A Fatal Likeness by Lynn Shepherd is the second mystery in the historical series about Charles Maddox, a detective in 1850s London (available August 20, 2013). When the story begins, Charles’ thief-taker great-uncle, who trained him in many of his skills, is bedridden after an apoplexy. This makes it all the more difficult when Charles…
Dancer, Daughter, Traitor, Spy by Elizabeth Kiem is a young adult paranormal spy mystery featuring a prima ballerina who goes missing and the daughter desperately searching for her (available August 13, 2013). Journalist Elizabeth Kiem’s first novel Dancer, Daughter, Traitor, Spy, gave me a taste of what it would feel like to live in 1980s…
In The Last Whisper in the Dark, Tom Piccirilli's second novel about the criminal Rand family, prodigal thief Terrier Rand comes home (available July 9, 2013). The Last Whisper in the Dark is a direct sequel to Tom Piccirilli’s The Last Kind Words, a noirish thriller about a family of thieves and grifters, the Rands,…
The Summer of Dead Toys by Antonio Hill is a dark, gritty police procedural set in Barcelona (available June 18, 2013). Inspector Héctor Salgado, a transplanted Argentine living in Barcelona, is assigned to investigate a routine accidental death: a college student has fallen from a balcony in one of Barcelona’s ritzier neighborhoods. As Salgado begins…
Twilight is not Good for Maidens by Lou Allin is the third Holly Martin, Royal Canadian Mounted Police mystery (available June 18, 2013). Corporal Holly Martin's small RCMP detachment on Vancouver Island is rocked by a midnight attack on a woman camping alone at picturesque French Beach. By the time a third young woman is…
The Doll by Taylor Stevens is the third Vanessa Michael Munroe thriller (available June 4, 2013). Haunted by violence, and as proficient with languages as she is with knives, Vanessa Michael Munroe, chameleon and hunter, has built her life on a reputation for getting things done—dangerous and often not-quite-legal things. On a busy Dallas street,…
Little Green by Walter Mosley marks the return of detective Easy Rawlins as he investigates the dark side of L.A.’s 1960s hippie haven, the Sunset Strip (available May 14, 2013). Little Green by Walter Mosley at last brings back Easy Rawlins, this time from a near-death experience; that experience and the fallout from it is…
Every Contact Leaves a Trace by Elanor Dymott is a debut novel that reminds us that even the people we think we know best can hide dark secrets (available May 6, 2013). Alex is in his thirties, a solitary man who has finally found love in the form of his beautiful and vivacious wife, Rachel.…
Dark Tide by Elizabeth Haynes is a suspenseful traditional mystery set in England (available March 12, 2013). Genevieve has finally escaped the stressful demands of her job and achieved her dream: to leave London behind and start a new life aboard a houseboat in Kent. But on the night of her boat-warming party the dream…
What Darkness Brings by C.S. Harris is Book 8 in the Sebastian St. Cyr mystery series set in Regency England (available March 5, 2013). The death of a notorious London diamond merchant draws aristocratic investigator Sebastian St. Cyr and his new wife Hero into a sordid world of greed, desperation, and the occult, when the…
