Mystery

Heroines

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:20 October 2020
Post category:Adventure Fantasy General Fiction History Horror Mystery Readers Romance Science Fiction Thrillers and Suspense Western Women's Fiction Writers

Once upon a time women in novels were frail creatures always in need of rescuing, or silly dolts who could not be expected to know the time of day, or…

Robert Crais

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:13 October 2020
Post category:Featured Author Mystery Readers Thrillers and Suspense Writers

More mystery than thriller, Robert Crais's Chasing Darkness follows a detective's hunt for the truth after a man he had helped clear of murder is found dead with evidence he…

Mallory Kane

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:29 September 2020
Post category:Featured Author Mystery Readers Romance Thrillers and Suspense Women's Fiction

If you like Harlequin Romances, you'll enjoy Mallory Kane's intriguing heroes. Solving the Mysterious Stranger, subtitled The Curse of Raven's Cliff, is set in a coastal Maine village and pits…

Will North

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:1 September 2020
Post category:Featured Author Mystery Readers Romance Writers

Water, Stone, Heart is a modern romance set in Cornwall, England. The tale meanders comfortably through the countryside and through the friendships of two Americans come to the Atlantic coast:…

Dan Brown

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:4 August 2020
Post category:Featured Author General Fiction Mystery Readers Thrillers and Suspense Writers

Perhaps best known for The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown does not restrict himself to tales with religious overtones. In Digital Fortress, technology meant to crack codes succumbs to human…

Louise Penny

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:23 June 2020
Post category:Featured Author Mystery Readers Writers

The Sûreté du Québec takes a beating in Ms. Penny's novels as the kindly but formidable Chief Inspector Armand Gamache battles corruption as well as murderers. A seemingly idyllic village…

Crimes in print

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:16 June 2020
Post category:Mystery Readers Thrillers and Suspense

The genre that encompasses crime is vast and varied, from the mystery brain-teasers that keep you looking for clues and guessing whodunit (or guessing how the detective will prove the…

Barbara Fradkin

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:26 May 2020
Post category:Featured Author Mystery Readers Thrillers and Suspense Women's Fiction Writers

Murder was once an odd topic for women to discuss much less to write about, but with the help of pioneers like Agatha Christie, the murder mystery has become a…

Ellis Peters

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:28 April 2020
Post category:Featured Author Mystery Readers

Not precisely Cosy Mysteries, these tales of Brother Cadfael, a Benedictine monk of the 12th century, lack the feverish intensity of modern crime thrillers while managing to be page turners.…

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:21 April 2020
Post category:Mystery Readers Writers

Whether a Cosy Mystery, a Classic Mystery, a Paranormal Mystery, or what-have-you, this genre is popular in the extreme, both on the page and on the screen. The Cosy variety…

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I NOTICED THE SWAGGER FIRST: that arrogant saunter that said, “I’m irresistible and I know it.” He was good-looking, yes—as emphasized by the tight jeans that displayed every muscle and more than hinted at one in particular. And the chambray shirt open to show off a broad chest matted with jet hair that proclaimed his masculinity.

–excerpt from Bad Twin

GINETTE LAY STARING into darkness in the low cot by the grand canopied bed in which Lady Barton snored softly. To her surprise and dismay, the old woman had roused from her fireside dozing when she entered the room and had insisted on regaling her with more tales of the foibles and weaknesses of the aristocracy as Ginette helped her undress.

Thinking back on it, she realized there had been a subtle urgency in the manner of the viscountess. Indeed, now that she recalled her months as maid-cum-companion, she recognized that she had felt yet dismissed a sense of impendence. At first, she had wondered was it she who anticipated something vaguely threatening, or was it Lady Barton who expected some event? Now, a certainty filled her that Lady Barton’s choosing to employ her signified much more than she had guessed.

But what?

–excerpt from Propositions and Proposals