The vampire mythos hasn’t been this creepy since Bram Stoker wrote Dracula. In Z. Rider’s horror debut, bandmates Dan and Ray are on the last leg of a long tour when they take a shortcut down an alley one night and are attacked by... Read More

The stories of Beowulf and Genesis are played out across a postapocalyptic Texas in a book that is not only witty and exciting but wickedly smart to boot. Thirty years ago, the world ended—most of humanity is gone, half of the American... Read More

In Stan Schatt’s "Silent Partner", a tabloid reporter into S&M and his lover of the week are found dead in a motel room, and Detective Frankie Ryan is back on duty just in time to get the case. As a woman in a male-dominated... Read More

Richard Gid Powers’s "The Mystery of the Trinity" takes off in medias res and doesn’t let up its relentless pace until the very end. Ann Grayce, heiress and one of America’s most prominent Catholics, suddenly finds herself leading... Read More

Georgia Frontiere’s "Horoscope" is a thrilling race against time, as a serial killer obsessed with astrology terrorizes the east coast. Women are turning up dead, tied together by the astrological symbols carved into their legs. And... Read More

In Sara Sue Hoklotubbe’s newest Sadie Walela mystery, "Sinking Suspicions", Sadie is trapped in Hawai’i after an earthquake hits, leaving her far away from her Oklahoma home at a time when she’s most needed. Her neighbor, Buck... Read More

Parisian police commander Charlemagne Truchard is called back to his family’s vineyard in the small village of Nuits-Saint-Georges after the death of his older brother, in R. M. Cartmel’s fascinating debut, "The Richebourg Affair".... Read More

Hollywood publicist Joe Bernardi is back, in the ninth book of Peter S. Fischer’s eminently entertaining Hollywood Murder Mysteries series, "Eyewitness to Murder". The year is 1955, and Burt Lancaster and Harold Hecht want Joe to do... Read More