In recent years, Alex Segura has emerged as a superhero of sorts in publishing. After having made a splash with his Anthony Award-nominated Pete Fernandez Miami mysteries, he moved into the realm of comics, scripting original characters (The Black Ghost) as well as iconic canon staples from the worlds of Marvel and DC. Segura would…
Chapter 1: Spill the Beans! September 1894 My boots rapped smartly on the cobbles as I strode through the murky Liverpool dusk, worrying about the telegram stashed in my billfold. I’d soon join my wife Diana and her brother in the rooms he’d taken to await the arrival of our ship. Blissfully astonished to see…
The seventh installment of the Cordell Logan mystery series finds our former fighter pilot turned flight instructor (and aspiring private investigator) trying not to get involved with his nonagenarian landlady Mrs. Schmulowitz’s quixotic run for city council. While he has no interest in politics, he’s also perfectly happy to be living in Mrs. Schmulowitz’s garage,…
Quiet, bookish Kat McCann is an unassuming teenage girl living with her aunt and uncle in Boston, Massachusetts. She isn’t shy, exactly, but she doesn’t like to draw attention to herself either. She’d had enough of the spotlight after her artist mother was brutally murdered and her father arrested for the crime. She doesn’t have…
The Lord Julian Mysteries are addictive, unusual, and enjoyable. Consider the protagonists in most mystery series: their character and circumstances are established when we meet them, i.e., their personal challenges are not often a continuing theme of a mystery series. Lord Julian Caldicott is the younger brother of a duke, heir to Arthur Caldicott, Duke…
Anyone who knows my reading preferences knows that I am a sucker for metafiction. I love watching authors play with form to tell a compelling story. For The Turnglass, Gareth Rubin looks back to the past to present a fresh new type of historical murder mystery, set in two different eras and on two different…
Carl Mørck and the other detectives of Denmark’s Department Q should be celebrating their epic triumph in apprehending a serial killer who’d been working in the shadows for decades. Instead, Carl finds himself in handcuffs and transported to Vestre Prison, accused of corruption and murder himself. Almost two decades ago, his then-colleague Anker Heyer had…
The woman known as Aurelia Escalante came to Trouble Island – in the middle of Lake Erie and on one of the busiest smuggling routes between Canada and the United States of America during these boom days of Prohibition – looking for a refuge. Scared and in hiding, Aurelia found herself healing while on the…
Our story begins, as these stories often do, with an awfully convenient murder. Not convenient for the murder victim, of course. They probably had plans, hopes and dreams, maybe even a date or a meal left unfinished. No, I guess their murder came as a bit of a shock for them. It might not even…
Welcome back former San Diego detective Rick “Chase” Chasen. Chase is an inveterate hiker and Anglophile. In the first Walk Through England Mystery, A Deadly Walk in Devon, Chase and his longtime friend Billie Mondreau joined a disparate group of keen hikers who were interested in exploring Devon’s picturesque byways. Still mourning the death of…
