Merging out-of-the-ordinary events with everyday relationship dramas, "Even After Always" is a captivating bildungsroman. Steven Ives’s stirring coming-of-age novel "Even After Always" mixes mystery and romance into its story of... Read More

In the thrilling novel "Mean Low Water", a Southern lawyer searches for her missing childhood friend with desperate hope. In Stephanie Alexander’s emotive novel "Mean Low Water", longtime friends who share a special gift experience... Read More

In Lilian West’s mystery novel "Pretty Dead Things", a bride-to-be works to solve a peculiar cold case buried and forgotten about for decades. Newly engaged Cora relocates to Hickory Falls, the small town where her fiancé grew up. At... Read More

In Ellen Kirschman’s stunning mystery novel "Call Me Carmela", a police psychologist helps a teenager find her birth parents, exposing secrets that endanger everyone involved. Dot, a contract psychologist with the police department,... Read More

In Graeme Macrae Burnet’s kaleidoscopic novel "A Case of Matricide", an inspector’s investigation into doppelgänger circumstances forces a confrontation with morality. Masquerading as a translation of a French novel whose author,... Read More

With noir pacing, a laid-back sensibility, and a touch of humor, the newest book in Andy Weinberger’s Amos Parisman detective series, the cozy mystery novel "The Gonif" finds the elderly detective navigating a crime impacting the... Read More

The public’s adamant adherence to their snap decisions impedes the justice process in the harrowing novel "An American Tragedy", about a teacher accused of sexual abuse. A preschool scandal leads to a clash between outrage and justice... Read More

A mudslide sets off a string of unexplained violence in "The Orchids Lady", a sun-suffused mystery novel in Freya Smallwood’s Abelove and Bradley series. Ogy Bradley is a neuroscientist and widower who returns home to find his quiet... Read More