The Consent of Shadows by Naza Semoniff is a frightening narrative about a dystopia that feels eerily familiar. Jack Aldren appears at the start as a conscientious citizen, dutifully following his role as a city bureaucrat, going through the motions of meaningless repetition, while deeply...

After a near brush with death at the hands of an assailant they barely know, Nashville PI Ethan and his wife, Michelle ‘Mickey’ Jenks, are left shaken and with a ton of questions. The assailant, later identified as D. J. Burnett, had demanded that the...

The Book of Outcasts by Matt Nagin presents a collection of stories that all read independently but share a creative leitmotif of testing the boundaries of people in extreme, often horrifying, realities. In A Triumph of Humanity, a male patient undergoes invasive medical care while...

Stephen Ford's To Keep Us All Safe revolves around Jim, an ex-environmental consultant living in England. Jim is tasked with taking care of his elderly relatives during a lockdown caused by the Chimapox pandemic. This lockdown is closely monitored by the Lockdown Patrol Volunteers and...

Jubilee Jones, a successful Sydney chef, is living back in her hometown of Bowral after COVID caused her restaurant to close. One afternoon, while digging in her garden, she finds an old biscuit tin. Inside the tin are some exquisite pieces of jewellery and an...

Lee Ann Sontheimer Murphy's novel, Tall, Dark and Cherokee, is a romance full of suspense. It centers on Kaitlin, a high school English teacher who finds herself in a dangerous situation. As she prepares to marry a doctor, she realizes he's not the person she...

The Silver Spider by Oranto Rastaban is the first book in The Falcon Investigators series. Three young men go into the woods, and only two come out. Falcon, Rook, and Keet are good friends who decide to hike in the Blue Mountains, but something goes...

Jerold Last’s Tapas and Treachery is an intriguing and well-crafted cozy murder mystery set in Spain. Roger Bowman is a private detective in Los Angeles with considerable experience in solving complex murder cases. He is hired by a prestigious law firm representing an international cruise...

Time and Space by Shireen Jeejeebhoy tells the story of Time, a forty-year-old woman living an ordinary life in Toronto. One day, she is abducted by youths from the future, forever altering her destiny as she knows it. Carried across centuries, Time finds herself trapped...

Chuck Morgan’s The Eye of the Navigator: Kealoha Island Thrillers Book 2 is a gripping, action-packed conspiracy thriller set in Hawaii. Detective Leilani Kealoha of the Honolulu Police Department is under intense time pressure to find the perpetrator(s) of heists from four upscale resorts in...