A body goes missing from the city morgue, only to turn up a few days later, sitting in the driver’s seat of a stolen car. Detective Inspector Ian McBriar has his hands…
Crime Fiction
By Rick Reed NO ONE WILL HEAR YOUR SCREAMS begins with an onslaught of killings perpetrated by Tilden, a sociopath on a mission—a serial killer who, as a young boy, was sexually…
By Austin S. Camacho Most crime fiction gives us good guys and bad guys who square off against each other. But great fiction reminds us that the real world is filled with…
Bartholomew Beck has a secret. He saw who killed his neighbor, but he lied to the police and now the wrong man is on Death Row. Oh, and he wrote a bestselling…
Sophie DeMusa had plans. Finish college. Go to med school. Save the world. She never planned to be in a hospital bed, in a coma after ingesting too many pills. The homicide…
Bobby Saxon lives in a world that isn’t quite ready for him. He’s the only white musician in an otherwise all-black swing band at the famous Club Alabam in Los Angeles during…
After a miscarriage, a young couple moves from San Francisco to the Sacramento suburbs to restart their lives. When the vacant house across the street is taken over by who they think…
By Rick Reed GLASS DOLLS begins with Detective Dove Milson investigating the murder of a teenage girl who is found encased in glass. The murder is identical to one committed by serial…
When Jim Grant’s flight home to give evidence about Snake Pass is canceled, he is diverted via Charlotte, North Carolina. But missing that flight too, he is forced to spend a three-day…
Ryan Carpenter is an underground relocation specialist who helps people escape the danger and traumas of their life and start over. After agreeing to help the young wife of a Texas oil…
Just because Penns River is an economic backwater doesn’t mean it’s immune from current events. An active shooter at a local discount department store leaves several people dead and the shooter in…
By George Ebey Reagan Keeter brings us a crime thriller that packs a punch in his latest book, THE REDWOOD CON. Liam Parker finds his girlfriend, Elise, dead in the bathtub, wrists…
By Tim O’Mara Paul Brazill’s newest novella, MAN OF THE WORLD, features aging hitman Tommy Bennett, who has left London and returned to his coastal hometown, hoping for a peaceful retirement. It…
By Dan Levy Many writers have made careers creating characters and situations around big-city law enforcement—several based in the San Francisco area. But rarely has a former San Francisco cop and private…
A missing shipment of drugs, an underground ring of camgirls, and the Knights of Satan motorcycle club are all caught in a tangle of deals gone bad with one thing in common:…
Serial killers are secretive animals. They keep their deeds to themselves and hope never to be found. But there’s a new man in town—a killer who warns people in advance he’s going…
The serial killer is behind bars. But the murders are just beginning… DC Maggie Jamieson’s past comes back to haunt her in this dark and gripping serial killer thriller. Three missing women…
By Azam Gill C. S. O’Cinneide’s second thriller, THE STARR STING SCALE, introduces Candace, a six-foot-three former hitwoman and ex-con who upholds her professional ethics. O’Cinneide’s first book in the Candace Starr…
By Tim O’Mara TRUST ME, author Richard Santos’s debut novel, could have been, as they say on TV, ripped from today’s headlines. The story follows Charles O’Connell and Gabriel Luna. A disgraced…
By Don Helin When Frank Lambda, a bumbling superhero wannabe, witnesses a mob hit gone wrong, he ends up running for his life. Enter the mysterious Keira, whose secret academy claims to…
By Rick Reed Alan Orloff is the author of nine novels and numerous short stories. Most recently he won the 2019 ITW Thriller Award for Best E-Book Original, Pray for the Innocent.…
By Charles Salzberg Begin reading Jon Bassoff’s latest novel, THE LANTERN MAN, and you’re immediately drawn into an odd, idiosyncratic David Lynch-like world. Everything seems slightly off-kilter. The Greiners are certainly not…
Boone has been prospecting with the Iron Brotherhood outlaw motorcycle gang for almost a year, trying to earn his patch with the club. When a simple muscle job goes terribly wrong, his…
Jinx never cared if a fugitive was innocent. Until now. Months after a series of bombings shattered the city of Phoenix, bounty hunter Jinx Ballou still struggles to rebuild her life, haunted…