“I have been writing stories for as long as I can remember but I didn’t get down to it seriously until I retired to Spain. Some of these stories were written years ago, many were written specifically for a local magazine, Streetwise, and some for...

The Best People: A Tale of Trials and Errors by Marc Grossberg is a spellbinding thriller with exceptional characters. The first thing that gripped me and kept me turning the pages is the way the author uses the subplot to create suspense. The narrative builds...

June Trop's mystery and historical fiction novel, The Deadliest Lie, is set in Roman Alexandria in 46 CE. Miriam bat Isaac is 16, well educated, and engaged to Noah, the son of Amram, her father's best friend and business partner. She is under pressure to...

The Europeans: A Saga of Settlement Down Under is a sharp work of cross-cultural fiction penned by author Gerry Burke. Set around the middle of the twentieth century to begin with, in this story we are witness to the arrival of Bing McKeon, from Scottish...

The Redeemer is the second book in The Temple of Empia Saga by M.C. Glan and it is a great treat for fans of fantasy. Before the birth of Cassandra’s child, gifted people had disturbing nightmares of a son. And Jim Bluefeather had similar visions....

A contemporary re-imagining of Dante’s beloved Divine Comedy never read this well. His travels through hell, purgatory, and paradise are re-interpreted as a working-class American, disillusioned at the prospects of having a better life, finds hope in Donald Trump’s gift of the gab that runs...

Timeless: Can a Love be Everlasting by Wynne Stevens is written in a gorgeous lyrical style, packed with beautiful imagery and prose. Jason Kane has a horrible motorcycle accident on his way home to meet the love of his life. He finds himself in a...

The Eye That Never Sleeps by Clifford Browder takes the reader to New York City in the 1870s. A fantastic, fast-moving city of movers and shakers that had within its streets plenty of odd couple relationships. Once such relationship is a friendship between a young...

The Secret of El Salto is a compelling western novel penned by author Harvey Goodman and set in the middle of the nineteenth century. Filled with adventure, suspense, and intense thrills, the unique selling point of this western is its feisty female heroine, Estella. When...

Traces of Home (Open Wide My Heart Book 1) by S. S. Bazinet takes us right inside the lives of some seriously dysfunctional people from difficult childhoods. Lea, a successful pediatrician, is haunted by her childhood memories when her parents gave her none of the...