In Burp Gun Bandit by Cary Robinson, Carlos, or Careless as he was known to everyone, was a man on a mission. He left home in Houston, Texas, and flew to Mexico to chase after a girl, Maria, that he had only met once and...

If you want a good brain-teaser, you might just want to pick up a copy of The Games by Izai Amorim. The novel is complex in its conceptualization and many readers may want more action in the first hundred pages when the author develops...

At first glance, William Bradshaw is ordinary to the point of nondescript. At second glance, the view hasn't much improved - he’s just another badly-dressed bloke burdened by student loans and desperate to find a job. His very insignificance, however, makes him the perfect candidate...

About Time by Michael Murphey is a brilliant time travel novel in which travelers risk going to parallel universes in the name of science. In a modern-day twist, corporate America really controls the missions for the capitalistic gains they can offer, but little do the...

A Bad Reputation is the latest Madeleine Maclin mystery by Jane Tesh, starring former beauty queen turned artist and private eye. In A Bad Reputation, Wendall Clarke becomes the talk of the town when he comes back to the small town of Celosia, North Carolina...

Piazza Navona by M.L. Kilian is the story of one woman’s escape from her cheating husband. Elise thought she had the perfect life – wonderful husband, great jobs and 2 loving, albeit demanding kids. She had noticed that her husband had been working more and...

Boundless Sea, book three of the Sacred Breath Series by Nadia Scrieva, starts us off on a sad note. The pregnant queen and her sister are still missing and the kingdom of Adlivun is in turmoil. The world has been made aware of the existence...

I just finished reading Confessions of a Catholic School Dropout by Patti Lavell. I’m not sure whether I should be laughing or crying so I did both. I was shocked at the things that happened to the author. She was the only girl in a...

False Prophet is a police procedural set in San Francisco and the Mormon community in Abbottsville, California, and written by Donna Banta. Detective Lieutenant Matt Ryan is called to investigate the bludgeoning death of an elderly man. When he turns the body over, he's somewhat...

In Siam Storm, four seemingly unrelated stories come together in a brilliant plot with an unpredictable ending. A young man seeking revenge from rejection, a wealthy pedophile who enjoys anything illegal, three Englishmen with somewhat loose morals and full pockets on holiday in Thailand, and...