For fans of terrorist thrillers, Bombing Chicago by Jerry Johnson makes for a great read. The plot is simple, but the details are what make the difference in the story, creating the complexity I look for in stories. While Republicans and Democrats are holding conventions,...

The Burn Patient: A Vega and Middleton Novel by Sue Hinkin is a pulsating meld of mystery, crime, and adventure with a powerful plot. Lucy is certain that the man who wanted to shoot her through the head died in Guerrero in a jeep explosion....

Judenrein by Harold Benjamin is a high octane thriller set in a near future that seems far-fetched on the surface but, in reality, is possibly more probable than we realize. The book is set in a United States where Jews have been rounded up and...

Nineteen-year-old Phoenix Cartwright meets Katharine I. Malone for the first time when Katharine accidentally stumbles into her office and introduces herself as a coworker. Phoenix feels a bit curious about the weird encounter, but she sweeps it aside shortly after. Her world comes crashing down...

Veritas: A Neil Baggio Suspense by Charles D'Amico is an engrossing crime thriller that follows a protagonist’s hunt for a serial killer. Neil Baggio is convinced he has found tranquility after his eventful days with the Bureau, but he is called back to investigate his...

Epidemic by Quentin Cope is a stunning thriller. Billy Bright is ambitious. He’s also a top criminal. He makes the acquaintance of a French aristocrat who possesses drawings of a WWII tunnel; Billy intends to excavate the tunnel starting in England but he didn’t bank...

Boarded Windows, Dead Leaves is a small collection of short horror stories by Michael Jess Alexander; so short as to be eligible for the designation “snippets”, or perhaps “brain fodder” intended for more lengthy treatment elsewhere. This is not to be critical of ultra-short fiction,...

From the author of the spellbinding The Minstrel Boy comes another exciting read, The Bloody Road. In Nigel Seed’s military thriller, Michael McGuire, who retired from the army after the Boer War, is called back to service when WWI breaks out. As Colonel, he takes...

Does a person ever get over being raped? Rape victims do “get over it” to a degree; some, like Cindy Foster in Demented by Joe Clark, even manage to rebuild their lives. But they never forget the event, and if they see their rapist, even...

Redniggskiner by Kyle Edwards is an edgy dystopian novel that won't disappoint. Set in a futuristic New America in 2070, a lot has changed since the Second Civil War. Non-whites are segregated, doomed to live and die in modern-day slavery--Skybear Barrett on a reservation; Terrell,...