Mystery Book Reviews

Heart Break by MF Moskwik

 Heart Break by MF MoskwikHeart Break by MK Moskwik is a fun and spirited tech-driven mystery with a likable central character, Isabel Swift, an engaging protagonist for a new series. Swift is an up and coming police officer and human lie detector who dreams of making detective. Her mentor, Ben, dies mysteriously and Swift learns there may be a connection with his death and her latest case about stolen technology. She’s paired with a surly data scientist who’s making her job more difficult. When other cops are found murdered, Swift has only 48 hours to connect the dots, solve her mentor’s death, and make […]

2015-06-30T07:15:54+02:00June 30th, 2015|Categories: New Releases|Tags: |

Review: Murder Over Kodiak by Robin Barefield ★★★★

Murder Over Kodiak by Robin Barefield Murder Over Kodiak, by Robin Barefield, is a clever Alaskan-set mystery that will keep readers guessing until the final pages.

Research biologist Jane Marcus has a bad feeling when the floatplane she’s waiting for is late. On the plane is her young research assistant. The weather is perfect and Jane is familiar with the charter company. While Jane hopes there’s a good reason for the delay she fears the worst.

And indeed the worst has happened. A bomb has exploded on the plane she’s waiting for, and there are little remains left of the pilot and five passengers. Why […]

2017-03-24T10:29:21+02:00June 17th, 2015|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: |

Review: Black & White & Dead All Over by Anna Castle ★★★★★

Black and White and Dead All Over

What happens when the Internet service provider in a small town spies on his clients’ cyber-lives and blackmails them for gifts and services?

Murder and mayhem abound in Anna Castle’s cozy mystery novel Black & White & Dead All Over.

Penelope Trigg is new to Lost Hat, Texas. She’s opened a photography studio and has a few clients, some friends, and has started dating a sexy and successful man. Everything is going well. That is until she submits nude figure studies of her boyfriend to a contest. Penny receives an email blackmailing her. If she fails to comply, the […]

2015-11-24T06:32:23+02:00May 29th, 2015|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: , |

The Street Rod Mystery by Judy Iverson

The Street Rod MysteryThe Street Rod Mystery by Judy Iverson is a spirited and engaging mystery about the disappearance of a young woman girl at a fifties car show. The girl is kept captive by a car-obsessed man who first fell in love with a 1959 Buick Electra 225 convertible. A huge manhunt begins for the young woman, while she tries to evade her captor, and we learn of his twisted impulses that led to the abduction, a plan that was thirty years in the making.

What makes The Street Rod Mystery unique is that it’s an ode to cars, as well as […]

2015-05-22T05:22:52+02:00May 22nd, 2015|Categories: New Releases|Tags: |

Review: Dream Child (Dream Series Book 3) by J. J. DiBenedetto ★★★★★

Dream Child by J. J. DiBenedettoDream Child by J. J. DiBenedetto continues the story of Dr. Sara Alderson, following on from the second book in the Dream series, Dream Doctor, as she and her husband Brian have become parents to four-year-old daughter Lizzie. Now a first-year resident pediatrician as well as wife and mother, Sara barely has time to dream herself when Lizzie begins to show signs of her mother’s ability to enter the dreams of others. As Sara prepares for two new surprise additions to her family, Lizzie enters the dreams of a new friend: a young boy who just so happens to […]

2017-03-24T10:39:33+02:00May 8th, 2015|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: , |

Review: Dream Doctor (Dream Series Book 2) by J. J. DiBenedetto ★★★★★

Dream Doctor by J. J. DiBenedettoDream Doctor by J. J. DiBenedetto is the second book in the Dream series, continuing the story of Sara Alderson (née Barnes), former pre-med – soon-to-be med student, and now newly-wed, as she tries to move on from the events of debut novel Dream Student.

After a year and a half of peace, her sensitivity to the dreams of others suddenly re-emerges the night before her wedding to fiancé Brian, bringing back the troubling feeling of imminent danger as she remembers the horrific acts of the killer she had unwittingly become dream-witness to. As she enters her first month […]

2017-03-24T10:40:01+02:00May 8th, 2015|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: , |

Review: The Dissector by L. L. Spriggs ★★★★

The Dissector The Dissector, by L. L. Spriggs, is medical school mystery that will make most readers think twice the next time they see their doctor.

Dr. Sarah Whitley is ecstatic when she’s hired as an Assistant Professor of Anatomy in a prestigious medical school in New Orleans. Soon she learns that not everything is as it seems. When Sarah was a student she admired her professors. Now that she witnesses what happens behind the scenes, she starts questioning the motives, qualifications, and morals of those she teaches with. When Sarah is asked to help out in the morgue she learns […]

2017-03-24T10:56:02+02:00April 13th, 2015|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: , |

Review: Sleeping to Death by G. D. Baum ★★★★

sleeping to deathSleeping to Death, by G. D. Baum, is the second book in the Lock Tourmaline murder mystery series.

Lock Tourmaline is a New Jersey private investigator. Lock, a former cop, is working as a bodyguard for Korean druglords. Jason Heung, the brother of the head of the Korean organization, is murdered in prison. Susan Heung wants Lock to find out who murdered her brother since the authorities aren’t looking into his murder.

While trying to solve the mystery, Lock is also dealing with his ex-wife, who wants to buy DVDs that show her performing a sexual act with her […]

2017-03-24T11:03:48+02:00March 24th, 2015|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: , , |
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