Rough Diamond Rough Justice by Avien Gray is an enthralling crime thriller. We are transported to England of the 1990s and meet two friends – Cain and Jerry. Jerry is a police officer with the Royal Protection Team. Cain is with MI5’s investigative surveillance team....

Lord Lorenzo Medici, the de facto ruler of Florence, has summoned ship captain Niccolo Corsini to his estate. A mysterious fleet of ships flying a white flag with a black cross is decimating cities on Italy’s coast with Florence in its sights. This fleet doesn’t...

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...

Rhea’s Game by Dan Uselton is set in a dystopian nightmare future where entertainment is defined by the abuse and humiliation of game show contestants. Whilst most of society lives in poverty, a few elite owners, managers, and performers in the only gameshow in town,...

Railroad Man, Legacies Son by Dan E. Hendrickson begins in 1883, when railroad official Arthur Edwards arrives in Wyoming to oversee northern expansion for the Union Pacific. Edwards is drawn into a widening federal investigation tied to missing government cattle, contested rail routes, and powerful...

Rodeo Requiem by G.D. Obermiller promises to take readers on a thrilling journey through the world of rodeo. Rodeo rider Colton Macrae is found dead at the San Antonio rodeo, but it’s not clear whether he took his own life or not. Nick Fisher’s name...

Rain Witch by Alida Miranda-Wolff, book two in the Gods of Tellus series, reignites after Lyanna breaks the crown’s control of magic and is captured for it, chained inside a buried fortress where the king keeps her alive to dissect the limits of her blood...

The 1900 Galveston (Texas) Hurricane was the deadliest natural disaster in the history of the United States, although it’s much more distant than events like 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina. Lucy Davila Hakemack, in her novel, Remembering the Storm, shows the Galveston tragedy through a human-interest...

Reveries of an Heir (13th Heir Book 1) by A. D. Aelin introduces Saekonari Raajali, who is destined to become the Empress one day. For now, all she wants is to be the perfect daughter. One night, she finds her father dead, and it feels...

Recoil of Justice by Brad Elder starts when Baron Tech discovers that its highly secure data-storage software, InvisiData, has been stolen, likely by Bidwell Technologies, which had access to sensitive contracts with U.S. and Mexican government agencies. Ryan Wolfe, an attorney at Daniel, Warner, and...