Priced at just $1.99, this original short story in the bestselling Mike Bowditch mystery series by Paul Doiron finds Maine Game Warden Mike Bowditch on the hunt for a sinister prowler turning a couple’s dream vacation home into a nightmare. New owners of a dream cottage on a remote Maine lake find themselves taunted, then…
“Dude, that’s not funny. Quit it.” My first instinct said Derek was playing around. He’d been an infamous prankster when we were in high school, and this looked like another one of his unfunny jokes. I was too annoyed about the mess he’d made, with gobs of coconut milk splattered all over the table, not…
Lemon Drop Dead by Amanda Flower is the sixth book in the Amish Candy Shop Mystery series, where an already tense baby shower turns to murder and Bailey must investigate to clear the name of her hardworking assistant’s estranged sister. The ladies of Harvest, Ohio, are all aflutter over the pregnancy of Swissmen Sweets shop…
The Townhouse was already on the radar of detectives, thanks to the investigation into Peter Anderson’s murder. When they visited the bar to conduct interviews, regulars were guarded, reluctant to talk. “The homosexual community wasn’t very open about what they were doing in their private lives,” said Kuehn. Nevertheless, detectives found Douglas Gibson. A blond-haired,…
The Newcomer by Mary Kay Andrews follows Letty Carnahan, who recently fled from New York with her murdered sister’s child, Maya, to escape suspicion and start a new life working at a tourist destination in Florida—but her sister’s past and the details of her murder may prove more difficult to outrun than she could ever…
What a debut—Sutanto has whipped together a frothy mixture of “murder mystery, rom-com, and a celebration of mothers and daughters.” Meddy has not one but four mothers, her ma and her three aunties (which rhymes with Ant). She is the embodiment of “filial piety, the foundation of Asian parenting.” These loving, interfering, outspoken women shower…
The events described in the second Ella Shane mystery novel follow closely on the heels of the first, as our heroine and her New York City-based operatic company are premiering an original new work, The Princes In The Tower, based on the tale of the two English princes who disappeared while in the custody of…
Chapter 1 Kate McGuire felt the spray of the saltwater against her face, as the boat plowed through the choppy water. Beside her, pup Oliver peered over the railing into the teal blue sea. Instinctively, she reached down and stroked the soft, caramel-colored hair on the back of his neck, just above his orange life…
JUST SO YOU KNOW I was shot in the back at close range by a .32-caliber handgun yet did not die, at least not permanently. Dr. Lillian Linder, the emergency medical specialist who saved my life, said it was a miracle. Lilly had patched me up on numerous occasions over the past decade, though, and…
Death with a Double Edge by Anne Perry is the fourth in the Daniel Pitt series, where the junior barrister’s investigation into his colleague’s murder leads him through London’s teeming underbelly to the suspicious dealings of one of England’s most influential shipbuilding magnates. A policeman comes to Daniel Pitt’s law chambers and asks him to…
