Couple Valentino and Heleanne are shopping in the local market when they come across a stall selling ‘Assassin’s Treats.’ The salespeople appear to be gypsies, and Heleanne jokingly asks them if they’re assassins. Not given a complete answer, the couple is left wondering. Shortly thereafter,...

Nursing Her Fractured Family by Louis Tong is an enthralling novel. Penny's father has just died, and from now on, she has to take care of her mother and younger sister. Penny, at twenty-four, thinks more about her sister, how to protect her from their mother, who...

When Lynn Davenport hears about the Veritas cruise, she sees it as the perfect opportunity to bond with a father who has been anything but that to her. She did not expect that, shortly after boarding the vessel with several other passengers, she would be...

In Small Town Symphony in Four Deadly Movements by Sloan Richman, Daniel Cole is still living with his parents in his twenties. Daniel is socially awkward, and his anxiety makes him feel out of step with the world. Daniel is a gifted violinist and was...

In The Soufflé Also Rises (The Lizi Cleverly Midlife Badass Detective Series), Lauren Johnson introduces readers to a fifty-four-year-old divorcee who is at breaking point. She is also broke and struggling to find her footing. Lizi finds a temporary job where she makes friends with...

Recently divorced, jobless, and living in his sister’s house in Hollywood, California, thirty-year-old Robert Donegan was looking for any job to keep him afloat. When a friend refers him to a contact named Antonio, who is willing to pay him $3,000 to drive a removal...

In A Birthday to Die For by Frank L. Atchley, we follow Dr. Paula Mitchell, a Seattle psychologist who finds herself in a race against a literal calendar. Her patient, Kae Carlson, is terrified that she’s marked for death by a satanic cult on her...

Black Widow White Horse by Carmine B. Littleworth follows the story of two women from very different backgrounds who form an unexpected bond. It's been a year since Mari lost her husband, Cedric, to Boston PD's brutality. Jean Stinson Lloyd, an elderly White woman, had...

In Yarrow Bend, a rural Canadian town, Sergeant Lena Malone of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and her junior, Constable Fincher, have launched an investigation into the mysterious disappearance of nine-year-old Elise, the daughter of Gustav “Goose” and Therese Deschamps. The more they dig...

In Judith Kendall’s The Tangled Web, railway payroll officer James McConnolly leaves Adelaide in December 1912 carrying the Christmas wages for the South Australian Railways, but never reaches his first delivery stop. His disappearance leaves his wife, Lizbeth, to rebuild her life in New Zealand...