I love books with characters that are real, flawed and relatable, and a setting that is, of course, colorful. Roses, Wine & Murder: In the City of Steeples by Rose Young didn’t disappoint me. I must say that I found more than what I bargained...

HARDBARNED! One Man's Quest for Meaningful Work in the American South by Christopher J. Driver is a memoir that reads like nothing I have read in a long while; brutally honest, an unadulterated X-ray of the crude realities that confront contemporary American workers. The author...

Gimme 15 Inches: Rants, Raves and Deadline-Driven Observations is a nonfiction collection of humorous columns and essays written by Dave Molter. In his About the Author section, Molter indicates that he’s a freelance writer of humor columns for the Observer-Reporter newspaper and a contributing writer...

What is feeding, empowering and developing the next generation? Is it the TV, music, movies, tech toys or the videos games that they're exposed to? These vices possess a great hold and influence on the future generation. Through these vices, both the current and future...

Life, love, and a few dead bodies litter Steven Ramirez’s Chainsaw Honeymoon. Ruby, a bright, funny fourteen-year-old, is on a mission to reunite her estranged parents. But they’re proving to be a hard nut to crack. During summer vacation at her dad’s house, she watches...

Cold Case No. 99-5219 is the fourth book in the Samantha Church Mystery Series by Betta Ferrendelli. When she visited her sister's grave, Sam found another grave with a very peculiar headstone. The inscription on the headstone did not say anything about the real...

The Last Motley by D.J. Edwardson is the first book of The Null Stone trilogy. Roderick has heard the stories of candy colored beings called motleys that are rumored to drain souls, but he's never believed them. Then he catches a little boy with colorful...

The Satan Clause by David McGlone is a hilarious novel about a lonely pathetic figure called Dave and his chance meeting with beautiful Nikki when she knocks on his door, needing some help. Dave cannot believe his luck when Nikki decides she wants more than...

Beyond Possession examines the question we all ask ourselves. What happens in the afterlife? Deb McEwan has cleverly intertwined many sub-plots throughout the book, but the main plot is around the accidental death of Claire and Ron. Claire dies in a car crash with a...

So often, too often, we read stories about corruption in the police force, or question whether a cop did the right thing when he shot someone he believed was a threat to himself or others. We shake our heads wondering what to think about these...

Outbreak by Joshua C. Chadd is a zombie apocalypse story told from the point of view of three men who were uniquely prepared for the event before it even started. In other words, they have all the weapons, equipment and vehicles needed to give them...

Wildchild Sidney Davenport has seen one possible future of the planet and it is bleak in The Guardian’s Wildchild by Feather Stone. As a young Guardian, Sidney will do everything she can to prevent the use of Sun Crystals by unscrupulous people to take over...

Iron Dogs by Neil Chase is a western horror novel set in 1873 in the small town of Testament, New Mexico. The story opens in Testament with Father Ramon Bernal aiding a member of his parish and staying too long until the sun sets. The...

Lindsay and Eric met and married later in life. It was a second marriage for both of them, each having a child from the previous relationship, but they were good together and very happy, well, at least they had been but recently Eric seemed to...

Writing is Murder: An Emlyn Goode Mystery by Susan Lynn Solomon is about a writer, Emlyn Goode, who has a witch in her family history. Emlyn has joined a writer’s group, and is dating a cop, and has a best friend who makes potions. Oh,...

Angelina, Myra, Clara and June are as different as can be, but they have always been a Mah Jongg foursome and good friends. Unfortunately, that is all about to change now that Myra has been found dead. Angelina has always watched detective television -- Murder...

The first line of this novel grabs your attention: “The year is 2066….Today I’m going to kill the love of my life.” It is Alexandra Martin’s sixty-third birthday, and she has the gun and a plan. Alex has always been a mathematical whiz, and she...

Last Things by Betta Ferrendelli is a story about two women who have walked a similar path. We begin with Bridgette, a successful journalist who is in a seemingly perfect relationship. Of course, we soon find out it isn’t so perfect. Elliot, Bridgette’s fiance, doesn’t...

Jinxed is a horror novel for young and new adults written by Thommy Hutson. The Trask Academy of Performing Arts was the ultimate in elite academic institutions dedicated to perfecting the already prodigious skills of the young men and women whose parents were able to...

Zoe's own tactics had been used against her with precision execution. Captured, shamed, and manipulated into silence, it seems her only option is to accept death in order to protect those she loves. The people who thought that obviously didn't know her, or her allies,...