Think of The Maltese Falcon in the milieu of 21st century Silicon Valley, and you’ll end up with something like Bad Karma (A Jack McCoul Caper) by Dwight Holing. Jack McCoul, the main character in Holing’s series of mysteries, is a former high-end burglar and...

Be Your Own Brand of Sexy by Susan L. Edelman, MD. is about the next sexual revolution. The first sexual revolution promised women more choices, enabled them in expressing themselves better and blew an air of liberation, but cultural limitations today still hinder women’s choices....

For a collection of stories that stray delightfully off the beaten track of cookie cutter characters and plot lines without any roadside surprises, you can do a lot worse than venturing around inside Unpredictable Worlds: Stories by Jessica Knauss. While the stories are widely divergent,...

The Acheron Deception by Patrick F. Rooney is the story of Mikhail Volkov, who, utilizing the calamitous breakup of the Soviet Union, creates an altogether different scenario - stealing nuclear weapons from a Russian test facility. It is also the story of Sean McGowan, a...

In My Serenity by M. Clarke, Seth Stewart was on a fantastic ride that took him only upward. His life is good. He has an internship, even though he just completed his first year at Berkeley Business School. But things take a devastating turn when...

In Day of Forgiveness by Paul Anthony, life altering moments come in all forms. For Tobias Sinclair, it was an almost fatal blow to the head that changed his life. Suddenly he was more aware and could see things more clearly, but did not like...

Courage Resurrected: A Ray Courage Mystery is Book 3 in R. Scott Mackey's Ray Courage Private Investigator Series. November 11 is a tragic anniversary for Ray Courage, despite it being 13 years after the fact. He's never stopped wondering about the death of his wife,...

The Illuminator's Test (The Voyages of the Legend) (Volume 2) by Alina Sayre revolves around the life of Ellie and her friends who start their new lives on the flying island of Rhynlyr. She has a role to play in the war against Draaken, but...

When Tiffanie Bate is killed in a suspicious accident, neither the police nor the insurance investigators can prove she was murdered and the case turns cold. Two years later the insurance company asks former college professor turned private eye, Ray Courage, to reopen the investigation....

Whoa! Can you say ‘thrill ride?’ That is definitely how I would describe A Fine Line: The Ancients, Part One by author J.C. Brennan. The story begins with the William Healthaway family. Having survived an attack by the Damned and triumphing over Tetron, the evil...

The Unforgiven is a work of epic fantasy by A. Katie Rose, set in a world of warring kings, prophecies, gods and magic. Our trio of central characters shares the same goal, but for different purposes: recover the child of prophecy, the one said to...

Neil and Candy are happily married and desperately in love. They fought hard for the relationship and it is perfect now, except Neil really wants a baby and Candy can’t give him one. Neil steamrolls over Candy and hires a surrogate as Candy begins to...

Fosgate's Game by David C. Cassidy unfolds with two business partners, Chadwick Harlow and Fosgate Harvard Harrod III, having an after dinner drink in Fosgate’s study. A casual business conversation turns alarming when Fosgate proposes a sordid way to get rid of their business rival....

Nothing but Trouble by Zelmer Wilson is about Bobbie Lamont. She is not your typical girl. She used to prefer books over boys and she only has one friend, Billie Carver. Instead of going away to college, she decided to stay with her parents and...

Street Light by R.L. Herron is the third book in the Reichold Street Trilogy. It also happens to be the first book in the series that I have read. Street Light is sort of a follow up book of all the events that have occurred...

The Queen of Distraction: How Women with ADHD Can Conquer Chaos, Find Focus, and Get More Done by Terry Matlen, MSW, is a book that focuses on those women with ADHD and throws more light on the problems faced by women with ADHD. It is...

Hunting Ground and Other Stories: Tales from a world where man and dinosaurs coexist by Will Svensen is a series of short stories that interconnect to describe Gondolend, a world that is almost the polar opposite of ours and allows man to coexist with dinosaurs....

Not A Nugget by Stephanie Dreyer is a delightful book that revolves around food. It helps both parents and children carefully look at the food they are eating. Each page has the answer to the question: where does the food we are eating come from?...

Path Unchosen (Daughter Of Ravenswood Book 1) by Kim Cleary is the story of Judy, who is not quite as ordinary as other young women her age. When she touches dead animals, they come back to life. Soon Judy learns that she has the powers...

It’s not every day a friend is murdered right in front of you. Marisa Adair is shocked but quickly becomes drawn into the very convoluted mystery of which this death is only a small part. Murder Takes a Dare is the first Marisa Adair Mystery...