A village is stunned when one of its prominent citizens is murdered during an Independence Day cruise in the sensational amateur sleuth mystery, Three Woofs for the Dead White and Blue (Pawtisserie Mysteries) by Laura Quinn. When her parents retired to Florida, Claire returns to...

Employees working with gaming corporations are dying, and there are no indications signifying foul play, but a computer geek thinks its murder in the captivating crime novel, Virtually Dead (High-Tech Crime Solvers Book 4 ) by Edwin Dasso. Former Army CID investigator and FBI agent...

The lure of the nostalgia of summer camp with its peaceful rhythms, comraderies, and tasty s’mores by the campfire – not to mention the flicker of a possible romance with the camp director is enough for Kim Douglas to agree to be the crafts instructor...

Campaigning Can Be Deadly: A Discount Detective Mystery #2 by Charlotte Stuart is the second entry in the series. It reads well as a standalone novel, a wonderful meld of murder, mystery, and sleuthing that will have readers on the edge of their seats. The...

Boarded Windows, Dead Leaves is a small collection of short horror stories by Michael Jess Alexander; so short as to be eligible for the designation “snippets”, or perhaps “brain fodder” intended for more lengthy treatment elsewhere. This is not to be critical of ultra-short fiction,...

When is crime fiction more than just crime fiction? When it’s written by Edward A Dreyfus and its protagonist is Almost Dead in the first chapter! Just picture yourself sipping your morning coffee and surfing your laptop when a bullet buzzes across the top of...

In Vengeance Can Be Deadly (Warren Steelgrave series) by Gary E Smith, when writer Warren Steelgrave left Marie Sategna's Florence apartment one morning, little did he know that she would be murdered in cold blood shortly afterward. Since Warren was the last person to see...

Ace Carroway And The Deadly Violin is an action-adventure novel written by Guy Worthey. It is the sixth installment of Guy Worthey's The Adventures of Ace Carroway series. P. Charles Derkin, the concertmaster of the Toronto Symphony, feels distraught when he inherits a presumably cursed...

The Dead Kids Club is an intense thriller by Rich Hosek. A divorced father narrates how the life of his young son ended too soon. As he drops his son Nick at school, the boy grabs his backpack and rushes to join the other first...

What happened to Kyle Gardener? Why was she found dead in her room by her mother, Sharon Gardener, the next day? Why did the police find her dad, Paul Gardener, with blood on his shirt and in his vehicle along with the murder weapon? Did...

Shopping Can Be Deadly by Charlotte Stuart is a Discount Detective Mystery. Cameron Chandler, a single mom and a Penny-Wise Investigations investigator, is on her way to work in the shopping mall one morning when shots ring out. A man drops in front and Cameron...

She wakes up at night on a small lawn, not knowing who she is, where she is, or how she got there. Hungry, craving meat, she wanders the streets, enjoying the smells of cooking food. In an alley, she spots a young man and hunger...

Island of Dead Gods by Verena Mahlow will appeal to fans of suspense and mystery. The setting is, in and of itself, a character in the story. It is a dream destination for travelers but a place that haunts its inhabitants. Philine, or Phil, is...

“The two most important warriors are patience and time.” JP Robinson’s Christian historical fiction novel, In the Dead of the Night (Northshire Heritage), is one intriguing drama. The Great War (WW1) continues its devastating path of destruction. Thomas Steele, branded a traitor, risks his life...

When a woman suddenly dies, she finds the afterlife to be unlike anything she imagined in the outstanding fantasy novel How To Be Dead: A Love Story by Laurel Schmidt. Frances Beacon is a former social worker, best-selling author, and noted longevity guru. After living...

In Pretty Deadly by Kelsey Josund, Cinna was the servant girl to her family. After her parents’ death, her uncle and his family made life hell. According to them, Cinna was scum and undeserving of the air she breathed. She always wanted to find a...

Mayan descendants seeking to restore their nation awaken one of their ancient gods to avenge them in the chilling horror novel, In the Land of Dead Horses by Bruce McCandless III. A fortune seeker and his hired laborers open the sealed doorway of an ancient...

In Painter of the Dead, Catherine Butzen weaves a captivating tale that blends romance, mystery, and ancient magic. When Theodora Speer, a talented painter with a penchant for honesty, finds herself entangled in a web of intrigue and curses, the Egyptology department's need for funds...

Poppy Shaw, a not-very-successful forty-six-year-old actress, moved to a splendid guesthouse in Topanga Canyon for a ridiculously low rent. She then learned that the urn with the remains of a famous healer named Dalia, who had lived in the house, was buried under the olive...

A Dead-End Job by Justin Alcala is a comical urban fantasy. Death needs a break but, right now, he can’t catch one. Not everyone dies like they’re meant to, cheating the system, and if Death heads out on vacation, who’s going to look after them?...