Seduction: Claw and Warder Episode 1 by Erik Henry Vick is an urban fantasy set in the seedy streets of New York City. What the common mundane humans fail to understand is that beneath their veneer of civilization lurks an entirely separate and self-governing community,...

A Simple Lie by Mary Bush is a fantastic thriller that kept me guessing and turning the pages until the very end. The main character, Valentina Knight, gets a job as a death scene investigator after she can no longer practice dentistry due to an...

Craig Wells is a writer of bold ideas, and his narrative can be ribald when the situation calls for it. In A Stranger to Strange Fruit: An Artist’s Portrait of Murder and Mayhem, he doesn’t shy away from vivid illustrations of the dark side of...

Linda P Young's 15 Minutes and Before 15 Minutes is a two-part story. In the first story, a predator lurks in the shadows and ventures out into the world, looking for vulnerable prey. He has a need that can only be sated by killing a...

Is it possible to really like a serial killer? If that killer is Britney Cage, the star of 13 Reasons for Murder: Meathead by Amanda Byrd, the answer is an unqualified “yes”...at least for me. Britney is the oddest and, in some ways, the funniest...

Crime Denied is a work of fiction in the crime and adventure genres penned by author Chuck Morgan as part of the Buck Taylor series of novels. Written for adults due to scenes that contain sexual situations, the use of explicit language and some moderate...

The Blackbird’s Song is a work of fiction in the thriller genre and was penned by author Katie M Marshall. Written for mature readers due to some scenes of violence and the use of explicit language, this is a dark tale containing themes of abuse,...

Emma Thorne is on top of her game when the unthinkable happens: her severely depressed husband disappears, and her father dies. The mayor quickly promotes her to Chief of Police, only to open her to scrutiny from her own department for being selected to fill...

Easter Hair Hunt by Nancy J. Cohen is the sixteenth book in the Bad Hair Day Mystery series. It’s Easter time and Marla is only a few months away from the arrival of her baby boy. During what should have been a routine visit during...

The time-traveling-detective premise offers a different take on the average police procedural mystery in Fools Gold by Ernesto H Lee. It’s refreshingly alternative and has been well thought out. Despite the extreme manner in which DS Sean McMillan must return to the present, the author...