In the Footsteps of Dracula: Tales of the Un-Dead Count, edited by Stephen Jones, is a vampire anthology with more than thirty chilling stories and novellas featuring Bram Stoker’s King of the Vampires: Count Dracula, Prince of Darkness! It’s October, which means it’s Halloween season. And what better way to celebrate the season than by…
Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke is a powerful thriller about the explosive intersection of love, race, and justice. The first person we meet in the little Texas town of Lark is Geneva Sweet, proprietor of Geneva Sweet’s Sweets, a small roadside café where you can get a good meal washed down with iced tea—or maybe something…
The Lost Girls by Allison Brennan is the 11th book in the Lucy Kincaid series, where two missing girls and an abandoned baby lead to a seedy underworld of human trafficking. In a small Texas town, a recently—and reluctantly—retired priest discovers a baby beneath a statue of St. Elizabeth on the grounds of Our Lady…
Dog Dish of Doom by E. J. Copperman is the first book in the new Agent to the Paws series. Take a visual tour of Dog Dish of Doom with GIFnotes! Show business is in Kay Powell’s blood. Her parents (Jay and El) were successful Catskill performers back in the day, and when she was a…
Poisonous by Allison Brennan is the third book in the Max Revere series, where Max answers the plea of a heartbroken and developmentally disabled stepbrother of a recently deceased girl, investigating an apparent suicide that looks more and more like murder. A teenage girl is dead, and after more than a year, the case has…
Notorious by Allison Brennan is the first book in the Max Revere series, where the renowned TV investigative reporter with a passion for cold cases is dragged back to her hometown to confront the murder that made her who she is. It may not be true that behind every great crime-stopper there’s a personal connection…
Just because there’s a war going on doesn’t mean that death takes a holiday among the civilian population. Here are nine very different views of death during wartime. Black Dragon by Kirk Mitchell Black Dragon is reminiscent of the history-based thrillers/mysteries of Joseph Kanon (Los Alamos, The Good German). The book (published in 1988) is…
Flamingo Road by Sasscer Hill is the 1st book in the Fia McKee Mystery series (available April 18, 2017). Sasscer Hill likes horses, and not in a “My Little Pony” kind of way. A horsewoman and horse breeder, it’s in her blood. As she explains on her blog: I started galloping about the family farm…
A Great Reckoning by New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny is the 12th mystery featuring Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, set in the town of Three Pines. It is nominated for an Agatha Award for Best Novel. “Every mystery is not a crime. But every crime starts with a mystery.” In its modern use, the word “mystery”…
Terror in Taffeta by Marla Cooper is the 1st book in the Kelsey McKenna Destination Wedding Mystery series, nominated for an Agatha Award for Best First Novel. I was invited to a destination wedding a few years ago—the actual ceremony took place in a picturesque, centuries-old church in a charming French fishing village. It looked…
