Click through for our interview with Phoenix-based journalist Christina Estes as she discusses her Tony Hillerman Prize-winning debut novel, Off the Air.

With brand new cozies, thrillers, suspense, and more, spring into March with our most anticipated reads for the upcoming month!

A searing vacation thriller set on a remote island in Thailand following two mysterious women, a charismatic group of expats, and the one murder poised to bring their paradise crashing down.

Book Review: Keep Your Friends Close by Leah Konen

It’s taken years, but Mary has finally realized that her marriage to handsome, wealthy George Haywood is not only bad for her, but for their toddler son Alex as well. At first, George’s riches were so seductive that his controlling tendencies just seemed like a genuine interest in helping her better herself. Once she realizes…

Featured Excerpt: The Father She Went to Find by Carter Wilson

ONE July 13, 1987 Eau Claire, Wisconsin Monday I remember everything. This isn’t an exaggeration. As the few who know me would confirm, I’m not prone to hyperbole. And when I say I remember everything, I’m not talking about the events of this morning. Or yesterday. Or the whole of last week. I remember everything…

Book Review: The Frame-Up by Gwenda Bond

Ten years ago, Dani Poissant thought that she’d left her old art heist crew behind for good. Nowadays, she works as an itinerant con artist, traveling from town to town and finding easy marks, with a side of Robin Hood do-gooding along the way. Her only companion is her beloved dog Sunflower, also a stray…

Book Review: Baby X by Kira Peikoff

While fiction is often a means of escapism, it can also be a lens through which to view a theoretical future based on science and speculation. Kira Peikoff—who holds a degree in journalism from NYU and a master’s in bioethics from Columbia and works in biotech communications—is a master of that, having married fact with…

Cooking the Books: Irish Milkshake Murder by Carlene O’Connor, Peggy Ehrhart & Liz Ireland

Kensington Books’ latest trio of cozy seasonal novellas is a real winner, especially with an absolute stunner of a dessert recipe included to help properly celebrate St. Patrick’s Day! In the opening story that gives this collection its name, Carlene O’Connor sends the heroine of her Home to Ireland series on a hen party to…

Book Review: The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo

This stunning, cinematic tale of detectives and fox people in the sunset of Manchurian-ruled China is one of the most thoughtful multi-sleuth mysteries I’ve had the pleasure of reading in a while! Our titular heroine prefers to go by the name Snow. She is, indeed, a fox wife out of legend, capable of switching between…

Book Review: Original Sins by Erin Young

Erin Young is the crime genre pseudonym of New York Times bestselling author Robyn Young, whose historical fiction has sold more than two million copies worldwide and includes the Brethren and Insurrection trilogies as well as two titles in the New World Rising series. A native of Devon, Young now makes her home in Brighton,…

The National Parks Starring Roles in Film

America’s national parks play a leading role in many of our lives, being the most popular vacation spot by far across the country. In 2022, more than 300 million people visited our national parks and memories. But did you know those parks and memorials have also played their own leading role across numerous popular films?…

Book Review: The Phalanx Code by A.J. Tata

Garrett Sinclair seems to always suffer for doing the right thing. After saving the world, he and his team are imprisoned. He’s ready to accept his discharge from the Army when one of his operatives, Jake Mahegan, breaks him out of solitary confinement. He meets up with his fellow teammates, and they are all free,…

From Trauma Psychologist to Thriller Writer

I’m a former clinical psychologist with a specialization in childhood trauma so the question I get asked the most often is, “Are your books real?” The answer to that is a disturbing yes. Everything I write is loosely based on my personal experiences with clients or birthed from a traumatic story someone shared with me…