Edward A Dreyfus’ The Midnight Shrink is a work of fiction but, given the author’s experience and background, might just be a touch autobiographical. The concept is certainly original. Dr David Edminson is a psychologist with a conscience. He treats ordinary folk at his regular...

The Dancing Barber by AC Michael is a novel with powerful historical hints about a Ukrainian who was able to survive and even escape the worst of the cruelties of the Soviet communist dictatorship. This story is set against the backdrop of the Soviet Union...

The Man in the Blue Fez: A Birth of an Assassin Novel by Rik Stone is set in the 1970s during the Cold War. Pavel Rostislav, battling hypothermia in the sub-zero winter of the Russian mountains, spots his quarry and aims his sniper rifle. Jez...

The Torch is Passed: A Harding Family Story is written by Bill Powers. Having just graduated college, Andrea finds her world ripped apart when two family members are shot. Her father is one and, with his life hanging in the balance, she must take control...

Gwyn had just joined her parents in Israel for a holiday. As they toured the country and visited places of historical significance, Gwyn - a history major at university - could not help but dream about how amazing it would be to go back in...

A team of highly trained intelligence analysts are sent to Iraq on a mission. Whilst there, their convoy is ambushed and some of the team members are killed. The seriously injured survivors are treated in a hospital. Once released, Eugene "Boston" Hollinger starts to have...

Touching the Wire by Rebecca Bryn is a story of all the women of the Holocaust. Miriam, a Jewish nurse, steps down from a cattle wagon and into the heart of Chuck, a young doctor, but saving her from the gas chamber exposes her to...

The Coercion Game: Umbra Sumus, Book 1 is an international thriller written by Magnus Booth. Chris Lee hasn't seen his university friend, Anna Von de Pahl, for some years since they both were students at Cambridge. While he was freelancing as a fixer and problem...

Rebecca Bryn’s The Silence of the Stones opens with Alana, a city girl who has given up her job to concentrate on painting. Told she has inherited a cottage in West Wales, she packs her worldly goods in her ancient Mini and sets out; this...

Geza Tatrallyay’s Twisted Reasons is not an easy read. While it is a work of fiction, it is fable interwoven with reality, a harsh, perhaps even prophetic reality at that. Greg Martens is an author of what was once called ‘penny dreadfuls’: crime novels devoid...