March Crime Releases To Read

If you’re looking for a PI mystery and like missing person cases, here’s a great start to a new series. Yolanda Avila is now a PI, having left the LAPD because of harassment. She’s trying to ignore what may be prophetic dreams, something she’ll have to come to terms with when her godson is kidnapped and her wife begins getting threatening notes at work… Bonus if you’re a fan of PIs with great family and friend support systems.

(TW child abduction/ active pedophile case in the city, no graphic details/ anxiety attack)

This is a perfect choice for mystery lovers whose taste falls in the middle between cozies and dark mysteries. Lena Scott is estranged from her half-sister Desiree Pierce, but that doesn’t mean she doesn’t know her sister well enough to know she didn’t die the way investigators are saying. So Lena goes digging into Desiree’s life to not only solve the case but also process a lot of past hurt and family issues. (Review)

Alex Segura took his immense knowledge of the comic book industry (having worked as Co-President at Archie Comics and Executive Director of Publicity at DC) and set a murder in the center of 1970s comic industry drama, all revolving around a Miami transplant in NY trying to break into the industry as a writer. (Review)

If you like your mysteries with humor and romance, this is a great series full of entertainment. This is the sequel to Dial A For Aunties (review) and it continues that story. Meddy Chan is a wedding photographer with a family that works in the wedding industry, but she has to give up the reigns for her own wedding. That is until she discovers someone is planning on using her wedding to go through with a hit job—let all the ridiculous antics ensue.

(TW non graphic brief discussions of past sexual assault)

What happens when you’ve dedicated your life to being an assassin and have reached an elderly age? Hornclaw is about to find out!

(TW attempted sexual assault/ mentions drug overdose/ baby murder/ child kidnapping/ natural dog death)

If you’re looking for something fun, with the feel of magic that isn’t fantasy, and that relies on the puzzle solving of mysteries, this is a great new series starter! Come for the mystery, stay for the family, magic, and food. (review)

This is the third entry in this great PI series that usually pairs two complete opposite PIs together. If you avoid darker content you can start with this one–you won’t be lost–which is based on a missing person case when a husband hires Vega to find his wife’s long missing boyfriend. If you want to start at the beginning of this series, pickup Two Girls Down (review)

(TW suicide not on page, detail, questioned as murder/ animal cruelty/ white nationalist, nazi group)

If you’re looking for a mystery with a ghost, love past and present mysteries, and true crime bloggers as the lead, this is a great page-turner!

(TW mentions past attempted child kidnapping, brief mention of sexual assault, not graphic/ alcoholism/ brief mention of past partner abuse/ mostly alludes to child abuse incident, not graphic/ speculates sexual assault, mentions past rape, not graphic)

This is a dark series that starts at the ending of the first book, so pick up The Initial Insult (Review) if you haven’t already. So I won’t say much about the sequel other than if you’re a fan of revenge tale,s pick up the first book and you’ll automatically need the second to see the fallout and consequences…

In need of a popcorn thriller and love Dolly Parton’s personality? You’ll quickly be turning the pages as a young woman lands in Nashville trying to make it as a singer while trying to outrun her past… (review)