The Volcano That Changed the World, by James W. Mercer, is a fascinating amalgam of Geology, Archaeology, the legendary city of Atlantis, and World History. All this occurs within a milieu of attempted murder, marital infidelity, and the underhanded shenanigans of a Professor doing everything...

In The Devil's Playground, book one of Cynthia Sens's Sapphire Staff Series, we meet Mel Taylor. Mel is your average, middle-aged man living in the 21st century and working as a genealogist. But with Mel, what you get on the surface isn't all that is...

Watching porn and pleasuring oneself doesn’t really hurt anyone and an addiction to it won’t kill you. That’s what Detective Robyn Tate thought too, in Malicious by James Raven, until she received an email from the “Slave Master” using her daughter’s hacked email account. Slaving...

In Secrets, Snapdragons, & A Spirit, Tina D. C. Hayes takes readers back to the small town of Dixon, Kentucky, where Darci Shelton spends her days running Petal Pushers, always trying to find a way to increase her bottom line. The flower shop is actually...

Scotophobia - Fear of the Dark: In These Caves, Darkness Is Not All There Is to Fear is a suspenseful thriller written by Alan Donaldson. Jess Tennant suffers from scotophobia, fear of darkness, something she's had since a traumatic stay with her aunt. Despite this...

Stay Another Night by P.S. Meronek is an unusual love story. Coco Stevens loses her father at an early age when he was shot under mysterious circumstances. Her mother sinks into depression and Coco ends up as an underage burlesque dancer in a San Franciscan...

The Other Side of the Door by Jill Vance is a curious collection of seventeen diverse and absorbing short stories. Some of these shorts have a paranormal aspect, while others are more along the lines of urban fiction. Still others represent a number of distinct...

Fleeting Memory, an An Enescu Fleet Mystery, is written by Sherban Young. The story opens when a young man wakes up in a cabin. He hears someone knocking at the door, and he sees a young woman looking confused. She has no idea who she...

Thomas M. Cirignano is the author of "The Constant Outsider" and "67 Cents: Creation of A Killer." This is a review of the latter. Our tale begins with Nick meeting someone in an alley to collect $1000. Instead he is stabbed repeatedly in the back...

In Ghost Music, Detective Marcus Brace finds his card on a brutally bludgeoned female body. The killer wants him to handle the crime, plain as day. A burned-out cop with a strenuous job and a failed marriage, a death of someone in his past will...