Oakland defense attorney Joe Turner ventures to a small town in the Deep South to defend an autistic teenager accused of murdering the local high school football hero. The tense trial is seen through the eyes of the jury, a diverse group that struggles with their own preconceptions about autism and fractures under the weight […]

Is there a connection between the cat found napping in the flour barrel of the newest bistro and the dead American chef in the meat freezer? When it comes to Maggie Newberry and the cranky villagers of St-Buvard, how could there not be? Once more back in Provence, Maggie finds her hands full with village […]

How hostile can a takeover get? Murder most corporate! Oakland sleuth Jeri Howard is the whole package: a traditional gumshoe who’s no stranger to the all-night stakeout, the deft, disarming blow to the hand holding the gun, or the methodical examination of documents and official records, and secret hiding places, that leads to where all […]

Forget Scandi-noir. Welcome to Derry-noir. DI Liam McLaughlin leads a scrappy crew in the Major Investigation Team of the Police Service of Northern Ireland: DS Nancy D’Arcy, a sharp-edged upstart with something to prove; DC Tom Lyons, a self-styled ladies’ man running on charm and denial; DC Fern Hawkins, a tech savant who sees what […]

Bit Player Murder makes a comeback, ready for it’s closeup! Was Jeri Howard’s grandmother a murder suspect? The Oakland private investigator has a chance encounter in a movie memorabilia shop. Now she’s on a quest to find the truth about her grandmother, actress Jerusha Layne, and the 1941 murder of a British expatriate actor, shot […]

Steppy Corner, voice of hit true crime podcast series All the Dark Corners, wakes in hospital with no memory of what brought her to Heartsick, the small Colorado town where her estranged family live, no memory of why she was racing up the mountainside to her parents’ house late at night… or why she didn’t […]

An unusual find in the secret compartment of Doug’s new Corvette will change lives forever. Doug and Catherine come from two different worlds. Catherine’s is one of privilege and wealth, whereas Doug grew up poor and envious of others who had more. Their worlds collide when Catherine, VP of a prominent New York City marketing […]

Paisley Sutton: single mom, salvage expert, and amateur sleuth in over her head. Paisley uncovers more than just antiques when she stumbles upon a body in an abandoned store. Unearthing a curious connection between a modern murder and the building’s dark past, Paisley stitches together the pieces of a deadly mystery. But someone is determined […]

When developer Roland Fitch arrives in the charming Vermont village of Fernwick with plans to demolish the town’s beloved eight-hundred-year-old bridge, tearoom owner Vivienne Ashby isn’t exactly rolling out the welcome mat. But Viv is nothing if not professional, and when Roland books a private tea tasting at her cozy shop, The Gilded Leaf, she […]