"The Illusion of Secondhand Smoke" by Janice M. Van Dyck is about Maria DeLuca, a successful motivational speaker, whose personal life is anything but happy. She is into drugs and is having an affair with a married man. She is not without her reasons for...

Secrets abound in the tiny neighborhood of Gordonston, an affluent neighborhood outside Savannah. The four members of the Gordonston Ladies Dog Walking Club have been meeting for the last ten years in the neighboring dog walking park. While their dogs romp and play, they share...

There are books written that draw the reader in to read each and every word, and "Born in Rio" is one of those! It is 2007 and Rita Ray is a New York executive who lives and breathes her job. Then she receives a phone...

"Mulholland Dive" by Michael Connelly is an anthology of three short stories. 'Cahoots': The setting is the 1930s. Six men sit around a table playing cards. McMilian is the bad guy, cheat and tempter; he suggests a robbery that should net the men a great...

"Twoon" describes the thrill of killing others, first a drunk, then a young girl, then a couple making love in a sleeping bag on the beach. The killer loves it when the newspapers begin to refer to him/her as the "Beach Front Stabber". Meanwhile in...

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 Mystery of Jessica Benson," a novel written by C.K. Laurence, is a steamy, suspenseful and eventful read. The story begins at a party in Miami. Jessica is gorgeous and the attention of many although she has a boyfriend and wants her football player boyfriend,...

The body of a young man is found in rural DeKalb County, Georgia, at Bethel Primitive Baptist Church. His body is painted, a gold crown is on his head, and the victim's sliced innards spill out while pigs feet are attached where his arms should...

John Brooks is a brilliant young lawyer working hard, but not getting much notice. What he really needs is one big case to show off his talents. That case comes along when he is hired to defend Hal Boyd, AKA, the Butcher of Belhaven, on...

Falcon's Bend, a small sleepy town in Wisconsin, is just that, and doesn't see an overabundance of violent crime. That is until one fateful night when a dancer from the town's Gentlemen’s Club is found strangled. As the investigations get underway, Detectives Pete Shasta and...