In the serpentine mystery novel "Sketchy Characters", a woman adopts a blurry definition of what’s righteous to triumph over threats. In Sheila McGraw’s macabre mystery novel "Sketchy Characters", a woman investigates her friend’s... Read More

In the intriguing historical thriller "The Thresher Ghost", a disgraced doctor enters a feverish, experimental world that sends his moral compass spinning. In Spencer Compton’s fantastical historical novel "The Thresher Ghost", a... Read More

"The Boy Who Took Marilyn to the Prom" is a novel about the strength of nostalgia, and the problems that sustained reminiscence can lead to. In Henry Massie’s nostalgic novel "The Boy Who Took Marilyn to the Prom", two men reflect on... Read More

In the small town mystery novel "A Month of Murder", no one can be trusted, and the past always reemerges. In David Baker’s mystery novel "A Month of Murder", brutal murders and generational crimes plague a small town. In Yorkshire’s... Read More

In Christopher Huang’s moody mystery novel "Unnatural Ends", an Englishman is murdered. In a stunning act of prescience, he stipulated in his will that his estate should belong to whomever of his three adoptees solved the case. Alan is... Read More

Three art thieves risk the biggest heist of their careers in the charming, exciting graphic novel "Olympia". Alex and Sam, absent their companion Carole, are planning to steal a valuable helmet from an army museum. They think Carole is... Read More

Michelle Birkby’s historical mystery novel "No One Notices the Boys" is riveting as it traces an investigation in Sherlock Holmes’s London. Martha, Sherlock Holmes’s housekeeper, is bedridden in a private women’s hospital ward.... Read More

James Broderick’s "The Last Words of James Joyce" mixes murder into an irreverent campus satire. This eccentric story is led by a former PhD student who moonlights as a pornographic script writer, and who believes that he’s found one... Read More