In Tom Hunt’s One Fatal Mistake, eighteen-year-old Joshua Mayo kills a man in a terrible accident, but the tragedy quickly becomes a hit-and-run. Not reporting the accident to the police, Josh confides only in his mother—and then everything goes wrong. One Fatal Mistake is somewhat of a misnomer because it… Read more
Careless Love by Peter Robinson is the 25th installment of the Inspector Banks Novels series. What’s more pleasurable than a well-done police procedural? Careless Love is Peter Robinson’s 25th DCI Banks Novel, and it’s chock-a-block with elements that keep readers coming back. The Yorkshire setting gives readers a bit of an… Read more
In John Lutz’s The Havana Game, the covert Gray Outfit sends John Laker to untangle a mess when the U.S. is seemingly linked to a terrorist bombing in a Baltic nation and a Russian troop buildup just over the border. But after a second attack leaves him out in the… Read more
As Long As We Both Shall Live is JoAnn Chaney’s examination of a marriage gone very wrong, a marriage with lots of secrets… Husbands killing wives and vice versa never goes out of style. Recall Winston Churchill’s ongoing brangle with fellow parliamentarian Lady Astor (who was most critical of Churchill’s consumption… Read more
In Death by Committee, the first novel in Alexis Morgan’s new Abby McCree mystery series, Abby inherits her aunt’s ramshackle home in Snowberry Creek, Washington only to find a body buried in the backyard. Death by Committee ticks all the boxes for a new cozy series: a small town with… Read more
A Murderous Marriage is the fourth novel in Alyssa Maxwell’s Lady and Lady’s Maid Mystery Series. Lady Phoebe Renshaw and her lady’s maid, Eva Huntford, are preparing for a wedding, but when an unexpected death occurs, it turns out it may not be the happy occasion everyone had hoped for… Read more
The Hangman’s Secret is the third book in Laura Joh Rowland’s Victorian Mystery series. The Hangman’s Secret is a brutal assault on the senses. Photographer Sarah Bain is no stranger to the London underworld, nor are her associates, Lord Hugh Staunton, and Mick O’Reilly. Sarah works exclusively for powerful newspaper baron… Read more
In Emma Rous’ debut novel The Au Pair, Seraphine Mayes discovers a troubling photograph her family’s Norfolk estate while attending her father’s funeral. She tracks down the family’s au pair to further investigate, and a decades-old family secret begins to unravel. A family mourns the sudden death of their father. Seraphine… Read more
Yogini and amateur sleuth Kate Davidson will need more than Warrior Pose to solve a murder and help homeless teens in Murder Like It Hot, Tracy Weber’s sixth Downward Dog Mystery. Tracy Weber, like her fictional yoga instructor Kate Davidson, owns a yoga studio in Seattle. Weber and her husband share… Read more
In the newest Kurland St. Mary mystery, Major Sir Robert Kurland and Lady Lucy Kurland discover that Bath is not beneficial to everyone’s health. Major Sir Robert Kurland was wounded during the Battle of Waterloo. In January 1822, his steady recuperation hits a major setback. While walking his dogs, he… Read more
