From time to time I read something that doesn’t seem to fit (for me, at any rate) into any traditional genre classification. Such was the case with The Junk Yard Solution: Adventures Among the Boxcars and Other Lost Causes by Peter Kelton. The story opens...

Murder to Scale by Debra B. Schiff is a quirky murder mystery. Tom McCloud loves his model trains and he’s off to set up his part of the Christmas display. Instead, he stumbles over a body; friend and model train enthusiast Bill Murphy. With one...

“Once in every generation, a monster awakens.” In The Monster by Josh Soule, a college student is having a rocky relationship with his mother, still pining for his ex-girlfriend, and feels betrayed by his friend when he sees them together at a Halloween mixer. When...

A fascinating thriller, Blessed: The Prodigal Daughter by A.L. Bryant features an unusually gifted protagonist, Glory. Set in 2021, the narrative follows Glory, who finds herself stabbed multiple times and left for dead. No one in St. Ann’s Hospital thought she could live through the...

I Want You Gone by Miranda Rijks is a psychological thriller set in the Sussex countryside in England. Laura Swallow is a divorcee in her forties whose second date is interrupted by a phone call from her daughter, Mel, who has recently left home to...

In Illusion of Death by Brian Kavanagh, Belinda Lawrence is back in Australia with English friend Hazel Whitby, recovering from her broken engagement. When she bumps into old school friend Birdie, and is invited to a private screening of a film at the home of...

“It occurred to me last night that when you die, so does everybody else.” This rather deep statement, uttered by one of the many detectives trying to zero in on what appears to be a serial killer in Death On A Dark Street by Fred...

Years ago I was captivated with detective stories, following Travis McGee, Lew Archer, and others as they meted out justice in their search for the truth. I loved the independent characters and the twisting, convoluted trails they followed. Saint George's Children by Dennis Ecklund falls...

Devil in the Details by Kimberly Brouillette is Book 2 of The Monastery Murders. Wattsville, Maine has been the center of a terrifying killing spree and Detective Williams is looking for help from a different angle – a paranormal investigator. Unable to tell anyone else...

Secrets in the Shallows by Kimberly Brouillette is Book 1 of The Monastery Murders series. Wattsville, Maine is about to bear the brunt of a huge storm. A young boy disappears on his way home in a snowstorm, murdered and thrown in the monastery pond....