The Overlay by Mercedes Blanche is a very well-written short story that blends romance and drama. When I say short, I really mean short – just 19 pages. The cover is very nicely done and sets the scene for what you expect the book to...

In Hermit by Joel R. Dennstedt, old man Gabriel is at peace with his surroundings and with the world. On a cliff above the beach, he lives in absolute solitude and takes pleasure in every single blissful moment of his loner life. His days are...

Inside this brilliant thriller, A.C. Fuller has masterfully woven a world showing the dangers facing all good journalists out there. Dark, edgy, and a story that will ensure readers are kept on the edge of their seats, The Anonymous Source takes readers deep into the...

The dead body of a U.S. Senator’s mistress – disinterred and stolen from its casket - is found grotesquely displayed at the horrific scene of a church’s satanic desecration. When the young woman’s family sues the Caring Oaks Cemetery/Mortuary for negligence in their blatant absence...

Denele Campbell’s novella, The Journal of Admiral Wade and Other Short Stories, is a nice collection of prose. In Parker’s Cross Roads, a sullen woman's life changes when she goes for a walk in the woods and finds herself back in time helping wounded soldiers...

Eleven by Paul Chandler deals with 52-year-old Edward Ellis who has been an art historian for 25 years. He is fascinated with an obscure, virtually unknown artist and his elusive paintings, that of Ethan Tanner. A few have surfaced briefly over the many years he...

On June 24, 1981, two Bosnian teenagers, Mirjana, then 16, and Ivanka, 15, were walking near their nondescript village of Medjugorje in what is now Bosnia and Herzegovina, when Ivanka told her friend she could see an image of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Mirjana told...

Michael Sprankle’s Love and Theft is an intensely absorbing and ‬excellently written blend of fiction with true events.‭ The protagonist,‭ ‬Michael Malone,‭ ‬has a series of encounters with the ‬law,‭ ‬but he doesn’t necessarily see that as a‭ ‬bad thing.‭ ‬At some ‬point,‭ ‬he even...

Glimpse, a superbly crafted speculative short story by Daniel P. Douglas, offers the reader a provocative future mystery on which to ponder: What happens when an older couple finally decides to leave their well-outfitted bomb shelter? First, the story must deal out a series of...

Geza Tatrallyay’s Twisted Reasons is not an easy read. While it is a work of fiction, it is fable interwoven with reality, a harsh, perhaps even prophetic reality at that. Greg Martens is an author of what was once called ‘penny dreadfuls’: crime novels devoid...