The Joshua Effect by P.S. Meronek is a thriller that opens with billionaire mogul, Jonathan, preparing for the rooftop party celebrating the opening of his newest high-rise building in New York City. Through his reminiscences, we meet the estranged love of his life, Charlene, or...

The Employer: A Novelization by Frank Merle is a very different psychological thriller. The Carcharias Corporation is a company that people know very little about. Five people are interviewed by 'the Employer' for a job with no description and each one is thrilled to be...

World War II had all but destroyed Sicily and Domenico's family needed to get out. His father promised the family that things would be better for them in America. It is that hope which set Domenico and his family on an irrevocable course in Finding...

Dismal Key is an action and adventure tale set in Southwestern Florida written by Mitch Doxsee. McKlusky is a sixteen-year-old who grew up on Marco Island until his mother remarried and relocated the family to New Jersey. Every summer, McKlusky returns to Florida and crews...

David Tish's book Madame Charmaine (The Sheldon Beasley Series) takes an all-too-familiar story line and adds some interesting twists that make the book enjoyable. Nebraska youths Sheldon Beasley, Jimmy Blaze, Bull Evenshot, and Tabby Moore discover a rusty old padlocked trunk and assume they have...

Scotophobia - Fear of the Dark: In These Caves, Darkness Is Not All There Is to Fear is a suspenseful thriller written by Alan Donaldson. Jess Tennant suffers from scotophobia, fear of darkness, something she's had since a traumatic stay with her aunt. Despite this...

Stay Another Night by P.S. Meronek is an unusual love story. Coco Stevens loses her father at an early age when he was shot under mysterious circumstances. Her mother sinks into depression and Coco ends up as an underage burlesque dancer in a San Franciscan...

The Price of Silence by Ulla Hakanson is the story of Amy Robinson who joins her cousin on a kayaking trip in the wilderness of British Columbia. She tries to put an abusive relationship behind her and start life afresh. She makes new friends and...

Eriq La Salle has carried over his characters Phee and Quincy from the last nail biter, Laws of Depravity, to Laws of Wrath. Phee and Quincy are on a well-earned leave after their last thrilling case, only to be called back from their brief vacation....

Thomas M. Cirignano is the author of "The Constant Outsider" and "67 Cents: Creation of A Killer." This is a review of the latter. Our tale begins with Nick meeting someone in an alley to collect $1000. Instead he is stabbed repeatedly in the back...