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Cold Wind by Paige Shelton: New Excerpt

By Crime HQ

November 16, 2020

Chapter 1 I lifted the curtain flap. Twilight was one of my new favorite things; an extended time here in my new neighborhood in Alaska before and after real sunrise and sunset. As we came upon the end of October, twilight in Benedict lasted about forty minutes at each end of the shorter days. We…

Book Review: The Silver Shooter by Erin Lindsey

By Angie Barry

November 16, 2020

The Silver Shooter by Erin Lindsey is the third book in the Rose Gallagher Mystery series, where Rose and her partner, Thomas Wiltshire, track a monster and search for treasure in the wilds of the Dakota Territory. Several months into her training as an agent in the Pinkertons’ secret supernatural division, Rose Gallagher and her…

Book Review: In the Deep by Loreth Anne White

By Janet Webb

November 12, 2020

Ellie Cresswell-Smith, née Hartley, is a poor little rich girl. She thought she would find salvation in her second marriage to Australian Martin Cresswell-Smith, but fate has other plans. When we first meet her, she’s a widow and an accused murderess. In the Deep opens in February 2021 with a courtroom battle in the Supreme…

Book Review: Sherlock Holmes and the Beast of the Stapletons by James Lovegrove

By Doreen Sheridan

November 11, 2020

Sherlock Holmes and the Beast of the Stapletons by James Lovegrove is a continuation of the story of Sherlock Holmes and The Hound of the Baskervilles, as five years later, another monstrous creature stalks across Dartmoor, leading the detective to believe that Stapleton may not have perished in the Great Grimpen Mire after all and…

Book Review: Cold as Ice by Allison Brennan

By Janet Webb

November 11, 2020

In New York Times bestseller Allison Brennan’s Cold as Ice, FBI Agent Lucy Kincaid must get into the head of a psychopath to save her family, and herself. Cold as Ice marks Allison Brennan’s 17th Lucy Kincaid thriller, proving that readers can’t get enough of Kincaid’s personal and professional triumphs and struggles. Brennan describes her heroine…

The Photographer by Mary Dixie Carter: Cover Reveal and Excerpt

By Crime HQ

November 11, 2020

Available wherever books are sold May 25, 2021 — pre-order today from any of these partner bookstores: Anderson’s Bookshops (Naperville, IL / Downers Grove, IL) An Unlikely Story (Plainville, MA) Books Are Magic (Brooklyn, NY) Book Passage (Corte Madera, CA / San Francisco, CA) Copper Dog Books (Beverly, MA) Fiction Addiction (Greenville, SC) McIntyre’s Books…

Sherlock Holmes and the Beast of the Stapletons by James Lovegrove: New Excerpt

By Crime HQ

November 10, 2020

“But to begin at the beginning…” said Corporal Benjamin Grier. “If you wouldn’t mind,” said Holmes. Sitting back, the American commenced his narrative. “I was owed several weeks’ leave by the army, and got it into my head that I should visit with my old pal Henry all the way across the Atlantic. I was…

Book Review: A Page Marked for Murder by Lauren Elliott

By Janet Webb

November 9, 2020

Cozy mystery series often have a pleasing formula and the Beyond the Page Bookstore Mystery series is no exception. The key elements are murder paired with a missing and/or stolen literary artifact that would interest antiquarians. In A Page Marked for Murder a first edition of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s perennially popular children’s book, The Secret…

Book Review: Little Threats by Emily Schultz

By Doreen Sheridan

November 6, 2020

Little Threats by Emily Schultz is both a taut whodunit and a haunting snapshot of the effects of a violent crime, telling the story of a woman who served 15 years in prison for murder—and now it’s time to find out if she’s guilty. Oh, wow. Hello again to being a teenager in the 1990s—especially…

Trial by Fire by Scott James: New Excerpt

By Crime HQ

November 5, 2020

FEBRUARY 20, 2003, 11:07 P.M. It takes ninety seconds to sing “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Human beings, on average, can hold their breath for up to ninety seconds. A typical person needs ninety seconds to read one page of this book. Ninety seconds marked the moment between life and death on the night of February 20,…

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