What makes you decide on your next read? Is it the book’s description? Do you follow favorite authors or preferred genres? For me, the final decision to select a book rests on what I read in that opening chapter. If it hooks me within the...

Cassia is a powerful thriller by D. C. Mallery that permeates your psyche. Dr. Jack Temple, a doctor at St. Vincent’s Psychiatric Hospital, is working on a promising drug that treats personality disorders. His guinea pig, Edmund Lewis Lasker, is a cold-blooded murderer. Temple’s rationale...

Cherry Pits is a neo-noir psychological thriller written by Emily Hodgson. Chester Finnegan (Chess) is a struggling young artist who spends his free time using his alias, Bucket, to dispatch dead bodies for a murderer named Murdy. Laden with a traumatic past due to his...

Church of the Assassin is book five in the NEXUS series by Ross Harrison but can be read as a standalone novel. Packed with plenty of action, the story follows Alexiares who kills for a living. She is an assassin for her sect, but things...

Cracks Of Light by John Charles Reedburg centers around the life of a young boy named Demetrius. He lives with his mother in a cramped two-bedroom apartment on the third floor of the Park Arms Apartment. Their lives are anything but ordinary, Demetrius’ mother is...

"Newman, Connecticut is a quaint suburban neighborhood of beautiful colonial homes, upper-middle-class families, and a school district recognized for academic and athletic achievements. Yet something sinister transpired in a house located on Cottage Drive. The community was shocked to learn an alleged exorcism had occurred,...

Sandra J. Jackson’s Catching Butterflies is a dystopian story of siblings April and Beth on their quest to find their way home. After escaping their captor, they found themselves with very little memory of their past. The siblings were at the mercy of nature, surrounded...

Caribbean Tears: A Psychological Thriller by Emiliya Ahmadova is a fascinating thriller that explores mature themes and the struggle for freedom of a strong female protagonist. Thirty-five-year-old Sheila has a perfect life in Trinidad, devoted to raising her children, until her policeman husband has the...

Tasche Laine brings Chameleon alive with realistic characters and an emotional plot. Tara Spencer begins a toxic relationship with Dr. Geoffrey Jensen. She does not see the direction it is taking as Geoffrey gradually controls her appearance, friends, and faith. Tara's guilt over one failed...

Cut Reality by Zack Hacker is a psychological thriller that would appeal most to a mixed audience of young adults and adults who enjoy amateur detectives, reality TV, and mystery thrills, and who do not mind a bit of explicit language. Jason Debord was one...