It’s always a pleasure to discover an author whose writing style intrigues me, whose characters capture my imagination, and whose plot keeps me glued to the pages. My latest discovery is an Australian, Ged Gillmore, and his novel, The Lightning Rod - one unique and...

Cherry Pits is a neo-noir psychological thriller written by Emily Hodgson. Chester Finnegan (Chess) is a struggling young artist who spends his free time using his alias, Bucket, to dispatch dead bodies for a murderer named Murdy. Laden with a traumatic past due to his...

Tides of Reckoning by Tyler Edwards is a speculative dystopian novel and the second book in The Outlands Saga series, preceded by book one, The Outlands. For backstory, the young protagonist Jett Lasting is tossed into the Outlands by a brutal government called the Patriarch,...

I Am Legend meets Army of the Dead in Dave Godwin’s Tetrad Variant. It all begins with a virus—the benign Sleeper Virus attaches itself to cells throughout each host and is able to destroy nearly any foreign bacterial or viral invader. But then came the...

The Witchhunt begins with mumblings of a supernatural presence as a crew makes repairs. Soon, accusations and slurs are thrown among the men as something sinister comes between them. Next, a policeman accompanies the property manager as she seeks to enforce an eviction notice, and...

Valentine Acts 1 & 2 is an intense work of interpersonal drama and thriller fiction with romance and horror elements penned by author Elliott Morreau. This epic-length double novel is best suited to mature adult readers owing to some extreme content that forms the central...

Abandoned at birth and left as an orphan twice after that, Jane Walker has made it through the foster care system with her best friend, Sadie. Promising themselves never to look back but always look to the future, they have made a life for themselves....

The Ghosts We Know is William Dean’s second mystery/thriller novel. The story is set in a small peaceful town. Sunny Slope, the friendliest neighborhood in Two Rivers, Oregon, is suddenly riddled with sinister occurrences. The town’s teens are acting strangely. When one of them takes...

No Prey, No Pay by Ashur Storm details the destruction of Port Royal, Jamaica, in the seventeenth century. Port Royal was the place where everything happened. It accommodated activities of all kinds, from whoring to markets, pirates, slavers, sailors, and more. Francis lived and worked...

What Lurks in the Shadows by S. C. Shannon is set in a dystopian version of Earth. “Who am I? And who was I?" are questions that Grace Baker often asks herself as she comes to terms with the new world she now resides in....