Death of a New American by Mariah Fredericks is the atmospheric, compelling follow-up to the stunning debut A Death of No Importance, featuring series character, Jane Prescott. For some reason, the first thing I understood was the open window, the curtain blowing wildly into the room. A lamp lay overturned on the floor, a little china dog…
Loch of the Dead by Oscar de Muriel is the fourth book in the Frey & McGray series, where Edinburgh’s most famed detective duo face their most metaphysical mystery yet as they investigate a series of crimes surrounding the miraculous waters in the remote Loch Maree. The silence was absolute, broken only by the occasional…
Debut author S.A. Lelchuk’s Save Me From Dangerous Men is the first book in a series featuring Nikki Griffin, who uses her detective skills to take the law into her own hands to defend and protect women against toxic masculine predators. I waited until he was halfway out of the chair. Off-balance, legs bent, weight…
After the Eclipse by Fran Dorricott is a thriller about two abductions of young girls that take place 16 years apart. A sister of one of the missing girls tries to connect the recent abduction to her missing sister’s cold case to find the criminal responsible. Half an hour to go until it was dark.…
Charles Finch’s The Vanishing Man is a prequel to his Charles Lenox Victorian series in which the theft of an antique painting sends Detective Lenox on a hunt for a criminal mastermind. …His eyes returned to the much smaller, smoky painting. Number five. It was in a wood frame, not gilt like the others, and…
In Tear It Down, the new edge-of-your-seat adventure from national bestselling author Nick Petrie, Peter Ash pursues one case—and stumbles into another—in the City of the Blues. Wanda Wyatt lived in an old brick house on a residential street off of Ayers in North Memphis. Her block was crowded with tall trees and shrubs, and…
A Tale of Two Murders by Laura Thompson is a riveting account of the notorious “Ilford murder” which became a legal cause ce´le`bre in the 1920s and led to the hanging of Edith Thompson and her lover, Freddy Bywaters. She had made a grave mistake, believing that she had more power and freedom than she…
Shotguns and Stagecoaches by John Boessenecker details the true stories of the Wild West heroes who guarded the iconic Wells Fargo stagecoaches and trains, battling colorful thieves, vicious highwaymen, and robbers armed with explosives. From 1852 to 1918, Wells Fargo & Company’s Express was an integral part of American society. It was the perfect equivalent…
Monsters of the Week: The Complete Critical Companion to The X-Files by Zack Handlen & Todd Vanderwerff is the definitive guide for The X-Files, whether you’re a lifelong viewer wanting to relive memories of watching the show when it first aired or a new fan uncovering the conspiracy for the first time. The X-Files was one…
Down the Broken Road by J. R. Backlund is the second mystery starring Rachel Carver, the North Carolina Bureau of Investigation Agent turned legal investigator. Then she heard something that made her freeze. The air conditioner had stopped. There was the Doppler effect of a car passing by on the highway—the change in pitch as…
