The Last Professional by Ed Davis is a slice-of-life drama novel that follows the story of a young man who finds himself living the boxcar life to overcome the baggage of his past. Set in the early 80s, the book follows twenty-six-year-old Lynden Hoover, a...

Ten Thousand Rocks by Ndirangu Githaiga introduces us to a married couple who had first met when they were in middle school. William Henry Young is a medical doctor and black, and his white wife Laura is a teacher. William, known as Will, has a...

The Vanishing Girls by Callie Browning is a gripping romantic suspense novel set in 1980s Barbados. It follows Holden Davis, a thirty-year-old righteous guy who shares the inherited family business (a funeral parlor) with his annoying brother. Holden's in search of an assistant, and when...

The Thirteenth Hour by Trudie Skies is a speculative fiction novel and the first in the gaslamp fantasy series The Cruel Gods. And my goodness, are the Gods very cruel indeed. There are twelve in the intricate world built from scratch by Skies, as well...

Nexus: a point linking two or more things. In the grounds of the All Souls Church in St. Louis is a red granite bench. A bench that has seen and heard many things. K.L. Kemp’s The Red Granite Confessional follows the story of various people:...

Hidden horror comes to life in The Salvation of Kora by Yolanda Olson. Young adult Lily struggles to establish a normal life and move on from the traumas of her past, burdened by the twin losses of her mother and sister to different fates. Being...

The Treasure by Julien Ayotte features an intrepid hero involved in an adventure filled with suspense, drama, and romance. Sebastian Reynolds is a newspaper columnist who meets eighty-one-year-old retired U.S. Army officer Jerome Woodrow, who tells him of a lost treasure linked to the murder...

When someone poisons a man's Christmas gift, a local businesswoman searches for the killer in the delightful sleuth mystery, The Murder Before Christmas by Michele Pariza Wacek. Charlie creates her own tea blends and herbal tinctures and sells them from her home. At times, Charlie...

The Correction by John Hazen begins in 1264 in a castle in England, and Joseph fills us in on the following eight hundred years of his family’s background. We very quickly learn that the Vance family is a very different and special group of people....

The Mad Days of March by Philip Catshill tells the story of Terry March, who works for the council and leads what some would refer to as a dull life. Terry is trapped in an unhappy marriage to his sarcastic and obsessively clean wife, Brenda....