In Preetham Grandhis "A Circle of Souls" (Sweetwater Books, 978-1-59955-235-4), A YOUNG GIRL IS MURDERED in the Connecticut woods. At the same time, a seven-year-old girl named Naya is hospitalized because of disturbingly vivid... Read More

You can enjoy Elizabeth Spann Craig’s "Pretty Is as Pretty Dies" (Midnight Ink, 978-0-7387-1480-6) for the mystery, which centers on WHO BLUDGEONED the most hated woman in Bradley, North Carolina. You can also enjoy it for Myrtle... Read More

Tim Polands "The Safety of Deeper Water" (Vandalia Press, 978-1-933202-32-7) IS MORE OF A NOVEL WITH SUSPENSE THAN A SUSPENSE NOVEL. In fact, its a fishing novel with suspense-and a first-rate writing job. The story centers on a woman... Read More

FOR AN UNUSUAL HEROINE in an unconventional mystery, try "Little Lamb Lost" (Oceanview Publishing, 978-1-933515-51-9) by Margaret Fenton. Her protagonist, social worker Claire Conover, shows herself as smart, human, and maybe too brave... Read More

Attorney Conner Hayden suffers a heart attack. His latest client approaches a highway ramp and encounters a car riddled with bullets. On the same night, Mitch Kent rides his motorcycle to see his girlfriend and is struck by a truck.... Read More

Colin Cotterills Dr. Siri Paiboun is back for his sixth adventure. The seventy-three-year-old is the only medical examiner in Laos in the mid-1970s, but hed rather be out solving crimes than working in his lab. In "The Merry Misogynist",... Read More

Only an experienced writer like Malcolm Shuman could write a mystery like "The Levee", because it takes the confidence of experience to strip away the usual conventions and present a coming-of-age story with a dark whodunit at its heart.... Read More

Anyone suffering from even mild depression would be wise to set this book aside and not pick it up again until the sun shines brightly or the liquor kicks in. The setting, the characters, the plot are all awash in gloom. Still, the story... Read More