What do you get when you combine two multi-talented creative minds that collaborate on an imaginative new series? This clever one is probably the best homage to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s iconic pairing of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson. Elementary, my dear reader, it is the hottest must-read murder…
Linda HitchcockApril 29, 2024
A veiled prophecy of scientist Galileo Galilei is discovered four centuries after his death, launching an American professor and an Italian countess on a perilous quest to solve its hidden clues in D. Allen Henry’s imaginative The Starry Message. In the fall of 1641, a sightless Galileo recognizes his impending…
Peggy KurkowskiApril 23, 2024
David Downing can include former rock music critic among his formidable writing credits. He is a prolific English author, writing both fiction and non-fiction on a wide-range of topics including children’s books, biographies, soccer, military history and several stand-alone thrillers. During the 1990’s, using the pseudonym David Monnery, he published…
Linda HitchcockMarch 21, 2024
Books & Looks: Real Books for Real Readers was started as a podcast to supplement Blaine Desantis’ website, ViewsOnBooks.com, and expand into audio and video interviews with authors. With Books & Looks, Blaine’s goal is to focus on real books that real people will read. At least half of the books he reviews…
BookTribMarch 20, 2024
After six years of waiting, will justice be served? Kate Quinn and Janie Chang are the masters of historical fiction, and they take us on another whirlwind journey in The Phoenix Crown. This time, it's set in San Francisco in 1906. We follow Gemma and Suling, two women of very…
Lydia LefevreFebruary 13, 2024
Nilima Rao leaves the reader wanting more! Her gripping, dramatic debut crime novel A Disappearance in Fiji (Soho Crime) will soon be available in a paperback edition and she is working on an eagerly anticipated sequel A Shipwreck in Fiji. The first book is set in 1914 forty years after…
Linda HitchcockJanuary 30, 2024
Vamp is the seventh full-length novel in masterful author Loren D. Estleman’s Valentino, Film Detective series. These cinematic gems are as enticing as the buttery roasted aroma of fresh movie lobby popcorn. Film buffs and avid mystery readers can also ferret out several short stories featuring this intrepid film archivist…
Linda HitchcockJanuary 19, 2024
Author Francine Stephanie Barron Mathews pens best-selling novels in contemporary settings as Francine Mathews and in historical fiction as Stephanie Barron, her middle and maiden names. Francine Mathews’ first novel, published 30 years ago, began with what developed into a series of six mysteries set in New England featuring police…
Linda HitchcockNovember 16, 2023
The title Proud Sorrows (Soho Crime), the 18th book in the WWII Billy Boyle mystery series by author James R. Benn, is taken from William Shakespeare’s history play, King John, Act 3, Scene 1: “I will instruct my sorrows to be proud, for grief is proud and makes his owner…
Linda HitchcockOctober 25, 2023
It’s a happy day when a reader can dive into a suspenseful new novel written by international best-selling and multiple award-winning author Sujata Massey. Her eagerly anticipated work The Mistress of Bhatia House (Soho Crime), latest in the Perveen Mistry series, is now available. These historical fiction mysteries are well-plotted,…
Linda HitchcockOctober 11, 2023
Naomi Hirahara is the Babe Ruth of authors hitting home runs out of the park with each book reaching an ever-widening circle of readers. Evergreen (Soho Crime) continues the story of the Ito Family introduced in Clark and Division. After enduring stress, deprivation and hardships during two years of imprisonment…
Linda HitchcockAugust 2, 2023
The 1893 Chicago World’s Colombian Exposition Is the Thrilling Setting for “Peril at the Exposition”
In her exciting sequel to Murder in Old Bombay, Nev March turns back time to transport the reader to the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair in Peril at the Exposition (Minotaur). The protagonists of Bombay return, as Captain James Agnihotri and his new bride, Diana, have immigrated to the United States…
Jodé MillmanJuly 11, 2022
Nancy Bilyeau had always wanted to write a historical novel set in New York City — but she’d already started carving out a niche for herself in the Tudor era. Her first novel, The Crown, became a number-one bestseller on Amazon and launched a brilliant trilogy that continued to garner…
Dawn IusJanuary 16, 2020
"A mystery Mrs. Christie would have approved of.” — Jane Simons, The Dog Eared Book, Palmyra, NY —∞— Bridget Kelly would prefer to stay in London to complete her nursing training and aid the injured, but her matron has other plans for her. As World War II rages, children are…
Amanda GardnerOctober 12, 2021
When it comes to certain eras in ancient history, tangible, irrefutable facts are few and far between. A lot of our knowledge about these people and their cultures comes from painstaking research paired with the educated guesswork of experts like N.L. Holmes, who writes in the historical notes that begin…
Chelsea CicconeAugust 18, 2021
