When Charlotte Cross was a young woman living in 1930s New York City, earning a spot on an archaeological dig in Egypt seemed like a dream come true. Their expedition leader, Grayson Zimmerman, is a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art who takes a fatherly interest in the only young woman on his crew.…

The tension never lets up in Battle Mountain, the 25th Joe Pickett novel. Legendary game warden Pickett has been in the job for a good long time: his longevity in his post is noted often, as is his legendary reputation. For following the letter of the law.  An evil man, Axel Soledad, has inflicted immeasurable…

My new novel, I Would Die For You, dives into the world of 1980s fandom. Cassie is obsessed with Ben Edwards, lead singer with Secret Oktober, the band of the moment, and there isn’t much she won’t do to get close to him. But he’s got eyes on someone else. A chance meeting with Cassie’s…

If you only went by her Instagram and other social media, Kerry Walsh would be very much living the writer’s dream. After a short story she’d written was published in The New Yorker and went viral, she landed a six-figure publishing deal for a novel based on the story, with potentially more to come given…

I do so enjoy these collections of seasonal cozy novellas from Kensington Books’ roster of accomplished authors! It’s always fun doing a little fresh, quick sleuthing with casts of characters I already know and love. These books are also great for readers new to one or more of the series included, as they often serve…

I genuinely can’t remember the last time I read a spicy rom-com murder mystery, and especially one that works so well on all its genre levels! Sexy, sweet and suspenseful, She Doesn’t Have A Clue is a delight from start to finish. It helps a lot that our heroine, bestselling mystery author Kate Valentine, is…

Genre matters. Even when novels were, well, novel, genre probably mattered. Imagine yourself drawing water from the well or fountain in ye olde square and recommending a book to someone. “Have you read THE TALE OF GENJI yet?” Head shakes. “I don’t read very often, seeing as how it’s the 11th century. What’s it like?”…

Chapter 1  Tempest Raj was late.  A former stage performer who relied on split-second timing, Tempest didn’t do late.  Yet here she was. So ridiculously late that even Gideon had texted her to make sure she was all right. Gideon. A man who’d only grudgingly been dragged into this century and bought his first cell…

London, 1867 Patrice McDonough skillfully weaves historical events into her mysteries, a case in point being the Regent’s Park skating disaster. On 15 January 1867, “40 people died after the ice broke on the lake in London’s Regent’s Park pitching about 200 people into icy water up to 12 ft (3.7 m) deep,” h/t Wikipedia.…

Lawyer-turned-novelist Marie Benedict has been illuminating the real-life stories of women throughout history for nearly a decade now, melding fact with fiction—and ensuring that they’re not lost to time. Her books have reached both the New York Times and USA Today bestsellers lists and two, co-written with Victoria Christopher Murray, have been selected as a…