Sandra Brown's Deadline is a realistic, fast-paced thriller, true to her writing style. Dawson Scott is a journalist who will do anything, go anywhere to get a cutting edge story. He has just returned from a lengthy stay in Afghanistan where he sees first hand...

The Killing Game - Part One - The Blood Negotiators (The Killing Game Series) (Volume 1) by The Black Rose takes us into the New York division of the FBI. Ives, the Director, must investigate the woman that he has waited a lifetime to find...

Crimes of a Guilty Land by Brooke Stewart follows two families - the Harts and Beauchamps - through the years of the 19th century. We first start with them in 1825 with Robert Hart. Years down the line, just before the Civil War breaks out,...

In Ben Burgess Jr.’s Wounded, Samantha Miller is a beautiful stripper who preys upon women - specifically straight or married women – walking on the dangerous path of violence, seduction, and exploitation. Her precarious ways are due to her troubled past when she was molested...

I just completed one of the most engaging reads of recent months: Long Live the Suicide King by Aaron Michael Ritchey. It opens with 17-year-old JD, who is troubled by an event that transpired just days prior while with his friends and under the influence...

The Reach of Children by Tim Lebbon is uniquely unlike any of Lebbon’s other books that I have read. Not a horror story, The Reach of Children is a tragically poignant study of a preteen boy and his father as they try to cope with...

I Probably Shouldn't Poison My Mother by Randi Tyler is a true to life collection of short stories. It is told from a child's perspective of how she perceived her childhood growing up in a lower-middle class family in Schenectady, NY. The collection of stories...

Leon David Dunn has written an intriguing novel in Dreaming Annapurna. The main character, Joseph, is a somewhat directionless young man who applies for volunteer work in Nepal, having no clue as to what the experience will provide. The era is the millennium in which...

An Absent Mind by Eric Rill is a moving story about a man diagnosed with Alzheimer's. Saul was in his early seventies when this terrible illness struck. It was obvious that throughout his life he had been a larger than life kind of character and...

You Killed My Brother by Keith Rommel was chock full of mystery, suspense, murder, and twists and turns. Jennifer and her twin daughters are rushing home and are almost in a car accident. The other driver goes crazy, kicking Jennifer’s car, and ranting and raving....