I like a story driven by a female investigaor of a main protagonist, and in this small-town mystery and tragedy, officer Emmy Clifton...

I feel compelled to see this series through to its end. The Robin-Strike tension is finally spoken aloud, although not resolved, and the...

I was delighted by the poignancy, humor, and layers in the first installment of this series of stories about sharp, disparate...

Smith was inspired by the real-life Victorian England case of a cockney impostor attempting to wrest an inheritance from the nobility,...

The Briar Club employs nine points of view to tell the story of life in a female-only boarding house in 1950s, McCarthy-era Washington,...

I loved the twist, double-twist of my first Cavanagh mystery, and the story's revenge and renegade justice are layered with unexpected...

Amity Gaige's Appalachian Trail-set novel offers several of my favorite elements: a Maine setting, a missing-person storyline, an...

Norlin draws the reader into the eerie heart of a small group living sequestered in the Swedish forest as they gradually fall into...

In the second installment of the series, retired CIA agents build stronger bonds with each other in rural Maine while assisting (and...

While Veronica and Stoker stay close to home while entering into danger and solving the mysteries in book six of this series, Raybourn...

The first in the author's young adult steampunk Finishing School series offers wonderful, typically strong Carriger women with unique...

I was taken with the premise of conflicts and mystery in a post-colonial West African city, but I didn't feel very connected to or...

Walker offers an unreliable main protagonist, her dedicated new psychiatrist, increasingly inexplicable and complicated occurrences, and...

Harpman's slim novel poses a mysterious situation without promising concrete explanations. Our main protagonist knows little about her...

The playful tone and clever main protagonist in Olivia Waite's science-fiction novella make for an appealing mystery and lay the...

Mysteries abound within McConaghy's Wild Dark Shore , but the story is largely an atmospheric story of isolation and loss set against the...

The glamorous setting of Capri is the star of Saltwater . I struggled to care about the characters' sense of life-and-death stakes...

The pacing of The Life We Bury built from slow and steady to a whirlwind. It always seemed clear that we would have clean resolutions to...

I love a frigid setting, and Rene Denfeld's The Child Finder immerses the reader in an icy, wild forest as instinctive, savvy, and...

Killers of a Certain Age was darkly funny, action-packed, feminist, and friend-focused. I love the second installment's return to my...