Whitney Dagner has returned to her home town, Santa Catalina Island, off the California coast. She’s running her family’s gift shop (somewhat unsuccessfully) and she’s also a part-time tour boat guide. She’s learning the hard way, that many of the local year-round...

Global #1 bestselling author, David Baldacci, offers us another superb mystery/crime drama, Dream Town, featuring his hard-living gumshoe, Aloysius Archer. It’s New Year’s Eve 1952. Archer is looking forward to celebrating with his old friend, an aspiring actress,...

The small tourist town of Confection, Oregon, isn’t as sweet as it’s name in this exceptional cozy mystery by Kitt Crowe. A Poisonous Page is a cozy lover’s dream – Kitt Crowe gives us one neat, tidy mystery wrapped to perfection and topped with a blood-red bow! Lexi...

Twenty-nine year old Sissy Yoder has packed up her bags and Duke (her Yorkshire terrier) –she’s not gettin’ outta Dodge – she’s gettin’ out of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Seems like things just weren’t working out in Tulsa, especially when it came to her cowboy boyfriend. Now...

Looking for something different when it comes to stellar mysteries? Then check out Guilty Creatures recently released by Poison Pen Press. This is another “fine” example of a compilation of mysteries from the British Library Crime Classics. I’ve really gotten...

Whether you know her as cozy mystery maven Leslie Budewitz or as suspense novelist Alicia Beckman – or both – it doesn’t matter – it’s all good! Below is my interview with this versatile author: Leslie, your As The Christmas Cookie Crumbles (A Food Lovers’...

I don’t know exactly why I was instantly hooked on Meet Isabel Puddles – but I was and I am! Maybe it’s because she’s an older widowed woman juggling an assortment of part-time jobs to bring in extra income. Maybe it’s because she’s a fan of Mannix, Rockford,...

I’ve taken several trips to the quaint town of Jewel Bay, Montana – compliments of Leslie Budewitz, through her Food Lovers’ Village Mystery series. This series is filled with plenty of down-to-earth warmth, with characters as solid as the plots and, of course, the...