Twenty-somethings April Delray and Eddie Carter have just gotten married in the hot summer of July 1995. They’ve taken about five days off from their real life in Ann Arbor and are heading to the shores of Lake Michigan, several hours away, for their honeymoon. While driving down a deserted stretch of nighttime road en…
The last thing that Cam Munoz and Blair Johnson expected was for their investigative podcast into the disappearance of Clarissa Campbell to not only put them in mortal danger, but also to earn them the sometimes irrational ire of numerous people, many of them anonymous online trolls. Now that the case is closed and their…
Crime Fiction Featuring Ride-or-Dies, Emphasis on the Die There’s a reason we joke that a real friend is someone who’ll help you hide a body. We all need support, especially in our darkest hours (like when we’ve just strangled a violent husband or devoured the handsy high school football quarterback). But committing crimes together can…
Chapter 1 “I’d like a cheeseburger with extra guacamole and—” “Extra guac is a dollar,” barks the man behind the counter. “Sure, no problem.” I force a smile, recalling one of the most valuable lessons I picked up waiting tables in college: never piss off the people who handle your food. But the effort…
Restaurant owner and amateur sleuth Robbie Jordan is looking forward to watching her diner’s entry compete in the popular Outhouse Race held every Memorial Day weekend in her Indiana county. Local businesses and associations have gone all in on decorating old-timey outhouse replicas on wheels as part of the county’s annual Abe Martin festivities. Robbie…
Seven DOROTHY The first Dorothy knew of the events in flat one was the sound of the siren. Initially, she gave little thought to its distant wail. Her grocery delivery had arrived this afternoon, and she was enjoying a particularly delicious cream eclair while she wrote a sternly worded letter to the council about a…
After the traumatic events chronicled in Margot Douaihy’s debut novel Scorched Grace, our heroine Sister Holiday is settling back into her life as the youngest servant with the Sisters of the Sublime Blood in New Orleans. Only six months away from taking permanent vows, she and Sister Honor – the only other nun in her…
Prologue Leavenworth, Kansas “We don’t have to . . . ,” Ryan says in a whisper. Alison doesn’t reply as she drives her father’s pristine BMW sedan down the dirt road, rocks kicking under the tires. She just gives Ryan a half smile and pulls into a secluded opening in the trees that the kids…
In Unnatural History (#38 Alex Delaware novel), Alex, a gifted psychologist, was crushed during a consulting gig for LAPD (Los Angeles Police Department). He was so badly hurt that four months later, he’s just now feeling somewhat fit. Alex is not back working alongside LAPD homicide lieutenant Milo Sturgis but he’s itching to be asked.…
Once upon a time, best friends Lulu, Jane, and Rina joked that they were Leftovers, the derogatory term often applied to Chinese women who weren’t married by the age of twenty-seven. But as the years pass, they each feel the increasing pressure to wed. Jane succumbs first, marrying a man she despises because of her…
