If vampires and the mere mention of blood-play set your heart racing, then BLOOD WILL OUT by Ontario author Jill Downie is the perfect book to take with you for dockside reading.

Rebus has never been good at sticking to the rules, and Rankin adeptly shows the nuances between saint and sinner in this intelligent and complex novel.

I was impressed by Graff’s attention to detail during the police procedural scenes. The technicalities of crime scene investigation and forensics are well described, without delving into gruesome details, as fits the cozy genre.

With the stigma of self-publishing removed in our modern world, today's writer has many more options to publish.