No Sanctuary by Graeme Chambers is a skillfully paced mystery that centers on place, characters, and atmosphere. The story starts with a sudden act of violence that impacts a small residential community, turning everyday routines into tense moments filled with suspicion and unease. As investigators...

A veterinarian searches for answers when she discovers the body of the local scuba diving instructor on the beach in the cozy mystery novel, Marina Mews: A Coral Shores Veterinary Mystery by DL Mitchell. When Dr. Emily Benton stumbles on the murder of a long-time...

Murder in Plein Air by Karen Leigh Charles is part of the Becca Flynn Mystery series. Becca traded her role as an artist to become a private investigator, but she never could have predicted her next case would revolve around underwear. Her best friend, Pix,...

Murder Behind the Music by Andrew Higgins is the third book in the Irish Murder Mystery series. There’s always a price to pay when fame and fortune get in the way. Dalton Manor hosts a glamorous wedding for the daughter of a billionaire, featuring a...

In Love Floats, D. W. Thompson introduces Emma Love, living in the quiet town of Newtowne. She’s a private investigator looking to slow down a bit and put more energy into running her kayaking tours. Her plans for a calmer life are disrupted when a...

The Hidden Room: A Secret Seekers Mystery by Caren Cantrell is an engaging tale that captures the spirit of adventure and friendship. The story follows Riley and Ava, two curious, determined young girls living in the historic Veil Crest Manor Apartments. When a storm derails...

The Killer’s Remorse by Jimmy Ray Conner is a historical mystery set in 1960s San Francisco. The story follows homicide detective Holly Webb, who is the city’s first woman to be assigned to the division. Along with her partner, Grant Parker, she’s launching a cold...

Avery Denning is hiking the Pacific Coast Trail, ending back in her former hometown of Lily Rock. She’s renting a room from Stella Rawlins, but when she gets to the house, she finds Stella dead in front of a little wooden library. Town sheriff Janis...

In Ida Chatfield: Aspen’s Oldest Mystery by T.A. Stevens, readers meet a young woman whose death in Aspen, Colorado, in 1886 remains unsolved more than a century later. Told in the first person, Ida recounts her life in full, beginning in Nebraska and continuing through...

Jordan Marlowe is an aspiring writer who, while stranded at the airport, purchases a bestseller and discovers that the novel is an original manuscript she abandoned three years ago. Her work has been plagiarized. Or at least she thinks it has. By Any Other Name...

Red Shroud by award-winning author Renny deGroot is an immersive murder mystery set in the small community of Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, Canada. It is October 2023. The police are called when the body of a woman in her sixties is found in...

The small town of Surfside Beach isn’t known for its high-profile murders, but there’s always a first time for everything. Marine scientist Sophie Caldwell is found dead in her home. Her husband? Missing. Art Robinson, Surfside Chief of Police, quickly realizes this isn’t a run-of-the-mill...

Riddles, Rogues & Murder by Christa Nardi continues the Stacie Maroni Mystery series with a case that begins unexpectedly on a routine outing and quickly pulls the protagonist into another complex investigation. When Stacie and her friends discover a woman’s body in a strip mall...

In Forgotten Secrets of the Tuscarora Eye by D. L. Bush, Hannah's school assignment collides with questions about her family history, following her from Pinewood Elementary to her late great-aunt Buggy’s house in North Carolina. While staying there with Chan and Aimee, Hannah uncovers a...

Jane Dougherty did not expect housesitting for her cousin, Elizabeth, to go awry in Two Hours To Bedlam, a Route 66 Mystery by J.G. Macdonald. Yet, she finds herself in a mystery far deeper than expected. When a body is discovered in a sulfur pond,...

Gail Meath’s Hellcat, book nine in the Jax Diamond Mysteries series, is set in October 1923, when detective Jax Diamond responds to a fatal fall inside the Plaza Hotel and recovers a gold heart-shaped locket from an elevator shaft, a detail that quietly unsettles what...

A Hollow Death by Colleen Dumaine is a historical mystery set in Adelaide, Australia, in the late nineteenth century. Bethany Durrani is a determined investigator trying to keepher Investigation Agency afloat while raising her young son and managing the challenges of daily life. Lydia Emerson...

A Death in the Dark by Ellie Alexander is the second book in the Novel Detectives series. The Novel Detectives are convening yet again for another case after the body of an assistant athletics coach is found at the local high school. The mystery becomes...

In Valerie Taylor's A Jewel of a Crime, Venus Bixby expects a routine visit to the newly opened SAM’s Studio in Chatham Crossing, the dance studio she recently sold to Sam and Margo Abbott. Instead, she discovers Margo dead behind a curtain in the office...

Award-winning journalist Lexie Logan wakes up in a hospital with absolutely no memory of the previous night. A former addict, she’s horrified to learn that the alcohol and drugs in her system could have killed her. But her years of sobriety make her certain she...