The second in the Mahalia Watkins mystery series sees us back in Prince George’s County, Maryland, as our heroine faces down one of the worst milestones in anyone’s life: the high school reunion. Halia isn’t even interested in going, as she’s only stayed in touch with one person from her… Read more
Chocolate à la Murder by Kirsten Weiss is the fourth book in the Perfectly Proper Paranormal Museum Mystery series. San Benedetto, California, is launching its Wine and Chocolate Days festival—pairing the fruits of the local vineyards with various chocolatey treats—and it features one of the town’s newest businesses, the artisanal… Read more
When I first picked up this series, I did so mainly because I’m greedy for more diverse representation in the culinary cozy mystery genre. I was also attracted to the fact that it’s set in Prince George’s County, Maryland—part of the Washington, D.C., Metro area where I’ve lived most of… Read more
Black and Blue is the third book in David Rosenfelt’s Doug Brock Thriller series. As Doug continuously attempts to overcome his amnesia, a new murder—similar in fashion to the murder in a cold case Doug worked on—occurs, causing him to revisit the case and question his own previous decisions. I… Read more
A 17-year-old struggles to remember the tragic night that changed her life forever in J. P. Pomare’s twist-filled debut novel of psychological suspense, Call Me Evie. Kate knows that something is wrong with her way of life. For one, the man calling himself her Uncle Jim is definitely not her… Read more
Weirdly, I thought that the final novel in the Red Sparrow Trilogy was at once its most realistic as well as its most wildly fanciful. There are details included that feel so authentic as to be absolutely factual, even if they don’t make for the most appetizing reading; I could… Read more
The Reign of the Kingfisher from award-winning debut author T.J. Martinson, is the story of the superhero called “the Kingfisher” who tried to save Chicago 30 years ago. In the present, a masked gunman vows to kill a roomful of hostages one by one unless the police admit that they faked the… Read more
Joanne Fluke sure knows how to write a cliffhanger! When I read the last sentence of this book, I let out the kind of overly dramatic gasp that you usually only see on TV, complete with pearl clutching. But if there’s any author who can reliably elicit that kind of… Read more
Captain Dominika Egorova—the Red Sparrow of the series title—is back at her Moscow desk in the Russian Intelligence Service (SVR) after conspiring with the CIA to cement her role as their high-level informant. Though, after the final events chronicled in the previous book, she’s not too sure about whether she… Read more
From the critically acclaimed author Ausma Zehanat Khan, A Deadly Divide is the devastatingly powerful fifth thriller featuring beloved series detectives Esa Khattak and Rachel Getty. Esa Khattak and Rachel Getty, detectives with Canada’s Community Policing Section, are called in to the most violent crime scene they’ve ever attended—the shooting of worshippers… Read more
