Like to Die by David Housewright is the 15th book in the Twin Cities P.I. Mac McKenzie series, where a seemingly simple investigation—done as a favor for a friend—takes McKenzie down a dark and twisted path. What starts with a good-natured poker game between old buddies quickly morphs into the usual quagmire… Read more
Gone Missing by Linda Castillo is the fourth book in the bestselling Kate Burkholder series—a deeply chilling novel about a rite of passage gone horribly wrong. Kate Burkholder, Chief of Police for a rural Ohio town, is having a relatively run-of-the-mill day breaking up tussling teenagers when Agent John Tomasetti—her frequent… Read more
Death Notice by Zhou Haohui is a wild thriller and deadly game of cat-and-mouse, where an elite police squad hunts a manipulative mastermind out to publically execute criminals the law cannot reach. Don’t you remember me, Student 8102? Once the overture finishes, the first act must commence. It has been… Read more
An Onshore Storm by Dewey Lambdin is the 24th book in the Alan Lewrie Naval Adventure series, where Lewrie takes on his roughest adventure: maritime life beyond the navy. “Holy —!” came a sudden wail. “Clumsy bugger!” quickly followed, just before a thump. “Arr!” from another startled throat, preceding a… Read more
Why Kill the Innocent by C. S. Harris is the 13th book in the Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery series, where a brutal murder draws nobleman Sebastian St. Cyr into the tangled web of the British royal court. It’s January of 1814, and a killing winter shows no signs of relenting. With… Read more
A Necessary Evil by Abir Mukherjee is the second book in the Sam Wyndham series set in India, 1920, where Captain Wyndham and Sergeant Banerjee of the Calcutta Police Force investigate the dramatic assassination of a Maharajah’s son. I threw open my door, but before I could move, the man in saffron… Read more
Murder in an English Village by Jessica Ellicott is the first book in the Beryl and Edwina Mystery series featuring the unlikely sleuthing pair of the boisterous and brash American Beryl and the prim and proper British Edwina. Miss Edwina Davenport is a genteel Englishwoman of a certain age. Prim and… Read more
When plotting your books, do you take inspiration from established ghost stories and particular events or weave the story from whole cloth? I make them up! The Broken Girls, for example, started with an idea of a body found in a well. I wanted to know who she was and… Read more
In Black Fall by Andrew Mayne, magician-turned-FBI agent Jessica Blackwood investigates a series of seemingly unrelated—but equally bizarre and sinister—crimes that lead her to the Colorado desert and a town that has, simply, disappeared. “I… lost a town.” A long pause. “Moffat?” There was no trace of surprise in his… Read more
In Black Fall by Andrew Mayne, magician-turned-FBI agent Jessica Blackwood investigates a series of seemingly unrelated—but equally bizarre and sinister—crimes that lead her to the Colorado desert and a town that has, simply, disappeared. “I… lost a town.” A long pause. “Moffat?” There was no trace of surprise in his… Read more
