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Book Review: Maude Horton’s Glorious Revenge by Lizzie PookMaude Horton and her beloved grandfather were stunned but not, perhaps, surprised when her sister Constance left them a message stating that she’d...
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Book Review: The Night Of The Storm by Nishita ParekhJia Shah feels like the biggest failure in the world. After a messy divorce from her ex-husband Dev, she moves from Chicago to Houston with her...
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Book Review: The Lost Van Gogh: A Novel by Jonathan SantloferFollowing the events of The Last Mona Lisa , artist and professor Luke Perrone has settled back down in New York City with his beloved girlfriend,...
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Cooking the Books: A Parfait Crime by Maya CorriganCafe owner Val Deniston is worried about her boyfriend Bram Muir’s first big shift as a volunteer firefighter. While he’s been called out to minor...
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Book Review: Random in Death by J.D. RobbWhat makes us return, again and again, to the futuristic thriller series In Death? Random in Death is #58 of 59 Eve Dallas novels—by any...
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Our Most Anticipated Reads: February 2024Everyone Who Can Forgive Me Is Dead by Jenny Hollander MacmillanAudio · Everyone Who Can Forgive Me Is Dead by Jenny Hollander, audiobook...
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Book Review: Everyone On This Train Is A Suspect by Benjamin StevensonWhat happens when you mix Murder on the Orient Express with a train full of crime writers holding a grudge? Benjamin Stevenson tells you exactly...
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Book Review: The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels by Janice HallettThe case of the Alperton Angels seized the public imagination when the cult came to a grisly end in a London suburb in late 2003. Eighteen years...
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Book Review: The Expectant Detectives by Kat AilesReaders will be hard-pressed to find a more original and laugh-out-loud debut mystery than The Expectant Detectives . The detectives are “a group...
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Book Review: First Lie Wins by Ashley ElstonEven if I didn’t have a weakness for tales of con artists overcoming all adversity to find their own, usually idiosyncratic, happily ever afters, I...
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Book Review: Not Dead Enough by Tyffany D. NeiheiserOn the night of prom four months ago, high school golden boy Jerry drove his car into a tree and died. His girlfriend and passenger Charlotte...
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Cooking the Books: Public Anchovy #1 by Mindy QuigleyUpscale pizzeria owner Delilah O’Leary is looking forward to her first big catering gig for the social elite of Geneva Bay, Wisconsin. One...
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Book Review: The Clinic by Cate QuinnMeg is used to living life undercover, working as she does catching crooks for a Los Angeles casino. Almost no one there even knows that she’s...
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The 2024 Edgar Award NominationsBEST NOVEL Flags on the Bayou by James Lee Burke (Grove Atlantic – Atlantic Monthly Press) All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby (Flatiron Books)...
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Trouble in Queenstown by Delia Pitts: Featured ExcerptChapter One I was horny. After a week-long dry spell, the itch was nagging again. A pesky throb teasing my gut. I knew just where to go for a...
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Book Review: Broadcast Blues by R.G. BelskyLike many of the greats before him, journalist R.G. Belsky has taken his dogged pursuit of entertainment and enlightenment and made the transition...
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Cooking the Books: Coconut Drop Dead by Olivia MatthewsLyndsey Murray has fought hard for her family’s Spice Isle Bakery to be included in Brooklyn’s Caribbean American Heritage Festival. Despite some...
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Book Review: A Christmas Vanishing by Anne PerryMariah Ellison is old, she stopped keeping track of her age before she turned eighty and that was a while back. She’s grandmother to the...
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Book Review: Rabbit Hole by Kate BrodyKate Brody’s arresting debut novel delves deep into the heart of a modern young woman trying to make sense of a life of tragedy with its...
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Book Review: Anna O by Matthew BlakeForensic psychologist Dr. Ben Price is not entirely surprised when he’s called in to consult on the infamous affair of Anna O. A renowned sleep...
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Book Review: Missing by Savannah BrownSeventeen-year-old Mona Perry is a girl on a mission. It’s the summer after high school graduation and she knows that this is the best, and perhaps...
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Book Review: The Fury by Alex MichaelidesAlex Michaelides delivers a terrific spin on the Agatha Christie classic, And Then There Were None , with a dash of the film Glass Onion in his...
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Book Review: What Waits In The Woods by Terri ParlatoEsme Foster is heading back home to Graybridge, Massachusetts, broke, unhappy and alone. Her once-promising ballet career ground to a halt after...
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Book Review: The Frozen River by Ariel LawhonMidwife Martha Ballard has been plying her trade for decades now in 1789 Maine, and has the singular distinction of not yet losing a mother under...
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Book Review: The Final Curtain by Keigo HigashinoTen years ago, Tokyo Police Detective Kyoichiro Kaga was unexpectedly summoned to Sendai with news of his mother Yuriko’s death. She had run away...
