A Serpent’s Pursuit by M. P. McBride follows the life of George Abiola, also called Blos. It begins with a violent threat against his village in Nigeria and shows the events that shaped him over the years. The tale covers his childhood, where his kindness...

Bow Island in Cumbria is a place with unique natural beauty and historical significance. It was a hotspot for pirates and smugglers back in the day. Now? It’s a rather peaceful island where nothing much happens... At least not until recently, with Ellie Winter’s mysterious...

In Michelle Miller’s Where the Clouds Cannot Find Me Revisited, Marisol is a mother in Mobile, Alabama, whose life narrows to a single imperative after her infant son Jacob Oliver is rushed to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. As doctors work to stabilize Jake, Marisol...

Terminus by Ian Lewis is set in 1963, when intelligence officer John Post is sent to West Berlin to assume the identity of Bill Baxter, an American operative whose unexplained behavior has triggered concerns inside the CIA. Baxter vanished after his return from captivity, leaving...

To the world, Aurie Eaton was a successful chef of unmatched skill. However, beneath what many described as brilliance, discipline, and talent lay a dark truth that Aurie kept buried inside. Her secret dated back to 1970, when it all began. As a kid in...

Firestorm by Dana Wayne follows Jenna McCray, a business owner in a small Texas town who is trying to regain control of her life after a very painful divorce and a stressful relationship. Without warning, strange events suddenly begin to happen around her. Anonymous roses...

Riddles, Rogues & Murder by Christa Nardi continues the Stacie Maroni Mystery series with a case that begins unexpectedly on a routine outing and quickly pulls the protagonist into another complex investigation. When Stacie and her friends discover a woman’s body in a strip mall...

Rift begins when veterinary pathologist Kaori Tsunaki examines a massive carcass outside Roswell and finds evidence of a theoretically impossible origin that vanishes as soon as it is recorded. Her work draws paleontologist Alicia Taylor and investigator James Wyatt into a hidden pattern tied to...

The small town of Surfside Beach isn’t known for its high-profile murders, but there’s always a first time for everything. Marine scientist Sophie Caldwell is found dead in her home. Her husband? Missing. Art Robinson, Surfside Chief of Police, quickly realizes this isn’t a run-of-the-mill...

In 2002, in Arizona, a school boy killed two girls out in the forest, carved a cross and a spiral into the body of one of them with a knife, and with a Sharpie drew a spiral on her left wrist. In Colorado, also in...