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An archive of past book reviews in mystery, thriller, crime, horror, and other suspense-related genres.
A Lonesome Blood-red Sun
The victim is someone he knows
Leave the Lights On
A two-year-old boy is abducted
Long Past Dues
A perilous journey to the mysterious subterranean city below Boston
Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Lord
A longtime friend has died of a fit
The Blue Monsoon
The desecration of a body at a Hindu place of worship puts the city on edge
Finlay Donovan Rolls the Dice
They sneak into the loan shark’s suite to search for clues
Nine Lives and Alibis
The town busybody books a secret reading
Buried in the Backwater
Her killer remains a mystery
A Cold Highland Wind
Intricate dual timelines explore slavery and mystery in Scotland
That Summer in Berlin
Her adventure takes a darker turn
Dark Ride
Two kids have nobody else but him
Dark Memory
Evil has come to their small town
The Ghost Orchid
A pool boy enters a secluded Bel Air property and discovers two bodies
Silent Key
The man she loved was a stranger
Night Owl
The mystery of the sabotage quickly deepens
Vampires of El Norte
Her home has long been threatened by tensions with Anglo settlers
Past Lying
Edinburgh is in lockdown, but that doesn’t mean crime takes a holiday
Dead Man's Hand
His former mentor is murdered down the street from where he works
Second Term
Her team barely repels the large force of invaders
Weird Tales
100 Years of Weird
Station Eternity
Aliens and humans alike begin to die
Blood Lines
They might have learned too much about US clandestine operations
The Beautiful and the Wild
Extreme weather, starvation, and wildlife are not the only threats
The Last Close Call
The pressure of police cases left her burned out
The Last Guardian
He will join forces with allies he’s not sure he can trust
One Last Kill
They’re off to find the twisted truth behind a killer’s motives
Good Bad Girl
Three suspects, two murders, and one victim
A Curse of Queens
No one knows who is behind the plot to threaten the fragile new peace
The Ghost Illusion
Ghostly voices seem to haunt the Victorian house
Ruthless
His confession is connected to a string decades-old disappearances
Midnight is the Darkest Hour
They comb the town’s secret underbelly in search of true evil
When I'm Dead
She unearths disturbing details about her daughter and her transgressions
The Buried
A legacy of evil that must be reckoned with at last
The Dark Edge of Night
He risks bringing the wrath of both the SS and the Gestapo upon himself
The Golden Gate
Some say she haunts the Claremont still
Remi Bone
A lucrative gun-for-hire scheme arises
Crook Manifesto
Harlem is burning, block by block
Hanging by a Thread
She is investigating the attempted murder of a wealthy matriarch
Schrader's Chord
His father left him two parting gifts
The Raging Storm
Another body is found, and he finds his judgment clouded
The Heiress
An inheritance can entail far more than what’s written in a will
Her Sweet Revenge
She knows her friend’s death wasn’t an accident
Saving Myles
He swallows his doubts to get his son home
Bright Young Women
She is is convinced her missing friend was targeted
Payback in Death
The closer she examines the body, the more suspicious she becomes
Vampires of El Norte
Their conflict is overshadowed by the appearance of a nightmare made flesh
The Last Devil to Die
With the body count rising, the clock ticking down
The Coworker
She receives an unsettling, anonymous phone call that changes everything
The Quiet Tenant
When his wife dies, he and his thirteen-year-old daughter are forced to move
DeLillo
Three Novels of the 1980s: The Names, White Noise, Libra
Murder at Midnight
The victim was the well-to-do son of a local gentleman
The Moonshine Messiah
She is trying to head off a bloody, Waco-style massacre
Killing Moon
Ten days to catch a devious, deranged killer
Things Get Ugly
Nineteen unforgettable crime tales
Kill Show
one family's tragedy—and Hollywood's insatiable desire to exploit it
Murder in the Family
Despite a high-profile investigation, no suspect was ever charged
Gone Tonight
Both mother and daughter begin a dance of deception
Reykjavík
Her disappearance is a mystery that someone wants to keep unsolved
Long Past Midnight
Four children explore an abandoned house that's supposed to be haunted
Mother-Daughter Murder Night
Their amateur snooping advances into ever-more dangerous territory
Harm's Way
The high-priority rescue op comes as a personal plea
Shadow Dance
She has no way to hide her true reason for being in New York
Beneath the Surface
This weekend one of them will be crowned heir
Before You Found Me
She takes refuge in an idyllic New England town
Burning Justice
This latest warehouse blaze looks suspicious
Deadlock
The sisters have been pulled into a dizzying web of cover-ups and danger
The Last One
She soon realizes that the ship is completely empty
Beirut Station
The one person she might be able to trust might not be who he says he is
Dead and Gone
She believes he stumbled on a dark secret during his investigations
Night Candy
A serial killer given the name “Night Candy” is targeting sex workers
Enola Holmes and the Mark of the Mongoose
She is no longer hiding from her older brothers Sherlock and Mycroft
What the Neighbors Saw
As they grow closer, the neighborhood only becomes more divided
Deadlock
Hired thugs come to the finish the job
Beneath Dark Waters
The high-stakes investigation reveals an explosive network of crime
Wide Awake
An unconventional team of allies play a cat-and-mouse game
Dark Corners
She is forced to confront the dangers that lurk in the dark corners
