The Rainy Day Killer is the fourth in Michael J. McCann’s Donaghue and Stainer Crime Novel series: dark American police procedurals featuring Homicide Lieutenant Hank Donaghue and Detective Karen Stainer of the fictional Glendale Police Department in Maryland. In this book they are pitted against...

The Spark by John Kenny is set in the aftermath of a fire which claimed the life of one firefighter and left another, Donny, in critical condition. Slightly over a year later, Donny returns to work, doing the same thing as before, putting out fires...

The Dust: Book II: Pursuit by David H. Sharp picks up right where The Dust: Book I: Bloodlust leaves off. This episode of the series is every bit as captivating as was the first book, and I’ll be mighty surprised if Book III isn’t also...

The 3rd Option by Ben Sharpton opens with Allan Chappel arriving at Inc. Ubator for a job interview with a long-time friend. All he knows about the company is that it is a medical think-tank that is doing cutting-edge research that promises to change the...

When a young, healthy employee of LTG, a defense contractor for the US Navy’s drone development program, dies suddenly from an overdose of a dangerous chemical, Jake Palmer is called in to investigate. Jake, an ex-Navy Seal turned private investigator, is reunited with an old...

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...

In The Devil's Playground, book one of Cynthia Sens's Sapphire Staff Series, we meet Mel Taylor. Mel is your average, middle-aged man living in the 21st century and working as a genealogist. But with Mel, what you get on the surface isn't all that is...

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...

The Woman Who Sparked the Greatest Sex Scandal of All Times by Eli Yaakunah is a dystopian novel that transposes the reader into a fictitious world about love, truths, and world-saving. This book can be read as an allegory of journalism and the political system....