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....

The Other Side of the Door by Jill Vance is a curious collection of seventeen diverse and absorbing short stories. Some of these shorts have a paranormal aspect, while others are more along the lines of urban fiction. Still others represent a number of distinct...

Brylee Branson is about to turn seventeen but her life is far from typical for a seventeen-year-old. She's a dead talker, or medium, someone who can see and talk to the dead. It's a gift she didn't realise she had until her parents moved her...

Jeffery Deaver can always be counted on to bring readers a thriller that will keep them on the edge of their seats. This is a review of The Kill Room, the eleventh book in the Lincoln Rhyme series; the format is audio and read by...

Veteran author Lisa Jackson delivers again with the tale of a young woman named Caitlyn Montgomery Bandeaux who wakes up one morning, bloody and confused after a night out at a bar. There's blood all over her bedroom but she has no idea how it...

The 19th century or, as some would refer to it, the ‘asylum era’, was a time when insane asylums were expanded. In one of those asylums, a woman named Anne Stanbury is confined. She committed a crime but was determined to be certified insane and...