Locked in a Box by Sheila Sharpe is book two of the Kate O’Dade Art Crime series, a gripping psychological prequel to Kate’s story. A series of events has forced Kate to confront her past, a past she has tried so hard to keep buried....

In Her Last Hello by Tara Sue Me, Athena Hamilton meets a childhood friend after years without contact and learns he is now a preacher. She doesn't tell him about her profession. Athena has lived in Vegas for too many years already, and she has...

In Angela Grey’s A Catalog of Small Cruelties, Violet is an architect who wakes up from a coma to find out that her children are gone. Or rather, that they never existed at all. Though her memories of them feel real, the entire world insists...

W. M. Leesman’s Xavier Bradshaw: Ghostwriter is set in Livingston, Alberta, where newspaper reporter Xavier Bradshaw is called to St. Luke’s church after Councilman Carlo Marscapello is found dead at the altar. Xavier once investigated Carlo’s political dealings, so the case quickly reaches into his...

The Outside Voice by C. S. Zolondek is a psychological thriller with a twisty plot and a family that implodes with a secret. In spring in Ann Arbor, Michigan, four-year-old hyperlexic Blythe Daye hears voices in her head, and at first, she thinks it is...

I Wasn’t Ready to Lose You by Brady E. McGiffin is a thought-provoking exploration of grief. Asher lost his grandpa, E.R., at the tender age of nine. Ever since then, he has lived with an otherworldly silence. Shortly after his grief began, he felt...

In Dragonfly Down by Annette Masters, we meet Laurel, a teen who has spent her life hiding behind strict security and rigid routines after a childhood tragedy. Her world shatters a second time when an explosion levels a youth healing center on her family's private...

Mich Solo’s novel, Failsafe (The Failsafe Series, Book 1), is a near-future, gripping cyberthriller. Nathan Harris is a sharp data analyst in a U.S. government agency. He is frustrated and extremely puzzled when he encounters an unusual programming problem. He tests a revised code. It...

R.L. Hare’s Cracks in the Blind Spot follows Detective Elena Kolonik, a meticulous investigator. Elena believes that there is evidence at every crime scene if you look closely enough. Elena approaches each case with this belief and has an eagle eye for details. Caleb, a...

Borrowed Tales by Michael Bowers centers on Sam, a broken man trying to hide from the world on a back corner barstool at Leo's pub. His simple routine is constantly interrupted by overwhelming mental shifts that drop him right back into the most pivotal and...