Painless by Marty Thornley was two-parts morphine, two-parts psychosis and two-parts chaotic derangement! It is a fabulous read for those seeking something with a steady build-up to an 'all hell breaking loose' finale. Join a group of chronic pain-ridden, ragtag pill-poppers as they take part...

Following Red Widow and Arsenic For The Soul, Nathan Wilson continues the exciting Vivian Xu Series in this dark, occult-horror, detective story featuring Vivian and her best friend/business partner, Camilla Vesely. All Her Wounds revolves around the couple's search for a missing friend who has...

David Cornish's 1980: The Emergence of HIV is a novel of historical fiction that begins with an introduction to the titular virus 14 million years prior on an East African island, and continues in a chronological and detailed timeline to its proliferation in the 1980s...

The Prototype by Sam Mitani is a cleverly plotted crime novel with sophisticated characters and a plot that takes readers to places they never could have imagined. I never expect a good story to feature a plot where one thing leads logically to another. No...

What Survives of Us by Kathy Miner is a supernatural dystopian thriller that begins where most of the rest of the human population ends, with the surviving 1% following a worldwide epidemic of plague. “It was untreatable. There was no vaccine. It was 99-100% fatal.”...

The Donors by Gary Turcotte is a great book that I adored and that isn’t an overstatement; a narrative with hints of crime and adventure that begins with the protagonist, Tom, needing legal assistance. Beaten, shot and left for dead in a foreign country, Tom...

The Beauty Doctor by Elizabeth Hutchison Bernard is a compelling historical novel steeped in mystery with strong elements of a medical thriller. Having assisted her father’s patients and watched him work, Abigail Platford grows up with one thing clear in her mind — attend medical...

Now this is the way to write a medical fiction thriller…one you can’t put down and one that isn’t overloaded with medical jargon for those readers who aren’t members of the medical profession. Since the author, Frank J. Edwards, practices emergency medicine, it’s comfortable reading...

Phase one, infect a local population and turn them into engineered zombies. Phase two, relocate the patients who had the mutated strain for further experimentation. That appeared to have been the plan for Baseborn Identity Research, or at least the immediate one, but they hadn't...

No matter what a story is about, the first thing I want to listen to is the voice or tone. The author must be able to get my attention and sustain it for the first few pages to get me interested in reading more. In...