In what may be misinterpreted as a backhanded compliment, Eclipse of the Heart by Adam Adrian Crown is so much better than it looks. The cover suggests something ethereal but sinister, the blurb promises horse-whispering and cold-blooded vengeance, and some early comments allude to Hemingway’s...

Scene of the Crime: A Chip Palmer Forensic Mystery by Jennifer Chase is a tantalizing crime novel with sharp characters and a plot that will take readers on a dizzy ride. It’s a story of murder enmeshed in mystery, with a community rocked by two...

B-SIDE: From a Screenplay by Janis Jones and Jason Rohan is a police procedural mystery novel written by Janis Jones. Casey Terranova’s expectations for the special cake she had ordered from her friends’ bakery were, if anything, exceeded in spectacular fashion. The Egyptian motif worked...

Moonlight City Drive by Brian Paone is the story of Smith, a private eye who might not be any better than the people he is trying to investigate for his clients, but he has a conscience at least. There is darkness inside him that he...

Kate and Jack planned to relax with some old friends when they fled Kenya, but life and Rosa Linda have some very different plans for them. They’re barely in Texas for more than a few hours before Kate finds herself embroiled in something far bigger...

Ten years ago, Alex Chet was wrongfully convicted on drug charges, and served five years in prison. These days, he lives with his brother, who has returned from serving in the military and now works for the SC Bureau of Investigation in Columbia, SC. Life...

In Caught in a Web by Joseph Lewis, another boy from the high school in Waukesha has been found dead, overdosed on a concoction of heroin and fentanyl. Detectives Jamie Graff, Pat O’Connor and Paul Eiselmann are called in to solve the spate of similar...

Eternal Victim by Dexter Morgenstern is a short horror story that will send chills down the spine of any reader, a book about a woman with unusual and dangerous nightmares. But who is she and why is she haunted by images of vicious serial killers...

FBI Trackers Adrian Dillard and Cat Morgan are drawn into a case involving a fellow law enforcement officer with the disappearance of Laredo ATF agent Stuart Dyson in A u 79 by Anita Dickason. Without much to go on, the pair have to depend on...

Red: An Extreme Horror Novelette by D.J. Doyle is the story of Todd Jenkins (formerly known as Dwayne) and his blood lust for all things red. Red lipstick, red books, red kerchiefs...all souvenirs taken off women who became his prisoners. Told in the first person,...