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Fiction

Embark on a Thrilling Vacation Full of Danger with Agnes Sharp

Sleepy English villages should come with a warning such as “Caution, serial killer at work. Parishioners, plumbers and random little old ladies are particularly vulnerable.” Agnes Sharp and the Trip of a Lifetime is the sequel to the delightfully quirky The Sunset Years of Agnes Sharp. Written by the clever…

Linda HitchcockSeptember 30, 2024

Fiction Recommended

Southern Sleuthing in the Big Easy: “The Lafitte Affair” Delivers

Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans? Love a good historical mystery? Pirates and hidden treasure? Swoon-worthy southern cuisine? Find your heart’s desires in The Lafitte Affair by Norman Woolworth. City of the Dead Curmudgeonly antiques dealer Bruneau Ignatius Abellard is finishing his last bite of Eggs…

Joanna PoncavageSeptember 27, 2024

Fiction

Latest in Mystery Series Tackles Human Rights and Deadly Crimes

The Whitewashed Tombs is the fourth book featuring Private Investigator Emma Djan in this “sunshine noir” mystery series so named for its basis in coastal equatorial Ghana by Ghanaian American author, Howard University College of Medicine graduate, and retired physician Kwei Quartey. For 20 years during his successful career in…

Linda HitchcockSeptember 19, 2024

Author Spotlight

What a Haunted Camper Has to Do with Solving a “Kooky Mystery” or Two

A workaholic by nature, upon retirement, Rita Moreau began work on her bucket list — and at the top of her list was writing a book. Two series later, she is enjoying her new life turning out light mystery thrillers, with Murder in Wacky Florida centered around a sixty-something woman…

BookTribSeptember 18, 2024

Fiction Listicles

6 New Whodunit Mysteries for Kate Atkinson Fans

Lightning flashes, you hear a scream, and when the lights come on, someone is dead. Suddenly, everyone is a suspect. Was it the maid, in the library with the revolver? Full-cast murder mysteries are timeless favorites. From classic books like Murder on the Orient Express and The Mystery of Edwin…

Megan BeauregardSeptember 18, 2024

Fiction

Richard Osman Delivers Laughs and Twists with a New Wacky Crime-Fighting Trio

Whenever Richard Osman releases a murder mystery, readers know they are in for a clever, good time. In We Solve Murders, (Pamela Dorman Books), Osman creates a wacky trio on the run from a Russian oligarch and a stream of anonymous assassins. When the bullets fly, Osman keeps his readers guessing…

Jodé MillmanSeptember 17, 2024

Fiction Recommended Thrillers

Honolulu Detective Walks Fine Line Between Duty and Family

Robert Coburn’s Between Islands is an investigative mystery novel set in the beautiful sceneries of Hawaii. The narrative revolves around the life of Detective Joe Cheo, a dedicated Honolulu police officer. Joe is on a rollercoaster hunt for answers to two mysterious deaths and is juggling unfair prejudices at work…

Natalia KavaleSeptember 9, 2024

Thrillers

Chet and Bernie Face Deadly Danger in Thrilling New Mystery

Spencer Quinn has done it again with his latest A Farewell to Arfs! He succeeds in thrilling readers with gripping tales of human private investigator Bernie Little and his devoted canine companion partner Chet whose rambling inner dialogue charms. Chet the Jet: The Canine Star of a Thrilling Series This…

Linda HitchcockAugust 20, 2024

Fiction Listicles

Real-Life Scandal, Gossip and Rumors: The Fodder for Fiction

Hester Prynne didn’t have Instagram or Twitter for her world to spread the word about her scandal — still, she was forced to wear that scarlet A right on the front of her frock. I always imagine the snippy 17th-century Bostonians whispering behind their hands, lasciviously spreading the gossip about…

Hank Phillippi RyanAugust 15, 2024

The Queen City Detective Agency by Snowden Wright

Fiction

Uncover a Criminal Conspiracy in New Southern Noir

Author Snowden Wright is a native son of small-town Meridian, Mississippi, familiarly known as Queen City for its “golden age” in the years between 1890-1930 when it was the largest city in the state and a center for railroads and manufacturing. In an interview from May 10, 2023 with the…

Linda HitchcockAugust 12, 2024

Fiction Recommended

Dante’s Lost Secrets Revealed in Historical Mystery

As anyone who has read the Divine Comedy will attest, there were people Italian poet Dante Alighieri liked and those he didn’t like. The former populate his Purgatorio and Paradisio, while the latter — well, let’s just say they are punished, often spectacularly, in his Inferno. His strong views didn’t…

Cynthia ConradAugust 6, 2024

Fiction Miscellany

AuthorBuzz: Masquerades, Murder and a Cozy Tea Shop Mystery

Peach Tea Smash, Tea Shop Mystery #28 by Laura Childs (Berkley) Dear Reader, When tea maven Theodosia Browning attends a Mad Hatter Masquerade on the grounds of an old grist mill, she never dreamed she’d be pulled into a murder. But under the glow of a neon Cheshire Cat, Harlan…

AuthorBuzzAugust 5, 2024

Miscellany Thrillers

The Crucial Role of Queer Authors in Mystery & Thriller Genres

In the ever-evolving landscape of mysteries and thrillers, queer authors are bringing vital perspectives, narratological experimentation, and nuanced takes on criminality and justice. LGBTQ writers are crafting stories shaped by their lived experiences of chosen family, otherness, and code-switching. Queering crime fiction interrogates tropes and tests genre boundaries. Serving up…

Margot DouaihyJuly 17, 2024

Fiction

Ambition, Intrigue, Romance & Mysterious Life in Old Hollywood

The Lost Letters from Martha’s Vineyard by Michael Callahan begins with a quote from Gabriel García Márquez: “Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life and a secret life.” This succinct epigram neatly sums up Edith (Edie) Stoppelmoor born and fled from Beatrice, Nebraska, otherwise known as “Nan”…

Linda HitchcockJuly 10, 2024

Fiction

A Comet Brings Secrets, Love, Obsession, Death

“The woman I was back then could never have foreseen what was coming, and I can’t reach back into the past to warn her.” Sylvia Knight, 32, the narrator of Ruby Todd’s Bright Objects, finally thinks she knows what to do. The funeral home she works for in a small…

Neil NyrenJune 28, 2024

Fiction

Gripping Finale to Winspear’s Maisie Dobbs Mysteries, “The Comfort of Ghosts”

Jacqueline Winspear took great pains to forewarn her legion of fans that the Maisie Dobbs series would end with the recently published The Comfort of Ghosts. It initially set off alarm bells with many readers fearing the worst, but the good news is she did not kill off our beloved…

Linda HitchcockJune 26, 2024

Southern Sleuthing in the Big Easy: “The Lafitte Affair” Delivers

What a Haunted Camper Has to Do with Solving a “Kooky Mystery” or Two

6 New Whodunit Mysteries for Kate Atkinson Fans

Honolulu Detective Walks Fine Line Between Duty and Family

Real-Life Scandal, Gossip and Rumors: The Fodder for Fiction

Dante’s Lost Secrets Revealed in Historical Mystery

AuthorBuzz: Masquerades, Murder and a Cozy Tea Shop Mystery

The Crucial Role of Queer Authors in Mystery & Thriller Genres

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