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

An admirable police chief does his best to defend vulnerable migrants in the timely mystery novel "The Nameless Dead". On a Greek island, a police inspector works to solve the murders of Syrian women at a refugee camp in Leta Serafim’s... Read More

A moving love story transcends tragedy and time in "Part of the Solution", an irresistible mystery novel that evokes the counterculture. Sassy and soulful, Elana Michelson’s first-rate mystery novel "Part of the Solution" chronicles... Read More

A plucky trio pursues a treasure in the convivial thriller Fraud, Murder & Mayhem. In Ed Shiffman’s slow-burn thriller Fraud, Murder & Mayhem, a trio of adventure seekers follows a treasure map. At a California impound auction,... Read More