Category: mystery

Review – How to Seal Your Own Fate by Kristen Perrin

  Synopsis Kristen Perrin is back with the second novel in her Castle Knoll series. Annie Adams is caught in a new web of murder that spans decades, returning us to the idyllic English village that holds layers of secrets. Present day: Annie Adams is just settling into life in Castle Knoll when local fortune […]

Review – The Artist of Blackberry Grange by Paulette Kennedy

  Synopsis For a young caregiver in the Ozarks, an old house holds haunting memories in a ghostly novel about family secrets, sacrifice, and lost loves by the author of The Devil and Mrs. Davenport. In the summer of 1925, the winds of change are particularly chilling for a young woman whose life has suddenly become […]

Excerpt & Giveaway – Ignoring Alva by Emilie Khair

    Ignoring Alva Cozy Mystery/Sibling Fiction  Setting – Minnesota and Wisconsin Publisher ‏ : ‎ Current Words Publishing (February 4, 2025) Paperback ‏ : ‎ 282 pages Synopsis Meet Alva and Millie…. not your typical eighty-something sisters. While recovering from a mild stroke, Alva’s vivid dreams of daring exploits spark a restless desire to […]

Excerpt – Mystery at an Irish Wedding by L.C. Winters

  Synopsis “Wedding dresses, ex-fiancés, and a whole lot of murder—just another day in Half Moon Bay” Therapist Clementine Moriarty thought her return to the whimsical seaside town of Half Moon Bay, nestled in cozy Donegal – would be a chance to reconnect with her roots, spend time at her parents’ charming little seaside art […]

Review & Giveaway – Moonset on Desert Sands by Sherri L. Dodd

  MOONSET ON DESERT SANDS Murder, Tea, & Crystals, Book Two By Sherri L. Dodd   Paranormal Thriller / Fantasy / Magical Realism / Witch-Lit Publisher: Black Rose Writing Pages: 360 Publication Date: March 27, 2025     Synopsis With a traumatic year of fending off a serial killer behind her, Arista has settled contentedly […]

Excerpt & Giveaway – Murder on the Steel Pier by Rosie Genova

    Murder on the Steel Pier: A Tess Mancini Time Travel Mystery Historical Mystery 1st in Series Setting -1955 Atlantic City Publisher ‏ : ‎ Two Roses Books (March 31, 2025) Print length ‏ : ‎ 321 pages Synopsis Greetings from the Nifty Fifties… The morning after a blowout birthday celebration in Atlantic City, […]

Excerpt – The Case of the Croaked Coach by Susie Black

  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 […]

Excerpt – Karma Never Sleeps by R. John Dingle

    Synopsis In a small town, the truth can’t always set you free… When a second woman from a group of friends known as “the posse” is murdered in the woods near the New England enclave of Kendalton, FBI agent and profiler Gus Wheeler and his partner are called in to determine if this […]

Guest Post & Giveaway – One Sharp Stitch by Allie Pleiter

    One Sharp Stitch (A Nimble Needle Mystery) Cozy Mystery 1st in Series Setting – North Carolina Publisher ‏ : ‎ Kensington Cozies (March 25, 2025) Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 256 pages When thirty-something Shelby Phillips returns to her quiet hometown just outside of Asheville, North Carolina, she reluctantly takes over her mother’s Nimble […]

Excerpt & Guest Post – Raising the Dead by Jayne Lisbeth

    Synopsis Emeline Upswatch, a naive 20-year-old bride, is grief-stricken after the deaths of both of her beloved parents. Now, Emeline believes she has made a grave error in moving with her husband, Randy, from her California Delta childhood home to unknown Charles Town, Virginia. She questions her marriage and herself. Marooned in grief […]