Sophia Meadows had just gone through a divorce after years of marriage. As a high-flying computer programmer, she took solace in her job. Aneella came along, a friend whom Sophia hadn’t seen in ten years. She convinced Sophia to spend time at her Inverness home...

In The Daemon’s Wish by Chris Wright, Noah Peterson is a criminal profiler whose expertise is highly sought after by local police and the Europan Army. When an elusive serial killer starts to wreak havoc in New Varanasi, Noah’s epilepsy leaves gaps in his memory,...

Adam Alexander's novel Twelve is a murder mystery set in Natal's Drakensberg mountains in South Africa. Detective Dave Malatsi is called to Stone Lodge in the Mkhomazi Wilderness to investigate the murder of a guest. Eleven men and five women are guests at the Lodge...

The Thorn of Truth: What is truth? by S. L. Russell is a legal thriller. For twenty years, Anna Milburn has been a barrister, and she’s about to face her toughest case yet. A young police officer has been murdered, and a local car and...

A friend asks Tom Bridger for a favor. Bridger, the investigator protagonist in Cary Watson’s second novel, The Skeleton Palms, tells us that he cannot refuse—because he is both a house guest and sleeping with his friend’s wife. This brutal honesty tinged with idiosyncrasy is...

To Bring My Shadow by Matt Phillips introduces readers to a detective who is tormented by personal issues that include alcoholism and a wife who committed suicide. Yet in the call of duty, you can always rely on him to be there and get the...

The Three Lives of Richie O'Malley by William Lobb breaks new ground in how crime drama should be written. Richie O’Malley is an assassin who is trying to leave his past behind, but if there’s anything that movies and crime novels have taught us is...

Max Stevens is a man with a complicated past and an uncertain future. The only survivor of his team after an accident in the laboratory where he worked, Max cannot hope to live long due to radiation exposure. However, if his time on earth is...

April never knew her father: she was told that he’d died shortly after her birth. When she was five years old, her mother married Clark, an entertainment lawyer she’d only known for two weeks. Although it was a turbulent relationship at first between April and...

The Zoolinguist is a crime-comedy fantasy novel written by S.A. Adams, and it takes place in 1930s America. Seventeen-year-old Mario Manzetti starts regaling his tale to fellow inmate Little Pete about how he came to be imprisoned at the Louisiana State Penitentiary. When circumstances render...