Borealis is an engrossing eco-thriller novel by Bill Bennett. The Crystal Cove case took a lot from Detective Ava Martinez. She arrives in Alaska hoping to recuperate. However, with the Apexion Oil & Gas Summit at Westmark, tensions are high as corporate and geopolitical interests...

When Detective Ava Martinez and her partner, Dan Riley, arrive at a crime scene in the small coastal town of Crystal Cove, they find the lifeless body of April Seagram, a guide at Biosphere Marine Institute. From the body’s wounds and witness statements, it was...

Jill Carol’s Is It Someone You Know? starts with a crime that turned Levittown upside down when a young boy was found brutally beaten to death with a blunt object. The body was thrown in a trash bin, and it was the town’s first murder....

Hook, Line, and Murder by GG Calpo opens when an ordinary spring morning in Whitman's Port turns grotesque in an instant. A fisherman's line pulls in a severed human hand. Meg Brightbook, a retired kindergarten teacher, recognizes the diamond-encrusted signet ring on the hand as...

In This Fell Sergeant by Adam Dompierre, Lacey Matthews hires private investigator Eddie London to examine the reported suicide of her boyfriend, Johnny Sullivan, who died after falling from a balcony at the Bridgewater Hotel. Eddie expects a routine investigation until details surrounding Room 310...

This Case Stinks! by Janice Garden Macdonald introduces readers to Casey, a young detective determined to solve a very smelly mystery at home. The story begins with Casey introducing his family, including his parents, his big brother on Team Green, his baby sister, and his...

Angela van Breemen’s Revenge Not Taken Lightly is a contemporary, gritty, and suspense-filled paranormal crime mystery set in New Egan, Ontario, Canada. Emma Jackson is a gifted psychic who works with her husband, David Harris, a lawyer and PI, on cold-case crime investigations, involving...

Mean people are passing out unkind letters at night. They’re part of the Unkindness Club. But, in Jill Ammon Vanderwood’s The Unkindness Club, two friends, Persephone, a ten-year-old deaf girl, and Rowen, who moves around in a wheelchair, are set to make things right, to...

Celine Arceneau’s Bon Voyage party ended in disaster when all the guests were struck by food poisoning. Thanks to the quick actions of Chef George, paramedics arrived swiftly and managed to stabilize everyone—but Celine’s symptoms were far worse. Within twenty-four hours, she was dead. Dr....

Talisman by Tom Catalano is not your usual time travel story. Archaeology student John Shaw is on a dig in Antigua with a team from the University of Chicago, led by the brilliant Professor Henri Rutherford. On the last day of the disappointing trip, they...

Linda Soules’s So You Want To Be A Deep Sea Diver introduces young readers to the demanding and fascinating world beneath the ocean’s surface. The book explains what it means to work in deep water, where every movement depends on training, patience, and specialized equipment....

Sixty Positions with Pleasure by Sahlan Diver is a microcosm of man and his behavior. It’s a crime murder mystery, a commentary on a town that declares independence; it demonstrates man’s greed, desire for money and power, and then there is the sex. When a...

Intelligent, highly imaginative, and gripping, The Secret Resort Of Nostalgia by Sahlan Diver is one of those novels that will appeal to fans of mystery crafted with a good dose of suspense. Twenty-two-year-old Mike Denning has just graduated from England and has landed a great...

“Pepper and Longstreet Mysteries: The Complete Series” by J T Lewis contains every episode of the “Pepper and Longstreet” mystery tales. Very similar to “The Hardy Boys” and “Nancy Drew” mysteries familiar to those of us considered “boomers”, Pepper Jones is a 14 year old...

Someone is leaving a trail of dead women across Chile, Peru, and Bolivia all seemingly killed in exactly the same vile way. Suspicions are that there may be a link to a small group of scientists who meet annually in different locations in the region....

An insurance investigator is framed for murder by an unknown enemy in the exciting sleuth mystery, What Doesn't Kill You (A Lauren Beck Crime Novel Book 1) by Donna Huston Murray. Previously Lauren Beck was a cop, but now after surviving a life-threatening disease, she...

When the book cover read, “A Sam Jenkins Mystery Short,” it wasn’t kidding. At just 51 pages cover to cover, there was hardly enough time to provide a longer story. The main character is Sam Jenkins, who, like the author, is a retired New York...

The See-Through Leopard by Sibel Hodge is the story of Jazz who meets with an accident and loses her mother. The accident leaves some facial scars which make her conscious of her looks. She falls into a kind of depression. It is at that phase...

Stranger Danger by Donna Huston Murray is the third installment in the Lauren Beck Crime series. Lauren Beck, a former police officer, surprises her father with an unexpected visit. But, instead of a warm welcome and an introduction to his new wife, Lauren is attacked...

In Illusion of Death by Brian Kavanagh, Belinda Lawrence is back in Australia with English friend Hazel Whitby, recovering from her broken engagement. When she bumps into old school friend Birdie, and is invited to a private screening of a film at the home of...