Cherringham - Murder on Thames: A Cosy Crime Series is a joint writing project by US-based novel and games writer, Matthew Costello, and UK-based producer and writer, Neil Richards, to produce 12 mystery novellas over a year, based in the fictional English town of the...

In Love on the Lido Deck, Barbara Oliverio tells the story of Kiera, of how she quit a high-powered systems analyst career and turned to event planning instead. As her business begins to take off, she learns that her mother, recently widowed, has a new...

Downfall by Brian Lutterman is a well-constructed thriller that moves along quickly. The main character is a female paraplegic lawyer, who is pulled into a maelstrom of evil manipulation. She is gritty and determined, a complex and believable character. The heroine must use her brains...

Murder by Misrule: A Francis Bacon Mystery by Anna Castle is a murder mystery, as the title suggests, set in a historical background. Francis Bacon has assigned his protégé Thomas Clarady to do all the legwork for investigating the murder of Tobias Smythson, a fellow...

Pagan Justice: A Karl Pagan Crime Thriller by Jags Arthurson introduces us to a group of people who have had life's hard knocks thrown at them everywhere. You have members like Karl Pagan himself, left an orphan when his parents were killed; Lydia who has...

Higgledy Piggledy: A Tale of Four Little Pigs is a retelling of the classic tale of the three little pigs written by B. Seymour Rabinovitch and his granddaughter, Rebecca S. Treger, and illustrated by Mari Gayatri Stein. Curly, Twirly and Whirly liked to tease their...

Picture! Picture! is a delightfully charming children's story that uses many repetitive words for learning vocabulary - a big parental plus! Before beginning the review of the text, I want to point out that, unlike many self-published children's books, author Scott Ferrell did not use...

The Final Dawn by Alice Catherine Carter is a short but very powerful and interesting story about the historic time period of the early 1930s when Stalin ruled Russia. The Final Dawn is about the life story of Valeyria and Alexei Yolkin. Three young children...

The Field of Blackbirds by Thomas Ryan is a story of terrorism, suicide bombings, deception and international treachery. Arban Shala owns a vineyard that he wants to sell. Jeff Bradley is an interested buyer and friend. The negotiations for the sale should be straightforward, but...

The Ancestors: A Tale from Outside Time & Space by William Barnard is an absorbing tale of an award-winning journalist and an alien visitation, working together to bring about universal peace and unity to Earth. After a mishap in Africa while investigating a story for...

In Kelly Kittel's Breathe: A Memoir of Motherhood, Grief, and Family Conflict, a woman understands the value of real family and the sacrifices you need to make to keep it safe. Kelly Kittel had learnt early on that family is everything. That has been the...

Poo-Bot 3000: A Potty Training Story for Kids by Justin Dockins is an educational story book with a delightful plot. Potty training is something that is difficult for kids while they are growing up. Many a time kids rebel a bit when they have to...

Author Ged Ruggles shares a fascinating tale in Pine Valley. Jeff, the main character, dumped his girlfriend and told her he was gay. She doesn’t believe him and proceeds to try to prove him wrong. Yet, Jeff meets a very sexy man and begins to...

In October of 1982, a pair of teenage sweethearts vanished into the southeastern Ohio night. Two weeks later, the bodies of Shane Shoemaker and Babette Lloyd were found dismembered in a nearby cornfield, while other parts were dumped into the Bottle Neck River. This was...

Still, At Your Door by Emma Eden Ramos is a captivating, fictional memoir written by a young girl, Sabrina Gibbons. After her father passes away, Sabrina’s mother, Sheila, embarks on a disastrous path in the form of an abusive relationship with a man named Jim....

Connecting Happiness and Success: A Guide to Creating Success Through Happiness by Ray White tells us not to wait until we reach success to become happier. Most of us are relatively happy people, but we are also well aware that we could be happier. There...

This is a review of the audio version of The Matchmaker written by Elin Hilderbrand and read by Erin Bennett. This is the story of Dabney Kimball Beech, matchmaker extraordinaire. She had 42 'something good' matches to her credit. While her husband Box and her...

The Fever by Megan Abbott is an expose of the way teenage girls' emotions tend to rule their thinking. This tale focuses on Gabby, Deenie and Lise, girlfriends at Dryden High. Lise has a seizure and ends up in the hospital. At school, rumors circulate...

Florida Gold by Robert Allen Morris tells the story of Jack and how he became the CEO of Tropical Juices. The story start with 73-year-old Jack reflecting back on his life before we go back in time to his birth in 1915 to Irma Sue,...

Why?: A Courtroom Drama of Self-Discovery is a legal thriller written by R.H. King, Jr. Dan Jackson is a visiting professor in Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College, his alma mater. He was up late the night before preparing a mid-term exam for his freshman class,...