The Swim by Jo A. Hiestand is billed as a prequel to her novels featuring the former police detective Michael McLaren. Teenager Michael and his best buddies, Sean and Jamie, are sweltering in a British summer when the idea of a swim in one of...

Sven Elvestad’s The Final Days of Abbot Montrose is a gripping and well-crafted crime thriller and murder mystery. A violent crime takes place in the library of the Catholic Montrose Abbey. The library has been ransacked, and bloodstains are evidence of a vicious struggle. The...

Shell Game by H. Max Hiller is a rip-roaring novel featuring protagonist Detective Cadillac Holland. Holland survived an almost fatal attack on his life by a Russian gangster. A former military roommate, Brian Hollis, contacts him unexpectedly requesting urgent legal assistance. Initially apprehensive, Holland is...

The Attendant is a psychological/crime thriller by Tony Powers. Richard Alleroy, a hedge fund manager at a prestigious investment firm, sees his life slowly unraveling when his partners discover he's been stealing from the company. Set to lose everything, Alleroy comes up with a desperate...

Aleph Bet Conspiracy by Norman Shabel tells the exhilarating tale of Ben Zvi Kantorwicz, who fled the Auschwitz concentration camp in the 1940s and founded a group called the Aleph Bet. This vigilante group is committed to finding and penalizing any remaining Nazi personnel. One...

In Secrets of a Prodigy, the second book in Lynn Wood's Protect and Honor series, suspense takes center stage as Maddie Nichols' life unravels. Raised on lies and constantly on the run from an unknown threat, she doesn't even know her real identity. When a...

Cecilia Valetti’s The Truth is the first entry in the Mysteries at Anna's Trattoria series, which offers a delightful blend of community, personal grief, and intrigue set against the backdrop of an imaginary town in Canada. The narrative follows Anna Venturi, who came to the...

Security personnel initially assumed that a terrorist group was responsible for the explosion that occurred in the hospital parking garage, wounding one of AJ Docker's colleagues. A closer look reveals fresh evidence that suggests a darker scheme is at play. Motivated by his relationship with...

Trouble Afoot At The Three Hounds Bakery by Julie Titterington is a cozy murder mystery to delight genre fans. Willa Lattner writes mystery novels, and when her great-aunt dies, she inherits a bakery in Humboldt Cove. But she also inherits three dachshunds, and instead of...

Lineage by Nancy Swenson falls within the genre of supernatural mysteries, but the nuances of an interweave that spans generations are exceptional. Alexis had missed out on plum assignments and a love life characterized by broken promises, making her opt for a life change—the renovation...