Frankie Croy was once a literary darling, her debut novel a smashing success both critically and financially. But in the ensuing decades, her star has never risen beyond the height of that initial book, and a particular review of her most recent release sent the author into an emotional tailspin culminating in a very public…
What Doesn’t Kill Us—David Housewright’s latest McKenzie mystery, the 18th in the series—opens with quite a shocker: our hero has been shot in the back and lies in a coma. McKenzie’s friends, reeling from the news, have plenty of questions they need answered in a hurry. The unlicensed P.I. never officially took on cases since…
A Peculiar Combination by Ashley Weaver is the first book in the new Electra McDonnell series, set in England during World War II, and a delightful mystery filled with spies, murder, romance, and the author’s signature wit. Like they always say: desperate times call for desperate measures. Electra McDonnell and her Uncle Mick know it’s…
It’s February of 1832. Kiera, the former Lady Darby, and her husband and private inquiry partner Sebastian Gage have returned to Edinburgh to prepare for the birth of their first child. This should be a joyful time for the happy couple. But things are not peaceful in the Scottish capital, with a cholera outbreak gripping…
The Drowning Kind by Jennifer McMahon is a haunting, twisty, and compulsively readable modern-day ghost story about a woman who returns to the old family home after her sister mysteriously drowns in its swimming pool—but she’s not the pool’s only victim. Social worker Jax has learned to ignore her sister when she’s in the grip…
Twenty-four years ago, two eleven-year-old girls disappeared in the small town of Repentance, Arkansas. Mary Grace Dobbs remembers that year very well—she was a sixth-grader herself, a classmate of the missing girls. I was coming up on the anniversary of my parents’ death when the girls began disappearing. That summer twenty-four years ago, right…
In December of 1972, three men disappeared from a tower lighthouse off the English coast. When the relief team arrived, they found the door barred from the inside. Dishes were set out for two at the kitchen table. Both clocks had stopped at a quarter to nine. And there was absolutely no trace of a…
The Windsor Knot by SJ Bennett is the first book in a highly original and delightfully clever crime series in which Queen Elizabeth II secretly solves crimes while carrying out her royal duties. April 2016: Queen Elizabeth’s 90th birthday is fast approaching, and she intends to celebrate it at Windsor, the most beloved of her…
Lola on Fire by Rio Youers combines vengeance and deceit, love and bullets, and secrets and twists in this high-octane action thriller with a vibrant emotional core that sees a desperate brother caught in a dangerous world that he and his sister must battle to survive. Brody Ellis is desperate. He’s 24 and has no…
The Diabolical Bones by Bella Ellis is the second book in the Brontë Sisters Mystery series, where the bones of a child are found bricked up in an abandoned fireplace, and the famous sisters must investigate before more get hurt. The Brontë sisters—Charlotte, Emily, and Anne—are eagerly anticipating word from their publisher on whether or…
