The Branson Beauty by Claire Booth is the debut book in the Sheriff Hank Worth Mystery series. (Available July 19, 2016). The Branson Beauty, an old showboat, has crashed in the waters of an Ozark mountain lake just outside the popular tourist destination of Branson, Missouri. More than one hundred people are trapped aboard. Hank Worth…
The Graveyard of the Hesperides by Lindsey Davis is the 4th book in the Flavia Albia historical mystery series. I’m honestly not sure why mysteries set in Ancient Rome are my favorite of the historical mystery subgenre. Perhaps some part of it is due to the cultural emphasis that gives equal importance to both the…
The Baker Street Jurors is the 5th book in the Baker Street Letters series by Michael Robertson (Available July 19, 2016). Everyone must do jury duty. Even Sherlock Holmes. A nation’s greatest sports hero has been accused of murder. The trial is approaching, and the public is clamoring—both for and against. And in a desperate,…
Arsenic with Austen by Katherine Bolger Hyde is the 1st book in the new Crime with the Classics series. It is a truth universally acknowledged that a reader in want of a mystery usually doesn’t reach for Jane Austen. In fact, I have a rather tremulous relationship with Austen’s works, but when I saw Katherine…
The Jolly Roger Social Club by Nick Foster is the true story of a series of bold killings which took place in a shadowy American ex-pat community in Panama (Available today!). In the remote Bocas del Toro, Panama, William Dathan Holbert, aka “Wild Bill,” is awaiting trial for the murder of five fellow American ex-patriots.…
Outfoxed by David Rosenfelt is the 14th book in the Andy Carpenter series (Available July 19, 2016). Defense lawyer Andy Carpenter spends as much time as he can working on his true passion, the Tara Foundation, the dog rescue organization he runs. Lately, Andy has been especially involved in a county prison program where inmates help…
Read to Death by Terrie Farley Moran is the 3rd book in the Read ‘Em and Eat cozy mystery series. In the parking lot of the Read ’Em and Eat Café and Book Corner, I stood by the side of a sky blue van with oversized white letters advertising the “Gulf Coast Cab and Van”…
The Innocents by Ace Atkins is the 6th book in the Quinn Colson series and a gritty, darkly comic tale of greed, violence, and unexpected redemption (Available July 12, 2016). Having just finished reading my first Ace Atkins novel with Robert B. Parker’s Slow Burn, I was curious to experience Mr. Atkins’s own voice. While…
By the time Richard Burton (1925-1984) and Lee Marvin (1924-1987) began filming The Klansman (1974), they were not just actors, but bona fide Hollywood legends. Burton had conquered the stage with theater roles in Camelot (1960) and Hamlet (1964), been nominated for an Academy Award several times, and was a huge box office draw with…
All Is Not Forgotten by Wendy Walker explores the effects of a sexual assault on a family and the controversial treatment to erase the memory of the attack (Available July 12, 2016). It begins in the small, affluent town of Fairview, Connecticut, where everything seems picture perfect. Until one night when young Jenny Kramer is…
