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 […]
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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 […]
Review & Giveaway – Higher Love by Joanne Kukanza Easley
Higher Love By Joanne Kukanza Easley Women’s Literary Fiction Publisher: Red Boots Press Pages: 380 Publication Date: May 12, 2025 Synopsis Higher Love – the new release from Joanne Kukanza Easley, the multi-award-winning author of Sweet Jane, Just One Look, and I’ll Be Seeing You. In 1986 Austin, Texas, sixteen-year-old Stephanie […]
Excerpt – The Gallantiers by Jim Bates
Synopsis In the 27th century, ten-year-olds Sammy and Cal work digging tunnels beneath the streets of the underground city of Pierpoint. When two huge rats attack them, Sammy is wounded, but their boss refuses to give him any time off to heal. With a bleak future ahead of them and Sammy’s infected wounds getting […]
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, […]
TOO MUCH THE LION: A Novel of the Battle of Franklin By PRESTON LEWIS Historical Fiction / Civil War Fiction Publisher: Bariso Press Pages: 395 Publication Date: May 13, 2025 Synopsis In the waning months of the American Civil War, a delusional Confederate commander makes a desperate attempt to change the […]
Excerpt – Smoke on the Wind by Kelli Estes
Synopsis In the magnificent Scottish Highlands, two devoted mothers separated by centuries discover a haunting connection in a gripping novel by the USA Today bestselling author of The Girl Who Wrote in Silk. Struggling with the tragic end of her marriage, Keaka Denney is on a bittersweet adventure in Scotland with her son, Colin. […]
Review – The Final Episode by Lori Ryan
Synopsis When a true crime series chronicles the tragic childhood summer that changed her life forever, a young woman must grapple with the truth about her father…and herself. Jennifer Jones and her best friends spend every summer at Big Cypress Swamp, and this summer, Jennifer will finally turn eleven. She hopes to gain the […]
Review – The Ruins in Which We Bleed by Steve N. Lee
Synopsis A story of courage and a fight for survival like none you have ever read. Guaranteed! Inspired by a previously untold true story. Following the Nazi invasion of Poland, 13-year-old Helena is imprisoned in the Warsaw ghetto, a squalid hellhole rife with disease and starvation. Yet, although the Nazis have destroyed her home, […]
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 […]