Puzzles and Premieres: Magical Mystery Book Club Paranormal Cozy Mystery 10th in Series Setting – In a ski town at a film festival Better Beginnings, Inc. (July 15, 2025) Number of Pages: 290 Synopsis When this club selects a book, magic happens! This book club does more than read their books – they […]
Synopsis Internationally acclaimed poet Mary Irene Jones has vanished—calls and texts unacknowledged, bank accounts emptied, car abandoned. But before she disappeared, she mailed never-published manuscripts to a lesser-known namesake poet, M. Irene “Mimi” Jones. Are the manuscripts clues only Mimi can decipher? And what about the handsome Philadelphia cop assigned to the case? He […]
Synopsis Delia Pitts expertly writes about family, race, class, and grief in her mysteries. Vandy Myrick captured readers’ and critics’ hearts in Trouble in Queenstown. She returns in Death of an Ex, where Vandy tries to piece together what brought her ex-husband’s life to an end. Queenstown, New Jersey, feels big when you need help and […]
Synopsis Zodiac with a terrifying twist, in a taut thriller from author Mark Stevens about a reformed serial killer and the disgraced journalist he coaxes into finding the imposter trading on his name. When a reporter dies in a shockingly familiar way, the media rushes to announce the return of the PDQ Killer. The city […]
Medical innovation has always carried risks, but Deadly Odds 8.0 takes that anxiety and transforms it into a pulse-pounding race against time. I’m always drawn to thrillers that turn science into suspense, and this one delivers. After a sudden death outside a Seattle church, panic spreads when the CEO of a major […]
Synopsis There wasn’t an honest bone in Buzz Bixby’s body. The Encino High School’s head football coach was an equal-opportunity scoundrel. Bixby cheated and lied his way to the top and screwed anyone and everyone in his wake. So, the question wasn’t who wanted the bastard dead. The question was, who didn’t? Student reporter […]
Synopsis A controversial wild horse round-up in the high desert of Nevada results in two murders and too many suspects for Sheriff Porter Beck to deal with. A helicopter driving a controversial round-up of wild horses suddenly crashes, and the pilot is found to have been shot. Then the person coordinating the round-up for […]
Synopsis Colton and Lucian, a young pair of exorcist con artists, use sleight of hand and their natural charm to scam the nation’s wealthiest…until one of them becomes possessed for real. Colton has to act quickly to learn the real tricks of his trade and exorcise the demon before Lucian’s soul is snuffed out […]
Synopsis Alex Lyons always has his mind made up by the time the curtain comes down at a performance—the show either deserves a five-star rave or a one-star pan. Anything in between is meaningless. On the opening night of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, he doesn’t deliberate over the rating for Hayley Sinclair’s show, […]
Synopsis In this standalone sequel to The Big Drift—winner of five awards including the Spur Award of Western Writers of America—Patrick Dearen explores race relations against the backdrop of the Big Dry, a devastating drought in the 1880s in Texas. Zeke Boles, a black cowhand, awaits hanging in North Texas for a murder he didn’t […]