Category: mystery

Mystery Spotlight & Excerpt – All that Smolders by James Sulzer

  Synopsis A picturesque island. A shocking murder. A secret that could destroy everything. It’s 1980, a time of peace and tranquility on a legendary island off the coast of New England. Inhabiting the island is a vibrant cast of locals that includes scallopers, tradespeople, and a mysterious recluse—the wealthiest man in Massachusetts. But that […]

Excerpt – Revenge Among the Renoirs by Jennifer King

  Synopsis A Serial Murderer in Belle Époque Paris. A Sleuth Out of Time. A Mystery You’ll Race to Solve. Revenge Among the Renoirs introduces you to Jade Beckham, an art restorer who expects nothing more dramatic than creaky floors and cold drafts when she moves into her Victorian home. But one flicker in an old mirror […]

Review & Giveaway – Murder at the Summer Cheese Festival by Jodie Morgan

  Synopsis When cheese becomes deadly business, one woman must slice through lies to uncover the truth… Laura Evans escaped her high-stress Boston restaurant management career for small-town Vermont charm. Instead of peace, she finds murder. Just weeks into her new role as café manager at Silver Springs General Store, a renowned food critic turns up dead […]

Excerpt – Asylum Murders by Michael G. Colburn

  Synopsis In the gaslit streets of 1890s Melbourne, Lady Edith “Edie” Black has reinvented herself. Once a notorious London thief, she now poses as a widowed aristocrat while secretly establishing herself as a private investigator. When Parliament’s ceremonial mace disappears during a night of debauchery involving high-ranking officials, Edie is hired to recover it […]

Excerpt – Stolen Brilliance by Michael G. Colburn

  Synopsis Lady Edith Black harbors a secret past as a master criminal in this tale of love, crime, and adventure, with a jaw-dropping twist that will leave you stunned. Rescued from the slums of Victorian London, Edie finds herself ensnared in a web of crime orchestrated by Mrs. Hill, the mastermind behind an infamous […]

Review – A Grave Deception by Connie Berry

    Synopsis Antiques expert Kate Hamilton dives into the past to solve a fourteenth-century mystery with disturbing similarities to a modern-day murder in the sixth installment of the Kate Hamilton mystery series. Kate Hamilton and her husband, Detective Inspector Tom Mallory, have settled into married life in Long Barston. When archaeologists excavating the ruins […]

Review – A Grim Reaper’s Guide to Cheating Death by Maxie Dara

  Synopsis When a determined killer targets her brother, a grim reaper risks everything to save him in this delightful cozy mystery. Nora Bird works for S.C.Y.T.H.E., which might seem odd for someone as terrified of death as she is. But ever since her parents died in an accident when she was six, she’s been […]

Review – Thieving Shadows by Jessica Piro

  Synopsis Surviving in Rookfall depends on rank or thievery, and no one can be trusted. Genevieve is a master thief: one of the renowned Shadows, instilling fear into the elites. One night, an easy job to steal an automaton ends in confusion. Waking three years later in the presence of Matthew Tilcott, a lesser, […]

Review – Mortal Zin by Diane Schaffer

  Synopsis A crusading attorney’s death. Sabotage at a family winery. Secrets buried in California’s past… When corporate attorney Noli Cooper visits her godparents’ Santa Cruz Mountain winery, she’s hoping for a few quiet days to consider her future. But the future will have to wait. The body of her childhood mentor, a crusading social […]

Review & Giveaway – Parade of Secrets by Kimberly Fish

  PARADE OF SECRETS A Lane Hayes Mystery By Kimberly Fish   Historical Mystery / Female Sleuth Publisher: Fish Tales Publishing Publication Date: October 31, 2025 Pages: 341     Synopsis Layers of history, suspense, and emotion. March, 1948. Lane Mercer Hayes, and her husband, Zeke, have that post-war life that everyone envies. His winning […]