Genre: Mystery & Detective

A FORGERY OF ROSES By Jessica S. Olson

Short and Sweet Review Myra has a gift, she is a prodigy and her paintings can alter people’s bodies. Recently prodigies have gone missing and Myra knows she can’t risk anyone finding out who she is, after all she has to take care of her younger sister Lucy. Unfortunately for Myra the governor’s wife discovers […]

THE LAST LAUGH By Mindy McGinnis

The Last Laugh picks up right where the Initial Insult left off. Tress just finished leaving Felicity behind a brick wall and walked away leaving her to die. But now Tress is starting to feel guilty but if the guilt doesn’t eat away at her, the infection in her arm will. The only thing Tress […]

KILLING TIME By Brenna Ehrlich

Short and Sweet Review Natalie Temple isn’t like the other kids in town she’s into true crime and murder so much so that the other people in town think she’s weird. When her favorite teacher is murdered Natalie’s world is rocked but she also uses this as a chance to start her own investigation. Where […]

THE STORYTELLER By Kathryn Williams

Short and Sweet Review After helping her mom clean out her great aunts home, Jess finds a trunk full of old diaries unfortunately they’re in Russian. Jess enlists the help of a college student Evan, who agrees to help Jess translate the diaries for a fee. After reading a few of the diaries Evan suspects […]

IN THE HALL WITH THE KNIFE By Diana Peterfreund

Short and Sweet Review When a storm hits Blackbrook Academy, six students: Orchid, Scarlet, Peacock, Mustard, Plum, and Green are forced to stay together in one of the campus buildings. A few hours later one of the students finds the headmaster dead and now it seems like each of the students has something to hide […]

THIS IS WHY WE LIE By Gabriella Lepore

Short and Sweet Review When Jenna and Adam find Colleen O’Dell’s body floating lifeless in the shore, their small town is shocked, but things get worse when they learn this wasn’t an accident. When Jenna’s friend Holly becomes a suspect Jenna starts to look into things and knows she needs Adams help to piece everything […]

ALL THESE BODIES By Kendare Blake

Short and Sweet Review It’s the summer of 1958 and a killer is leaving a trail of bodies along the midwest, and these bodies are drained of blood. Michael Jensen wants to be a journalist and his father is the sheriff in town. Michael never thought that the “Bloodless Murders” would come to his small […]

THE CORPSE QUEEN By Heather M. Herrman

Short and Sweet Review Molly Green has lived in an orphanage and soon after the mysterious death of her best friend Kitty, Molly is sent to live with an aunt she’s never meant or heard of. When Molly meets here aunt she learns that she’s wealthy and she became wealthy by robbing graves and selling […]

WHITE SMOKE By Tiffany D. Jackson

Short and Sweet Review Mari and her blended family have just moved from California to Cedarville. Her mom accepted a job with the Sterling Foundation and with that comes a free house, one that seems to be haunted. The construction workers can’t seem to get out of the house fast enough and Mari’s younger stepsister […]