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Most complex investigations don’t close with the satisfying resolutions of crime fiction. I find it liberating to embrace the uncertainty. There is a pressurized space I sometimes occupy as a private detective when clients demand unassailable answers to difficult questions. Where is the money my business partner stole from me?  Who is behind the astroturf campaign targeting my brand?  Why was I arrested for a crime I did not commit?  Also in this space, you’ll find journalists and lawyers whose

Mysterious deaths alarm a small town in Michael Amos Cody’s Avalon Moon. by Maggie Gigandet & Chapter16.org Avalon Moon By Michael Amos Cody. Madville Publishing. 340 pages. $24.95. Author Michael Amos Cody blends murder and the supernatural in his new thriller Avalon Moon. Set in Runion, North Carolina, the novel opens with community members worried about an impending snowstorm and the potential danger posed by a new wolf sanctuary on a local island. But their fears shift when the bodies of

Ruta Sepetys’ new novel is a Roaring Twenties mystery featuring nefarious automobile barons, jewel thieves, and suspicious goings-on at an artist residency. by Amy Lyons & Chapter16.org A Fortune of Sand By Ruta Sepetys. Ballantine Books. 320 pages. $30. The year is 1927, the city Detroit, and Marjorie Lennox, youngest daughter of a dirty-dealing automobile family, has been invited to an artist residency, where she’ll supposedly have time, space, and like-minded company to do her work as a fashion designer. Thus