The Caterer's Husband by Molly Taggart tells the story of Aaron Mitchell, a high school soccer coach who is having trouble dealing with his wife’s new career. They have had a comfortable, traditional marriage up to the point when she decides to run a catering...

Jennifer Gilby Roberts' The Dr. Pepper Prophecies is about Melanie Parker, who is going through a rough patch in life. After getting her boyfriend a job as her boss, he dumps her and now seems to be making her life a living hell at work,...

A collection of 33 original short stories and 22 poems, David Podlipny’s A Basement: A Collection of Short Stories and Poems (Alphabet) is enjoyable yet partly a conundrum to me. The short stories are presented at the start of this collection, and I had to...

Sea No Evil is the third in James Mullaney’s Crag Banyon Mystery series that is part hard-boiled detective spoof, part mystery, part fantasy fiction and part out-and-out comedy. Crag Banyon is every kind of seedy, liquor-stained, own-ass-covering excuse for a P.I. you could imagine and...

The Gullwing Odyssey by Antonio Simon begins with a case of mistaken identity that leads to a funny, tongue-in-cheek fantasy tale of epic proportions. Lead protagonist, Marco Gullwing, possesses a unique blend of talent, luck, and the blessings of the gods to get out of...

In Burp Gun Bandit by Cary Robinson, Carlos, or Careless as he was known to everyone, was a man on a mission. He left home in Houston, Texas, and flew to Mexico to chase after a girl, Maria, that he had only met once and...

If you want a good brain-teaser, you might just want to pick up a copy of The Games by Izai Amorim. The novel is complex in its conceptualization and many readers may want more action in the first hundred pages when the author develops...

At first glance, William Bradshaw is ordinary to the point of nondescript. At second glance, the view hasn't much improved - he’s just another badly-dressed bloke burdened by student loans and desperate to find a job. His very insignificance, however, makes him the perfect candidate...

About Time by Michael Murphey is a brilliant time travel novel in which travelers risk going to parallel universes in the name of science. In a modern-day twist, corporate America really controls the missions for the capitalistic gains they can offer, but little do the...

A Bad Reputation is the latest Madeleine Maclin mystery by Jane Tesh, starring former beauty queen turned artist and private eye. In A Bad Reputation, Wendall Clarke becomes the talk of the town when he comes back to the small town of Celosia, North Carolina...