Category: Novella

Excerpt – Hidden in Her Heart by Thomas Dellenbusch

  Synopsis Summer of 1963 in Bavaria: Thoughtful and literary mobbing drama about an attractive stranger with a secret past. Translated Version from the popular German book series of Movie-Length-Stories: A young, attractive single mother moves into a small Lower Bavarian village in the Summer of 1963. She is not looking for a job, nor […]

Excerpt – Chase Trilogy by Thomas Dellenbusch

    Synopsis   “Chase”, the famous detective agency in Hamburg, is faced with three extremely tricky cases. Solving the intricate mysteries is one thing, the dangers involved are another. Chief investigator Rique Allmers and his team are always up against powerful and unscrupulous opponents. In “The Hunt for the Mute Poetess”, they set out […]

Review – Holmes, Moriarty, and the Monkeys by WM Gunn

    Synopsis   The old 19th-century Victorian house at 221 Baker Street is the home of the Holmes and Moriarty Society, where amateur sleuths from different walks of life would meet to solve crimes. On the black granite hearth in front of the mansion’s massive fireplace are three stone statues of monkeys – Mizaru […]

Excerpt – Something Better by Jim Bates

    Synopsis   For Quinn and his young family, life in 2220 in the aftermath of global warming was a depressing dead-end existence with no future past the mandatory forty-year life span at which point you were unceremoniously put to death and turned into compost. But only if you lived that long. One day […]

Review – The Axe by Linda Griffin #suspense #novella #newrelease #mystery

    Synopsis   Sweethearts Eric Leidheldt and Desiree Chauveau are spending a weekend at his uncle’s cabin when they encounter two strangers cutting wood. Eric is knocked unconscious, and Desi is viciously attacked. The following day two police officers come to their apartment to arrest Desi. Her assailants are dead, murdered with an axe, […]

Review – A Marriage Fable by Jeri Cafesin #shortstory #novella #retelling

    Synopsis   A modern twist on A Christmas Carol, A MARRIAGE FABLE is a novella, another tall tale of the powerful genie Finnegus Boggs, and his lessons on Love that inspires Andrew Wyman, a typical modern-day husband nearing his 25th wedding anniversary, to become a better man.     Amazon     Praise […]