RETURNING VETERANS’ ANGUISH, challenges are at the core of this complex, thoughtful mystery, 7th in a series.

HAPLESS, NEUROTIC SLEUTH Teddy Ruzak is back with  another complicated (and less lighthearted than usual) case.

SNARKY, FAST-PACED CAPER with a casino setting and a memorable cast of grifters, drifters, and gamblers.

THE BEST MAISIE DOBBS mystery yet finds the English sleuth facing the fallout of 1932’s international tensions.

MEDICAL/LEGAL THRILLER’S timely Big Pharma theme, vivid courtroom detail are sadly undermined by clunky prose.

WACKY META-MYSTERY is also a parody of dysfunctional collaborations, authors undermining each other. Good fun!

SCOTLAND’S MOST ECCENTRIC DETECTIVE, Hamish Macbeth, is back with another taut mystery all snuggled up in cozy.

COZY SEASIDE MYSTERY is as brilliant as its sixty-something sleuths, a New Age healer and her civil servant pal.

COZY MINNESOTA COOKING mystery is as charming as its 13 predecessors, but skimping on central whodunnit annoys.

DRY WIT AND BARCELONA flavor make this Catalan mystery (with bumbling Columboesque twin detectives!) awesome.