Looking to add thrills to your holiday season? We’ve got just the ticket—page-turning hot new releases from some of the genre’s best. Dawn Ius goes Between the Lines with famous profiler John…
By Karen Hugg Brian Thornton loves history. “For me it’s exciting to take an actual historical event and add my own twists and takes on both the human element in every story…
Revisiting the Long and Dark Shadow of a Killer By Dawn Ius The name John Douglas is familiar to anyone involved in forensic science—and to be fair, true crime junkies across the…
Writing A Convincing Police Procedural By Dawn Ius Caz Frear has been obsessed with police procedurals, both on screen and off, for most of her life, but she never set out to…
Not Your Typical Housewife By Angela Channell On a typical evening in San Francisco, you might find author Josie Brown at the movies, theater, happy hour, or out on one of her…
Getting Past “Stage Fright” After Debut Success By E.M. Powell In the acknowledgements of her new release, THE LIES YOU TOLD, Harriet Tyce says that “second novels are difficult.” It’s a sentiment…
Constant Obsessions By April Snellings The best horror is always timely, but this year’s standout offerings, from Paul Tremblay’s virus epic Survivor Song to Jeremy Robert Johnson’s class-warfare battle cry The Loop,…
Balancing Horror and Comedy By April Snellings Any horror fan worth her salt can recommend a dozen Christmas-themed fright flicks that aren’t Silent Night, Deadly Night—but filling your TBR pile with (good)…
Obsession and Jealousy Are a Dangerous Duet By K.L. Romo If you’ve ever been cheated on, EVERY LAST SECRET is dedicated to you. How far would you go to steal a life?…
Writing Into the Blind By R.G. Belsky Matt Coyle pulls off an amazing feat in his new thriller BLIND VIGIL—hard-boiled detective hero Rick Cahill somehow solves a baffling murder case without being…
Audiobooks have taken on new significance for listeners over the last few months. Many of us are isolated from family, friends, or colleagues—or all of the above. The challenges of the COVID-19…
By J.H. Bográn WITHOUT REGRET is the third book in the Hunter Stark series by Col. David Hunt and R.J. Pineiro. This time around, the world is pushed to the brink of…
By Austin S. Camacho You might not expect boats, beaches, and bars to be the ingredients for a gripping legal thriller, but THE VENTURI EFFECT by Sage Webb will surely change your…
Diverse, Surprising, and Superb Writing Mark New Story Collection By Michael Sears Addis Ababa Noir is another African collection from Akashic Books. And once again, it’s surprising, diverse, and contains some superb…
A Man and a Nation on the Brink By Neil Nyren “My father used to tell me, The rich world has rules and regulations. The poor world has rituals and traditions. These…
When her best friend’s husband, a popular book publisher, is murdered on the Andaman Islands, Maya Mallick, Seattle-based private detective, is called to solve the case. It is painful for her to…
Augy Small is a veteran fighter pilot turned private detective in 1954 Los Angeles. Down on his luck and haunted by the time he spent as a POW in Imperial Japan, he…
By Millie Naylor Hast How far would you go to unravel the mysteries of your past? In Tessa Wegert’s THE DEAD SEASON, New York State Police senior investigator Shana Merchant’s journey into…
DUPED deals with Sam Marsh and his beloved Palm Springs hotel, which is hanging on by a string. Business is down, Sam is running out of funds, and he’s looking down the…
Si Reardon knows nobody wants to hire an ex-cop fresh out of prison unless it’s for a job nobody wants. His only offer is from Rose Cantor, an elegant and beautiful “special…
The “Tent Gang,” a three-man crew that robs houses all over Los Angeles that have been tented off for fumigation, has the L.A.P.D. chasing their tails. When a private neighborhood security guard…
It’s New Year’s Day, and Jude Dillane, owner of The Corner Lounge, is cleaning up after last night’s celebration when she discovers the body of a man with a knife through his…
It is 1962. Kathy Anderson, a serious actress who took her training at the Actors Studio in New York, is stuck playing Vivacia, the Vampire Woman on Vivacia’s House of Horrors for…
Monk Buttman is a man who foolishly believes his problems will somehow work themselves out, but Life rarely cooperates. In love with two women, one of whom is very sick, running errands…