What’s Left of Me Is Yours is a gripping debut set in modern-day Tokyo and inspired by a true crime that charts a young woman’s search for the truth about her mother’s life—and her murder. Stephanie Scott’s What’s Left of Me Is Yours is an outstanding novel that occupies the interstitial space between crime and…
Icelandic crime/thriller author Ragnar Jonasson completes his Hidden Iceland series with a tale so cold, dark, and sinister it will freeze the very blood in your veins to ice. For a small country of only 365,000 inhabitants, Jonasson’s novels would make you think that there is something dangerous cooking around every corner. The Mist is…
A few pages into The Dilemma, the relentless theme of the Perry Mason show pulsed in my brain. Something earthshattering and inexorable is about to consume Livia’s much anticipated 40th birthday party. The story is a departure for B. A. Paris, who is famous for her thrillers. The Dilemma is suspenseful and riveting, but no…
CHAPTER 1 CHICAGO OCTOBER 1929 The black delivery truck pulled up to Mr. Rosenstein’s drugstore, its movements stealthy and smooth as it parked, not a squeaking brake or rattling screw to be heard. Its shadow from the dropping sun stretched across the sidewalk, just touching the store’s glass windows, which displayed mortars and pestles, vials,…
Throughout the annals of fiction there have been oodles of situations involving mistaken identity. We’ve seen it in fairy tales, Shakespeare’s plays, and many Disney films. In recent fiction, it has been a go-to for many mystery stories and authors like Robert Goddard from the U.K. has used the gimmick multiple times. This brings us…
Outsider is the twelfth Kate Burkholder Amish-set mystery. Linda Castillo published Sworn to Silence in 2009: since then the series has gone from strength to strength. Readers who are curious about Kate’s early police career will relish Outsider. A wicked snowstorm in Painters Mill, Ohio doesn’t deter Amish widower Adam Lengacher from taking his rambunctious…
Let’s just lay it out here: this is one of the best cozy mysteries I’ve ever read. Not only was Jane Darrowfield, Professional Busybody a smart and suspenseful mystery, it was a funny and moving novel as well. Barbara Ross has long been my favorite culinary cozy author with her terrific Maine Clambake series, but…
I Killed Zoe Spanos by Kit Frick is a gripping thriller that follows two teens whose lives become inextricably linked when one confesses to murder and the other becomes determined to uncover the real truth no matter the cost. Kit Frick is a novelist, award-winning poet, and MacDowell Colony fellow who hails from Pittsburgh, PA.…
Murder at Blackwater Bend is Clara McKenna’s second Stella and Lyndy Mystery, in which the young couple is now formally engaged although a wedding date has yet to be set. Kentucky heiress Stella Kendrick has endured a crash course in aristocratic mores from her fiancé’s mother. Lady Atherly is a stiff, snobbish woman who resents…
Mike is off his game from the get-go in One Last Lie, thanks to Charley Stevens. Before I left for Florida, my old friend and mentor Charley Stevens gave me a puzzling piece of advice. “Never trust a man without secrets.” I thought he’d misspoken. “Don’t you mean a man with secrets?” But…
