The seventh installment of the Ginger Barnes Cozy Mystery Books series, Lie Like a Rug, finds Gin tangled up in a courtroom drama. While escorting a troubled student to his appointment with a judge, she finds out that her childhood babysitter, Charlie, is on trial...

The 666 Horrors Of Nicholas Blackheart: The Misfortune of Ronald Devil is an inventive piece of horror thriller fiction penned by author Alexander MID Night. In this first instalment to the series, we meet title character Nicholas as a young horror writer facing all the...

Casey Vice: Spitfire Of Vengeance, written by Joseph Rousell, tells the story of a young police officer, Cassandra Vice, who lost both of her parents at a young age. Casey, her brother Cameron and her sister LeAnn were separated; Cameron became an ADA, Casey followed...

In Blood is Thicker Than Wine by Liz Eagle, Lil is given a box of old homicide notes that her grandfather had written and had been left in the attic untouched for all of those years. Lil begins reading these papers and cannot resist investigating...

From time to time I read something that doesn’t seem to fit (for me, at any rate) into any traditional genre classification. Such was the case with The Junk Yard Solution: Adventures Among the Boxcars and Other Lost Causes by Peter Kelton. The story opens...

Murder to Scale by Debra B. Schiff is a quirky murder mystery. Tom McCloud loves his model trains and he’s off to set up his part of the Christmas display. Instead, he stumbles over a body; friend and model train enthusiast Bill Murphy. With one...

“Once in every generation, a monster awakens.” In The Monster by Josh Soule, a college student is having a rocky relationship with his mother, still pining for his ex-girlfriend, and feels betrayed by his friend when he sees them together at a Halloween mixer. When...

A fascinating thriller, Blessed: The Prodigal Daughter by A.L. Bryant features an unusually gifted protagonist, Glory. Set in 2021, the narrative follows Glory, who finds herself stabbed multiple times and left for dead. No one in St. Ann’s Hospital thought she could live through the...

I Want You Gone by Miranda Rijks is a psychological thriller set in the Sussex countryside in England. Laura Swallow is a divorcee in her forties whose second date is interrupted by a phone call from her daughter, Mel, who has recently left home to...

In Illusion of Death by Brian Kavanagh, Belinda Lawrence is back in Australia with English friend Hazel Whitby, recovering from her broken engagement. When she bumps into old school friend Birdie, and is invited to a private screening of a film at the home of...