Category: mystery

Guest Post & Giveaway – Eggnog and Evidence by Nikki Weber

    Eggnog & Evidence: A Maine Campground Cozy Mystery Cozy Mystery 5th in Series Setting – Maine Publisher ‏ : Independently Published Publication Date ‏ : ‎ October 13, 2026 Synopsis Some secrets are like Christmas lights: they get worse the more you try to untangle them. Noelle Cooper is teaming up with her […]

Excerpt – Via Dolorosa by Kirill Khrestinin

  Synopsis Some roads only open at the bottom. Laura Jones left her grandfather’s ranch for Los Angeles, chasing a bigger life. The city fed her to its wolves — the man who sold her, the man in uniform who came through her door — and what was left of her ended up at the […]

New Release & Guest Post – Best in Murder by Lauren Carr

  Synopsis One Collar. Two Dead. Total Chaos. When a priceless platinum-and-diamond collar vanishes at the Mid-Atlantic Classic Kennel Club Invitational—Best in Show at the Spencer Inn, it looks like the ultimate high-society theft. But when two women connected to the glittering event are murdered in quick succession, the case explodes into something far more […]

New Release & Excerpt – The Nurse at Baker Hospital by Jocelyn Cullity

  Synopsis A new nurse at America’s famous cancer-cure hospital becomes caught in one of the Ozarks’ greatest scams in this mystery based on a true story set in 1939. After her father’s death, nurse Della King is on the brink of homelessness—until she lands a job at the prestigious Baker Hospital in Eureka Springs, […]

Review – 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 […]

New Release & Excerpt – A Killer for Christmas by Kim Harrington

  Synopsis Wrapped in red has a bloody new meaning in this contemporary holiday romance with a murderous twist, perfect for readers who enjoyed The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year. Christmasville, Maine, is the only place where Kelsey Hendricks has ever felt happy. When she loses both her job and her boyfriend, the move […]

Excerpt – The Hanged Man by Jane Brookwood

  Synopsis In small-town Pineridge Hollow, Fiona Miller runs a metaphysical gift shop where she reads tarot, sells crystals, mixes tea, and generally minds her own business alongside her cat and familiar Rosie. But when she pulls The Hanged Man tarot card moments before learning her long-lost friend’s son has turned up dead, she vows […]

Excerpt – A Field Guide to Death and Deceit by Michelle L. Cullen

  Synopsis Widower and anthropologist Harry Lancaster and his Gen Z colleague Emma are back for more murder and mayhem when they stumble upon a dead farmer. This delightful sequel to A Field Guide to Murder is perfect for fans of Richard Osman and Benjamin Stevenson. When an odd request leads Harry Lancaster to agree […]

Review & Excerpt – The Parliament of Crows by Elliot Wren

  Synopsis In Castres, France, Lucie Archambault has come home to begin again. A respected art conservator and recent widow, she has traded the pace of Paris for the quieter rhythms of the Goya Museum, the Saturday market, and a town she once thought she knew. But when Émile Bonnafous, a beloved antiques dealer and […]

Excerpt – The Hands that Treat by Kristen H. Casey

  Synopsis Ophelia lives unaware of the mystical world that simmers beneath the cracked streets and soddened earth of the Crescent City. The mysteries and magical gifts of her community are unveiled by her grandmother when Ophelia assumes the role as her family’s next Traiteur. Derived from the French word traiter (“to treat”), Traiteurs are […]