Mystery Reads

Featured Book: Born to Love: Keiki & Lia Thriller by Amy Shojai

Can the past unlock the future and love preserve a life?

A puppy’s job is to learn. Keiki relishes the sights, sounds and smells of her world, but people frustrate and confuse her. Why do humans control all the good stuff?

Lia Corazon channels her energy and emotions into the dogs she trains in her North Texas kennel. She especially enjoys four-month-old Keiki’s enthusiasm, but the pup’s owner makes her uneasy. There’s something very…wrong about him.

When a vicious storm, violent flood, and scary creatures menace Keiki, her Rottweiler bravery comes through. But what can a good-dog do when a human enemy threatens? Keiki must use all she’s learned if she’s to save Lia from a killer.

Buy Born to Love: Keiki & Lia Thriller Here

Amy Shojai’s Website
Follow Amy Shojai on Facebook
Follow Amy Shojai on Twitter
Amy Shojai’s GoodReads Profile

Featured Book: Murder in Murloo by Brigid George

By Mystery Reads Leave a Comment

FREE! (December 9 – 13) Over 90 reviews – mostly 5 stars.

It has been a year since a popular young woman was strangled in her home in the seaside village of Murloo but the killer’s identity remains a mystery.

The victim’s family call in investigative journalist Dusty Kent who has an impeccable record in solving the cold cases she writes about. Dusty’s determination to investigate unresolved crime is driven by a personal connection through her own family tragedy. However, this case tests Dusty to the limit and she despairs of ever catching the callous killer who seems to be lurking nearby and yet…

A gripping mystery imbued with the ambience of Australia—from the mysterious wood carving found with the body, the captivating characters of a small town, to the coastal splendour of the Southern Ocean.

‘Murder in Murloo’ (a classic who-dun-it) is the first of the Dusty Kent murder mysteries.

Buy Murder in Murloo Here

Brigid George’s Website

Featured Book: A Devious Mind by Bigid George

By Mystery Reads Leave a Comment

FREE! (Nov 10 to 14th) Mostly 5 star reviews!

It was a silent death. One blow to her head was all it took. The killer struck Marcia Hamilton, a sixty-year-old grandmother of slim build, from behind. Marcia’s status as a distinguished author could not save her. The killer rolled her body, ‘like a piece of discarded junk’, down into a gully where it remained for almost two weeks.

A Devious Mind is an enthralling whodunit awash with mystery and atmosphere — from the message seemingly sent by the murder victim after her death, to the intrigue of family dynamics, to the ambling lifestyle of Byron Bay: Australia’s famous beach town. If you like a good mystery, don’t miss this one!

This is Book #2 of the Dusty Kent murder mysteries following Murder in Murloo

Buy A Devious Mind Here

Bigid George’s Website

Featured Book: Dead Girls Don’t Blog by Pamela Frost Dennis

By Mystery Reads Leave a Comment

Sometimes doing the right thing can get you dead …

As Katy McKenna struggles to rebuild the successful career she suspended to chase her cheating wasband’s dreams, her life suddenly takes a dramatic turn when she stumbles upon a newspaper story about the upcoming parole hearing for the man who raped, kidnapped, and murdered her high school friend, sixteen years ago.

Fearing he could soon be set free to prey on other innocent young girls, Katy sets out to make sure this doesn’t happen, not realizing she might not survive to blog about it.

Meanwhile, Grandma Ruby is hell-bent on finding Katy a hunky transition man and her happily-married BFF is nagging her to blog about her anger issues.

Dead Girls Don’t Blog is a dramedy-mystery novel and the first book in the Murder Blog Mysteries.

Awarded the B.R.A.G. Medallion for excellence in independent publishing.

Buy Dead Girls Don’t Blog Here

Pamela Frost Dennis’s Website
Follow Pamela Frost Dennis on Facebook
Follow Pamela Frost Dennis on Twitter
Pamela Frost Dennis’s GoodReads Profile

Featured Book: Boxes For Beds by Maryann Miller

By Mystery Reads 1 Comment

Who is kidnapping babies in Pine Hollow Arkansas? Is is Leslie Richards, the new woman in town and a damn Yankee? Corrupt Sheriff Bates decides maybe it is, and has her arrested, despite thin circumstantial evidence. Bates has to arrest someone before the mob bosses from Chicago come down for a big meeting in Hot Springs. The mob rules Hot Springs in 1961. And own Sheriff Bates.

Leslie has come to Pine Hollow from New York with her daughter to escape secrets from her past and a broken relationship. She soon discovers that there is little peace for her in Pine Hollow.

