In 1975, young John Wesley Zooma witnessed the public and violent execution of a well-known member of his community by the police. The incident left him with a deep hatred for the government. More than two decades later, Zooma joined a secret Zulu paramilitary group,...

Jessica Housand’s Blood Gilt is a crime saga that spans decades, following Alejandro Whitmore, the son of American mercenary Jared Whitmore, and Salvadoran revolutionary Ana Santiago. Alejandro thought he had left the world his father built when he was torn away from his childhood by...

“At what point does the desire to succeed become indistinguishable from the willingness to harm?” For Tanner Barrett, the protagonist of Aaron Ryan's short novel The Darkness Within, that question is answered in a horrific manner. Tanner is an indie author caught in a slump...

In Capitol Sins by Bill Halamandaris, evil people have gone after Theo Alexander. His life has been in danger, and they even abducted the girl he loves, Taylor. Theo was the director of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, but the committee was disbanded after the...

Upon his mother's passing, Wolfgang Barnes, a movie producer of some substance, relocates from Portland to Florida to settle his late mother's estate. As he carries out this task, he contemplates how best to put his previous works to use and promptly comes up with...

When the kidnapping of the President’s daughter by Russian mobsters puts police officer Justin Thyme’s face on the news, he becomes a target for a clandestine group known as IVY. They want him as an asset because the kidnapping is actually part of something much...

W. M. Leesman’s Xavier Bradshaw: Ghostwriter is set in Livingston, Alberta, where newspaper reporter Xavier Bradshaw is called to St. Luke’s church after Councilman Carlo Marscapello is found dead at the altar. Xavier once investigated Carlo’s political dealings, so the case quickly reaches into his...

In the literary fiction novel, I Am Danvers by Kate Kaminski, Marie “Danny” Danvers makes a living as a live-in companion inside very wealthy homes. After a job with the Whitaker family ends in accusations, art adviser Ian St. Martin sends her to Los Angeles...

“If people would stop murdering other people in molten glass, it would be easier.” Yes, it would be easier, but perhaps these murders are just one issue in Resurrection of the Ruby Skull (Fox Argall Mysteries book four), a novel by Collings MacCrae. The story...

Detective Winston Radhauser faces the worst nightmare that can befall any parent in Susan Clayton-Goldner's A Harbor of Hope. In the dead of the night, someone wounds their stallion, Ameer, in the barn. Radhauser and Gracie go to bed tired that night after having the...