Our story begins with NYPD Narcotics Detective Pete Fanning rear ending an SUV; his mind had been preoccupied, flashing back on the previous Thursday when he had shot and killed a man in self-defense. The angry owner of the SUV, Teddy Vijay, an Indian Muslim,...

I love murder mysteries. Totally love them. So, when I look for a good murder mystery, it has got to have all the elements: complex characters, roller coaster twists and heart stopping turns and who-dun-its that will surprise the heck out of you. Sitting down...

Detective David Johansen of the Sunlight City Police was an expert in weird cases. When his boss brought him a surveillance tape from a small diner of a woman escaping from a man with a gun, he knew he had to take the case. Johansen...

“Human Instincts” by Ioana Visan is an apocalyptic novella which is entirely different from any other I have read. The premise is that a global war finally ended when the losing side released a biological agent over the enemy. However, they failed to recognize how...

Someone is murdering the pub landlords of Norfolk! Thelonious T. Bear, ursine photojournalist, leaves behind the big city life of London to take an assignment in the Norfolk countryside, where he hopes to find the ‘real’ England. Instead of rural peace, bucolic beauty, and delightfully...

"Where Shifters Meet for Drinks: The Blue Moon Café Series" by Ioana Vison is a collection of seven short paranormal stories. The short story is not an easy genre to market, especially given the proliferation of novellas these days. However, this collection works almost as...

A brilliant whodunnit plot that explores the legal angles of a murder mystery. It clearly demonstrates how a crime is investigated from the initial stages to the courts. The story revolves around a central theme of dilemma - privileged communication between a doctor and patient...

"The Serpent’s Grasp" is the best book I have read for a while and the most interesting Christian and mystery tale I have ever read. I really like the action mingled with the religious lessons within this book. It is an awesome mix between a...

It is the end of the Civil War and Frank and Jesse James and Cole Younger weren't as well known as Bloody Bill Anderson and Quantrill, yet. Then there was Charles Longstreet who was friends with the James’ and Youngers’. This is his story about...

“Pepper and Longstreet Mysteries: The Complete Series” by J T Lewis contains every episode of the “Pepper and Longstreet” mystery tales. Very similar to “The Hardy Boys” and “Nancy Drew” mysteries familiar to those of us considered “boomers”, Pepper Jones is a 14 year old...

In A Victory that Counts, Liana Cantacuzino and her fellow pandurs have to work with the vampires to stop a new breed of vampires that are dangerously growing in numbers. Written by Ioana Visan, this is the second installment of The Impaler Legacy series. To be...

Jackpot is one of Susan Fleet’s Frank Renzi crime novels and, although it is the fourth in the series, it takes the form of a prequel to the previous books, covering Frank’s earlier years in Boston, Massachusetts. The book finds Frank at a critical point...

Wracked - The Saga of Ukumog Book 1 by Louis Puster III is the story of Wrack who finds himself in a mossy grave. He has no clue about how he got there. Lying there, pieces of his past life flash through his monochromatic...

Samantha Church had every aspect of her life going wrong; she had lost a good job, lost her daughter to her ex-husband, and was drinking more and more every day. She thought she had hit rock bottom and things could not get any worse until...

Encryption by Bill Ward is a great book with a very likable hero in Peter Hammond. Encryption is a little hard to categorize. It is a murder mystery and finding out who killed the victim and why is the engine that drives the story. I...

Tess Collins and Theresa Collins tell a tale of a Kentucky coal mining town during the mid-to-late 20th century. Notown is a place where survival is up to the individual, regardless of age. In 1987, Randi Jo Gaylor thinks back on her life as she...

Settling an old score held Matthew Wilcox in a haunting grip that prevented him from love or finding peace in Deadman’s Lament. Linell Jeppsen unravels the story of a boy who lost his parents and his home at an early age and then found a...

Come visit the double-dealing world of Michael Prairie Cub. Born of pioneer parents, Michael was orphaned on the prairie at the age of three. An Indian by the name of Thunder Eagle took him in and raised him as his own, even though his ancestry...

Surviving The Endgame is a thriller written by Alan L. Moss. Matt Carlyle is a veteran New York Times reporter who's been working on a story that could affect the result of the next presidential election. Matt's been collaborating with Rob Taylor, a medical student,...

A Dead End in Vegas by Irene Woodbury is a story of emotions and the finding and losing of loved ones. Tricia Sloan tells husband Dave that she will be away for a week at a teacher’s conference, but as he is heading out to...