It is the first year for fifty-seven-year-old John Crase as a private investigator after retiring from the Spokane Police Department as a police detective. He had left the service, looking for a fresh start from the monotony of death he dealt with. However, one phone...

In Herb Guggenheim’s The Goldbach Conjecture, Soleri College enters 2023 as an experimental public liberal arts school where students shape much of their education through pass/fail academic contracts. Its progressive culture has long welcomed students who see themselves as different, but Governor Randall Delago wants...

The Ashes of Us by Ashley Baker is a compelling novel. Very early one morning, Dr. David McCall, a clinical and anatomical pathologist, receives a strange phone call. He is informed that his nineteen-year-old daughter, Addison McCall, is in the hospital. She was assaulted. He...

Joshua Gamon’s Marlowe House introduces an unforgettable alternate 1930s London controlled by a ruthless, all-seeing military police department. Agent Jack King is the model of perfect state obedience, carrying out gruesome orders without hesitation while living a very isolated life in the freezing metropolis. His...

Hop Fight by S. Pluck, P. MacCruiskeen, and F. T. Marquardt is an outlandish, absurdist fiction guide masquerading as an official sports rulebook. The authors detail a high-contact, equipment-free sport in which opponents must stand on a single chosen foot and use brute force to...

Echoes from the River by Kathryn Lane follows Francesca Morales de la Garza, an eighteen-year-old bride from Mexico, who is thrust into an arranged marriage and moves to a remote part of Australia in the 1970s. What begins as the story of a young bride...

The Picture Business: Stories About the People Who Make the Movies is an insider’s look at Hollywood. In it, best-selling author Elaine Kagan, who is also a film and television actress, uses her firsthand experience in show business as the template for her fictional (though...

A Third Tail by David Schecter is a delightful adventure story about two Scottish Terriers and their family. It's been a year since Piper and Mac last went to Grandma's. The two terriers live happily with their human mom, dad, and their twin children, Judy...

Alex Morton’s sweeping historical fiction novel, We Are Not Yours, pulls us headfirst into the dark times of a 1970s right-wing military dictatorship on the remote island of Mythos. At the heart of the story is Perdiki, a famous rebel composer who escapes state captivity...

In Jared Morrison’s The Crossing, a struggling marketing executive, Ben Regan, looks back on the final year of his best friend, Taylor Thorne, a struggling screenwriter whose luck changes when a woman named Natalie Pierce shows up briefly at the corner of Sunset and Marmont,...