Maidstone: Lust, Murder, Greed, and a Cover Up in a Small New England Town by Sven Anderson is the tale of a small town described as having the look of an Andrea Smythe painting, with the new clean snow, and is the journey of ex-marine...

The Donors by Gary Turcotte is a great book that I adored and that isn’t an overstatement; a narrative with hints of crime and adventure that begins with the protagonist, Tom, needing legal assistance. Beaten, shot and left for dead in a foreign country, Tom...

In Locker 32 by Gregory L. Baltad, rookie police officer Brian O’Callahan asks to be assigned to the notorious 77th division of the LA police department because it is where he thinks he will feel at home. Needing to prove something, whether to himself or...

Weepers by Nick Chiarkas is a murder mystery set in the 1950s. In 1951, Christmas Eve, a man disappeared while walking through the Projects with Angelo, his son. In 1957, an undercover police officer was killed in a housing project in New York. At 2.00...

In The Poe Consequence by Keith Steinbaum, 35-year-old Warren Palmer received an ominous reading from a psychic in an unknown street of New Orleans. Back in Los Angeles, he and his son, Seth, find themselves at the wrong place and the wrong time when they...

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...

In contrast to the tropical and beautiful setting of the warm Caribbean island of St. Thomas, Dark Paradise by Gene Desrochers stays true to its title. When Boise Montague's ideal life in Los Angeles falls into a shambles after the death of his wife, he...

In Old Bones Never Die by Lesley A. Diehl, Connecticut fashionista Eve Appel has gone into business with her friend in a consignment store in Florida, but things never run smoothly and Eve just can’t keep her nose out. Becoming an apprentice to a retiring...

Rita Avery has a husband and son ill with an unknown pathogen, birds are falling dead from the sky, it is hard to tell the good guys from the bad, and a disaster is looming. Rita is determined to get to the bottom of...

Stolen by Linda J. Wright offers a unique perspective on crimes against animals as Kieran Yeats investigates the theft of eleven Bengal cats from a cattery, along with several missing pets (cats and dogs) in the Oak Bay neighborhood. Jen, Kieran’s goddaughter, is taking care...