This is an engaging and quick read, and the mystery stories within the story are intriguing.

Bug is forced to consider what loyalty means, and he must face a potentially dark path ahead.

A compelling Gothic suspense story that keeps you guessing.

Kidd offers a creepy, dark mystery gloriously steeped in details of Victorian London and seedy, sordid characters, and heroes with heart.

In “Hard Cash Valley,” we spend page time with small-time drug dealers, cockfighting masterminds, Filipino gangsters, and crooked police.

Veronica is a strong and unorthodox main protagonist who finds herself entangled in a dangerous set of circumstances.

Brown kept me happily turning the pages to see who would get what was coming to them. Cross, double-cross! This book really hit the spot....

When old college friends are snowed in, truths begin to come out and uncomfortable confrontations erupt.

The final book in Maureen Johnson's young adult Truly Devious trilogy wraps up the story, but I missed the earlier books' banter.

Wrobel supplies Münchausen syndrome by proxy, lies, betrayals, and double-crossing, within a claustrophobic mother-daughter relationship.

Child's Jack Reacher eschews societal standards of beauty and the judgment that often surrounds addiction. Jack Reacher doesn’t follow...

Anappara captures the myriad sights, sounds, smells—and complicated network of politics and power—in an impoverished Indian neighborhood.

This was creepy and smart and kept me hooked, wondering if the characters were who they said they were. Libby Jones was adopted as an...

Sutton and Smith must identify and confront dark forces that might be manipulating—and destroying—minds and the very framework of society.

I loved Pobi's mystery, the character of Page, and the smart commentary about gun ownership and responsibility.

Harper's mysteries read like twisty character-driven Westerns set in Australia, and things aren’t always what they seem. I thought this was

Wolfe's book was a fun, quick read that kept me engaged the whole way through. The Elizabethan-era detail in A Murder by Any Name was...

Within a suspenseful mystery structure, French explores privilege, interconnectedness, and the many shades of gray that complicate things.

I didn’t feel as attached to Aaron in this mystery set in the Australian bush, but I still love Harper's tone and pacing, and I'm in for her

Harper's small-town Australia dark secrets and twists and turns have me totally hooked.