Grand Slam Murders by R.J. Lee

February 05, 2019

Let me emphasize you do not need to know anything about bridge to read R.J. Lee’s debut cozy mystery, Grand Slam Murders. I’ve never played bridge, and I know nothing about it, but the entertaining Southern characters will bring me back for the...

Scrublands by Chris Hammer

January 02, 2019

Debut novelist Chris Hammer takes readers to an Australia that might appeal to Jane Harper’s readers. Scrublands is an atmospheric mystery set in a dying community, Riversend. The descriptions in Scrublands shows evidence of Hammer’s journalist...

The Frame-Up by Meghan Scott Molin

November 28, 2018

Welcome to the world of geek culture in Meghan Scott Molin’s fun, fast-paced mystery, The Frame-Up. Even if you don’t attend cons or read comic books, MG Martin’s world is entertaining. It’s repetitive to say it, but this is just a fun mystery....

In Peppermint Peril by Joy Avon

November 12, 2018

Joy Avon’s debut mystery, In Peppermint Peril, is the first “A Tea and a Read Mystery”. This one is set in the Christmas season, while the second one will take readers back to Heart’s Harbor, Maine, for the Fourth of July celebration. Meet...

A Knife in the Fog by Bradley Harper

October 10, 2018

When most of us see the subtitle to Bradley Harper’s debut mystery, A Knife in the Fog, we’ll have a question. Who is Margaret Harkness? The subtitle is “A Mystery Featuring Margaret Harkness & Arthur Conan Doyle”. Margaret Harkness was a...