Drawn into Malice is the third book in the Paxton and Walsh murder mystery series by Staci Troilo. The murder of a prominent defense attorney brings Paxton and Walsh to the posh, sprawling, old-money estate where he lived with his wealthy wife. But the luxury...

Matthew Galgani’s Doubting Nikki follows Michael “Cami” Camigliano, a filmmaker whose dying grandmother secretly gives him a vial she says contains the Blood of Christ. Soon afterward, Cami’s wife, Nikki, suffers a head injury during a ski trip and later collapses, leaving doctors concerned about...

Tom Dom’s Dark Kitchen takes us into a rain-slicked city, where a silent, watchful host runs an anonymous, night-only spot hidden among deteriorating downtown buildings. It’s a mysterious restaurant that becomes a sanctuary for broken people—like an arrogant politician, a heartbroken woman, a panicked young...

It is the first year for fifty-seven-year-old John Crase as a private investigator after retiring from the Spokane Police Department as a police detective. He had left the service, looking for a fresh start from the monotony of death he dealt with. However, one phone...

Double by Gerry Burke introduces a wild ride where international spy games collide head-on with American underworld politics. The story sets off in the quiet English countryside village of Omelette, where a local murder case blows open a major standoff between MI5 and a hidden...

In Dragonfly Down by Annette Masters, we meet Laurel, a teen who has spent her life hiding behind strict security and rigid routines after a childhood tragedy. Her world shatters a second time when an explosion levels a youth healing center on her family's private...

In Brian Spielbauer’s Dracula's Battle, after escaping imprisonment in Hungary, Vlad Dracula studies in Heidelberg under Professor Aeneas Piccolomini while planning one day to reclaim Wallachia from foreign control. His future changes after he falls in love with Katharina, a young servant in the household...

In Gabriel F.W. Koch’s Drop Dead Cadillac, private investigator Marlowe Black travels to a polluted inlet in Brooklyn after a reclusive mystery writer reports a Cadillac sinking beneath the tide near his isolated house. Inside the trunk Marlowe discovers a woman beside a younger lover...

Don’t Let It Out by N.A. Betts begins with an introduction to Daniela Rojas, a former Army Ranger completing her final FBI training exercise under intense physical and psychological strain. From the opening scene, where Dani fights through pepper spray and multiple attackers, the story...

It is the summer of 1905. Owen Townsend, a young Ivy League-educated doctor related to a prominent family in New York City, is at a park with his fiancée, Maude, when he has a psychotic episode, wreaks havoc, and blacks out. Having recently been discharged...