery) (Volume 1) by K. Lamb is a mystery story that kids will enjoy reading. Dani knows that there is something mysterious lurking around the haunted house in Shady Hollow and she is going to solve it....

Dani and the Mall Caper (A Dani P. Mystery) (Volume 2) by K. Lamb is the second in the series of Dani's mystery stories. Dani has become well known after solving the first mystery. She is also given the title as the best eight-year-old detective in...

The Staircase on Pine Street is a gripping and heartwarming story. Yet, it is also a heart-wrencher. Mariana Llanos paints a tender picture of what so many families go through. A young, school-age girl named Lilly watches her paternal grandfather move through the stages of...

Legend of Loch Ness Monster for Kids: A Mystery in the United Kingdom by Amber Richards is an insightful book that throws light on Loch Ness and its mystery. This fascinating topic has been brought to children with the help of facts and pictures, which...

The Day the Mirror Cried is a collection of short stories and poetry by Saundra Kelley. See what happens in Smooth Operator when upstanding churchwomen compete for the affections of the handsome new pastor in a small gossipy town. The Day the Mirror Cried is...

A Corpse in the Soup: A Silver Sisters Mystery (Silver Sisters Mysteries) (Volume 1) written by Morgan St. James and Phyllice Bradner is a very different mystery story. Twins Goldie Silver and Godiva Olivia Dubois are the sleuths who get lots of help from their...

In Death at Chinatown, An Emily Cabot Mystery by Frances McNamara, Emily Cabot is in awe of Dr Mary Stone and Dr. Ida Kahn. They have sacrificed so much to become doctors. Now they are in Chicago for the summer to learn all they can...

Designated Daughters is the latest installment in the Deborah Knott series written by Margaret Maron. This series is the epitome of southern life. Aunt Rachel has suffered a stroke and is in the care of hospice. Judge Deborah Knott and her family are gathered around...

With Whiskey for Breakfast, Dominic Stabile provides a page turning mystery that kept me guessing as to who the real killers might be. What should have been an easy job for retired cop turned P.I. Nick Dioli is actually anything but! When a local judge...

Funerals Can Be Murder: Every Wife Has a Story (A Carol and Jim Andrews Baby Boomer Mystery) by Susan Santangelo is a perfectly wonderful book. Carol Andrews is wife, mother and part time sleuth. Jim is her husband, who tries very hard to stop her...

Six months have passed since Tandy Angel rediscovered the love of her life, James Rampling, and helped solve a murder. She and the rest of the Angels are just trying to live whatever life they can manage – a new school, new inheritance...and new problems....

Mr. Samuel's Penny by Treva Melvin is a wonderful coming-of-age mystery about a young Black, New York teen who goes to spend the summer with an aunt and uncle in Ahoskie, North Carolina. Young Elizabeth Landers is a city girl who has celebrated her fourteenth...

The small, peaceful village of Burshill, England, is stunned when beloved resident Laura Clayton is murdered. Chief Constable Sir John Bury, a friend of the victim, assigns Detective Chief Inspector Richard Hayward to investigate. The only leads the detective has are the dying words of...

Murder Now and Then: 1919 to 2019 Murder Mystery by Diana Jackson is a murder mystery with a difference – a time difference. Joanna Thomas is a farmer’s wife in 2019, who stands accused of the murder of her husband. She had no motive and...

Fleeting Chance is an Enescu Fleet private investigator mystery written by Sherban Young. John Hathaway and his fiancee, Lesley, have traveled up to Canada with Enescu Fleet and his daughter, Ate, for a short holiday. Fleet, Lesley and Hathaway have been invited on a yacht...

Susan Elmore’s novel, Nameless Indignities: Unraveling the Mystery of One of Illinois's Most Infamous Crimes, is a non-fiction, true crime story that happened in the late 1800s. Emma Bond, a young schoolteacher is viciously gang-raped and left for dead in her school. She miraculously survives...

Community Affairs (Jersey Shore Mystery Series Book 3) by Michele Lynn Seigfried has all the elements for mystery, sleuthing and comedy written in one good story. Bonnie lives on the Jersey shore with her husband and two daughters. Bonnie has a good life until Senator...

Trespass (TJ Peacock and Lisa Rayburn Mysteries) is written by Marla Madison. Gemma Rosenthal isn’t convinced Norman Teschler’s death was accidental when his house explodes, so she hires TJ Peacock, a private investigator. TJ suspects foul play, especially after meeting the neighbours. When a member...

Endless Evil (Alex Gray Book 1) by Amanda Feyerbend is a gripping murder mystery. Bodies are beginning to pile up at the side of the road in a small quiet Georgia county as women are left raped and strangled. Detective Alex Gray does not assume...