Mark Twain said, “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.” Fear is the most prevalent emotion in The Weight of Silence by Alex Baranda, but maybe it’s fear that keeps people alive. Set in 1943, it begins with an elite agent...

Lies to Forever by Marlene M. Bell is a suspenseful murder mystery blended with romance. April Manning took leave from a firm of architects to look after her landlord, who was recovering from a major accident. But one day she found her landlord gone. An...

In Steve C. Posner's Questioner, attorney Martin Bavarius takes on the defense of Mark Ryder after the shooting of fellow lawyer John Mudge. The case turns on a disturbing claim: Ryder believes the killing began inside QuestGame, a hyper-immersive virtual reality simulator. As Bavarius works...

Party of a Lifetime by Henry Corrigan follows Becca Longford as she heads back home from college, hoping a beach weekend with her old crew will make up for how badly their high school prom went. That prom night was horrible, marked by bullying, a...

“Everything’s the same as it’s always been, Kurt. It’s only our perception of the world that’s changed.” In the novel Without A Face by Lonnie Busch, that sentence would be a significant understatement. The curtain rises in Rescue, a small town somewhere in the American...

Vindictive Angel by Karen Black is a stunning psychological thriller. The lines between right and wrong are about to get seriously blurred. Julie Davenport works in the ER and has fixed up more children than she can remember, many of them torn apart by criminals....

To Catch A Monster by Rale Miller takes place in the seemingly quiet town of Lexington, Virginia, where Officer Chrissy and her bike squad suddenly find themselves caught up in a strange murder investigation. The town's usual calm is shattered when a victim is discovered...

Twenty-four-year-old Nina Brandt, a paralegal in Salt Lake City, Utah, is dissatisfied with her ordinary life. While her job paid the bills, she didn’t particularly love it. If only she were better at mathematics and didn’t wear glasses, she wouldn’t have abandoned her childhood dream...

Daiyu had traveled a long way from China to the US for one reason: vengeance. Born in 1976, her parents were murdered when she was young by a figure she only knew as the Golden Mirror, the leader of the Zufu triad. It takes years,...

In Thomas S. Brown’s Echoes of Humanity, when the ship, Ascendant, returns decades after it was declared lost, they find that humanity is now governed by a system called Echo-9 that controls without consent. Beneath the Martian surface, Hera learns that people who have disconnected...