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Cooking the Books: Death Unfiltered by Emmeline DuncanSage Caplin is newly engaged and ready for the next big step in her professional life: opening an honest-to-goodness cafe in the newly constructed...
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Book Review: Not Like Other Girls by Meredith AdamoJo-Lynn Kirby is not like other girls. Part of this is by design, as her mother had her competing in beauty pageants from a young age and wanted to...
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Book Review: Granite Harbor by Peter NicholsAlex Brangwen is not your typical police detective. Once upon a time, the Englishman was a celebrated author with a novel shortlisted for the...
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Book Review: Patchwork Quilt Murder by Leslie MeierReporter Lucy Stone is looking forward to covering the grand opening of a state-of-the-art community center in Tinker’s Cove, Maine, and not just...
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On Becoming a Cop by Peter Nichols, author of Granite HarborAlex Brangwen, the protagonist/detective of my new novel, Granite Harbor , is a single parent to a teenage daughter—and a failed novelist. He...
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Book Review: Kill Her Twice by Stacey LeeMay and Gemma Chow have been struggling to keep their family’s flower selling business afloat in 1930s Los Angeles, after doctors send the teenaged...
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Cooking the Books: Five Furry Familiars by Lynn CahoonIt’s bad enough that Mia Malone has had to put her catering company on the back burner in order to accept a job as the catering director at the...
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Book Review: A Game Of Lies by Clare MackintoshI absolutely adored Clare Mackintosh’s last novel, The Last Party , so I was champing at the bit to dive into its sequel, featuring the headstrong...
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They’re On to Us“You don’t mean to say that you seriously believe that Life imitates Art, that Life in fact is the mirror, and Art the reality?”—Oscar Wilde,...
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Dog Day Afternoon by David Rosenfelt: Featured ExcerptThe advertisements are hard to miss. If you live in North Jersey, in Paterson or quite a few other cities, you are familiar with the phrase CALL...
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Complicity in Friendship: A Journey Through SuspenseSome years back I saw a meme going around social media, about being a good enough friend to help someone hide a dead body. It got me thinking. Who...
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Cooking the Books: A High Tide Murder by Emily GeorgeBaker Chloe Barnes is thrilled to finally open her cannabis cafe, serving food and drinks infused with the medicinal properties of legally grown...
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Book Review: You’d Look Better As A Ghost by Joanna WallaceThere’s no two ways about it: Claire is a serial killer. She tries to keep her victim list confined to those she deems worthy of killing, but when...
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Book Review: A Better World by Sarah LanganIn a highly plausible near-future North America, the Farmer-Bowen family is struggling to survive in what remains of New York City. There was no...
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Book Review: Bless Your Heart by Lindy RyanIn a small dusty corner of southeast Texas, three generations of Evans women run the only funeral parlor in town. Unsurprisingly, this does not...
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Book Review: You Know What You Did by K. T. NguyenThe death of Annie Shaw’s mother sends the middle-aged artist reeling. Mẹ had fled the Vietnam War and made a home for herself and young Annie in...
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Book Review: While We Were Burning by Sara KoffiElizabeth Smith has always been something of a loner. Despite having the perfect marriage and job and a seemingly perfect life in the affluent...
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Cooking the Books: Double Grudge Donuts by Ginger BoltonIt’s been a long time coming, but Emily Westhill is getting remarried! The loss of her beloved late husband, Alec, served to bond her with his...
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Book Review: The Sleepwalkers by Scarlett ThomasI am a sucker for a good postmodernist novel, and Scarlett Thomas’ The Sleepwalkers is just that best sort of brain candy for readers like myself....
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Some Cozy Tropes: Catherine Mack on Every Time I Go On Vacation, Someone DiesI’ve been writing thrillers for years and let’s be honest—thrillers take place in a dark space. While there’s room for some levity and dark humor,...
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Book Review: An Inconvenient Wife by Karen E. OlsonThe Tudor monarch mystery that I never knew I needed came to life in Karen E. Olson’s An Inconvenient Wife. Taking the classic history of King...
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Book Review: A Killing On The Hill by Robert DugoniYoung Will Schumacher considers himself lucky. Though poor and often hungry, he has steady work as a reporter for Seattle’s Daily Star, and a...
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Our Most Anticipated Reads: May 2024Nest of Vipers by Harini Nagendra The latest novel in the award-winning Bangalore Detectives Club series finds amateur sleuth Kaveri Murthy...
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Book Review: Don’t Turn Around by Harry DolanHarry Dolan is a critically acclaimed author of series and standalone suspense. His David Loogan saga is comprised of Bad Things Happen , Very...
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Book Review: The Truth About the Devlins by Lisa ScottolineLisa Scottoline’s latest novel is an absolutely gripping page-turner, equal parts legal thriller and domestic drama as a family of lawyers strives...
