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Book Review: North of Nowhere by Allison BrennanThe tension in North of Nowhere never lets up: the plot is pure adrenaline. It’s been described as Yellowstone meets Succession . The...
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Cooking the Books: Death of a Clam Digger by Lee HollisThe Leighton and Barnes families have had a long-standing rivalry over their respective seafood dynasties in Bar Harbor, Maine. So, our heroine,...
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Book Review: Murder at a London Finishing School by Jessica EllicottIn the aftermath of the Great War, finishing schools for young ladies seem wildly irrelevant. The Oxford Dictionary defines a finishing school as...
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Location, Location, Location: 6 Stories That Couldn’t Happen Anywhere ElseWhen I started writing North of Nowhere , I knew that setting would be important to the story. Small plane crash during a snowstorm in the...
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Book Review: Deadlock by James ByrneByrne brings back Desmond Aloysius Limerick (Dez), a special ops expert, in this terrific follow-up to The Gatekeeper . When Dez was active, he...
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Book Review: The Lady from Burma by Allison MontclairThe Right Sort Marriage Bureau is jogging along nicely, much to the satisfaction of its proprietors, Mrs. Gwendolyn Bainbridge, and Miss Iris...
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Book Review: The 9th Man by Steve Berry and Grant BlackwoodLuke Daniels, a character from the Cotton Malone novels who works at the Magellan Billet with Malone, gets the spotlight in this co-authored...
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Book Review: The Centre by Ayesha Manazir SiddiqiThis might be one of the most sophisticatedly structured books I’ve had the pleasure of reading this year! In all honesty, I didn’t think it would...
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Book Review: A Likeable Woman by May CobbKira Foster is a hot mess. Now in her late thirties, she’s never really gotten over the death of her mother Sadie over two decades earlier. Sadie...
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Book Review: Fearless by M. W. CravenBen Koenig is in a hotel restaurant when he realizes that the cops are onto him. It’s too late for him to duck out the back. Besides, his practiced...
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Cooking the Books: A Shimmer of Red by Valerie Wilson WesleyThe real estate run of the pandemic years has been good to our heroine, Dessa Jones, who no longer has to struggle to sell houses in her part of...
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Book Review: Flop Dead Gorgeous by David RosenfeltTwenty-seven books into the best-selling Andy Carpenter series and our defense lawyer protagonist may have finally reached his breaking point. It...
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Book Review: Dead Eleven by Jimmy JulianoThere’s a remote place in Wisconsin called Clifford Island, off of the Door County peninsula in Lake Michigan. Not a whole lot is known about it,...
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Five Novels Portraying Messy Mother and Daughter RelationshipsArguably, there’s no relationship more intense and complicated than the one between a mother and daughter. It’s often fraught with contradictions....
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Book Review: Starve Acre by Andrew Michael HurleyAfter Richard Willoughby’s father dies, he inherits the lonely old house known as Starve Acre. Richard’s wife Juliette is enamored of the idea of...
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Our Most Anticipated Reads: August 2023Just Another Missing Person by Gillian McAllister From the author of the Reese’s Book Club Pick and the New York Times bestseller Wrong...
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Cooking the Books: A Questionable Character by Lorna BarrettTricia Miles is accompanying her sister Angelica on a tour of the latter’s latest property renovations when they shockingly discover the body of...
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Psychic DetectivesOn April 11, 1963, a six-year-old boy named Wim Slee went missing from Voorburg, an inland town in the south of the Netherlands. Immediately,...
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Book Review: Windfall by Wendy Corsi StaubLisa Jackson once proclaimed: “If you like Mary Higgins Clark, you’ll love Wendy Corsi Staub.” That endorsement—which rightfully graced the covers...
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The Raging Storm: Ann Cleeves’s New Series ContinuesIt’s hard coming to the end of a series. I knew that the Shetland novels had run their course and I needed something different to spark my...
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Book Review: Don’t Forget the Girl by Rebecca McKannaBree, Chelsea, and Abby have been best friends since grade school. In 2003, they were all enrolled as students at the University of Iowa. Bree...
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The Interrogation Room: A Q&A with James Byrne, author of Deadlock Watch on YouTube More: Watch Other Author Interviews
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Book Review: Relentless Melt by Jeremy P. BushnellWhat a delightful mindbender of a historical mystery novel! Relentless Melt starts out feeling as atmospheric and lived-in as any other...
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The Bitter Past by Bruce Borgos: Featured ExcerptChapter One We don’t have a lot of murder in Lincoln County. The long stretches of open road provide us with more than our share of high-speed...
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Book Review: A Cryptic Clue by Victoria GilbertCameron “Cam” Clewe and Jane Hunter make an odd couple. Imagine if Mark Zuckerberg, albeit with a few less billions, and a modern-day Miss Marple,...
