Jack and Wynn are two college friends attending Dartmouth who bonded in their freshman year over their love of fishing and all things nature. Jack’s from Colorado and Wynn is from Vermont, both from families with different lifestyles. They decide to take off the summer and the fall semester to canoe the Maskwa River in… Continue reading The River by Peter Heller
Detective D. D. Warren is revisiting the latest crime scene of an apparent serial killer who’s been named the Rose Killer. It’s late at night and she’s alone, or so she thought. When she realizes someone else is in the house, she stumbles and falls down a flight of stairs but not before firing off… Continue reading Fear Nothing by Lisa Gardner
Sir Carlton Morley is Scotland Yard’s Chief Inspector, the epitome of respectability. However, he has a secret nighttime persona, the Shadow of Night who seeks a different kind of justice from conventional law enforcement. On one particular night, while following a potential suspect, he finds himself on the grounds of an unconventional brothel where women… Continue reading A Dark and Stormy Knight by Kerrigan Byrne
Jamie Brandt does what every harried parent thinks about doing all the time...she leaves her two young girls in the car while she runs into a store for a quick errand. The worst thing happens as she returns to the car and finds ten-year old Kylie and eight-year old Bailey have vanished. Denville, Pennsylvania is… Continue reading Two Girls Down by Louisa Luna
Hope Wright is desperate. She arrives at her aunt’s home in Northern Michigan late at night sporting a black eye with her 10-year old daughter Tink in tow, who has stopped talking. She’s never met Aunt Peg but is counting on her to let them stay with her for awhile, at least for the night.… Continue reading Blog Tour: The Bitter and the Sweet of Cherry Season by Molly Fader
Olive Kitteridge is a retired high school math teacher who is an enigma. She’s mercurial, often cranky and always brutally honest, especially with herself. Olive is also often at odds with the changing world around her and the people in her orbit. While not all of the stories assembled here are about her, she has… Continue reading Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
Six years ago, Lucy Kincaid was abducted and brutally assaulted by a sexual predator who operated an entire enterprise. She worked hard at her recovery and with her family’s help is now well adjusted and has set her sights on a career with the FBI. In the meantime, Lucy is volunteering at a victims rights… Continue reading Love Me to Death by Allison Brennan
A heavy rainstorm loosened the ground around the underside of a bridge and revealed a grisly burial site. There lay the remains of what turns out to be a family no one knew was missing. FBI Special Agent Mercy Kilpatrick is stunned not only about the discovery but because it is reminiscent of a similar… Continue reading A Merciful Silence by Kendra Elliot
Our favorite sociopath is back! This time we find Jane working for a top law firm in Minneapolis, an associate to another lawyer who is taking credit for all of her work. It doesn’t take long for Jane to plot how to correct the situation (you immediately begin to fear what’s to come for him)… Continue reading Problem Child by Victoria Helen Stone
It started with a list... Malcolm Kershaw owns and operates a bookstore in Boston. His expertise is in the mystery genre and years ago when he was working for another bookseller, he wrote a blogpost where he listed eight books he felt featured the most perfect murders. Now he’s got an FBI agent on his… Continue reading Eight Perfect Murders by Peter Swanson (aka Rules for Perfect Murders)
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