Jack the Ripper: Live and UnCut by Matt Leyshon is a clever combination of historical fiction, time travel, science fiction, and murder mystery. As the title suggests, the story centers around the real-life murders of Jack the Ripper back in 1888. An investigative reporter from...

Scene of the Crime: A Chip Palmer Forensic Mystery by Jennifer Chase is a tantalizing crime novel with sharp characters and a plot that will take readers on a dizzy ride. It’s a story of murder enmeshed in mystery, with a community rocked by two...

Charles W. Jones's Darkness is Coming is a suspense mystery that captures the reader’s attention immediately. Jess has just purchased a house on Scarlet Lane. But the excitement of having a new residence quickly melts into fear. She and her family are disturbed by strange...

“Oh, what a tangled web we weave when we first practice to deceive.” – Sir Walter Scott. Shattered Lies is a murder mystery by JM Hughson. Emarie Lukins gets an assignment from her editor, Jim, to write a story about sixty-five-year-old Dorothy Hall who murdered...

Ten years ago, Alex Chet was wrongfully convicted on drug charges, and served five years in prison. These days, he lives with his brother, who has returned from serving in the military and now works for the SC Bureau of Investigation in Columbia, SC. Life...

A Promise Given: A Henrietta and Inspector Howard Novel by Michelle Cox is the third entry in the series and an engaging story with a historical setting. This is a tale of family drama, love and murder. Follow Clive and Henrietta who get married in...

In Smoke on the Mountains by Sam Knupp, the year is 2018 and a Coalition, including Antifa and Black Lives Matter, has arrived in Timberville, Virginia from Charlottesville. Tensions are high as people have had enough of the uncertainty and feeling that they are not...

Ex-pats can’t help but be curious about novels set in their homeland. So it was only natural for me to be drawn to Dark Gold by Geoff Lynn. This mystery-murder, set in Sydney, Australia, brought an added dimension to my enjoyment of the story, with...

The Manhattan Red Ribbon Killer by Owen Parr is the third book in a crime mystery series featuring unlikely brothers, Italian-American Joey Mancuso and Irish-American Father Dominic O’Brian (don’t worry — the relationship is explained in the story). This time, New York City is being...

Sam Lerner tries to return to the comfort of his roots after the death of his wife, but finds that things are not always what you remember in Inside Sam Lerner by Gwen Banta. Depending more and more on alcohol to ease his pain, Sam...