Evelyn Massey is dead, and she has left a note. Not a suicide note but a note about a secret—the secret is about a dead body in the basement of her home. The note is addressed to Alice, a sergeant in the local police department....

Auralis: The Bridge (Book 1) by R.A. Wagener is a praiseworthy, speculative, sci-fi technothriller. We meet Asher Newman, a mid-level systems integration engineer at Luminate Technologies. When Asher’s team was assigned to run final-stage testing on a new hi-tech chip, Asher discovered that the architecture...

In A Birthday to Die For by Frank L. Atchley, we follow Dr. Paula Mitchell, a Seattle psychologist who finds herself in a race against a literal calendar. Her patient, Kae Carlson, is terrified that she’s marked for death by a satanic cult on her...

Hal Koufax, a veteran journalist for the Cincinnati Bugle, was still recovering from a near-death experience at the hands of Frank Miller, a gangster who was after a controversial list in Koufax’s possession. The list, strategically planted in Koufax’s way, not only had ties to...

Another Havana Hangover by Randy Richardson revolves around Tanner Ford’s attempt to bring down the treacherous political system he helped create. He is pulled into the world of espionage after becoming involved with Richard Swift, a powerful political strategist in Washington. Swift is not trying...

In Daniel P. Douglas's Asset Nightfall: Digital Rebellion, Kerstin Ahlers hacked a classified financial archive belonging to the Galactic Federation and was captured during the breach. Intelligence officials forced her into service as a controlled cyber operative known as Asset Nightfall, monitored through a neural...

A Fragment of Chrome by Miikka Rautioaho takes place in Ocean City, a future city controlled by corporations and shaped by pollution and technology. Body modifications are common, and they create significant differences between the characters. Some benefit from them. Others don’t. The main character...

A Noble Truth by Robert Mix is about Noble Gareth, who was only six years old when he drew a picture of a disaster that would happen before Christmas that year. Years later, Noble assisted the police on a case in Washington, DC, but he...

Daniel Mendoza is back. His main client, Royal Phoenix Resorts, is in trouble again. This time, it’s being sued by Jennifer Adams, a hard-core party girl. While hanging out by the pool at the Arizona branch of the Regal Phoenix Resort and Spa, she got...

A Cry for Vengeance by Ernesto Patino follows Bryan De Luca, a university professor investigating Karl Muller, a hospice patient who confessed to being Franz Dietrich, a former SS officer at Treblinka. With the support of Helen Darby, Bryan uncovers Muller’s secret past, including his...