Dale Maharidge explores personal strife, land ownership, and American history in his mystery novel "Burn Coast". A writer and reporter from New York owns land on the California coast; his neighbors there are Likowski and Eddie. When... Read More

After a long retirement and longer life, Sherlock Holmes is dead. Watson inherits his private papers, and a posthumous sorting yields an unexpected treasure: an unpublished manuscript detailing a case in France. Watson, who did not... Read More

In the small-town mystery novel "Personal Reasons", a suddenly famous detective returns home to solve a cold case—his mother’s murder. In Michael Botz’s mystery novel "Personal Reasons", a detective on a lifelong quest to solve his... Read More

"Power Blind" is a compelling procedural novel; its story takes on the criminal justice system and the nature of power. V.S. Kemanis’s engrossing legal novel "Power Blind" follows a murder in New York City prior to the Covid-19... Read More

"Caroline" is a subtle and poignant novel in which an impressionable lawyer falls in love. In Adrian Spratt’s elegiac romance novel "Caroline", a lawyer forms a relationship with an adrift woman and reckons with his disability. Nick, a... Read More

In the surrealistic mystery novel "Who Killed Jerusalem?", an investigator seeks out the truth about a man’s death—and about ultimate reality. In George Albert Brown’s philosophical mystery novel "Who Killed Jerusalem?", a modern... Read More

The mystery novel "Acid and Bribery" takes a deep dive into a horse racing community and the secrets that shadow it. In Jeanne Ann Off’s mystery novel "Acid and Bribery", a young woman adopts the role of a detective to discover the... Read More

The novel’s most gripping conflicts center on questions about when loyalty becomes unhealthy and how mental illness impacts a longstanding friendship. In Glenda Winder’s psychological thriller "Sainted in Error", a friendship formed... Read More