Thea and Stephen are engaged. Stephen is the vicar of Friar Wootton, a quiet little village in Dorset. Thea spends her time editing murder mysteries for a small Cambridge publisher. Soon she will be the vicar’s wife. In A Whitsun Wedding Murder by Susan D....

Set in 1764 in colonial Pennsylvania, A Player's Exit by Terri Karsten follows newly widowed Penelope Corbitt, who has found a haven, along with her daughter Nabby and son Nathaniel, at a wayside tavern. Miles Tucker, the kind-hearted tavern owner, wants to marry her, but...

Clara Whitmore, a solicitor’s assistant at the London firm of Dallow & Fiske, has been sent to Ravenscroft Hall, an estate in a remote village, to settle a will. She thinks it is a quick assignment, but has no idea how wrong she is. On...

The Harlot of St. Cecelia’s is a fabulous, cozy murder mystery that opens the Inspector Garrett Mysteries series by talented author Darcy Graves. The story transports us to London, 1923. The assistant head librarian at St. Cecelia’s Library in Dayneton discovers the body of a...

Every Man A Jack by Caleb Brabham and Violet Ransom is set in 1888 London. Mary Kelly reads tarot cards and makes her living in Whitechapel as murders attributed to Jack the Ripper begin terrifying the East End. After Mary “Polly” Nichols is killed, women...

In David Wraith’s The Last Quest For Water, the year is 1935, with Ethiopia facing invasion by fascist Italy as Emperor Haile Selassie sends palace eunuch Semayawe “Sema” Melaku west across Africa on a secret mission. Sema must use a Ge’ez codex to locate a...

Rich Petrelli’s The Black Chalice explodes from the very first page. Dr. Konstantin Volkov releases a bioweapon into a subway in Manhattan, creating a Piston Effect: each arriving train becomes a piston, driving the aerosolized mist through crowded platforms and into the lungs of thousands....

“Sometimes being unschooled is an advantage in art: you have more freedom to unlock your emotions . . . to not know when you’ve crossed a boundary that probably shouldn’t have been there in the first place.” Boundaries fade in Vaulted Night (A Novella of...

Adam Smith brings us historical fiction saturated in mystery in The Journey of the Snake. Charlotte Savatier is on her way to Charleston, South Carolina, with her Wacataw uncle, to join her husband. Major Savatier was sent to Charleston to investigate the murder of a...

After completing their first assignment, the six candidates of the Order of the Steel Rose—Mr. Carnby, Dr. Whitehall, Axel, Percy, Emma, and Jane—are accepted into the Order. However, they have many questions about the evil they encountered and the culprits in their custody. They soon...