Mystery
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Ad/PR. Many thanks to Kensington Publishing and NetGalley for this ARC. people have been trashing the Holbrook name for generations, and I’ve never once cared. But now that the Holbrook family chowder recipe has been dragged into it, well, that’s sacred. Book 1 in the Downeast Maine Mystery series, introducing Halibut Cove, a small fishing…
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Ad/PR. Many thanks to Crooked Lane Books and NetGalley for this ARC. Neeti stood back and looked around at her neighbors, realizing that she just might be looking at a murderer. Forced into early retirement from her job as a librarian, Neeti Shah is wondering what to do with her life, when one of her…
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Night falls. A full moon ripens in the black expanse amid a dusting of cold stars. Autumn Springs is quiet as a graveyard. Rose DuBois is enjoying her autonomy, keeping herself busy in her retirement and keeping her friend Miller at arm’s length whenever he tries to move beyond friendship and into dating territory. But…
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Ad/PR. Many thanks to Random House Publishing Group – Del Rey, Random House Worlds, Inklore and NetGalley for this ARC. Book 2 in the Shadow of the Leviathan series. In book 1 The Tainted Cup, Robert Jackson Bennet introduced the world to the Empire of Khanum, the leviathans, and the brilliant, blindfolded Iudex Investigator Anagosa…
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“Malinee told me about you.” Her gaze was guarded. “The detective,” she said, making it sound like an eccentric hobby. Ad/PR. Many thanks to Joffe Books at www.joffebooks.com and NetGalley for providing this ARC. When an antiques dealer falls to his death from his balcony, British Indian translator and private investigator Vijay Mistry can’t help…
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“If we want change, or good fortune, or solace, we have to create it for ourselves.” Solarpunk is an optimistic view of the future, envisioning a world where people have learned to live in harmony with nature, emphasising sustainability and humanity. A Psalm for the Wild-Built is a novella that serves as a perfect example…
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“Four men, three with guitars and one behind them on the drums were singing That’ll Be The Day. They sounded, and felt, as good as melted butter tastes on warm sweetbread.” In Bonnie writes The Beatles, the year is 1962, and the American Bonnie Bell is accompanying her journalist father on a trip to Hamburg.…
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Sherry Pinkwhistle woke up to the deep silence of snowfall, cozily ensconced in the warmth of her bed and the knowledge that she had just solved another murder. Sherry Pinkwhistle works as a librarian in Winesap, New York. A quaint little village with a surprisingly high murder rate, and a local sheriff who hates interference…
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She could have made herself small and unthreatening. She could have hovered over people’s shoulders like a pet or a children’s toy, as was the fashion among older shipminds. But she’d lived through a war, an uprising and a famine, and she was done with diminishing herself to spare the feelings of others. The Shadow’s…
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Ad/PR. Many thanks to Penguin Random House Christian Publishing and WaterBrook for this ARC via Netgalley. The Inklings were a group of writers, including C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, who met on an informal basis to discuss and read their literary works. In The Inklings Detective Agency, the author asks what might have happened if…
