Category: mystery

Review – 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 […]

Mystery Spotlight & Giveaway – Murder on the Books by T.C. Lotempio

    Murder on the Books (A Cozy Bookshop Mystery) Cozy Mystery 1st in Series Setting – Pennsylvania Publisher ‏ : ‎ Severn House Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 1, 2025 Hardcover Print length ‏ : ‎ 240 pages Synopsis Newly retired mystery writer Charley James returns to her small hometown only to find […]

Review – Shadow of the Queen by Scott Finley

  Synopsis October, 1929. Murder books passage on the British luxury liner Queen Victoria, turning the ship’s nurse Maeve Chandler into an amateur sleuth apprenticing under the tutelage of mystery writer Agatha Christie. A passenger dies in full view of the first-class dining salon, followed by a millionaire, apparently leaping overboard a day before the […]

Excerpt – 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, […]

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 […]