Proof Positive is the fourth installment in the Lauren Beck Crime Novel series by award-winning author Donna Huston Murray. The story takes us to Worthy, a small town in Ohio, USA. Thirty-two-year-old Lauren Beck, a former police officer, is looking for her mother, Nina Claire...

The Baggers by James Hale is a story about the gangs in Saint Albans, Kanawha County. The streets of Saint Albans are ruled by the Baggers, most of whose members are young adults who commit theft and other petty crimes. An older generation of scavengers...

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...

In Tracey Phillips’ Deepest Secrets, Detective Morgan Jewell is still haunted by memories of the murder of her best friend, Fay Ramsey, that took place seventeen years ago. She is struggling with addiction to painkillers after a hand injury. She takes an undercover job in...

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...