When I picked up The Call: A Baseball Novel by Laurie Boris, the last thing I expected was to meet a female protagonist, and I must say that she is so well developed and the story so original and deeply moving that I couldn’t put...

The Lady in the Moonlight by Lathish Shankar is a collection of five short vignettes, all of which intertwine love and death in a way that’s absolutely stunning. Each story takes on a life of its own, as each character recalls their bittersweet past, only...

The Shepherd’s Calculus by C.S. Farrelly reveals the machinations of incumbent Arthur Wyncott’s campaign office that’s losing their grip on the religious voter base, and those of Owen Feeney, head of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, as he contends with a sex abuse scandal...

When a U.S. Senator is found dead in his hotel room in Brazil, Max Ford, a former CIA operative turned private detective, takes notice, not the least because Senator Jeffrey Lance was her friend, but his wife, Allison, was also Maxine’s best friend. Before long,...

The brilliant end to a brilliant story. The Brilliant Game by A. Gavazzoni is the third and last novel in the Hidden Motives series. I am a little sad to see that this is the last novel in the series, but at the same time...

What does it take to defeat an enemy who seems invincible and who is aided by his powerful daimôn lord? The answer that The Enemy Within, the sixth book in The Paladin Chronicles by Neil Port, offers may seem easy, familiar to some readers, but...

The Bishop of 12th Avenue is a post-apocalyptic novel for young adults by Ray Lucit. Eighteen-year-old Jacob “Jake” Walker is accustomed to hiding and fighting for survival in the city controlled by corrupt leaders. He rescues a man tortured by federal agents, and the dying...

After surviving a forest fire, a private investigator begins hunting for the woman whose disappearance caused the deadly conflagration to ignite in the exciting sleuth mystery novel, Three Strikes, You're Dead (An Eddie Shoes Mystery) by Elena Hartwell. On the first day of a mother-daughter...

In a story set in a small village near Moscow in 1941, as German troops invade Russia, young Serafima declares her love for Victor, a Soviet Officer, but denies him physically before he is sent to the front to fight. When the German army occupies...

The Amazon Detective Agency: A Murder Novel is a sleuth murder mystery novel written by Patrick Oster. Mel McGinty had been working the overnight shift as part of the Supreme Court’s police force for eighteen months when she discovered Oliver Wendell Oglethorpe’s body in the...