Uganda is exquisitely described in this murder mystery with a dynamic lead. Emmanuel Igwaro Odongo-Aginya’s murder mystery "The Director Murdered", set in Uganda, has political overtones and a likable lead detective; its dynamic team... Read More

Percy’s Field combines great naturalism and regional storytelling with the pleasure of detective fiction … not to be missed. Percy’s Field by Christopher Brookhouse is an inverted detective story. It is obvious early on in the... Read More

"The Con Artist" is a lively romp loaded with geek humor. A longtime comic book writer, author Fred Van Lente has a deep familiarity with the annual San Diego Comic-Con, which has become the central event of the comic book industry.... Read More

Cassandra Parkin’s The Winter’s Child is a gripping thriller from beginning to end, certain to chill and haunt. The novel traps us in the mind of Susannah Harper, a woman whose son, Joel, went missing five years prior and whose... Read More

Beautiful and emotional, "Posthumous" is about Ellie, a twelve-year-old girl trying to deal with her mother’s death. Life in Paris is pretty great for Ellie and her parents. Ellie’s father, Calvert, works for the man who would have... Read More

"The Girl from Blind River" is a gritty debut thriller about high-stakes poker in a small town in New York. Jamie Elders, born with a gift for cards and a criminal streak, learns that Blind River is a hard place to live and an even... Read More

Susie Mahl knows a few things about the fine art of sleuthing. In "A Brush with Death", the unlikely detective unravels a murder mystery in the idyllic English countryside. This self-effacing, humorous mystery has a light touch and a... Read More

The trouble with country living: there’s nobody to hear you scream. Lacey McCrae, a former corporal in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, defends a friend from a nighttime stalker in the tense thriller "When the Flood Falls". With... Read More