The Old Wolf by J.S. Morton follows a private detective and former hitman who returns to killing after his friend Margery is murdered in a Post Office robbery. He is extremely upset about the fact that his Post Office has been robbed and that they...

In Aletheia by Michael Karlsen-Williksen, we follow a Norwegian astronomer who grew up on his Uncle Arne's tall tales about a UFO landing in the freezing north. Everyone figured Arne was just eccentric, but decades later, the protagonist is working at a LOFAR telescope in...

Auralis: The Bridge (Book 1) by R.A. Wagener is a praiseworthy, speculative, sci-fi technothriller. We meet Asher Newman, a mid-level systems integration engineer at Luminate Technologies. When Asher’s team was assigned to run final-stage testing on a new hi-tech chip, Asher discovered that the architecture...

The Taverna at the Edge of Night by H. Y. Hanna is the first book in the Deadly Destinations series. Daphne is in Crete for a long overdue reunion with her best friend, but when she arrives at the taverna in a remote fishing village,...

In Mary Romasanta’s La Llorona: The Awakening, Ruth arrives at her partner John’s family home for Thanksgiving, stepping into a household where his mother, Mi-Ra, presses her about having a child. When a last-minute errand sends John and his brother JJ to a nearby store,...

A Summer of Static by Wren Greyson is a science fiction drama that follows Purcell, a robot that has just woken up from a simulation where it thought it was human. Robots are desperate to be treated like humans, and humans have robot companions. Purcell...

Advent Blue by Roland Allnach is a riveting psychological technothriller. The story unfolds against the backdrop of the interplanetary conflict between Earth and its Mars colony. Will Fortner is a hardworking recluse who is a navigator at the CHOICE Institute. His dream promotion to a...

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...

Carol Jefferson and her friend Martha find their lives have been upended when the third member of this close-knit group, Drew Bartlett, mysteriously disappears, only to turn up murdered. The news is as shocking to the women as it is to their community in Galveston,...

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...