Chris Winterton’s Folk takes place in the Australian town of Fareham during the early 20th century. In the respectable part of town, the mayor and his supporters are pushing for “temperance,” or alcohol prohibition. In the not-so-respectable area, there is a rising tide of crime...

Grand! Is that a strange way to describe a book? If so, I don’t care. My Mad Russian: Three Tales by Steven Key Meyers is just that. Three unconnected novellas make up this very enjoyable read, and each is strong in its own right. Together,...

There are a number of murders being committed in Ottawa, Canada. Is there a serial killer loose throughout Ottawa and, if so, what is the motive? In One Little, Two Little, Three Little Indians by Carl Faehrmann, Inspector Donnelly wondered what the common thread of...

Saddle up, get your feet in the stirrups and be prepared to ride out this fun and gritty Western! Author Juliette Douglas gives readers the third in her Freckled Venom series and Skeletons is the best of them all. Marshall Rawley Lovett of White River...

In Alaina Claiborne, the first book in the British Agent Novels series, by M.K. McClintock, the setting is nineteenth-century England. Alaina’s life is forever changed at the age of ten. Years later, she is still dealing with the tragedy and often suffers from nightmares about...

The Golden Peacock by Lauren Grossman centers around Rainee, a bestselling author who is stuck on her next novel idea. When she finds a ticket from the Holocaust Museum in her desk drawer, she decides to visit London and track down the survivor, Jana Bowman....

The Charmed Life is a mystery novel by John Miles. Following the buddy genre of detective stories, the plot centers on quirky private eye Gene Harlow and Pinkton ‘Pinky’ Finkelstein, his new police lieutenant sidekick. The unlikely pair go about their business against the backdrop...

In Naraya - A Voice from the Past to Guide our Future by Ayam Ramar, Helen Mayflower had just graduated high school but, even with all the excitement of putting that chapter of her life behind her, she felt like something was missing. Helen had...

Requiem for Sherlock Holmes by Paul Stuart Hayes includes five new Sherlock Holmes cases. Holmes has died and Watson has decided to write up a small number of cases that for one reason or another had never been published. The first, Sherlock Holmes and...

The Two Chambers: The Story of a Physician Persecuted by the Inquisition by Pedro Puech is a story of intrigue, medical scholarship and religious conflict during the period of the Renaissance and the Reformation. A young Portuguese physician and his tutor, both of whom have...