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...

The suicide of a young woman and the death of a top executive have the police scrambling to find the connection that leads to murder in the sensational sleuth mystery, Tokyo Zangyo (Detective Hiroshi Series: Book 4) by author Michael Pronko. Homicide Detective Hiroshi arrives...

The Dance Towards Death: The Brotherhood Chronicle is a work of fiction in the thriller, crime, and suspense subgenres, and was penned by author Tejas Desai. Written for the mature adult reading audience, the work contains some explicit language, graphic violence, and sexual situations, and...

The RayBright Caper by B. B. Teeter is the first book in the Kirbi Mack series. Kirbi Mack is a young, biracial female security consultant and she’s just been hired by a San Diego defense research lab. She’s not a weak female though, and she’s...

When the mayor of Sheffield is murdered during a summer festival, one citizen is drawn into a complex investigation. Felice Bowes never liked Greta Sutton and her self-serving ways and made no secret of it. But Felice is shocked by the senselessness and brutality of...