The Shop on Peculiar Hill by Grimly Darkwood is Book One of The Vale of Strange. Peter’s parents died in a weird accident and he goes to live with his aunt and uncle. They run a shop on Peculiar Hill, near the Vale of Strange....

It’s not always the magnitude of the crisis that makes a novel great, but how it is handled and Paul Shadinger shows incredible skill in conflict development in this novel. The first book I read from this author was Code Name: Crescent and, seduced by...

Colin Bailey is a killer and, by all accounts, a super efficient, stone cold killer with almost 20 kills to his name. He has always been a meticulous planner; then one day everything changes when he is cornered and he fears his days are over....

Different Lee by Bill Hiatt follows DL as he discovers the past he never knew may hold the secrets to his future. Growing up in foster care, DL hasn't been much on homes or attachments. When a date he barely remembers shows up, claiming she's...

Wow! Just, wow! That's exactly what I thought when I finished reading A Million Different Ways: A Horn Novel Book One by debut author P. Dangelico. The story follows young medical student, Vera Sava, as she flees her home country for Switzerland, determined to outrun...

The Sacrifice - The Only Way To God by Rev. Allen Smith speaks about God, religion, sinning, on how man has slowly separated himself from God, and God's ways of bringing man closer to him. It speaks about the sacrifice made by Jesus Christ and...

The Visionary Brand: The Success Formula Behind the World’s Most Visionary Brands opens with an interesting case study about Oakley and how it almost lost its cultural direction as a brand and regained its footing by re-aligning its brand identity. Author Bryan Smeltzer shares his...

The Bleaklisted Books (A Feline Central Book) is written by David M. Brown and Donna Brown. Charlie is an egoist cat who thinks he’s the powerful feline version of Napoleon Bonaparte. He has written his own brief versions of some of the most popular classic...

The Great Animal Race: A Chinese Zodiac Tale for the Lunar New Year by Paula Zhou is an updated twist on this centuries-old tale. The Chinese Zodiac is divided into a twelve-year cycle, where an animal represents each year. The emperor decides to celebrate his...

Of Such Is The Kingdom is a work of literary fiction subtitled ‘A Novel of Biblical Times in 3 Parts’, and was penned by author James M. Becher. Generally suitable for readers of all types, with the exception of a few violent scenes, this sweeping...

If you are looking for an entertaining, easy-to-read murder mystery, look no further – Phyllis Entis’ The Green Pearl Caper: A Damien Dickens Mystery fits the bill. This delightful mystery’s main character is Damien Dickens, a private investigator who lives in Atlantic City, New Jersey,...

It's a bold task to take on writing a 400-page plus book based on the life of an obscure English midwife who lived in the 1600s. But that is the challenge Annelisa Christensen gave herself with The Popish Midwife, after studying court transcripts about the...

Religion, faith and belief are all topics of a controversial nature. It's controversial because it depends upon who you're talking to and their interpretation of what they're reading. The King James Bible, the Qur’an and the Hebrew Bible (also known as the Tanakh) are some...

Corruption, greed, black operations, shadowy organisations and the lust for unadulterated power is the setting for Gregory Meritt’s The Adoption. Claire and Logan just wanted a child to complete their lives but, unable to have one of their own, they turned to the adoption route...

In The Last Enemy by Dan E. Hendrickson, the third and final book of The Last Enemy series, we see the Hero of Cozumel, Commander Jacob Edwards, about to board a plane with his wife and mother at LAX airport. Meanwhile, an old adversary, Mexican...

The Seige by Linda Thackeray introduces Marshall Kris Jensen who prevents the lynching of the town’s African American healer, Sam Rainey. Together with bounty hunter Flynn Brenner, Kris is persuaded to stay and guard the perpetrators. However, the arrival of refugees from the outskirts alerts...

Who is responsible for destroying Rebecca, the Glamor Girl Doll? Jenny Corbett believed that her prized doll was mangled at the hands of her twin brother, Jimmy. She knows that he did it but why? The kids' court comes to the rescue in The Doll...

Phoebe Chen is an eight-year-old girl who loves to solve mysteries. She wants to become a detective like her father. To improve her investigative skills, she reads and rereads Nancy Drew books. Phoebe has two friends, Luana Porcello and Becky Marshal. One day, after finishing...

A Whisper can Rip your Guts out by Elliott Zaff is a realistic novel based on the author's life and his interactions with a brilliant 74-year-old professor. Canadian-born Elliott does not have a happy childhood and he comes to California as a young man...

Settling in to read a murder mystery is always a satisfying experience, and with A Murder on Wall Street by Owen Parr, it is also an enjoyable one. In it, readers discover some lovable key characters in the form of Joey Mancuso, a former NYPD...