The Fire Inside My Soul by Julia Baeten tells the story of Diana Strauss, a successful advertising executive who survived a painful childhood. She has everything anyone desires: career success, wealth, and a beautiful apartment with terrific views. But even with so much success, she...

The Performance Review by Adrian M. Mompoint is an unsettling short story that might just resonate with office workers. Francis has resigned himself to the fact that his migraines mean he will never be a theater actor again. After a series of failed temping jobs,...

The House That Remembers You by Kristen A. Peters harkens back to stories featuring haunted houses that are much more than mere plot settings, such as Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House or Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven Gables. These classic books...

The Old Wolf by J.S. Morton follows a private detective and former hitman who returns to killing after his friend Margery is murdered in a Post Office robbery. He is extremely upset about the fact that his Post Office has been robbed and that they...

The Taverna at the Edge of Night by H. Y. Hanna is the first book in the Deadly Destinations series. Daphne is in Crete for a long overdue reunion with her best friend, but when she arrives at the taverna in a remote fishing village,...

In The Butcher and the Liar, author S.L. Woeppel tells the story of Daisy Bellon, a woman living in the long shadow of her father’s gruesome reputation as a serial killer. Growing up in the gritty reality of her father’s butcher shop in Hellene, Nebraska,...

The Fixer: The Shape of Her by Ozzie Logozzo is one of those books that hits you with its intensity right from the very first page. It isn't just a story you read; it’s one you feel. I was completely floored by the prose here....

In Don Lehmkuhl's The Angel of Justice: The Ragman Book 2, Josef “Joe” Schatz lives in Cincinnati with his wife Bella and their daughter Claire while working as a philosophy professor at Saint Augustine University. Years earlier, Joe carried out a series of killings under...

“Professionals don’t have feelings, don’t have thoughts. They don’t have an autonomous life outside their function.” Perhaps some don't, but the professional in Fabio Amabili's novel, There's A Young Man Dressed In Blue, is a human being first and foremost. The protagonist is Avvocato Floriani,...

The Ragman by Don Lehmkuhl introduces Joey Schatz, who became an orphan after witnessing the murders of his parents. He was raised in the same home that gave shelter to his father, Our Lady of Providence Children’s Home. Here, he becomes friends with Tony Rosetti,...