The Girl Who Counted Numbers by Roslyn Bernstein is a fast-moving story of discovery, growing up, acceptance, and romance. It takes place in 1961 during the time of the Eichmann Trials that were held in Jerusalem. The main character is Susan Reich, who is sent...

Reunion Cruise by Maria A. Palace begins on a cruise ship approaching the end of a voyage to Bermuda. In the early hours before dawn, an elderly passenger named Agnes Haggerby believes she saw a body fall from the ship into the ocean. Unsure of...

C.A. Larmer brings readers back to the Murder Mystery Book Club series with its eighth installment, The Mysterious Affair at Styled Magazine. This time, amateur sleuth and journalist Alicia Finlay receives tragic news about her longtime friend and beauty assistant at Styled Magazine, Virginia “Ginny”...

Niccolo Corsini is back. It’s nearing the end of the 15th century, and Lord Medici, the de facto ruler of Florence, has requested Niccolo’s help in a daring new mission, in fact, three missions. Lady Borseli, sent as a spy to the French court in...

Robots, Please is an eclectic collection of loosely connected short stories by Jared M. Bentley. A newly created forestry robot unwittingly causes unrest among politicians, military strategists, and environmentalists alike, until it unexpectedly gets a promotion. After offering a ride to a hitchhiking andro sapien,...

Anne Boleyn is off on another adventure. Having left her training at Margaret of Austria’s court, Anne is now entering the French court as one of Mary Tudor’s most trusted ladies’ maids. In Rozsa Gaston’s The Queen’s Maid, Anne, with her fluency in French, is...

Achak of the Sequoia Tribe by Alex Coppin tells the story of a boy coming of age in an indigenous Native American tribe, right before outside forces began to alter their world. Achak is at the age where he has to prove he’s a man....

Cold, Dark, and Silent by David C. Reed is set in the rural area of Seacord in Hurrt County at the end of the Covid 19 lockdown. Ashe has retired from police duties in the nearby Metro to nurse his father in his last days....

“The company engineered desire and sold it as experience.” But in Tobacco City, a novella by author Ricardo Novaes, the company did much more than that: it disguised a hellish dystopia as success. Meet Matheus Reis, a power-hungry corporate cog ravenous for advancement no matter...

In Kimberly Wenzler’s Letting Go, after Lucy Buchanan dies, her husband Max raises their son Sammy while attempting to resume his writing career. Lucy narrates as a silent witness to their daily routines, observing as Sammy insists she still visits him, and Max questions how...