When Detective Ava Martinez and her partner, Dan Riley, arrive at a crime scene in the small coastal town of Crystal Cove, they find the lifeless body of April Seagram, a guide at Biosphere Marine Institute. From the body’s wounds and witness statements, it was...

In Chicago, Warren Stevick, a prominent tax and corporate attorney, had been the go-to guy for every crook who had a problem with the law and their money, and was a favorite among the mob. Life and business had been good until he was forced...

When a drug dealer steals from his boss, it endangers his family’s lives and everyone who has contact with them in Surrender at Canyon Road by Debora Dale. Blake’s brother-in-law, Chuck, has pulled another stupid stunt that has turned deadly. Now Blake is racing against...

In Sicko, Avril Grady tells the story of Jamie Katz, a queer man working as a scriptwriter for an adult film studio. Jamie’s life is complicated—he’s still intertwined with Paul, his twice-ex-husband who is also his boss and secret lover, and their repeated breakups and...

In Alexander Semenyuk’s Sea Diary of Johnny Unknown, Johnny, an orphaned factory worker hoping for a fresh start, boards a passenger ship filled with migrants, businessmen, and families on their way to a distant shore. On his very first night at sea, he hears the...

Slipper Girl by Adele Royce is about Skylar Van Ness, a 27-year-old woman who discovers that her dark past has returned to torment her. Right before her father's wedding, Skylar reads a shocking email, and she learns that her mother knows everything about her and...

Bow Island in Cumbria is a place with unique natural beauty and historical significance. It was a hotspot for pirates and smugglers back in the day. Now? It’s a rather peaceful island where nothing much happens... At least not until recently, with Ellie Winter’s mysterious...

I love technothrillers, and Singularity Point by Mark Hacker was an absolute treat for me with its cyber warfare and AI. A groundbreaking neural experiment goes wrong, and the result is catastrophic: a monster comes to life. After the terrible event in Austin, everyone hoped...

Searching for John Smith by Joan Glase is the story of Julia, a twenty-six-year-old woman struggling with grief and a growing sense that her life has gone nowhere. After her aunt’s death, Julia leaves Ohio and travels alone to Baja, Mexico, hoping the distance will...

Sambisa Sunrise (Olive and Arrow) by Scott R Hofmann is a spine-chillingly realistic terrorist thriller, directly based on the infamous schoolgirl kidnappings in Nigeria by Boko Haram in 2014. When the world was horrified by the indiscriminate slaughter of civilians in Syria by the ISIS...