The Tudor monarch mystery that I never knew I needed came to life in Karen E. Olson’s An Inconvenient Wife. Taking the classic history of King Henry VIII’s six wives and setting them in modern day, Olson creates a truly clever novel. She explores not only what these women may have been like today, but…
Welcome to New York City, where Carole McCann is the first female mayor, and now her 15-year-old son has gone missing. Normally one would expect that this situation calls for a citywide search with all NYPD precincts scouring the streets. However, McCann instead calls in the help of private investigator Bill Smith. And with that,…
What happens when you mix Murder on the Orient Express with a train full of crime writers holding a grudge? Benjamin Stevenson tells you exactly that in his latest novel, Everyone On This Train Is A Suspect. In his second Ernest Cunningham mystery, our protagonist is once again thrust into a life-or-death situation when a…
What turns a hobby into something all-consuming? For the Parker family, joining Rancho Santa Fe Equestrian did just that. In Eliza Jane Brazier’s newest novel, Girls and Their Horses, the stables of Rancho Santa Fe, California become the catalyst for an obsession that ends in murder. The Parker family moves to California for a new…
A politician is killed, and a man is convicted, and then years later someone begins to upend the entire case. That someone is a private investigator dripping in sarcasm and Christian Dior who sets the stage for A Death in Denmark by Amulya Malladi. Gabriel Præst is a former Danish policeman, current PI, musician and…
In the summer of 1995, nine friends enter a manor in the English countryside, but only seven leave the next day. Two deaths, one axe, and seven potential suspects. In the end, the crime lacks evidence, the police stop looking and no one is ever charged for the murders. The story seemingly ends there –…
When you experience a trauma and suddenly your hold on reality starts to slip, who would you trust? Can you rely on your husband, your therapist, your friends – even if all of them seem slightly frightened of you? A theme not often covered in the world of crime fiction, The Break by Katie Sise…
With one seemingly simple comment from one character to another, Ava Barry perfectly captures the heart of her newest thriller, Double Exposure: “Double exposure. A broken piece of film. Damaged imagery, you know?” Double Exposure is a cat and mouse mystery where the role of the cat and the mouse are constantly interchanging. Set in…
A frontrunner in the literary world of cold case fiction has emerged this year in the form of Back to the Garden. This new thriller from renowned author Laurie R. King had me hooked from page one. King opens up the novel by diving into the past, and from here seamlessly transports the reader back…
Not all games are fair, and sometimes the players find that out the hard way. In Eliza Jane Brazier’s novel Good Rich People, two characters are thrust into a dangerously unfair game where they are fighting for their lives. Alternating between the perspective of main characters Lyla and Demi, the plot follows these women of…