Set in 1961, this historical mystery explores law-enforcement corruption and the beginnings of the Civil Rights Movement in Arkansas. It’s a bargain read at only $2.99 for the e-book.

Buy Boxes For Beds Here

Maryann Miller’s Website
Follow Maryann Miller on Facebook
Follow Maryann Miller on Twitter
Maryann Miller’s GoodReads Profile

Featured Book: Fatal Feverfew by Jennifer Barraclough

By Mystery Reads Leave a Comment

Fatal Feverfew is set in an isolated healing retreat in the west of England. Lucia, accompanied by her husband and cat, arrives there to recuperate from a recent illness only to find that she is suspected of poisoning their hostess. Lucia reluctantly takes on the role of detective and, with the help of the local doctor, succeeds in uncovering the true course of events and winning her husband’s respect. With echoes of the old-fashioned country house murder mystery, Fatal Feverfew is one of three medically themed novels written by Jennifer Barraclough in the 1980s but not published until thirty years later. Drawing on her experience in psychiatry and general practice, it takes a gently satirical approach to the serious themes of illness, marital disharmony and unnatural death.

Buy Fatal Feverfew Here

Featured Book: Bundle of Trouble by Diana Orgain

By Mystery Reads Leave a Comment

A body has been dredged from the San Francisco Bay. Kate Connolly, pregnant and ready to pop, has reason to fear it may be her long lost brother-in-law. When her husband is named as a suspect, Kate refuses to leave his future in anyone else’s hands and risks everything to launch her own investigation.
Victims are multiplying, and time is running out. Keeping her family together and her newborn daughter safe will depend on Kate’s ability to track down a man who doesn’t want to be found and untangle a web of lies. Can she solve the case and clear her husband’s name before it’s too late?

Buy Bundle of Trouble Here

Diana Orgain’s Website
Follow Diana Orgain on Facebook
Follow Diana Orgain on Twitter

Featured Book: Murder in Murloo by Brigid George

By Mystery Reads Leave a Comment

Only $0.99!
When a popular young woman is strangled in her home in the seaside village of Murloo, the residents are sure an itinerant surfer who disappeared after the murder is the killer. However, one year later the surfer is still missing and the killer’s identity remains a mystery.

The victim’s family call in investigative journalist Dusty Kent who has an impeccable record in solving the cold cases she writes about. Dusty’s determination to investigate unresolved crime is fuelled by a personal connection through her own family tragedy. However, this case tests Dusty to the limit and she despairs of ever catching the callous killer who seems to be lurking nearby and yet…

Buy Murder in Murloo Here

Brigid George’s Website

Featured Book: Fade Route by David Chill

By Mystery Reads Leave a Comment

A local politician is murdered and there’s one obvious suspect.

But Burnside, the former football star turned private investigator, pushes forward into an investigation that reveals more and more possible culprits, all with their own motives. With little more to go on than his gut feeling, Burnside pokes at everything around him as he tries to untangle a web of deceit that threatens to take down an entire community.

Fade Route is set on the outskirts of Los Angeles, in a seaside town that is both serenely pretty and brutally stark. It is a community that is home to the very rich and the very poor, a place that contains more than its share of affluence and beauty, as well as sin and despair. The story combines all the elements of a classic mystery, and delivers biting humor and numerous plot twists. It is a page turner that will keep the reader guessing until the jaw dropping climax reveals an ending that is both shocking and satisfying.

Buy Fade Route Here

Follow David Chill on Facebook
David Chill’s GoodReads Profile

Featured Book: The Miss Fortune Series: Christmas in the Bayou (Kindle Worlds Novella) by Riley Blake

By Mystery Reads Leave a Comment

A holiday short story for readers who love cozy mysteries with a side of thrills.

Description:

Mayor Celia Arceneaux orchestrates a special holiday surprise. She wants to celebrate Christmas by giving back to Sinful’s most unappreciated citizens—the town’s elementary school teachers.

Handing down an AOO, also known as the Arceneaux Official Order, Celia calls upon friends and foes to carry out her plans. Gertie and Ida Belle are willing to help, but Fortune doesn’t share their enthusiasm. Taking a temporary post at the school library, the former CIA assassin braces for Christmas and everything the season holds.

From trimming trees to snow on the ground, Sinful residents will celebrate a Christmas to remember. That is, until small town Louisiana makes national headlines thanks to a school shooting that isn’t what it seems.

Buy The Miss Fortune Series: Christmas in the Bayou (Kindle Worlds Novella) Here

Riley Blake’s Website
Follow Riley Blake on Twitter