Somewhere to Begin Again by Verna Clay introduces Quince Calloway, who takes leave to explore his past incarnation. Arriving in Somewhere, Oregon, Quince enters Sandy Gutierrez’s swimwear shop. The couple experiences a “zing” when they touch, and exiting, find themselves back in 1945. Quince is...

In Swindler’s Revenge by Ellen Butler, the fifth offering in the Karina Cardinal series, Karina finds her lazy Saturday morning routine interrupted when the FBI comes knocking on her door and proceeds to ransack her living quarters in search of her ex-boyfriend, FBI agent Michael...

Marc Jedel's three novels in the Silicon Valley Cozy Mystery Series Box Set (Books 1-3) are contemporary cozy mystery stories. Marty Golden is an amateur sleuth. He is also a software engineer analyzing software code for a start-up company, "Rover," which makes driverless cars. Marty...

Saddled Hearts (The White Rune) by Jan Sikes recounts the heartfelt romance between Colt Layne and Sage Coventry. Colt is perplexed when Jeremiah Tompkins appears with a claim that his grandfather gambled the ranch away. Determined to save the property, he consults a psychic adviser...

Renny deGroot's Sea Child: Cape Breton Mysteries Book 2 is a well-crafted and suspenseful crime story set in Cape Breton Is., Nova Scotia, Canada. Adam MacDonald, a lobster fisherman, is found dead aboard his fishing boat "Sea Child" in Pleasant Bay. The medical examiner ruled...

Do not leave your toy skeleton unattended in a bathtub for more than 24 hours. If you dared to use a magical pan flute, at least don't forget the name of your familiar. Remember that mirrors always lie, even if you buy one in the...

Not even the anonymity that comes with an assumed identity is enough to keep Jim Peterson off the radar of his pursuer in Philip Derrick's latest book, Saigon Spring. The Vietnam War is drawing to a slow, painful conclusion and Jim has left it behind....

Shattered Dreams by Joanne Hughson is the second book in the Shattered series, following on from Shattered Lies. Emarie Lukins is about to get married. A successful writer with a fantastic family and a man she loves, she should be about to embark on the...

Marla Vail is blissfully enjoying being a new mother and thinks that her days of chasing clues instead of managing feeding schedules are behind her in Nancy J. Cohen’s latest cozy mystery, Styled for Murder. The universe has other plans for the amateur sleuth when...

Sacred Mounds by Jim Metzner reads like a magical mystery tour thanks to a clever plot involving spiritual time travel and body switching. The story starts innocently enough with the main character, Salvador Lewis Samuels, trying to save a young woman from drowning in the...