In Rob Kaufman’s Death Sentence, Ethan Winslow leaves a funeral unable to forget the way people finally speak honestly once death is on the table. Instead of waiting for his own ending, he invents acute kidney failure and begins telling the people around him that...

Samuel Colabufo’s The Mitigator centers on Joseph "Goody" Goodness, a man who carries a deep psychological scar from his childhood that manifests as an intuitive radar for tracking human rage. When he senses someone about to snap, he moves in to intercept the violence before...

Detective Michael Tough is chilling out at Denny’s, situated on a stretch of road that’s a known red-light district. Suddenly, a guy who looks like a pimp is gunned down in front of everyone. Michael chases the shooter but is unable to catch him. He...

Randall D. St. Claire’s The Frequency follows Bronx Rousselle, a Warroad, Minnesota pawnbroker and ex-Marine whose quiet shop becomes the start of a hunt after Heather Li arrives with her drugged brother, George Tikaani, alongside a box of inherited Inuit artifacts. George has escaped from...

Double by Gerry Burke introduces a wild ride where international spy games collide head-on with American underworld politics. The story sets off in the quiet English countryside village of Omelette, where a local murder case blows open a major standoff between MI5 and a hidden...

CatchEM by Julie Hodgson jumps straight into the lonely aftermath of an assault that the police simply shrug off. Grace Thorne is left trying to piece her life back together with large gaps in her memory after a university night out. But the authorities merely...

River Cameron has been early-retired from the military, and a piece of her memory is missing. Trying to start a new life for herself, she finds a place to live and decides to go for a run in the park—she thinks she might like running....

David Boito’s Fatal Castle opens with the Kohinoor’s arrival at Queen Victoria’s palace in 1850 before moving to the Tower of London in 2023, where the diamond’s colonial history lingers in the Crown Jewels. Ashley Bellamy, a UCLA history student and lifelong diamond obsessive, has...

In The Price of Deception by Rita Mary Boehm, Anita Johns was brutally murdered. Anita had a complicated past and was not always the best mother to Pepper. Police Chief Donnie Smith is called in to investigate the murder. To complicate matters further, Pepper suddenly...

Aiken Ponder’s The Safe Place Was a Lie follows Dr. Idris Bardot, an obstetric emergency physician who has spent years noticing young women return to his hospital with pregnancies that do not fit their records. When a teenage girl vanishes from the building, Idris learns...