By Charles Salzberg In D. B. Carew’s THE WEIGHT OF BLOOD, the second in what Carew calls the Fighting Darkness series, Chris Ryder, a forensic psychiatric social worker, finds himself with a…
Crime Fiction
Why does Jessica Hastings come home late several times a week? Her husband asks private investigator Sam Dyke this simple question. Dyke doesn’t want the case—he doesn’t do divorce work—but Brian Hastings…
By Azam Gill Kirkus Reviews calls Robert McCaw’s DEATH OF A MESSENGER “a tautly paced, impressively accomplished police procedural … of a promising mystery series.” Set on the island of Hawaii, DEATH…
By Karen Hugg Though Eddie the Butcher is a fictional creation of Thomas Perry’s mind, the author is no stranger to mob activities. Growing up in Tonawanda, New York, Perry remembers times…
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…
By George Ebey In CODE FOUR, Frank Zafiro and Colin Conway team up to bring you the explosive final installment in the Charlie-316 series. The last two years have been tumultuous for the Spokane Police…
By J.H. Bográn Five years ago, Reese Roberts was the masked vigilante known as The Roach, the guardian of Iron City—a fearless protector willing to do whatever it takes. That is, until…
By Charles Salzberg He may not have been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn, or a king, but Steve Jankowski has done pretty much everything else in his…
Kidnapping, international trafficking on the dark web, bit coin blackmail by gangster police states, loan sharks, and a monk obsessed with profit and power are all in the mix. When Matt Chance…
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…
By Azam Gill Dan Rabarts and Lee Murray’s latest thriller, BLOOD OF THE SUN—third in the Path of Ra series—reveals tantalizing secrets and resolves enigmas evoked in the first two books. In…
When Det. Adam Russell of the Honolulu PD encounters the body of a woman in her sixties—the second in recent days to inexplicably die of what seems like natural causes—he reaches out…
By Austin S. Camacho Crime fiction comes in 57 flavors, from small family dramas to world-spanning conspiracies. If you enjoy that variety and like big stories you can swallow in one bite,…
By Cathy Perkins Dharma Kelleher writes gritty crime fiction with a feminist kick and is one of the only openly transgender authors in the genre. BLOOD SISTERS is the latest in the…
By Rick Reed BURN ME OUT is the story of Al Vacarro, a made man, with all the honors and responsibilities that entails—including murder. But after a lifetime of violence in service…
By April Snellings In the third and latest installment in Robert McCaw’s acclaimed crime series, Hilo, Hawaii, Chief Detective Koa Kane is called to a disaster scene that would horrify even the most…
By J. H. Bográn Author Tori Eldridge follows up her successful series-starter The Ninja Daughter with this year’s THE NINJA’S BLADE. A month has passed for Lily Wong before life deals her…
Van Shaw’s past and present collide when an ingenious blackmailer pushes him to the brink in this electrifying fifth novel in Glen Erik Hamilton’s gritty and emotionally powerful thriller series. An invitation…
What happens when a sociopath feels remorse? An Angel of Mercy serial killer targets the elderly, ending their lives when she sees fit—freeing her victims of their earth-bound misery by forming angel…
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…
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…