Stephen James’ Trial by Conscience begins with a panicked choice that alters a person’s life forever. In 1964, an ordinary morning for a runner named Richard in Birmingham is shattered after a cruel family prank goes wrong. Believing he is responsible for a girl’s sudden...

In Killer Secrets: Hudson Valley Series Book 3 by Bonnie Traymore, Victoria is struggling with the consequences of a deadly secret. Four years earlier, Timothy Sutton, a sexual predator, had victimized Victoria and several others. Sutton was shot to death, but his death ended up...

One year ago, Commander Frank Travers’s wife, Linda, was found murdered. In Lethal Design by S.F. Baumgartner, Frank thinks his wife may have stumbled onto the killer staging her office colleague’s murder as a suicide. Since Frank heads up an elite police task force, he...

Jaxon Quinn gradually develops a change of heart when he receives a parcel containing evidence indicting his client, mob boss Vincent Morelli, for a gruesome murder. His conscience pricks him even more, seeing as he just aided Vincent to beat tax evasion charges and walk...

In Long Temple and Fielder Whitley’s What Survives the Pressure, Gia is assaulted the night before graduation and moves into the next morning with what happened unspoken. On the way to the ceremony, a man connected to her attacker follows Gia and her friends into...

In 1975, young John Wesley Zooma witnessed the public and violent execution of a well-known member of his community by the police. The incident left him with a deep hatred for the government. More than two decades later, Zooma joined a secret Zulu paramilitary group,...

Jessica Housand’s Blood Gilt is a crime saga that spans decades, following Alejandro Whitmore, the son of American mercenary Jared Whitmore, and Salvadoran revolutionary Ana Santiago. Alejandro thought he had left the world his father built when he was torn away from his childhood by...

“At what point does the desire to succeed become indistinguishable from the willingness to harm?” For Tanner Barrett, the protagonist of Aaron Ryan's short novel The Darkness Within, that question is answered in a horrific manner. Tanner is an indie author caught in a slump...

In Capitol Sins by Bill Halamandaris, evil people have gone after Theo Alexander. His life has been in danger, and they even abducted the girl he loves, Taylor. Theo was the director of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, but the committee was disbanded after the...

Upon his mother's passing, Wolfgang Barnes, a movie producer of some substance, relocates from Portland to Florida to settle his late mother's estate. As he carries out this task, he contemplates how best to put his previous works to use and promptly comes up with...