Category: excerpt

New Release & Excerpt – ‘Tis the Season to be Scary by Vicki Delany

  Synopsis It’s Halloween, and the townsfolk of Rudolph, New York, are donning masks and costumes for the Yuletide Inn’s grand fundraising gala to support the local hospital. Shop owner Merry Wilkinson has yet another treat to celebrate: Her best friend, Vicky Casey, has a new cookbook set to publish. Vicky’s publishers, a prominent critic […]

New Release & Excerpt – The Getaway by Kieran Scott

  Synopsis In a taut locked-room mystery from New York Times bestselling author Kieran Scott, a group of longtime friends confronts their darkest secrets—and deadliest impulses—on the brink of a hurricane. For years, three couples have gathered at The Villa—billionaire Lincoln Foster’s Hamptons estate—for lavish weekends among friends. But this year, mysterious blue cards appear in each […]

New Release & Excerpt – When Paris Whispers by Marianne Bohr

  Synopsis Twenty-two-year-old Catrine arrives in Paris, the city she’s dreamed of since childhood, and it speaks back—but not in ways she expected. Drifting through the streets of 1981 Paris, the voices of French writers she once read in solitude whisper back, intimate and insistent. Rather than reassure her, they unsettle her, exposing cracks in the person […]

New Release & Excerpt – The Salt Widow by Teresa Crowe

  Synopsis Truth is a tide. You can’t keep it from coming in. When Janessa “Nessa” Douglas inherits her grandmother’s house in Mystic Beach on the Chesapeake Bay, she intends to sell it and never look back. The locals still whisper about her grandmother, Elspeth, who wrote strange fairy tales about women who kept dangerous […]

Excerpt – The Long Way by L.B. Phillips

  Synopsis Some places are worth the long way around. Miles Donovan notices things. It’s a harmless habit — until a stranger presses a fifteen-year-old postcard into his hand and points him toward the vanishing Florida the rest of the world keeps paving over: the fish camps and tiki bars, the hand-painted motels and one-of-a-kind […]

Excerpt & Giveaway- The Filbert Steps by Lila Blake

    The Filbert Steps (The Telegraph Hill Mysteries) Cozy Mystery 1st in Series Setting – California Publisher ‏ : ‎ Sutro House Press Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 31, 2026 Print length ‏ : ‎ 301 pages Synopsis A body on the steps. A neighborhood that saw nothing. Vivian Salvatore came back to […]

Guest Post & Giveaway – The Secret in the Sampler by Abigail B. Hartwell

    The Secret in the Sampler: A Plain Truth Mystery Amish Adjacent Cozy Mystery with Slow-Burn Romance 1st in Series Setting – Ohio Publisher ‏ : ‎ Plain Truth Press Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 31, 2026 Print length ‏ : ‎ 358 pages Synopsis What would you do if the family heirloom […]

Review & Excerpt – You Know Why by J.T. Ellison

  Synopsis From New York Times bestselling author J.T. Ellison comes a suspenseful domestic thriller about identity, revenge, and the dangerous secrets kept hidden from the ones we love most. It’s the holidays, and photographer Brooklyn Locke is bound for Italy with her husband, Trey, and their two children. But when Trey vanishes from the airport, missing […]

Excerpt – Less the Horror than the Grace by Robert Owens Scott

  Synopsis A modern retelling of the Medusa myth set in a snake-handling church in Tennessee in the summer of 1920 as they vote to ratify women’s suffrage for the entire United States. It’s the summer of 1920 and the hollers of Tennessee are dripping with humidity and tension, the electricity in the air broken […]

Excerpt – I Know Her Voice by C.M. Vane

  Synopsis At 2:17 a.m., Claire Bennett answers a call from her husband’s phone and hears her daughter Sophie crying: “Mum, I think I’ve killed Dad.” By sunrise, Daniel is dead and Sophie is in police custody. Then Sophie says she never made the call. The phone records prove the call happened. There is no […]