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Enough to Make the Angels Weep by Ernesto Patino

An involving mystery that keeps the pages turning… Patino’s latest novel is filled with nonstop action and moral ambiguities, featuring the endearing P.I. Joe Coopersmith. When Carolyn Delaney hired Joe Coopersmith to investigate four-year-old unsolved murder case of her grandmother,…
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Ashes in Venice: A Vengeance Thriller by Gojan Nikolich

A tightly wound and brilliantly constructed psychological thriller… Nikolich’s latest novel is a suspenseful, professional-grade police procedural, featuring Las Vegas homicide detective Frank Savic who finds himself on the trail of a vengeful serial killer. Retirement is just around the…
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Silent Winter Solstice (A Beth and Evie Mystery – Vol. 1) by Bonnie Oldre

An atmospheric and immersive tale that provides plenty of mystery, suspense and danger… Set in 1968 in Davison City in North Minnesota, Oldre’s debut installment in the A Beth and Evie Mystery series is atmospheric and intricate, with a well-crafted…
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Romero Pools: A Story of Love by Alyssa Hall

Intelligent and emotionally powerful… Hall creates an engrossing mystery around a woman’s search for answers into her fiancé’s mysterious disappearance. For twenty-three-year-old Marin, life came to a standstill three years ago when she and her fiancé met with a car…
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Choking on the Splinters by Jim Lively

A tangled tale that is both engrossing and illuminating… Charles Sanders Pierce, Lively’s retired attorney protagonist, gets entangled in a sinister web of dangerous conspiracy in this page-turning mystery. It’s been four years since Sander’s wife died, and his fifty-fifth…
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Shared Sorrows by Vincent Panettiere

Atmospheric, intelligent, and engrossing… A remarkable feat. Set in New Jersey, Panettiere’s latest literary mystery takes readers on one man’s journey to love and redemption. Struggling with his father’s early death decades ago, the New Jersey college professor Frank DioGuardia…
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A Final Call by Eliot Parker

Thoroughly absorbing, suspenseful, and very, very tense… Go, grab it. Parker returns with this impeccably written tale laced with mystery and intrigue and featuring Cleveland Homicide Detective Stacy Tavitt. Stacy is still struggling to come to terms with her brother’s…
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Pat Randolph Mysteries: The Case of Lori Larkin by Brian Foster

Thoroughly immersive… A young intern’s search for answers into a missing case gets him entangled in a dangerous web of secrets and lies in Foster’s series kicker in the Pat Randolph Mysteries. Recently graduated, Pat Randolph is more than happy…
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A New Haunt for Mr. Bierce: A Novel by Drew Bridges             

A mystery that’s as clever as it is entertaining… Bridges’s latest novel delves into ghostly existence’s struggle with the dark history of his new residence. When the ghost of Ambrose Bierce, American writer and civil war Union soldier, is displaced…
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Dead Cereus by Kira Seamon

Witty, thoroughly endearing, and greatly entertaining Seamon weaves the magic of traditional mystery and delightful romance into an intriguing storyline, taking readers on an exhilarating journey of a young woman’s struggle to sort out her academic life while stuck in…
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Lines Through a Prism by Bob Siqveland

Thoughtful, endearing, and greatly entertaining… Siqveland’s latest is a darkly absorbing mystery, featuring 74-year-old ex-assassin for a black-ops government sub-agency. When a whimsical notion takes “Woody” Woodward to Jekyll Island on the east coast of Georgia, he has nothing but…
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Minor Corruption (Marc Edwards Mystery #10) by Don Gutteridge

A multilayered mystery lavishly studded with period details… An absolute page-turner. Gutteridge’s tenth outing in the Marc Edwards Mystery series features a tragic death of a teen girl and social scandal in Toronto in 1839. After an illegal abortion goes…
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Death By Chance: A Josiah Reynolds Mystery by Abigail Keam

An adrenaline-filled, fun romp… Not to be missed. Keam’s latest, sixteenth in A Josiah Reynolds Mystery series is a clever mystery filled with sharp insights and droll humor. Halloween is right around the corner, and Lady Elsmere’s elaborate Civil War…
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In the House of Night (A Martin Preuss Mystery Book 7) by Donald Levin

Un-put-downable… Levin’s seventh in A Martin Preuss Mystery series offers thrills of an immaculately crafted mystery and sharp insights into human behavior. When the history professor Charlie Bright is found murdered brutally in his own home, the police rule it…
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Iconoclast: A Sean McPherson Novel by Laurie Buchanan

An absolute page-turner… Not the one to be missed. The ex-cop Sean McPherson learns danger never strays far from home in this enthralling second installment in Buchanan’s Sean McPherson series. Still struggling with survivor’s guilt, Sean is gradually settling into…
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The Case of the Golden Helmet by Ted Ballantyne

Precise and engrossing… An intriguing mystery. Ballantyne debuts with this engrossing tale of a CRA investigator’s quest to bring a fraudster to justice. The thoroughly dedicated Canada Revenue Agency Special Investigator, Tom Thomas finds himself entangled in the cunning Garold…
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Looks Are Deceiving: A Will Christian Mystery by Bill VanPatten

A top-notch, deliciously readable mystery… Great storytelling, a quirky hero, and an intelligent plot make VanPatten’s latest in the A Will Christian Mystery series a winner for mystery fans. Retired at forty-nine, Will Christian, a self-identified Latino and gay man,…
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Killer Deception (Kathy Hamilton Mystery Book 1) by Maggie Casteen

A layered and nuanced mystery… Casteen kicks start her Kathy Hamilton Mystery series with this taut, fast-paced installment. When Marcie Brooks, a bereaved widow, hires Kathy to look into the recent theft of a family heirloom, Kathy doesn’t think much…
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Guardian (Legacy Trilogy Book 2) by Mark J Cannon

A twisty page-turner… Cannon’s second installment in the Legacy Trilogy is marked with taut pacing and complicated characters as the O’Connells come face to face with another psychopathic villain who would go to any length to realize his sinister motive.…