In A Birthday to Die For by Frank L. Atchley, we follow Dr. Paula Mitchell, a Seattle psychologist who finds herself in a race against a literal calendar. Her patient, Kae Carlson, is terrified that she’s marked for death by a satanic cult on her...

Kristen A. Peters’ The House That Remembers You starts when Annette Hale agrees to meet an investigator named Miller about the year she cannot remember, and a single fragment of brick from her childhood home begins pulling lost memories back into view. Strange gaps in...

Bless Me Father FOR YOU Have Sinned by Bruce Lewis is a thrilling drama that follows Chuck Grayson, a crime reporter who has just been told that he only has a few more months to live. He begins to reminisce about his childhood, especially about...

Vindictive Angel by Karen Black is a stunning psychological thriller. The lines between right and wrong are about to get seriously blurred. Julie Davenport works in the ER and has fixed up more children than she can remember, many of them torn apart by criminals....

Luxuries and Lies by Long Temple is a thought-provoking story about the invisible labor and emotional endurance that often go unseen in the workplace. Mercedes is a hardworking woman whose work is taken for granted. When the company's leaders try to erase her name from...

In The Butcher and the Liar, author S.L. Woeppel tells the story of Daisy Bellon, a woman living in the long shadow of her father’s gruesome reputation as a serial killer. Growing up in the gritty reality of her father’s butcher shop in Hellene, Nebraska,...

I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t usually go for horror just for the sake of a scare, but Smile So Red and Other Tales of Madness by Mia Dalia is something else entirely. This isn't just a collection of "scary stories"; it...

The Fixer: The Shape of Her by Ozzie Logozzo is one of those books that hits you with its intensity right from the very first page. It isn't just a story you read; it’s one you feel. I was completely floored by the prose here....

In Don Lehmkuhl's The Angel of Justice: The Ragman Book 2, Josef “Joe” Schatz lives in Cincinnati with his wife Bella and their daughter Claire while working as a philosophy professor at Saint Augustine University. Years earlier, Joe carried out a series of killings under...

Joy Michelle Austin’s novel, Half Agony, Half Hope: Dear Lily Edition, is a gripping psychological story of the survival of a father and his daughter under horrific circumstances. The shocking story emerges through letters that Rick Wentworth wrote to his daughter Lily over ten years...