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Book Review: Fallout by Carrie Stuart Parks

By Doreen Sheridan

September 30, 2022

Sam Williams has built a nice, quiet life for herself as an elementary school art teacher in rural LaCrosse, Washington. After her parents died when she was a little girl, she was taken in by a strict aunt who taught her how to run a farm and be self-sufficient. While Sam eventually went off to…

Book Review: Shadows of the Dead by Spencer Kope

By Ray Palen

August 25, 2020

The best tracker in the world, a man with a secret and a special set of skills, must find two nearly untraceable killers before time runs out for their victims, in Spencer Kope’s Shadows of the Dead. 

Shaw’s Seattle: Exploring the Emerald City’s Hidden Thrills

By Glen Erik Hamilton

July 10, 2020

My main character Van Shaw is a Seattle guy. Like Shaw, I’ve lived away from the city’s gray embrace for many years. When we return, we see its transformations through fresh eyes. During the pandemic, Seattle is undergoing its biggest sea change since a certain e-commerce giant bought most of South Lake Union and a…

Book Review: Death by Committee by Alexis Morgan

By Janet Webb

February 5, 2019

In Death by Committee, the first novel in Alexis Morgan’s new Abby McCree mystery series, Abby inherits her aunt’s ramshackle home in Snowberry Creek, Washington only to find a body buried in the backyard. Death by Committee ticks all the boxes for a new cozy series: a small town with the prerequisite elements (a vibrant…

Pirate of the Sky: An Unsolved Thanksgiving Mystery

By Crime HQ

November 26, 2015

While you sit at the dinner table this Thanksgiving trying to solve the mystery of what exactly the canned cranberry sauce is made out of, take time to remember the greatest, unsolved Thanksgiving mystery of all—D.B. Cooper (actually Dan Cooper, if not for a media miscommunication) and the hijacking of Flight 305. On November 24,…

Rainy Day Women: Exclusive Excerpt

By Kay Kendall

July 3, 2015

Rainy Day Women by Kendall Kay is the 2nd Austin Starr mystery set in 1969 amidst the Charles Manson murders and the Woodstock Music Festival (available July 7, 2015). In 1969, during the week of the Manson murders and Woodstock, Austin Starr, the intrepid amateur sleuth with an infant in tow, flies across the continent…

Fresh Meat: What Doesn’t Kill Her by Carla Norton

By Meghan Harker

June 19, 2015

What Doesn't Kill Her by Carla Norton is the 2nd psychological thriller featuring U.C. Berkley student Reeve LeClaire, who is yanked back into her grim past when her old abductor escapes from a psychiatric hospital (available June 30, 2015). All you have to say is “mental hospital,”and you have my undivided attention. When I picked…

Fresh Meat: Virtue Falls by Christina Dodd

By Laura K. Curtis

September 9, 2014

Virtue Falls by Christina Dodd is a standalone romantic suspense featuring a geologist, an FBI agent, and a long-buried secret that comes to light during an earthquake (available September 9, 2014). If you like the television show Bones, this book is right up your alley. Elizabeth Banner, the heroine, is a geologist whose father—Charles Banner,…

Fresh Meat: Nasty by Bret R. Wright

By Debbie Meldrum

August 27, 2014

Nasty by Bret R. Wright is the first book in the Nasty P.I. series starring Nate, who makes a living by snapping photos of adulterous spouses (available August 28, 2014). “I’m Ignatius Jepson. I go by Nate. On the street they call me Nasty. Go figure.” So begins Nasty, the story of Nate Jepson, private…

Now Win This!: Thrillers and Killers Sweepstakes

By Crime HQ

August 26, 2014

This sweepstakes features six books and one ebook that will leave you checking your back. Nowhere is safe! Register to enter for a chance to win! Click here to enter for a chance to win! This is NOT a Comments Sweepstakes. You must click the link above to enter. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. A PURCHASE DOES NOT…

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