Cut-Throat Syndrome by Michael Allan Scott starts off with a bang. A commercial airliner is destroyed, and a hacker group called Vendetta claims responsibility for the massive death toll. Closer to home, a boy involved with Vendetta turns up dead, and it's up to a...

Shackled: A Journey From Political Imprisonment to Freedom by Adam Siddiq is the true story of Khaled Siddiq, a heartbreaking story of injustice and betrayal and a sinister plan to eliminate an entire family. Khaled is just six when his entire family and extended family...

Dead Reckoning by Rex Owens is the third book in the Irish Troubles series, featuring a very compelling and controversial character — Ian Murphy. It’s a tale of redemption and one man’s struggle to find inner freedom and peace. Ian is an internally fractured man,...

Who Are You, Trudy Herman? by B.E. Beck is a YA story set during World War II. It’s 1943. To Trudy, a young girl about to become a teenager, the war has no meaning. All she is interested in is boys, friends, and schoolwork. All...

Fid’s Crusade is a work of science fiction by author David H Reiss and the first novel in the Chronicles of Fid series. Unusually for the sci-fi superhero genre, our central character is a veteran supervillain by the name of Doctor Fid, whose powerful presence...

Sweetbriars: Leaving The City by Hollie Anne Marsh tells the story of Cate and her family as they move to a new home in the countryside, far away from her friends and all that is familiar. The plan is to set up an equestrian centre,...

A village shop owner believes the police have arrested the wrong man for murder and resolves to find the killer in the captivating sleuth mystery Murder Most Fowl (A Swansneck Village Mystery) by VS Vale. To meet the requirements of her great-uncle's will, Jenny leaves...

Death Sum Game by Avi Domoshevizki is a modern day technological thriller played out by the book's protagonist, Tom Moore. Tom's marriage to his wife, Sharon, is disintegrating, a fact that is revealed to him with a mixture of shock and anguish on his part....

Lil' Lukie, created by Christopher Brennan and Ger Hankey, is a children's picture book delivered in the style of a comic book, which is fitting given the story line. Following the birth of their new son, the parents bring the baby home for the first...

The Way I See It: A Head-to-Toe Guide to Common Orthopaedic Conditions by Thomas Neviaser is a non-fiction medical book that is meant to serve as a self-help and general information guide. In this book, Thomas basically writes about various orthopaedic conditions, especially the ones...

This is the first book of Debora Swift that I have come across and, trust me, it is not going to be the last. A Plague on Mr Pepys is set in 17th century London, a time of plague and war. However, the world of...

An old camera, mysterious photos and a series of murders... Hailey Sloan is like anyone else, just trying to pave her way as a photojournalist. But when an old camera comes into her possession while helping her grandmother clean the attic, her life will change...

Ryan Walsh, special agent employed by the formidable Maxine Rider as a security “consultant,” rarely asks questions of his boss. He knows what is expected of him and is content that any action demanded is for the betterment of the human race. Maxine doesn’t request...

The Noble Rebellion by Joshua G. Fensterstock is a spellbinding political thriller with strong hints of terrorism. While the arrogant President Cole delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress, a terrorist dubbed "the Sultan” orchestrates one of the most...

Paris, Adrift by Vanda is an engrossing novel about a woman in the 1950s, working as an artist manager for a famous singer. The singer, Juliana, was trying to recover after a poor career move, and it’s Al’s job to help her. They head to...

The Kuiper Belt Deception by Donald Averill is a diligently written, intelligently plotted science fiction story with an interstellar setting in 2080. The narrative transports readers into space and immerses them in an adventure that is as exciting as it is perilous. An experiment results...

People of God: One and All Saints and Sinners by Edith Close-Vaziri is a powerful collection of poems that pays attention to the grace of God and His relationship with his children. Vaziri brings out the imperfections of this world and how the Saints struggle...

The world imagined by William R. Herr in his novel 5:30 Return is not a pleasant one. A designer drug called 'Jack' has turned Tucson into an ugly amusement park, where the rich can live out their basest fantasies with Jack as their excuse and...

Pathogen Protocol is the second book in former Space Shuttle experiment engineer Darren Beyer’s Anghazi series. Mandisa ‘Mandi’ Nkosi reunites with her mother, Gisela, on the Anghazi near Helios while Colonel Grae Raymus, alone and outnumbered, escapes from New Reykjavik to a secret base. Being...

The truth must prevail whatever the cost, even if that means being ostracized by the very community you live in. This is Walker Holmes’s mantra in City of Grudges written by Rick Outzen. When he discovers Bo Hines’s fraudulent activity at the Art Council, Holmes...