Category: mystery

Mystery Spotlight & Giveaway – Strike The Death Note by Rebecca McKinnon

    Strike the Death Note (Octavia Fields Mysteries) Cozy Mystery 2nd in Series Setting – Rocky Mountains Independently Published (June 26, 2025) Number of Pages — 250 Synopsis With just two weeks left of the summer at Aerie Pines, music shop owner Octavia Fields should be getting ready to head back to the nomadic […]

Review – The Ghostwriter by Julie Clark

  Synopsis A dazzling thriller in which a struggling ghostwriter is hired to finish her legendary father’s last book – a story that will finally force him to tell the truth about the murders that have haunted their family for years. Ghostwriter Olivia Dumont has spent her entire professional life hiding the fact that she […]

Guest Post & Giveaway – Funerals and Familiars by Carmen Radtke

      Funerals and Familiars (A Cozy Midlife Witch Mystery) Willowmere Mysteries Paranormal Cozy Mystery 1st in Series Setting – Oregon Independently Published (May 23, 2025) Synopsis Midlife can be murder – or magic… Almost fifty and freshly divorced, Bex Merriweather is going through The Change – battling hot flashes and night sweats. Little […]

New Release – Murder with Wine by Anita Dickason

    Synopsis Deceit Runs Deep Danger Runs Deeper What begins as a spine-tingling ghost tour, a night of unexpected thrills and chills for Tori Winters, quickly twists into something far more sinister. Her free ticket, from an anonymous source, pulls Tori into the heart of a deadly conspiracy, entangling her in a treacherous web […]

Review – He’s To Die For by Erin Dunn

  Synopsis At 29, Detective Rav Trivedi is the youngest member of the NYPD’s homicide squad, and his future looks bright. He may be a bit of an outsider in the department—an ivy-league educated gay Brit with a weakness for designer suits—but his meteoric rise and solve rate prove he belongs. So when his CO […]

Review – The Language of Birds by K. A. Merson

  Synopsis A brilliant, eccentric teenager must solve a series of puzzles left behind by her dead father in this debut that features codes, riddles, and a plot that ingeniously mixes fact and fiction. When seventeen-year-old Arizona’s mother goes missing on a family trip, Arizona tells herself not to worry. Until she finds her family’s […]

Review – The Murder Show by Matt Goldman

  Synopsis The Murder Show is a pulse-racing novel about secrets, old friends, and how the past never leaves us by New York Times bestselling and Emmy Award winning author Matt Goldman! Showrunner Ethan Harris had a hit with The Murder Show, a television crime drama that features a private detective who solves cases the police can’t. But […]

Excerpt – A Poetic Puzzle by Joanne McLaughlin

  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 […]

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 […]