A winking, self-aware mystery text headed by an engaging heroine, "Naked Came the Detective" lifts the veil on high-class sex work. Glendall C. Jackson III’s risque detective novella "Naked Came the Detective" sets a murder mystery in... Read More

Three friends interrogate, investigate, and draw conclusions based on their own creative ideas in the children’s mystery novel "The Case of the Missing Cheese". In Lisa C. Mitchell’s cozy children’s mystery novel "The Case of the... Read More

In the corporate thriller "Affiliation", two people discover a sinister conspiracy and risk their lives to alert the world. In Andrew Greville Watts’s thriller "Affiliation", a document leak leads to a pulse-pounding manhunt. Matthews... Read More

With a dizzying menagerie of connections, scandals, and misremembered histories that become clearer as the book progresses, "The Palisades" is a dark tale about the follies of lifelong pity. A glitz-obsessed caregiver is mired in... Read More

Two detectives encounter unscrupulous people as they investigate a murder at a renaissance festival in the Florida-set mystery novel "A Fair Knight Slain". In Linda LeBlanc’s mystery novel "A Fair Knight Slain", a brutal death exposes... Read More

A fun mashup of youthful rebellion with heartland quirkiness, For What It’s Worth is a nostalgic comic novel in which absurdities abound. In Nathan Pettijohn’s dark comedy novel For What it’s Worth, an Oklahoma man reminisces about... Read More

A country’s first Black chief inspector investigates the disappearance of a powerful white man in Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu’s spellbinding mystery novel "The Quality of Mercy". Spokes, once a porter for the British Army, felt convicted... Read More

In Tim Collins’s fun puzzle quest novel "Sherlock Bones and the Mystery of the Vanishing Magician", a detective dog and his Watsonesque cat companion are embroiled in an epic caper involving hypnosis, a passel of animals, and a series... Read More