Category: mystery

Guest Post & Excerpt – A Change in Plans by Mike Martin

    Synopsis RCMP officer Winston Windflower’s rare afternoon off gets interrupted when a hit and run turns into murder and he must pull together a team of Mounties from Newfoundland to resolve the crime. Following the money and fentanyl— and bodies—Windflower and his team join forces with police officers in southern Ontario to take […]

Mystery Spotlight & Giveaway – A Cultivated Corpse by Debra Sennefelder

    Synopsis When the local garden club president is killed, food blogger Hope Early will have to dig through the clues to catch a killer . . . The Jefferson Garden Club’s annual plant sale is just around the corner, but Hope Early and other members of the club are more focused on the garden restoration project […]

Guest Post & Giveaway – Death of a Proper Bostonian by Anne Louise Bannion

    Death of a Proper Bostonian (Old Los Angeles) Historical Mystery 6th in Series Setting – Boston, 1873 Publisher ‏ : ‎ Healcroft House, Publishers Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 12, 2026 Synopsis A deadly homecoming It’s August 1873, and at long last, physician and winemaker Maddie Franklin Wilcox makes the journey home […]

New Release & Excerpt – Dirty Myrtle by Kennedy Weible

  Synopsis A few days before Thanksgiving, Sailor Cassidy is running an amateur stakeout she has no business conducting. She’s nursing a bad breakup, following a plan that’s half-baked in more ways than one, and reckless enough not to care. What could go wrong? Across town, Officer Tuscaloosa “Tusk” Knight is working an off-the-books job […]

Mystery Spotlight & Giveaway – A Necessary Death by Terri Karsten

  A Necessary Death Historical Cozy Mystery Setting – A tavern in Colonial Pennsylvania (1764) Publisher ‏ : ‎ Wagonbridge Publishing Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 15, 2025 Print length ‏ : ‎ 272 pages Paperback Synopsis With Penelope Corbitt in the kitchen, the tavern will never be the same. Penelope Corbitt can turn […]

Review & Giveaway – Dawn Before Darkness by Liz Lazarus

  Synopsis Dawn Smith, a veterinary tech living in rural South Carolina, catches her boyfriend in a series of lies and abruptly ends the relationship. Rather than accepting the break-up, he begins to stalk and harass her, forcing Dawn to seek a restraining order. Undeterred, he launches a deeply personal attack—suing for guardianship and conservatorship […]

Review – The Museum of Unusual Occurrence by Erica Wright

  Synopsis Welcome to the Museum of Unusual Occurrence―a place full of strange exhibits and even stranger murders. The first in the new Psychic City mystery series by talented author Erica Wright. “Every small town thinks it’s special―That might be true, but this one actually is.” Rational and cynical Aly Orlean’s life in her psychic […]

Excerpt – Death by Coconut by Susie Black

  Synopsis The Mart Murder Magnet Meets her Match Obnoxious Mystique Swimwear sales rep Simon Posnick was universally despised by competitors and customers alike. So the question wasn’t who wanted the lying, cheating scoundrel dead. The question was who didn’t. Mariel Levine, Laurie’s Fashions’ swimsuit buyer and Holly Schlivnik’s career mentor, is wrongly arrested for […]

Excerpt – Falling Leaves by Lea O’Harra

  Synopsis November 2023 A Japanese schoolgirl kidnapped. A death on campus. Colonialist wounds are reopened. One cold night in 1983 in a coastal town in Japan a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl disappears on her way home from badminton practice. The local police explore all avenues, but as is often the case, when there are no clues, […]

Excerpt – Murder at Goldenleaf Apple Farm by Jodie Morgan

  Synopsis Ellie Alexander meets Sheila Connolly, but make it crisp and cunning in this culinary cozy mystery. —————— The fall harvest season has arrived at Goldenleaf Apple Farm. This year, the orchards are keeping a secret… When apple farmer Vernon Reed is found dead, suspicion falls swiftly and heavily on Isaac ‘Izzy’ Lennox: the exuberant young theater […]