In Carrie Rubin's thriller, Malignant Assumptions, Liza Larkin does not have interpersonal skills, but her father assures her that she can always help someone, even if she cannot ease their pain. Megan Carlson, a coworker of Liza's, is concerned that something has happened to her...

When her ninety-eight-year-old aunt Gretchen “Gret” Prescot dies of an overdose of her medication, sixty-five-year-old Lyric Adler believes Gret was murdered. Her three cousins, on the other hand, seem to believe the old woman may have mistakenly overdosed herself. Lyric hires her friend Vett Brayborn,...

C.D. Hancock brings us a colorful murder mystery in Madam Ricketts. When John Wesley Jr. finds some old photographs in his father’s belongings, he is delighted when Maudie agrees to shed some light on the events leading up to that one instance. As a second-generation...

In Discreet Rear Entrance Volume II by Lou Powers, Jimmy Eyebrow has been sent on a new job out of town, a job that could seriously affect his friendships. Up to their necks in it from the last time, Detectives Bishop and McFadden are still...

Discreet Rear Entrance: Volume I by Lou Powers is a hitman comedy. Jimmy Eyebrow is nothing but a common thief. His job working night shift at a laundromat led to his perverted specialty – stealing underwear – and it’s also where he met Joe Purple....

Humming Bridge is a work of fiction in the crime, suspense, and medical mystery genres, and is the sequel to The Paper Route. Penned by author Jacqueline Cayer Nelson McDonald, in this thrilling novel, protagonist Jackie and her mentor, Detective Dennis Dahm, navigate a world...

Web Weavers of Codington is the second installment in the Codington Crimes Series by Linda Chamley Johnson. Fresh from her one-year break in England, twenty-four-year-old Arliss Nolan is eager to get her life back on track. She has purchased a two-story cottage on a solitary...

All Money Ain’t Good Money by Tracey Lampley is book one of the Jinx Curry Mystery series. An amateur private investigator, Jinx Curry spends her days spying on and photographing cheating partners. Capricorn Hayes, Jinx's boss and love interest, assigns her the case of Elena,...

Two Over Easy All Day Long is a work of fiction in the interpersonal drama, literary, and mystery genres. It is best suited to mature readers as it contains some moderate references to sex and violence, as well as a discussion of child death. Penned...

It’s been four years since I discovered the excellent writing of Yvonne Eve Walus when I read her book, Serial Wives. Though not her first novel, it was her first mystery murder featuring New Zealand policewoman, Zero Zimmerman. I loved both the story and the...