ALISSA YARBROUGH

Birds Alive!, the first book in the Empty-nesters Cozy Mystery series by Jen Dodrill, is about a woman who finds herself an empty-nester once her youngest child has left for college. Somewhat listless and seeking to turn over a new leaf, she starts a bird-watching club and gets more excitement than she anticipated when the club's first outing involves the death of one of their members.

University artifacts? Provenance papers? The originality in setting instantly set this book off from the usual suspense novels as I was deciding on a Colleen Coble book to try.

Dani Pettrey is a new author to me, so when I decided to give her books a try, One Wrong Move instantly jumped out at me. I mean, it’s about a former burglar-now security system expert called in to solve a string of art gallery heists.

You must be well-read in the genre you are entering. As a writer pursuing publishing for my first suspense novel, I have read that...

I’ve taken the dive into the Christian supernatural/horror genre, the genre I told myself I wouldn’t ever read. So what did I think?