The Ashes of Us by Ashley Baker is a compelling novel. Very early one morning, Dr. David McCall, a clinical and anatomical pathologist, receives a strange phone call. He is informed that his nineteen-year-old daughter, Addison McCall, is in the hospital. She was assaulted. He...

Hypnotized by W. B. Edwards takes us back to the sweating Southern California summer of 1969, when the lives of several young Whittier residents are on a direct collision course. Nick O’Brien has just left the Army and accepted a mundane factory job; a path...

An ex-member of the elite British Special Forces, Matt Johnson, aka Johno, draws on his experience and expertise in weapons, operational planning, tactical execution of battle plans, and his ability to quickly adapt to any situation to take on personnel security team operations, building a...

Alec Taylor, the Chief Marketing Officer of Biodigm, a biotech start-up, thinks he is successful. At thirty-nine, he not only boasts an athletically toned body but also a house in one of Norwich’s affluent neighborhoods. He looks down upon overweight people and believes they’re lazy....

In Where the Door Is Thin by Chuck Morgan, a priest's body is found beneath the Black Water Bridge. The crime scene prompts Chief Alexis Calder to call in the Denver FBI field office. Calder specifically asks for an agent experienced in dealing with religious...

The Cauldron of Anastasis is the fifth book in William P. Blake III’s The Blood and the Seed series. The story weaves sixty years of occult mystery into one epic showdown. The story opens in 1930s Bucharest, where the immortal sorceress Morgaine Lefey evades the...

“Sometimes being unschooled is an advantage in art: you have more freedom to unlock your emotions . . . to not know when you’ve crossed a boundary that probably shouldn’t have been there in the first place.” Boundaries fade in Vaulted Night (A Novella of...

In All We Keep Buried by Pamela Ungashick, a friendship is tested when Kiera is caught up in the disappearance of her friend Naomi’s ten-year-old nephew, Scottie. Everyone suspects Reggie Parks. Reggie’s brother Evan disappeared years ago, and he was the prime suspect. After all...

Bones: A Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Brian Doe follows Brom Bones three years after Ichabod Crane’s disappearance, when life has become far from the victory he thought he'd won. His marriage to Katrina is strained, his home is full of tension, and he’s too...

If you are looking for a thriller with a lot of heart, Glorious Debris by Elisabeth Wathen is an excellent choice. The narrative introduces us to Ann Davenport, a 68-year-old cancer survivor who simply wants a peaceful life running her pier concessions and rental shop...