Category: Thriller

Excerpt – Strawberry Gold by Chris Gerrib

  Synopsis Is the gold real, or is Pat on a fool’s errand? It’s January 1986, and Pat Kowalski has just turned 18, but there’s no cause for celebration. His father is dying, and the local bank is foreclosing on their house. Pat talks to his senile great-grandmother, who tells him a story about a […]

Review – Schroeder by Neal Cassidy

  Synopsis A gripping new psychological thriller by author Neal Cassidy, SCHROEDER, weaves together elements of the literary thriller/horror genre, stream-of-consciousness narration, and critical social commentary. When an ordinary young man wakes up in his quiet neighborhood on a day seemingly like all the others, the city he’s lived in all his life has no […]

Guest Post & Excerpt – Count Their Graves by Jennifer Chase

    Synopsis A wind chime sways a sweet melody above several pairs of shoes neatly laid out on the welcome the mat: two large pairs, and three small. On the door frame, a perfect crimson handprint, the color of blood… Out on her morning run, Detective Katie Scott is stopped in her tracks when […]

Excerpt – Schroeder by Neal Cassidy

  Synopsis A gripping new psychological thriller by author Neal Cassidy, SCHROEDER, weaves together elements of the literary thriller/horror genre, stream-of-consciousness narration, and critical social commentary. When an ordinary young man wakes up in his quiet neighborhood on a day seemingly like all the others, the city he’s lived in all his life has no […]

Spotlight – The Wraith’s Return & Widow’s Walk by Raemi A. Ray

    Synopsis London based lawyer Kyra Gibson returns to Martha’s Vineyard and the beach house she inherited for an extended summer holiday. Still reeling from her father’s brutal murder and the role she and the handsome detective, Tarek Collins played in uncovering it, Kyra is hopeful for some peace and quiet. But when a […]

Review & Interview – A Very Bad Thing by J.T. Ellison

  Synopsis From New York Times bestselling author J.T. Ellison comes a taut thriller about one author at the pinnacle of her career, whose past threatens to destroy everything she has—and everyone she knows. A great writer knows when to deliver a juicy plot twist. But for one author, the biggest twist of all is […]

Excerpt & New Release – Late Checkout by Alan Orloff

  Synopsis Motel proprietor Mess Hopkins is more interested in helping others than turning a profit, so he opens the doors of the Fairfax Manor Inn to those seeking refuge from a bad situation. But when his cousin Finn shows up in trouble, his world is rocked, because Mess had thought Finn was dead, having […]

Excerpt – Earth’s Veil by J.F. Bloomfield

    Synopsis In this harrowing tale of humanity well past the brink of insanity, Canadian author J. F. Bloomfield takes the reader on a dangerous adventure through the corpse of a world that went horribly wrong. Starting off unprepared and deathly afraid, the main character, Will, just barely makes it underground with some hiking […]

Review – 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 […]

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 […]