Finding Lyla by Cate Beauman is a riveting story with a great setting and an engaging plot. Dancer Lyla Markovik-Avery, the daughter of a former dancer, becomes a serious and committed dancer too. She visits her beloved Russia, traveling with Collin Michaels who is assigned...

In this third installment of Adrian P.'s space opera series The Silent Assassin, The Professor is a novel more suitable for the reader who is thoroughly familiar with military action, space warfare, and political novels. The story takes readers to an entirely different universe with...

The Shape of My Soul by Lynette Ferreira is a wonderfully sweet paranormal romance that does not allow the paranormal to overshadow the romantic intrigue in any way. Ferreira remembers the number one rule for romance novels, and that is the romance comes first!...

Suspense, intrigue, mystery, excitement and romance, Land Sharks: A Swindle in Sumatra has it all and more. Lexi is a fraud investigator for an exclusive Beverly Hills bank and the heroine of the story. She is sent on an assignment to Sumatra to bring back...

In The Dragon’s Staircase, former FBI agent Alexa Kyndall is called in to consult on an old case that still gives her nightmares. She’d convinced herself that she’d killed the vampire doctor Julian Frederick, but a new string of brutal murders shows just the opposite....

Expect the unexpected while reading Wilful Misunderstandings, a collection of short stories by Richard Foreman. The House Where Jack Lived has an eerie aura that mesmerizes its occupants. In Jonathan and the Extraordinary Drawer, a child discovers magical things a drawer produces, but ignores the...

In the latest novel from Dawn Kopman Whidden, Keeping Hope Alive, hikers find skeletal remains in the woods and Jean and Marty are called to the crime scene. Robert Lyons, the medical examiner, is already there, and his preliminary examination indicates a young female victim,...

Linchpin by David K. Brown is an interesting take on sci-fi. Marvin, or Coffee to his friends, is living the "good life" with a steady job, gorgeous girlfriend, and great flat mates Jay and Tony. One day, Marvin has a strange "episode" which leaves him...

Alison Carter wished her mind didn't drift during her weekly video conference call that Thursday afternoon. It seemed like just another call hammering out issues with their one and only casino client, until his doorbell rang, followed by a scream and a gunshot. He got...

Wow! Just, wow! That’s exactly what I thought when I finished reading Reign of the Marionettes, the first published novel by author Sheena Macleod. This book hooked me from the very first pages and kept me up all night, obsessively reading until the very end!...