In Alejandro Torres De la Rocha’s Mortal Vengeance II: To Reel or Not Too Real?, survivors of the Grim Cojuelo murders at Santo Domingo’s Excelsior Academy have become stars of a reality television series. Producer Shane Harper sees enormous ratings potential in their painful history,...

Gordon MacKinney’s Memory Mine hooks you immediately with a wonderfully unsettling premise. Dalton, an aerospace engineering washout, initially signs up for the Mars mission just to reunite with Anna, his lover and sole driving motivation on the red planet. He expects nothing more than a...

Menticulous is a stellar techno-thriller by James Te Ronde. The story takes us to the state-of-the-art Markus Center, a high-tech research facility designed by Dr. Noah Markus, the mastermind behind the Menticulous, a highly advanced, most powerful computer system. But Dr. Noah Markus dies, and...

In J.R. Thibeault’s Michael’s Loop, fourteen-year-old Michael Wilson moves with his mother, Linda, away from Toronto to Southford, a small town hollowed out by closed businesses and a shrinking school. Basketball earns him a place at Eastgate, where he meets Jessica, a history-loving girl most...

J.S. Warner’s Measured Steps introduces us to Claire Morrison, a profiler whose own troubled past gives her an unsettling advantage when investigating violent crime. After Claire’s mother’s mysterious disappearance, Claire struggled to overcome addiction. Claire is called to investigate a victim whose body is surrounded...

My Twin the Murderer by Lindsay Kent presents a thrilling game of cat and mouse where the stakes are high, and the chances of escaping are low. Evelyn and Vivian Malcolm are identical twins, but they’re as different as night and day. Organized and almost...

In Eva Barber’s Misunderstanding: The Tiger in Me, Alice Williams forms a bond that feels unbreakable with Lilly Labarre, even though their homes and upbringings could not be more different. Years later, after meeting a man known as Colin Carter, Alice suddenly vanishes. When Alice...

“It’s best to live your life and take opportunities as they come.” While this sentiment can be true, does it extend to committing four murders in a single day? Mind The Blinds, a novel by Becky Anyanwu, delves into this question and more. The protagonist,...

MotherLove by Hope Andersen is a compelling psychological thriller. It follows Rebecca Winslow as she not only grieves the loss of a stillborn child and other miscarriages but also tries to cope with a marriage on the verge of collapse and her younger sister's disappearance. Rebecca can't bounce back...

Polina Quinn's psychological thriller Missing or Dead pulls readers in with a combination of emotional trauma, group manipulation, and a desperate quest for the truth. The story centers on Talia, a teenage girl going through the motions of life, but not really living, due to...