The Bridge
She scours historic missing-persons cases looking for a pattern
A Fatal Groove
She was the unfortunate citizen who stumbled upon the mayor's body
The Detective Up Late
The deeper he digs the more sinister it all gets
The Bitter Past
A retired FBI agent is found killed
Penance
A sixteen-year-old is set on fire by three other schoolgirls
The Collector
An art restorer and a master-thief track down a valuable missing painting
The Bone Hacker
She discovers evidence that what is at stake has global significance
Dead of Winter
A blizzard pushes the strangers to take shelter in an abandoned hunting cabin
A Stolen Child
The case only becomes more confusing―and more dangerous
The Spy Coast
Her hunt for answers will force her to revisit a clandestine career
Hard Country
Crimes and secrets strangle a rural community
Trial
All three are enveloped in a media firestorm
My Murder
Disturbing questions remain about what exactly preceded her own death
Silver Nitrate
They work together to unravel the mystery of the film and the occultist
The Spider
A sack with a decomposing body has been found hanging from a tree
The Wayward Prince
MI5 decodes a recent message from German spies in London
Barbacoa, Bomba, and Betrayal
Private chef tables and spa days come to an abrupt halt
North of Nowhere
Who finds them first could determine if they live or die
The Guest Room
It's the closest she’s felt to anyone since the mysterious death of her sister
The Spanish Diplomat's Secret
The captain pleads with the investigator to find the killer before they dock
Small Town Sins
Three restless souls have their lives upended
What Harms You
A young woman attending a training program disappears
Everyone Here Is Lying
Witnesses come forward with information that may not be true
You Can Die
The killer hones in on the captain's own dark secrets
The Shadow Girls
A new horror is uncovered, one that shocks the town as never before
All the Sinners Bleed
A school teacher is killed by a former student
Spring's Arcana
He must travel with a razor-wielding assassin across America
Blind Fear
By night he scours the dark web, hunting for the rogue officer
Fear The Silence
Her husband is shot dead in their London home
Fearless
He has a unique condition that makes him unable to feel fear
You Can Trust Me
Even free spirits have bills to pay
You Know Her
What she doesn’t tell them is that she’s the one who killed her customer
The Fine Art of Uncanny Prediction
The deeper she digs, the more danger she finds herself in
The Spectacular
She has the opportunity to audition for the famous Radio City Rockettes
Flags on the Bayou
A surgeon on the battlefield, he has returned to his uncle’s plantation
Implacable
His already complex and dangerous mission is further imperiled
Break of Day
he’s in for the fight of her life if she’s going to redeem the sister she lost
The Shark
She is the girl who escaped the Shark’s deadly amusement, and his next prey
Drowning
The Rescue of Flight 1421
Try Not to Breathe
A traumatic experience forces a State Police officer to abandon her position
The Last Sinner
A new victim has surfaced, her ruined body staged in deliberate detail
Dead Man's Wake
A smarter and more dangerous enemy than any he has ever faced before
Beware the Woman
She begins to feel trapped in the cottage, her every move surveilled
Taken Girls
Every second counts to uncover this twisted killer’s identity
After That Night
She battles to save a broken young woman who’s been brutally attacked
The Poisoner's Ring
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The Bone Riddle
Cleaning staff finds a body in the house
To Die in June
A woman enters a Glasgow police station to report her son missing
A Cornish Seaside Murder
They fear they may have found themselves in the middle of a turf war
Between Two Strangers
His widow accuses her of having an affair with the late husband
Girls and Their Horses
Before the summer is over, lies will turn lethal
The New Mother
She is the perfect pawn for his own plan
An Evil Heart
She pursues every lead with a vengeance, sensing a secret
The Nigerwife
She digs into her niece’s life and uncovers a hidden side filled with dark secrets
The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies
An acquaintance from their past was charged with murder and exiled
The People Watcher
She uses the cover of night to watch the people in her town.
Maeve Fly
He awakens something dangerous within her
A Botanist's Guide to Flowers and Fatality
Each woman who received the flowers has turned up dead
City of Dreams
He demands a piece of the action and begins to rebuild his criminal empire
The Fall
Their dream quickly turns into a nightmare
Dead Drop
A desperate race to keep one step ahead of an Iranian hit squad
Second Shot
Eliminating the nation’s enemies one sniper bullet at a time
The Senator's Wife
Her uncertainty turns to paranoia as she begins to suspect the worst
Paradise
An eight-year-old is the sole witness to her mother’s murder
Identity
What the FBI tells her is beyond chilling
Small Mercies
One night her teenage daughter stays out late and doesn’t come home
Peril
Brave heroes who rise up to take down a treacherous gang
Those We Thought We Knew
Two horrific crimes split the county apart
Some Desperate Glory
Command assigns her brother to certain death
Fixit
They must track scant clues through L.A.’s perilous landscape
Fire with Fire
They will have to team up and move fast to solve this cold case
Don't Look Back
Now there’s a dead body in his apartment
Titanium Noir
A crime whose roots run deep into the dark heart of the world
Her Dark Grave
Someone is stalking her from the shadows