In Bad Things Feel Best by Ivy Smoak, Aspiring writer Hazel Fox thought she had found the perfect job: becoming an assistant to Athena Quinn, a popular and quite reclusive romance author. But as soon as she arrives on the small South Carolina island and enters Quinn’s creepy mansion, Hazel […]
Heart of Gold by B.J. Daniels: Charlie’s stepsister Lindy was murdered fifteen years ago. So how was she standing just across the street? Charlie Farmington was shocked when she saw her “dead” stepsister Lindy across the street from her apartment. So shocked that she fainted.
In A Hard Day for a Hangover by Darynda Jones, Sunshine Vicram admittedly hasn’t been back in her hometown of Del Sol for long, but she honestly doesn’t remember it being quite so…wacky. As the new sheriff, she hears (just about) everything that goes on. Between the neighborhood flasher who […]
Love in the Time of Serial Killers by Alicia Thompson: With dark humour splattered neatly throughout every page, Love in the Time of Serial Killers is an exploration of what it means to love when you have braced your heart for the worst of the worst, actually falling in love and […]
Colton’s Secret Sabotage by Deborah Fletcher Mello is the seventh book in the Coltons of Colorado series. Each book is written by a different author, and I thought it worked well as a standalone. I’ve only read one other book in the series; while characters from that book did make appearances […]
In Riley Thorn and the Blast from the Past by Lucy Score, Riley Thorn has to admit that after a summer filled with one dangerous situation after another, she’s ready to kick back with her boyfriend, Nick, and relax in their new-to-them house. Surely they’ve earned some downtime, right? Erm, […]
In Indigo Ridge (The Edens #1) by Devney Perry, As a police officer, Winslow Covington has seen a lot of things–some of which she’d prefer to forget. But as the new chief of police in Quincy, Montana, she’s up against too many battles to keep track. She’s considered an outsider […]
In Last Seen Alone by Laura Griffin, Vanessa Adams has disappeared. Discovering a pool of blood in the woods near her abandoned car, homicide detective Brandon Reynolds believes the worst has happened. A business card for attorney Leigh Larson leads him to her office.
Don’t Look Now by Mary Burton: Jordan Poe is a relatively new homicide detective in Austin, Texas. She has an excellent solve rate. She is called to a crime scene where the victim has suffocated and is totally wrapped in plastic.
Right Behind Her by Melinda Leigh is the fourth book in her Bree Taggert series Bree Taggert leaves her job as a homicide detective in Philadelphia and moves back home to Grey’s Hollow, New York and is now the sheriff there. Bree survived a terrible tragedy in her childhood. Her brutal, […]