Drive Time by Hank Phillippi Ryan

Drive Time by Hank Phillippi Ryan is the fourth book in the ”Charlotte McNally” mystery series. Publisher: Mira, February 2010 When everyone has a secret, the real mystery is knowing when to tell. Investigative reporter Charlotte McNally is an expert at keeping things...

Dead on Arrival by Jackie Griffey

Dead on Arrival by Jackie Griffey is the first book in the new “Joe and Maggie” cozy mystery series. Publisher: Five Star Publishing, January 2010 Maggie’s husband Horace’s motorcycle accident leaves her a widow at twenty-four. Broke, lonesome,...

Down River by Karen Harper

Down River by Karen Harper. Publisher: Mira, February 2010 In the churning water, she felt her future slipping away… Attending a corporate retreat at a remote resort in Alaska, Lisa Vaughn is plunged into the frigid rapids of the Wild River. Swept away, battered...

Plaster and Poison by Jennie Bentley

Plaster and Poison by Jennie Bentley is the third book in the “Do-It-Yourself” mystery series. Publisher: Berkley (Prime Crime), March 2010 Avery’s friend, bed and breakfast owner Kate McGillicutty, is finally getting hitched to police chief Wayne...

The Last Gig by Norman Green

The Last Gig by Norman Green is the first book in the “Alessandra Martillo” mystery series. Publisher: Minotaur Books, January 2009 A teenage runaway from the Brownsville projects, Alessandra Martillo lived with an indifferent aunt who had taken her in...

Pretty In Ink by Karen E. Olson

Pretty In Ink by Karen E. Olson is the second book in the new “Tattoo Shop” mystery series.   Publisher: Obsidian,  March 2010 Brett Kavanaugh is a tattoo artist and owner of one of Vegas’s hottest tattoo shops, The Painted Lady. And in her spare time, she does...