“Only much later do you realize that all the maturity forced upon you has robbed you of something precious.” In Martyn Burke's novel, The Gossip Columnist, many characters experience loss, with innocence being just one of the things taken from them. As the Weimar years...

R. L. Hare's Boardroom Assassin: Executive Vengeance is the sequel to Boardroom Assassin, a thriller centered on CEO Rick Frown's pursuit of the perfect murder and detective Elena Kolonik's hunt for the killer. This time, the battle takes place in the courts: the court of...

A Retrospective Trip Down Tourniquet Lane by Robert E. Kearns unfolds through a series of letters and visits between two cousins, Henry and Lucy, who reconnect over a mysterious old cottage in rural Ireland. What begins as a simple exchange of pleasantries soon becomes an...

In Lana Sabarwal's Maya, Dead and Dreaming, Munna Dhingra is an Indian immigrant who has lived in the small town of Shogie, Washington, most of her life. Yet she still feels like a stranger, trying to find her place in the world. One day, she...

In Sounds of Someday by Linda Opdyke, Mickey Calhoun’s latest case starts innocuously enough when an ill-fated dinner with her husband, Ethan, ends in a confrontation. But when a mysterious woman named Vanessa Warner seeks Mickey’s help to “find” a man she claims is stalking...

In Deborah R. Dakins' Vineyard of Lies, Gina Pagliaro—an experienced wine journalist—loses her job after publishing a risky exposé. Feeling dejected, Gina leaves behind the Idaho wine world she has grown to love and takes a tour through southern Italy, hoping the change in scenery...

In Gaslight: Book 1 of the Apex Society Trilogy by Rhone Atleshen, Moira leaves everything behind to follow a man who promises her a new life. Instead, Moira finds herself tied to someone who is dangerous and an operative of a secretive organization. A fire...

In Dark Site by Stephen Baker, fifteen-year-old Alissa struggles to cope with the loss of her mother while navigating the influence of her wealthy grandfather, who wants to influence her future. Alissa’s grandfather arranges for a Chinese brain chip, known as Boost, to be implanted...

Echoes From a Missing Generation by Christina Suzann Nelson is a “whodunit” with a difference. At the height of the Vietnam War, as America’s youth were being called up to serve their country, many questioned what America was doing, sacrificing their young men in a...

In Soda Lake, author John C Hampsey follows a narrator whose life becomes entangled with a mysterious man named McCuade—or possibly the man’s invention—after witnessing a strange disappearance at the titular Soda Lake. The narrator alternates between observing, tracking, and interacting with people connected to...