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by Henrietta Thornton

There’s no horror here but plenty of scares as nine-year-old Effie must parent her siblings in her family’s freezing shack in the western New …

by Danise Hoover

Tiny Dickens Island, located in the sound between Connecticut and Long Island, has a small permanent population composed of families in the midst of …

by Henrietta Thornton

Brace yourself: this tale of obsession is WILD. Our DC public relations protagonist, Margo, is worried her life isn’t going as planned, with the …

by Jeff Ayers

Kipness compellingly combines her background as a sports reporter with her love of crime fiction, and her latest Kate Green thriller is her best …

by Brian Kenney

A homeless man is discovered dead in Bristol’s park-like Clifton Downs. End of the story, right? Not if you are DS Cross, who “was …

by Brian Kenney

A new installment in Trincheri’s mystery series is a call for nothing less than celebration. Retired NYPD detective Nico Doyle, now living in Tuscany, …