A man is tasked with finding a missing painting in Naomi Hirahara’s historical novel "Crown City". While adrift in grief, Ryui is offered a job in California by his father’s former client. After a harrowing voyage from Japan, he... Read More

A baker solves murders during a highland train tour in Rebecca Connolly’s charming cozy mystery novel "Mayhem on the Marzipan Express". Alan is the celebrity judge of a baking show. He promotes himself by hosting a trip for paying fans... Read More

A precocious student works to save her favorite restaurant from an AI threat in the spirited mystery novella "Robots in the Diner". In Ron Charach’s charming mystery novel "Robots in the Diner", a girl works to save her favorite diner... Read More

"Filaments" is an evocative feminist horror novel about family secrets and coming into one’s own despite prejudice. In KZK’s engrossing horror novel "Filaments", a woman returns to her hometown to help her sick mother and uncovers a... Read More

In Lauren Fischer’s novel "Orphanland", childhood friends work to unravel a mystery surrounding their orphanage, an abandoned school, and the influential family tied to both. Eleven-year-old Willa lives in the Southern Ohio... Read More

Set in Christmas, Florida, J. Kent Holloway’s "The Knives Before Christmas" is a magical murder mystery novel about a grisly death in a cheery town. When Thomas’s protégé, Trixie, is implicated in the murder of her father, Thomas,... Read More

Small-town mysteries, generational trauma, and the supernatural collide in L. L. Madrid’s haunting novel "My Lips, Her Voice". Copper City is one of the most haunted cities in the US. Still, when Audrey’s cousin Mara is found dead in... Read More

In Julie Doar’s thrilling novel "The Gallagher Place", a murder on a family’s estate reveals long-buried secrets. On a walk with her brothers, Nate and Henry, Marlowe discovers a dead body on her family’s land. The discovery is... Read More