Best Books: Mystery

1 Blood Eagle

Blood Eagle

Stephen Byrd | Mystery

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Grant Bell is a private detective called in to help the Fulton County Sheriff's Department find some missing homeless people. Things quickly turn sinister when a body is found, tortured and murdered in the ancient Viking Blood Eagle ritual. Now Grant must find the killer before he strikes again, and to complicate matters one of the missing...

2 Friday's Fade

Friday's Fade

Ismail "Ish" Rashad | Mystery

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Fridays fade, but Friday's Fade is forever. Astrid Draven Evers had it all: a bright future, loyal friends, and a budding romance with Julian. But everything shattered the night she was lured to an exclusive underground party where she was drugged and violated. Left for dead, she became just another victim in a world that protects monstersBut...

3 Leibowitz Concludes

Leibowitz Concludes

Edward Drobinski | Mystery

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Irreligious and middle-aged Isaac Leibowitz leaves his comfortable home in Gig Harbor, Washington in pursuit of career enhancement in NYC. His wife wants no part of the big city, and he intends to return after establishing top notch credentials. To fill the time now afforded, Isaac once again picks up on a “conspiracy theory” which he had...

4 Confession

Confession

Gary Whitmore | Mystery

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It’s 2005 and Sam Woods had been retired from the FBI for ten years and lived a quiet life in Florida.  Then a book called A Killer’s Tale was published by author Allan Stein and became a best seller.  Sam went on the hunt again when he learned that this best seller contained clues to a serial killer.  The same serial killer called the...

5 Taking It on the Lam

Taking It on the Lam

Edward Drobinski | Mystery

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In the 1940’s a convicted Post Office robber is given an extraordinarily stiff sentence. Then he seems to be encouraged by the authorities to make a break from jail. He smells a too obvious setup. But, what’s their game? Perhaps of more immediate significance, he can’t resist freedom’s call.

6 The Adventures Of Maya Thru The Mystical World

The Adventures Of Maya Thru The Mystical World

tisha meyer | Mystery

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eventeen-year-old Maya discovers a hidden journal in an abandoned lighthouse, leading her on an adventure involving a legendary treasure and a centuries-old curse. She finds a locket containing a mysterious woman's portrait, unlocking a past shrouded in mystery. A storm mirrors Maya's inner turmoil, but she finds strength and purpose. Her journey...

7 Bill's Variety

Bill's Variety

Pete Bertino | Mystery

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A thief hides from the police in a corner store in a South Philadelphia neighborhood.

8 A Dagger For Danger

A Dagger For Danger

Janet Davis and Stephen Rayfield | Mystery

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A Dagger for Danger: A Kathy Chatsworth Mystery (Book 1)A cursed dagger. A dying woman. A journalist who won’t stop digging.When Kathy Chatsworth finds a young woman bleeding out in a garden hedge, the last thing she expects to find beside her is a jewel-encrusted dagger—its handle embedded with a green gemstone from the time of the Crusades...

9 Detective Liam Niles: The  Last  Crusade

Detective Liam Niles: The Last Crusade

Bonita Highley | Mystery

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Detective Liam Niles The Last Crusade Chapter One: The Jousting Novice.Chapter Two- The Penanced PriestChapter Three- The Knight in The FortressChapter Four- The Last Crusade

10 Shaunessy and a Literary Death

Shaunessy and a Literary Death

Edward Drobinski | Mystery

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Veteran NYC Police Detective Tom Shaunessy is now more or less comfortable in his relocated New Mexico home. In his second major case in Vista de la Feria, a significant and popular local author is found dead. The Medical Examiner quickly rules it a suicide, of which the author had previously discussed and wrote about, officially ending the...