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A Kind of Hush by JoDee Neathery

A disturbing and yet heartening stunner about family, acceptance, and understanding… Neathery tackles themes of family dynamics, relationships, guilt, and trauma in her deeply poignant, engrossing mystery, which tells the story of a young family struggling with the death of…
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The Bone Shrine by Scott MacFarlane

A heart-pounding, page-turning story… MacFarlane transports the reader to a world steeped in mystery and intrigue as nineteen-year-old Joe struggles to prove himself innocent of his teen sweetheart’s murder. When Joe was released from juvie, all of his friends shunned…
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The Narcissism of Small Differences by Dennis Dorgan

Clever, eloquent, and emotionally revealing… An absolute stunner. Insanity and evil permeate Dorgan’s outstanding debut, featuring Conor Delaney, the head of Delphi Investigations and Research, who finds himself entangled in a serial killing investigation. Delaney is content working in the…
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Words Kill by David Myles Robinson

An impressive literary mystery that’s as entertaining as it is thoughtful… A triumph. A young man’s investigation into his dead father’s past unearths some surprising revelations in Robinson’s stunning latest. It’s after the death of his father, famous reporter Russell…
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Burnt to a Crisp: A Detective Paddy Durr Novel: Book 3 by Michael O’Keefe

Brilliantly plotted and immensely readable… A stunner. Fans of character-based, intricate police procedurals will find plenty to like in O’Keefe’s page-turning third installment in the Durr series, featuring NYPD Detective Paddy Durr. Life is at its worst for Durr: Struggling…
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A Rule of Life by Patricia Brandon

Well-thought-out and original… A deliciously readable mystery. Brandon’s latest brilliantly integrates psychological depth into a clever mystery plot. With the Great War and the Spanish Flu pandemic behind, the world seems like a fine place once again. A new camp…
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Rollover: A Nikki Doyle Novel by Paula J Longhurst

Wonderfully satisfying… A page-turner. Longhurst’s latest, featuring the troubled lottery-winner protection agent Nikki Doyle, is a taut and suspenseful page-turner that offers a winding storyline, plenty of intrigue, and a dark web of lies and deceits. Struggling with her personal…
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Lost Souls: A Redstone Chronicles Thriller (The Redstone Chronicles) by J. T. Bishop

Taut, fascinating, and propulsive… A stunner. High intrigue, the characters’ realistically portrayed emotional dilemmas, and breakneck pacing elevate this supernatural mystery above the ordinary, the first in the Redstone Chronicles by Bishop. The caseload is heavy for Mason Redstone, the…
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Murder Under A Full Moon: A 1930s Mona Moon Historical Cozy Mystery Book 7 by Abigail Keam

A finely tuned page-turner… Keam’s latest intoxicating blend of mystery and intrigue, the seventh in the Mona Moon series, is solidly crafted and enlivened by quirky, colorful cast and a gripping central mystery. When Mona Moon joins Eleanor Roosevelt, First…
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Blind Vision by Nina Blakeman

Compelling and superbly executed… Compulsively readable. Blakeman’s latest is a tense and enthralling page-turner that offers plenty of intrigue, mystery, and murder. Dr. Callie Wallace, a young promising neurologist, is back in her hometown of Sperling, Texas, to set up…
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Dead Tree Tales by Rush Leaming

Dense and complex… An exquisitely plotted mystery. Set in Charleston, SC, and the surrounding islands, this stunning latest from Leaming has all the ingredients of a dazzling whodunit: sinister secrets, a twisted mystery, endearing cast, death, and intrigue. Detective Charlie…
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Death by Shock (Josiah Reynolds Mysteries #15) by Abigail Keam

An uproariously witty, tense, and cunningly constructed tale… Keam’ latest, featuring beekeeper and amateur sleuth Josiah Reynolds is a riotous adventure, with all the delicious trappings of a finely constructed mystery—treachery, deception, greed, sinister conspiracies, and murder. Josiah is volunteering…
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Suffering Fools by Allie Ray

Thoroughly researched and vividly delivered… A top-notch historical mystery. Ray adeptly weaves real-life characters into a remarkable mystery that’s chock-full of shocking secrets, relentless lies, treachery, and engrossing historical details in her latest. When five thousand dollars and the governor’s…
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The Mystery of Healing: Only a Skilled Hand can Stitch the Human Heart by A P McGrath

Stunning and compelling, not your typical mystery… McGrath pairs his impressive lead with a challenging murder to unravel in his latest, a mystery set in the memorable setting of ancient Rome. Solon of Pergamon, the chief physician at the munus,…
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The Connubial Corpse: A Malcom Winters Mystery by Thomas J Thorson

Intelligently delivered and intriguing… A pure pleasure. Thorson’s latest, featuring the reluctant sleuth Malcom Winters is a taut and suspenseful page-turner that offers plenty of intrigue and murder. When Vinn’s one of the best international students from China, Lily Cheng,…
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Dead In The Water: A Provincetown Mystery by Jeannette de Beauvoir

A compulsive page-turner… Beauvoir returns with another compelling mystery with memorable, deeply realized characters and genuine surprises, featuring the amateur sleuth Sydney Riley. Sydney is at her wits end with her parents settled at the Race Point Inn, expecting her…
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A Witherston Murder Mystery Series by Betty Jean Craige

Griping and enthralling… A beautifully spun whodunit series. Craige, Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature, who has written books in the fields of literature, history of ideas, politics, ecology, and art, turns her talent to mystery in this charming whodunit series…
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Crickets by lee Chappel

A spectacularly gripping novel permeated with unease and psychological twists… A true page-turner. In this intricately plotted mystery, Chappel takes readers on a page-turning journey into the twisted path of dark human intentions. It’s been years since Kara Peterson left…
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The Concrete Vineyard by Cam Lang

A deft plotting, deeply realized characterization, and keen understanding of human psyche make this a must-read mystery… In Lang’s skillfully layered debut mystery, a decade-old crime, grief, and regret provide the backdrop for an account of vengeance and redemption in…
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Plan to kill by Carolyn Hamilton

Deeply felt… An astutely executed mystery. Hamilton centers her brilliant mystery on the universal, hot topic of women’s right to abortion. The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned Roe. vs. Wade. With their own personal history with abortion experience, the news…