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Dominatrix Investigates String of Disappearances

Although it is Elizabeth Cromwell, tall, imposing, blond and beautiful, who strides through Preposterous (Exponential Press) Jennifer Mason’s latest work of fiction — often brandishing a braided whip — she’s seldom alone. She’s got an almost endless and certainly multifarious troupe of characters in tow. VARIOUS SUPPORTING CHARACTERS There’s Harrington, her…
Sherri Daley
June 16, 2022
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Secrets, Skeletons and Sociopaths

In The Girl With No Name (Bookouture), bestselling author Lisa Regan returns to the town of Denton, PA, and its newly appointed police chief, Josie Quinn.  Josie was close to becoming a victim herself in capturing a serial killer who abducted and killed girls for pleasure. She thinks the nightmare…
K.L. Romo
October 7, 2020
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Mysteries and Middle Age Woes in “Pilate’s Blood”

Everybody slows down in their forties. Shouldn’t the same go for action heroes? This is the sort of commentary with which author J. Alexander Greenwood subverts the mystery series formula in Pilate’s Blood. John Pilate returns home to Cross Township to accept a position as the town constable while they…
Jeff Daugherty
June 13, 2019
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Detective Team Unveils Mystery in 1930s Chicago

Michelle Cox suspects she may have once lived in the 1930s. Perhaps that is why she writes about the period so adeptly. Chicago is the setting for her award-winning Henrietta and Inspector Howard series, engaging plots that charm us with modern-minded characters enmeshed in a world full of social expectations,…
Anne Eliot Feldman
June 12, 2019
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Join a Paranormal Hunt for a Vanished Town in Snowy Thriller

The opening quote of Abandon reads: “In the West, the past is very close. In many places, it still believes it's the present. - John Masters” Similar to real life, in Blake Crouch's western thriller, the present parallels the past. Mothers are haunted by lost children. Fathers attempt to reconcile…
C Runyon
January 16, 2023