It takes a really good writer to keep this reviewer interested in a 400-plus page novel. The fact that Borrowed Memories by J.R. Torbic is a psychological thriller helps. But sometimes those have such shallow characterization that as much as they keep you flipping pages...

C.C. Oil Company is running a fracking operation in Bison county, much to the locals’ dismay. Some try to sabotage, confront and expose the damage done by the operation crew, but receive physically brutal, fatal retaliation from the company’s hired guns. When a local rancher...

Betrayal in Blue: Zachary Blake Betrayal Series (Book 3) by Mark M. Bello follows the fortunes of Jack Dylan and his team as they try to foil a deadly plot to release Sarin upon the unsuspecting town of Dearborn, where the perpetrators seek to take...

In Baby Grand (Baby Grand Trilogy Book One) by Dina Santorelli, the governor’s daughter is kidnapped and Jamie, a newly divorced, struggling writer, finds herself smack dab in the middle of the crime. Forced into the role of the little girl’s caretaker by her captors,...

When Joseph Muamba, the eldest of nine children, was “sold” by his Congolese parents as an adolescent to an American couple looking to adopt, nobody understood the impact this young man would have one day on the strife-torn, poverty-stricken African nation. Blood Gold in the...

B-SIDE: From a Screenplay by Janis Jones and Jason Rohan is a police procedural mystery novel written by Janis Jones. Casey Terranova’s expectations for the special cake she had ordered from her friends’ bakery were, if anything, exceeded in spectacular fashion. The Egyptian motif worked...

Blood Orange by Brenda M. Spalding is a compelling novel that features a gritty tale of the war against drugs in rural Florida. The Medellin Cartel of Pablo Escobar is extending their reach and in 1986 the Florida orange groves become a drop zone for...

A compelling opening in the Lucas Bowman Trilogy, Bumping at Speed by Peter P. Sellers is a crime thriller with powerful characters and a sensational plot. Lucas Bowman enjoys his life and the things he does — playing polo, writing for a newspaper, and doing...

I liked Beasts Shall Reign Over the Earth! by Michael and Danny D'Agostino. It is a good detective story that paints a great picture of life in Manhattan, particularly the family life of a proud family of recent immigrants. I like to read stories like...

Beholden by Gabriel FW Koch is a mystery featuring Marlowe Black, a WWII combat veteran and now a New York City private detective. Black is a simple, hard nosed PI with .45 automatic and a determination to solve his cases, no matter what and where...