Category: suspense

Excerpt – Pushing Back the Desert by Gordon Zuckerman

  Synopsis During the turbulent late 1950s (Eisenhower Era), the New Sentinels are called upon to reveal a hidden plot (Operation Ajax) to topple Iran’s Parliamentary Government, reinstate the exiled Shah, and take over Iran’s oil industry, the fourth-largest in the world. When British and American oil interests secretly orchestrate a coup to seize control […]

Excerpt – Devil’s Island by Midge Raymond & John Yunker

  Synopsis On a remote island off the coast of Tasmania, an Australian wilderness guide embarks on a four-day hike with six guests—and arrives at their destination with only two. Devils Island is home to abundant wildlife and is the ideal place to re-introduce endangered Tasmanian devils. It’s also a region where travelers can see […]

Excerpt & New Release – Talking to Strangers by Fiona Barton

  Synopsis Detective Elise King’s investigation into a woman’s murder is getting derailed by a reporter who insists on doing her own investigation in this nail-biting mystery from the author of Local Gone Missing. When Karen Simmons is murdered on Valentine’s Day, Detective Elise King wonders if she was killed by a man she met […]

Guest Post & #Giveaway – The Poseidon Project by E. William Podojil

    The Poseidon Project (The Herb Society Mysteries) Mystery- Suspense – Adventure 1st in Series Setting – Tucson, AZ and Dubai, UAE Publisher ‏ : ‎ Wild Rose Press (August 26, 2024) Paperback ‏ : ‎ 270 pages Synopsis Molly Halloran and her friends have a secret past. Their bucolic retirement is suddenly upended […]

Review & #Giveaway – Lethal Standoff by DiAnn Mills

  LETHAL STANDOFF By DiAnn Mills   Contemporary Fiction / Christian Mystery & Suspense / Christian Romance Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers Pages: 368 Publication Date: September 3, 2024   Synopsis Hostage negotiator Carrington Reed faces her most dangerous challenge yet in Lethal Standoff. Called to a tense situation in South Texas, Carrington must save fifteen […]

Guest Post & #Giveaway – The Tarnished Son by Elizabeth McKenna

    The Tarnished Son Domestic Suspense Setting – Wisconsin Independently Published (‎ July 23, 2024) Print length ‏ : ‎ 324 pages Synopsis “This is a nice, quiet town with good people. Things like that don’t happen around here.” But they do. In THE TARNISHED SON, a tourist’s death, an alluring young teacher, a […]

Review – Ladykiller by Katherine Wood

  Synopsis When an heiress goes missing, her best friend races to unravel the secrets behind her disappearance using clues left behind in an explosive manuscript… Gia and Abby have been best friends since they were girls, forever bonded by the tragedy that unfolded in Greece when they were eighteen. In the aftermath, bookish Abby […]

New Release & Excerpt – Not What She Seems by Yasmin Angoe

  Synopsis She left home as the local pariah at twenty-two, but when a family tragedy brings her back, she must confront her tortured past—and a new danger in town that no one seems to understand but her. After years of self-exile, Jacinda “Jac” Brodie is back in Brook Haven, South Carolina. But the small […]

Review – No Road Home by John Fram

  Synopsis A young father must clear his name and protect his queer son when his wealthy new wife’s televangelist grandfather is found murdered in this binge-worthy locked-room thriller from the acclaimed author of The Bright Lands—perfect for fans of Ruth Ware, Paul Tremblay, and Alex North. For years, single father Toby Tucker has done […]

Review – Shades of Mercy by Bruce Borgos

  Synopsis In the usually quiet high desert of Nevada, Sheriff Porter Beck faces one of his greatest challenges—a series of unlikely, disturbing and increasingly deadly events of unknown origins. Porter Beck is the sheriff in the high desert of Nevada, doing the same lawman’s job his father once did now that he’s returned home […]