the setup… Swan is a tattoo artist who is leaving her life and ex-husband Paul in Los Angeles for a remote and desolate town in the desert called Miracle Wash. A friend leaving that place has loaned her a container, her new living space. Despite its name, the town doesn’t welcome newcomers and to say… Continue reading Jackrabbit Skin by Ivy Pochoda
the setup… It’s 1933 and the country is in the throes of the Great Depression. William (Shoe) Shumacher leaves his home in Kansas City to start a job in Seattle arranged by his mother to help out his family financially. He’s hired as a beat reporter for the Seattle Daily Star being paid for the… Continue reading A Killing on the Hill by Robert Dugoni @robertdugoni @BrilliancePub
the setup… Rumaki (Ru) Evans is thirteen years old and ready to start college. Her mother labeled her long ago as “freakishly smart” and it’s now an identity she reluctantly owns. Ru also has an eidetic memory that doesn’t help others from forming similar opinions. Rather than live in a dormitory, Ru stays at a… Continue reading Life, Loss and Puffins by Catherine Ryan Hyde #CatherineRyanHyde #JessNahikian @BrilliancePub
the setup… Icarus (Ike) Glass, a British expatriate, walks into a San Antonio bar, takes a seat at the counter, prepared for rounds that will lead to inebriation. He’s joined by a stranger, an obese man with a Southern accent who calls himself Lyle Accrington. The next thing Ike remembers is waking up in a… Continue reading The Alliance by Matt Brolly @MattBrollyUK @hillaryoutloud @BrilliancePub
the setup… Clementine (Clemmie) Monroe has hit rock bottom. She’s losing the job she loves, her ex just left her for a woman he’d been seeing for months (he even took her cat!) and soon she’ll lose her flat. It’s a bad day and her unconventional sisters come to her rescue with libations and the… Continue reading Under Your Spell by Laura Wood #LauraWood @EllieHeydon @SimonAudio
the setup… Dr. Sloan Hastings is a forensic scientist working on a fellowship in forensic pathology, being trained by the renowned Dr. Livia Cutty. Each of the participants are given a research assignment and Sloan’s is in genealogy, examining how these online sites can be useful in forensic science investigations. Coincidentally, Sloan was adopted thirty… Continue reading Long Time Gone by Charlie Donlea @CharlieDonlea @VLehenyAudio @recordedbooks
the setup… Nick's now Vice President and life as he and Sam once knew it is significantly changed. While he and Scotty have a security detail, Sam is allowed to work without one. Meanwhile, the DC Metropolitan Police, already under fire for how the last high profile case was handled is now battling a new… Continue reading Fatal Scandal by Marie Force
the setup… The careful investigating and planning for the capture of Michael Bekker, the insane pathologist who slowly killed his victims and then removed their eyes, was the successful end to Detective Lucas Davenport’s career in the last story. Even though he lost his job in the process, he was satisfied that he brought this… Continue reading Silent Prey by John Sandford @recordedbooks
the setup… After years of numbing his pain with chloroform, Dr. James Madison has finally shed the drug addiction but not the demons from the war that continue to plague him. He continues to live at Delilah’s, the town bordello, still struggling to regain the man he once was, when former Confederate Charles Park arrives… Continue reading Redeemed by Molly O’Keefe @MollyOKwrites
the setup… Margo Angelhart comes from a family of high achievers. Unsure of her own path, she joined the Army after her graduation from high school to find her calling. It’s six years later and Margo, having left the service, has her PI license but is also bartending at a friend’s family’s bar to help… Continue reading Into the Fire by Allison Brennan @Allison_Brennan @HarlequinBooks
Blue Mood Café 