by Leonard Goldberg | Apr 3, 2025 | Features
Writers are in general strange creatures of habit. They tend to behave in an odd fashion and usually do so when well out of sight. Allow me to give you an example. There is an individual sitting at a desk in a vacant room, with the door and windows closed. The person...
by Elise Cooper | Apr 3, 2025 | Author Interviews, Features
Pretty Dead Things Lilian West Crooked Lane Books Dec 10th, 2024 Pretty Dead Things by Lilian West is a mystery that intertwines secrets, heartbreak, and small-town intrigue. The novel connects the lives of Cora who is trying to adjust to life in Hickory Falls, and...
by Ann Chadwick | Apr 3, 2025 | Books, Reviews
Oxford’s legacy as a crime fiction hotspot continues with a gripping new mystery that steps into the shadow of the city’s most famous detective, Inspector Morse. Mind Over Murder, the first novel in the Janna Rose Mysteries series by Jake Lynch and Annabel McGoldrick,...
by Sara Foster | Apr 1, 2025 | Features, Five Things
The inner lives of the wealthy has always been a juicy topic for writers, but this tireless theme has hit new heights of popularity again lately, with trending shows like Succession and White Lotus pulling back the curtain and looking at how the gilded few with...
by Elise Cooper | Apr 1, 2025 | Author Interviews, Books, Features
The Only Light in London Lily Graham HBGUSA/Bookouture Pub Feb 20th, 2024 The Only Light in London by Lily Graham is a heart wrenching story. It delves with loneliness, love, endurance and compassion. The plot has a Jewish journalist, Sebastien, in Germany, needing to...
by Erin Mitchell | Apr 1, 2025 | Behind the Book, Features
Although Falls to Pieces is the shortest book I’ve ever written, the story took longer than any other to write. New to the psychological thriller genre, I intended for this pivot to stick and thus, studied the genre for years before daring to try my hand at it. My...
by Elise Cooper | Mar 31, 2025 | Author Interviews, Books, Features
Leave No Trace Cold Burn Book 1 and Book 2 Michael Walker National Park Thriller A. J. Landau Minotaur Books Leave No Trace and Cold Burn by A. J. Landau had the US National Parks as a main character. A.J. Landau is a pseudonym for veteran authors Jon Land and Jeff...
by Sarah Reida | Mar 29, 2025 | Books, Reviews
Vivid, sexy settings often serve thrillers well, and The French Honeymoon by Anne-Sophie Jouhanneau is one such example. The answers to this fast-paced mystery slide into place like the pieces of a satisfying puzzle, all against a Paris backdrop that makes one...
by Elise Cooper | Mar 28, 2025 | Author Interviews, Books, Features
Rustler Mountain Book 1of the Rustler Mountain Series Maisey Yates Kensington Pub Feb 25th, 2025 Rustler Mountain by Maisey Yates is two stories in one novel. There is the modern western and it also takes readers back to the Wild West days. The Wild West was...
by Helena Dixon | Mar 27, 2025 | Features
Most readers will know me best for the Miss Underhay series, set in 1930’s Devon. Book 20in that series, Murder at an English Manor will be out in May and there are many more booksplanned. So why write something new? The Secret Detective Agency, set in 1941, started...
