Downfall by Brian Lutterman is a well-constructed thriller that moves along quickly. The main character is a female paraplegic lawyer, who is pulled into a maelstrom of evil manipulation. She is gritty and determined, a complex and believable character. The heroine must use her brains...

The Civilian is an adventure story written by Michael Bickel. Robert Caron is only 32 years old, and he's just received a death sentence. The cancer that killed his father and uncle is now killing him. Robert is in a daze as he goes through...

Acts of Violence by Ross Harrison is good; plain and simple. Jack Mason is a criminal. Not high up on the ladder of crime, he'd have to have friends for that, but definitely a foe for the local police department. One night, the girl he...

Jill Vance startles and tantalizes the reader with her second collection of twisted short stories called Dark Between Shadows. The plots of the stories are just as varied as their lengths, and as she says “united only by having a twist in the tale.” With...

Beyond the Pales is a police procedural written by Toby J. Cole. Detective Superintendent Pandora Kingdom survived being a murder squad detective for 25 years, but her tour in Afghanistan nearly killed her. She's back in London now and has been convalescing, which includes learning...

David Baldacci has hit the ball out of the park with his book The Escape. Once again, readers are reunited with one of their favorite characters - John Puller, the government's go-to man when it comes to probing the harshest crimes facing the land. In...

The Ocean King by Russ Watts is a deep sea thriller. Retired Navy SEAL Don O’Reilly is working as a security guard for The Wild Seas Park. He drinks to forget his past, living out his life in a tiny apartment, suffering through nightmares every...

In Hamsikker: A Zombie Apocalypse Novel by Russ Watts, Jonas Hamsikker returns home to Kentucky, where a not-so-pleasant past is there waiting for him. While trying to deal with memories he’d rather forget, he soon realizes he must face something far worse: the zombie apocalypse....

Falcon is Book Four in the Birds of Flight action series by J.M. Erickson. Alexander J. Burns has been taken captive by Eric Daniels, his former boss at the Foreign Intelligence Agency. Daniels has never forgiven or forgotten Burns' departure from his assignment. Of the...

“Dead men tell no tales,” but in Last Words (A Coleridge Taylor Mystery) by Rich Zahradnik, that is clearly not the case. While parts of New York City burn and bankruptcy looms, Coleridge Taylor, a police reporter, is demoted to writing obituaries at the Messenger-Telegram....