The Coroner by Jennifer Graeser Dornbush is a pitch-perfect mystery debut where Emily Hartford discovers home is where the bodies are when she is summoned from her promising surgical career first to her estranged father’s bedside and then his post as medical examiner when his small town needs urgent help with a suspicious death. Author…
Toucan Keep a Secret is the 23rd book in New York Times-bestselling author Donna Andrews’s hilarious Meg Langslow mystery series. It’s hard to believe that this is the 23rd installment in the Meg Langslow series. For readers who have followed Meg’s journey, it’s easy to see why this series is so popular and successful with cozy fans.…
The Butterfly Conspiracy by Vivian Conroy is the first book in the Merriweather and Royston historical mystery series set in the late Victorian era. This debut in the Merriweather and Royston Mystery series by author Vivian Conroy was simply a delight. In The Butterfly Conspiracy, we see main characters Merula Merriweather and Raven Royston as…
Bronzed Betrayals by Ritter Ames is the fifth globetrotting adventure in the fast-paced Bodies of Art Mystery series. This fifth installment in Ritter Ames’s exciting Bodies of Art Mystery series is filled with fast-paced action, intrigue, multiple global settings, and a great cast of characters, and main character Laurel Beacham, once again, finds herself embroiled in a…
Picked Off by Linda Lovely is the second book in the Brie Hooker Mystery series. Author Linda Lovely brings fun and frights with this second installment of the Brie Hooker Mystery series. Brie finds herself wrapped up in a scary mystery when someone ends up bloody and unconscious during the town’s Halloween celebration. The plot…
39 Winks by Kathleen Valenti is the second book in the Maggie O’Malley Mystery series—a gripping page-turner with more twists than a surgeon’s suture as well as a tale of lies, betrayals, and greed that will keep you up at night looking over your shoulder. 39 Winks finds amateur sleuth Maggie O’Malley catapulted into another murder mystery—this…
A Howl of Wolves by New York Times bestselling author Judith Flanders once again brilliantly fuses mystery with humor in this fourth installment of her critically acclaimed Sam Clair series. This was my first foray into the Sam Clair mysteries, and I was delighted. A Howl of Wolves is book number four in the series, and though I was…
Meltdown by GP James is a timely thriller that illuminates facts regarding the state of the world’s energy crisis, climate change, and the quandary of nuclear energy—inspired by events in Fukushima, unexpected earthquakes across the planet, and the deterioration of nuclear power plants worldwide. An unheard of 6.4 earthquake hits Peekskill, New York, leaving devastation like this…
A Baby’s Bones by Rebecca Alexander is the first book in the Sage Westfield series. Author Rebecca Alexander gives us a tale of murder set on the beautiful Isle of Wight. An archeologist, Sage Westfield, is set to task with a 16th-century well excavation. When bones of an adult and a baby are discovered within,…
Shattered Mirror by Iris Johansen is the 23rd book in the Eve Duncan series. In this 23rd installment of the Eve Duncan series, author Iris Johansen brings a tale of murder and family ties—even if that family isn’t blood. Duncan is a forensic sculptor that brings the skulls of the dead back to life to…
