Vigilante Thrillers, New Mysteries, + News!

For fans of armchair travel and historical mysteries (this one is set in the 1920s).

Louise Lloyd has moved from Harlem to Paris and is loving her new quiet life while working at a perfumery and enjoying the nightlife with friends. That is until a woman in search of her missing daughter needs Lloyd’s help. Now Lloyd is infiltrating a group of elite young artists and wondering if any of them would hurt one of their own?

If you want to read the series from the beginning, pick up Dead Dead Girls, which starts during the Harlem Renaissance.

For fans of ex-cops turned PIs, multiple suspects, and thrillers!

Annalisa Vega has left the Chicago Police Department and is now a PI with a big case: Mara Delaney has written a book, soon to publish, arguing that there are good sociopaths and neurosurgeon Craig Canning is her proof. That is, until a woman in Canning’s building falls to her death, and Delaney starts to question her own beliefs. Now she needs to know if Canning is a murderer before the book’s publication date. Vega is on it, except she finds that even though the cops ruled this an accident, she’s suddenly in a cat-and-mouse game for answers.

If you want to start at the beginning of this series, pick up Gone for Good — Schaffhausen is one of the authors I reach for any time I want a solid mystery to get sucked into. She’s very good at characters and pacing.

Virgil Wounded Horse lives in South Dakota on the Rosebud Indian Reservation. He’s become a vigilante for hire since the local police have to pass certain cases to the FBI and the FBI doesn’t take every case sent their way. That means many criminals, from predators to robbers, go unpunished. Virgil will beat the snot out of those falling through the cracks so you’d think he’d jump at the chance to get paid lots of money for an investigation. He’s hesitant since it’s his ex-girlfriend’s father hiring him. But the case hits close to home, and soon he’s working with the FBI and his ex to solve the case.

(Trigger warnings for addiction; mentions of suicides, including one with detail; past rapes including children mentioned, not graphic; child death; pedophile crimes off-page; fat shaming)

You get two storylines set at Gorman University in this thriller. Scarlett Clark is an English professor who picks the worst man on campus every year and kills him. Carly Schiller is a freshman, finally away from her oppressive father. She has a popular roommate to contend with as she tries to come into her own. Scarlett is trying to not get caught, and Carly is trying to protect her roommate after an assault.

(Trigger warnings for rape; mentions of past parental abuse; discussions of murders covered up to look like suicide)