In The Boys of Sabbath Street, Shelly Reuben has created a mystery that is cozy in every sense of the word. Following a series of scandals, the little town of Calendar has come to adopt a rather unusual form of local government, in the person...

Night Shadows by Theodore J. Cohen, PhD, is a murder mystery right out of NYPD case files, or so it seems. Detective-Investigator Louis Martelli and his partner, Sean O’Keeffe, found themselves with an unexpected murder on their hands when Deputy Coroner Michael Antonetti’s assistant discovered...

When Nature Calls, the first book in the Nature Station Mystery Series, is Jannifer Powelson’s first novel, following her series of nature books for children. Kristen Matthews is the owner of the Nature Station, a complex of forest, wildflowers, wildlife, and hiking trails in Eklund,...

Encryption by Bill Ward is a great book with a very likable hero in Peter Hammond. Encryption is a little hard to categorize. It is a murder mystery and finding out who killed the victim and why is the engine that drives the story. I...

The Tale of a Lost Romantic in Seoul by Steve Justice is a novel as remarkable as its title that tells the story of a middle-aged English professor and his struggles to come to terms with his normal and nice but unhappy life. Trapped in...

It hasn’t been a really great few months for Duncan Walsh. In fact he’s gotten fired from his job and is barely surviving in a metropolis that seems determined to evict him. That is until he meets Agnes, a girl very unlike anyone he’s ever...

Fog is the perfect name for this suspenseful book written by Michael Wombat. Finlay finds himself in an unfamiliar location, with a vehicle full of body parts. He has amnesia and his confusion increases when he is chased by armed men. Finlay is rescued by...

If you'd like a truly thought-provoking science fiction read, you might try picking up a copy of Kenneth Tucker's The Player Gods. You have to follow all the characters in the beginning chapters in order to get the gist of the story, but it is...

Cutting Right to the Chase Vol.2: 10x1000 word stories of unusual crimes (Chase Williams detective short stories) by Stefania Mattana is a collection of 10 crime stories. These crime stories revolve around the adventures of a detective, Chase Williams. The stories are short and readers...

The Pearl by J.F. Anstead is a wonderful short story about the decisions we make in life and the way they impact on our soul. Told from the point of view of two sisters who discover that they are experiencing the same dream, the story...