Thin Blood is the first of Vicki Tyley’s exciting, Australia-set mystery thrillers. Jacinta Deller is a tenacious, but recently out of work, investigative journalist looking around for a career-enhancing scoop. Set on the trail of a missing, presumed dead, local woman by her newly moved...

Vicki Tyley continues her rise to be one of the best modern thriller writers around with Brittle Shadows, a disconcerting but compelling mystery about one woman’s belief that her recently deceased sister did not, as recorded, take her own life. Jemma Dalton flies into Melbourne...

Elderberry Croft by Becky Doughty is the story of Willow Goodhope and the way her presence brought together many of the residents of The Coach House Trailer Park, changing their lives in ways that they never even knew needed changing. Willow Goodhope moves into a...

No good deed goes unpunished, at least that's how it seems to Claudia when she travels to the eccentric northern Wisconsin town of Barley to uncover the owner and secrets held by an old watch. In Winter Watch, Claudia ends up stranded in Barley due...

Biology Bytes: Digestible Essays on Animals Both Commonplace and Bizarre by Teisha Rowland is the book you want to have with you when you are in need of an entertaining information fix, especially if you are interested in the world of animals. The book is...

In Actium’s Wake, Ralph Jackman uses the voice of Roman senator and soldier Marcus Rutilius Crispus to tell the story of the events following the battle at Actium. In this battle, Octavian - son of Julius Caesar - defeated Marc Antony and Cleopatra, leading to...

Socrates said, ‘The unexamined life is not worth living.' Starting from that premise, Donna Baier Stein creates characters who are questioning who they are and how they really fit into the world and families around them in her thought provoking anthology, Sympathetic People. Examining feelings...

Waiting for Santa by Greta King is a delightful story that captures the magic of Christmas Eve. The story is about a little girl who wonders what gift Santa will bring for her this Christmas. She wonders how Santa manages to reach all the corners...

I CAN Believe in Myself (I CAN Book Series)by Miriam Laundry is book one of a delightful and charming children's picture book series that introduces young readers to the concepts of public speaking and self esteem. Molly avoids being the star of the day because...

The Crystal Key by T.L. Howard is a captivating story about a young girl named Mirah, whose life was disrupted by a man named Rasmun, a man searching for the girl with the crystal key that will help his Lord come into power. Though he...

Elly Hays is a story that takes place in the early 1800s. The book opens with a speech from Tecumseh urging the Creek Village that lives in the Mississippi Territory where Tafv and his son live to join forces and go to war against the...

In Starlet's Run (The Starlet Series, #2) by Carla J. Hanna, we join starlet Liana Marie Michael as she is suffering through the stages of grief. Liana admits that she is a mess, a physical mess inside, and dealing with it while also starring in...

Facing who you truly are and what meaning your life has is never easy, but it is even more difficult when you’re an actress. Truth and lies get woven together in Starlet’s Light by Carla J. Hanna and sorting them out is a painful experience...

When I Was Little (Just Like You) by Brian Ostrowski shows children how different life used to be for us grown-ups. Before we had cell phones to use to store our contacts or to use for GPS, we had phone books and maps, which may...

Nutrition for Swimmers - For Junior and Age Group Swimmers by Gary Barclay is a guide to swimmers on how to manage their diet. The author throws light on daily meal and snack ideas and tells how to chart out the day to day nutrition...

Finding Fire by K.R. Robidoux imagines a world where the elemental gods passed gifts on to humans. Of course, this can never just be a happy thing - there also has to be a faction that sees this as evil and wants to destroy any...

The Birth of an Assassin, a novel by Tony Bertot, is the story of how an innocent young boy grows up and ultimately becomes one of the most feared assassins in the USA. Sergio Gresco and his wife, Lucia, immigrated to the United States from...

From the opening poem of this collection (‘Geography’) you know you are in the hands of a cultured, knowledgeable and thoughtful poet. Richard Pacheco knows art is about ‘vanishing points.’ Artists, like poets, direct their audience, as Auden might say, even to the quiet corners...

Yokai Blues by John LaTorre is the story of Nick, a detective that deals in Yokai Relations. Nick finds himself being stalked by a demon that kills people with a toxic cloud of cigarette smoke, evidently not only by the stench, but a yellowing of...

The Angel with Burnt Wings by Scarlett Jensen is the story of Alice and her descent from an angel to the pits of hell. At a young age, Alice was molested and raped. Fearing negative reaction and rejection, she didn't tell anyone about it. Instead...