The disparate group of American tourists who make up the Wanderers walking tour through Devon have more in common than you might think. Rick “Chase” Chasen is a recently retired detective from San Diego. He’s happy to be in the company of his old friend, Anglophile Billie Mondreau: she’s an inveterate knitter and a wise…
Debut novelist Brendan Flaherty grew up outside Hartford, Connecticut and later attended Washington University. He earned an MFA from Boston University, where he was the recipient of the Saul Bellow Prize. For a time, Flaherty lived in Hawaii, though he has long since returned to his home state, where he makes his home with his…
When I started planning my latest novel, I had nothing but a character and a situation: What if a girl of eleven climbed out her bedroom window one night and, feeling adventurous, went wandering in the woods near her house—only to find the body of a young woman lying in the grass beneath an oak…
Most thriller writers are suckers for a good story. I’m one of them. And if the story is true, many of us start playing the “what-if” game. What if I took a character and imagined it happened to her? What if I set the story in Chicago? What if I created a backstory that explained…
What could be more relaxing than a vacation in Hawaii, especially when it’s in celebration of two important life milestones? California-based Valerie Corbin is about to turn 60, and her wife, Kristen, is soon to retire as well. When Kristen’s friend Isaac offers to let them stay in his house on the Big Island of…
Darling Girls by Sally Hepworth is a thrilling page-turner of sisterhood, secrets, love, and murder. For as long as they can remember… Jessica, Norah, and Alicia have been told how lucky they are. As young girls they were rescued from family tragedies… And raised by a loving foster mother, Miss Fairchild… On an idyllic farming…
Twenty-somethings April Delray and Eddie Carter have just gotten married in the hot summer of July 1995. They’ve taken about five days off from their real life in Ann Arbor and are heading to the shores of Lake Michigan, several hours away, for their honeymoon. While driving down a deserted stretch of nighttime road en…
The last thing that Cam Munoz and Blair Johnson expected was for their investigative podcast into the disappearance of Clarissa Campbell to not only put them in mortal danger, but also to earn them the sometimes irrational ire of numerous people, many of them anonymous online trolls. Now that the case is closed and their…
Crime Fiction Featuring Ride-or-Dies, Emphasis on the Die There’s a reason we joke that a real friend is someone who’ll help you hide a body. We all need support, especially in our darkest hours (like when we’ve just strangled a violent husband or devoured the handsy high school football quarterback). But committing crimes together can…
Chapter 1 “I’d like a cheeseburger with extra guacamole and—” “Extra guac is a dollar,” barks the man behind the counter. “Sure, no problem.” I force a smile, recalling one of the most valuable lessons I picked up waiting tables in college: never piss off the people who handle your food. But the effort…
