Bernie & Bertie by Mike Owens is a romantic comedy novel with criminal undertones. It will appeal to lovers of dark and twisted characters. Unambitious parents raised Bernie, and he got tossed from one home to another, growing into a calm monster. Taking out inconveniences...

Broomsticks & Boardgames by Amy McNulty is the first book in the wickedly delightful Spooky Games Club Mystery series. Dahlia Poplar is a witch with a problem. She's been cursed by a wicked witch who was also responsible for the death of her mother. To...

Bookmarked for Death: Psychic Sleuths and Talking Dogs by Max Parrott is the third book in the Jaz and Luffy Cozy Mystery series. Jasmine has finished her first semester away at college, which gave her a break from solving murders. When she and her talking...

In Bone Thief, NYPD Homicide Lieutenant John Driscoll is a man with a tragic past. He struggles daily to overcome his sense of guilt and obligation to a wife consigned to a coma by the traffic accident that killed his teenage daughter. Sergeant Margaret Aligante...

Beware That Old Spoonin' Moon: An Adult Psychological Thriller is a spellbinding novel by Sharlie Martin. Russell doesn’t particularly remember when things got bad with Maria, his wife. But he does remember the time she asked if he thought he could become a Catholic. Now,...

Burning Water by Inge-Lise Goss begins another sleuthing job for Gwynn Reznick, a rookie investigator with a habit of snooping. Ruben, her boss and boyfriend, is scheduled to solve this case with Gwynn, but something called him away, leaving her with minimal supervision. An employee...

Bloody Puzzle is the second book in the Bloody Series by Andrea Merchak. Dr. Daniel Cooper is a charming man who knows how to sell his business and how to lure his victims in. During the daytime, he is a good doctor and by night...

A serial killer is using a novel as a guide for his murders in the sensational murder mystery, By The Book by A. J. McCarthy. When a page from a novel is found at a murder scene, depicting the method of the victim's death, homicide...

In 1853, a much-loved reverend is being tried for murder in the fictionalized true-crime novel, Beneath the Splendor by Jamie Taylor. While visiting her cousin, Elizabeth Carawan takes the maid's twelve-year-old daughter, Mary, to be her personal maid. Having grown up in servitude, Mary is...

Novels based on childhood abuse have a special place in my heart, particularly if the victims manage to eventually put their pasts behind them and use their experience to help others. Jessica Aiken-Hall, the author of Boundaries, is one such survivor. I remember reading and...