Category: mystery/suspense







Author Interview: Kristen Hogrefe Parnell & Take My Hand

Author Interview: Kristen Hogrefe Parnell & Take My Hand

Posted December 5, 2022 / 5 Comments

Please join me in welcoming author Kristen Hogrefe Parnell to the blog today to chat about her new novel, Take My Hand! Kristen Hogrefe Parnell writes suspenseful fiction from a faith perspective for women and young adults. Her own suspense story involved waiting on God into her thirties to meet […]


Book Review (and a Giveaway!): Death by Puffin by Jennifer S. Alderson

Book Review (and a Giveaway!): Death by Puffin by Jennifer S. Alderson

Posted December 3, 2022 / 5 Comments

DEATH BY PUFFIN by Jennifer S. Alderson SERIES: Travel Can Be Murder #9 GENRE: Cozy Mystery PUBLISHER: Traveling Life Press RELEASE DATE: November 24, 2022 PAGES: 224 Iceland—land of fire, ice … and murder? After a nasty fight with her boyfriend, tour guide Lana Hansen takes a week off work […]


Book Spotlight (and a Giveaway!): Her Sister’s Death by K.L. Murphy

Book Spotlight (and a Giveaway!): Her Sister’s Death by K.L. Murphy

Posted December 2, 2022 / 3 Comments

HER SISTER’S DEATH by K.L. Murphy GENRE: Mystery/Psychological Suspense PUBLISHER: CamCat Books RELEASE DATE: December 13, 2022 PAGES: 352 She wanted the truth. She should have known better. When her sister is found dead in a Baltimore hotel room, reporter Val Ritter’s world is turned upside down. What’s worse—an empty […]








Top Ten Tuesday: A Bunch of Books With Thanksgiving Scenes

Top Ten Tuesday: A Bunch of Books With Thanksgiving Scenes

Posted November 22, 2022 / 18 Comments

Happy Tuesday! Today the theme for Top Ten Tuesday is a ‘thankful freebie’ so I decided to look at a bunch of books from the last five years with Thanksgiving scenes in them. For some of these titles, it’s a major part of the story. For others, a more minor […]



Book Review (and a Giveaway!): Concrete Evidence by DiAnn Mills

Book Review (and a Giveaway!): Concrete Evidence by DiAnn Mills

Posted November 21, 2022 / 6 Comments

CONCRETE EVIDENCE by DiAnn Mills GENRE: Inspirational Romantic Suspense PUBLISHER: Tyndale House RELEASE DATE: October 4, 2022 PAGES: 405 On the family’s Brazos River Ranch in Texas, Avery Elliott helps run her grandfather’s commercial construction business. Raised by Senator Elliott, Avery has never doubted her grandfather is the man of […]


First Line Friday (week 316): The Christy Award 2022 winners

First Line Friday (week 316): The Christy Award 2022 winners

Posted November 18, 2022 / 9 Comments

Happy Friday & welcome to the First Line Friday link-up! It’s still Friday, right? I apologize that this wasn’t up on time today but I was out of town for the Art of Writing conference & Christy Award gala and my laptop refused to be cooperative last night after the […]


Book Spotlight: Under a Veiled Moon by Karen Odden

Book Spotlight: Under a Veiled Moon by Karen Odden

Posted November 16, 2022 / 1 Comment

UNDER A VEILED MOON by Karen Odden SERIES: Inspector Corravan #2 GENRE: Historical / Victorian Mystery PUBLISHER: Crooked Lane RELEASE DATE: October 11, 2022 PAGES: 336 In the tradition of C. S. Harris and Anne Perry, a fatal disaster on the Thames and a roiling political conflict set the stage […]