Edd Ahearn's In the Shadow of Beauty takes readers to the Yorkshire village of Norton, as veteran Tomasz “Ski” Bankowski enters a burning tradesmen’s office, where electrician Ben Carmichael lies dead beside scattered diamonds. After Ski rescues injured plasterer Aiden Anson, he learns that the...

Who said competition must be fair? In Lethal Succession by Ruben Elustondo, John Whitney, CEO of Whitney Corporation, decides to retire when he is diagnosed with cancer and given six months to live. To determine his successor, he sets a challenge for his right-hand man,...

Murder (and Other Unpleasantries) by Julie Titterington is a fabulous cozy murder mystery. The story transports us to the whimsical village of Port Morvoren in Cornwall, England. A cobblestone pathway connects the village to the tidal island of St. Peter the Rock. Tamsin Castle, the...

In Retro (The Beast Within) by Mashrur Alam, after his father loses the family’s money, young Montgomery Alum is sent to live with Richard Conwell, a wealthy family friend whose estate conceals ties to terrorist leader Laham Drakuvi. A violent attack destroys Montgomery’s former life,...

Samuel Colabufo’s The Mitigator centers on Joseph "Goody" Goodness, a man who carries a deep psychological scar from his childhood that manifests as an intuitive radar for tracking human rage. When he senses someone about to snap, he moves in to intercept the violence before...

Stephen James’ Trial by Conscience begins with a panicked choice that alters a person’s life forever. In 1964, an ordinary morning for a runner named Richard in Birmingham is shattered after a cruel family prank goes wrong. Believing he is responsible for a girl’s sudden...

In Killer Secrets: Hudson Valley Series Book 3 by Bonnie Traymore, Victoria is struggling with the consequences of a deadly secret. Four years earlier, Timothy Sutton, a sexual predator, had victimized Victoria and several others. Sutton was shot to death, but his death ended up...

One year ago, Commander Frank Travers’s wife, Linda, was found murdered. In Lethal Design by S.F. Baumgartner, Frank thinks his wife may have stumbled onto the killer staging her office colleague’s murder as a suicide. Since Frank heads up an elite police task force, he...

Jaxon Quinn gradually develops a change of heart when he receives a parcel containing evidence indicting his client, mob boss Vincent Morelli, for a gruesome murder. His conscience pricks him even more, seeing as he just aided Vincent to beat tax evasion charges and walk...

In Long Temple and Fielder Whitley’s What Survives the Pressure, Gia is assaulted the night before graduation and moves into the next morning with what happened unspoken. On the way to the ceremony, a man connected to her attacker follows Gia and her friends into...