In Diane Hester’s The Fortress of Us, after her mother dies suddenly in their Adelaide kitchen, eight-year-old Kelsey Haslett moves with her father, Ryan, to rural Port Lincoln, where a tree house becomes the hiding place for Molly, a silent child she has smuggled from...

“You can only sell your integrity once, so you better get a good price for it,” are the opening lines of Diana Colleen’s provocative, revolutionary, and speculative thriller, They Could Be Saviors. The most consequential news of the century is brought to the world by...

In Jonathon Kelley’s The Emerald Divide, a bomb, supposedly an improvised explosive device, rips through St. Ciarán’s Church, killing Father Patrick Connelly, who discovered a dangerous secret right before the Irish reunification vote. The device had been strategically placed for maximum structural damage. ICSS agent...

Beyond Grimm by Alan S. Kessler is a collection of 25 short stories inspired by the Grimm Brothers' fairy tales. After coming across a scary wolf in the woods, a young girl tried to offer her grandmother as bait. A Berkshire pig betrays others of...

R.L. Hare’s Cracks in the Blind Spot follows Detective Elena Kolonik, a meticulous investigator. Elena believes that there is evidence at every crime scene if you look closely enough. Elena approaches each case with this belief and has an eagle eye for details. Caleb, a...

Mrs Barnes by Gwyn Bennett is a fast-paced thriller starring Mrs Barnes, a diligent housewife devoted to her family. Once an ambitious career woman filled with passion for her publisher job, all she does now is worry about her teenage daughter, Liv, and her husband...

Borrowed Tales by Michael Bowers centers on Sam, a broken man trying to hide from the world on a back corner barstool at Leo's pub. His simple routine is constantly interrupted by overwhelming mental shifts that drop him right back into the most pivotal and...

A high-stakes corporate thriller, Thomas Vincent Papa’s Black and White Smoke brings us to VASPI, a predictive analytics firm in turmoil. The company has been on a meteoric rise, and recent regulatory changes are shaking up the industry. Right in the middle of all this,...

In Break My Bones by Michelle Ian, we follow Michael, a successful suspense fiction writer whose own life begins to mirror the dark stories he writes. Michael is returning to his small-town Tennessee roots to end his book promotion tour and take over a local...

“After all, I won’t say I’m completely innocent, but I’m not exactly… not guilty.” It's difficult to separate the guilty from the innocent in Blood Echoes, the latest novel from prolific author Aaron Ryan. It is also challenging to understand where the source of true...