Hy Conrad (Mason Hill Inc.)
In Hy Conrad’s The Man on the Bench, Austin reporter Callie McFee befriends a homeless man named Barney, only to discover him murdered shortly after confessing family secrets. Barney is revealed to be Cameron Frost, a reclusive, famous author disguising himself to gather material for a new novel based on the confessions of strangers. As Callie and her homicide detective brother, State, investigate, the body count rises, including fellow bench buddy Daisy and investigative journalist Dennis. While suspicion falls on Frost's brother and a shady b...
J-S Rioux (Friesen Press)
In J-S Rioux’s Death Followed Us Home, elite Army Rangers return from Afghanistan only to face tragedy on US soil. Sergeant Emmanuel Muñoz and his young son are murdered during a botched ATM robbery, and this sets off a series of events that bring together his old unit in a daring and dangerous game of revenge. The police investigation doesn’t move as quickly as Muñoz's grieving unit would have wanted, and so they settle on vigilante justice. Led by Staff Sergeant Thomas “Sully” Sullivan, six soldiers track down the killers to a remote meth lab...
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Alejandro Torres De la Rocha (Alejandro Torres De la Rocha)
Mortal Vengeance by Alejandro Torres De la Rocha is a harrowing Dominican crime thriller that follows a group of Santo Domingo high schoolers whose attempt to poison their abusive teacher, Profesora Lourdes, ignites a catastrophic spiral of violence. What begins as misguided revenge fractures their friendship, triggering Enrique’s brutal murder by the spectral Grim Cojuelo, Manuel’s death, Lourdes’ own murder, and the slaughter of Enrique’s parents and Lieutenant Ricardo’s family. Paranoia consumes the survivors—Alex, Melissa, Mario, and Monika...
Lana Sabarwal (https://thedesaifoundation.org/)
Set in the mist-laden town of Shogie, Washington, in 1952, Maya, Lana Sabarwal’s Dead and Dreaming follows Munna Dhingra, an Indian secretary at Shuni University, who receives an anonymous letter claiming her childhood friend Maya Hickman was murdered fourteen years earlier, not drowned accidentally as officially ruled. Haunted by guilt for rejecting Maya’s plea for help on the day she died, Munna reluctantly partners with her boss, Andrew Weaver, and the enigmatic psychoanalyst Karenina to investigate. Their probe unravels the Hickman family’s...
Gerry Burke (iUniverse)
Gerry Burke’s Double is a tongue-in-cheek espionage thriller that combines two novellas to deliver a rollicking ride for fans of the genre. Sunbeams from Siberia begins with the brutal murder of Delia Deschamps in the quaint English village of Omelette. What appears to be a simple countryside homicide unravels into an elaborate Russian plot to detonate a dirty bomb at Oxford University. Delia, it turns out, was an MI5 operative planted in the village post office to monitor suspicious mail. Her murder connects to a conspiracy involving smuggled...
Richard D. Ross (Steel Door Publishing)
The Cobalt Conspiracy by Richard D. Ross is a fast-paced, tangled thriller with an irresistible appeal to fans of well-crafted sleuthing and explosive plot points. Reyna Rushmore is an ambitious journalist whose exploration of the centuries-old mining sites in the town of Cobalt, Ontario, should be routine, but then she unearths secrets hidden beneath abandoned shafts. A cryptic trail links the town’s dark past to a billion-dollar EV battery plant. As she investigates the financial and political aspects of the project, she discovers troubling e...
AG Flitcher (Library and Archives Canada)
Wasp Oil by A.G. Flitcher is a dark, spellbinding work of fiction that plunges readers into a dystopian world of supernatural horrors, political intrigue, and psychological torment. One of the greatest nightmares of Halburton has been Chelsea Tygrah, and now she is gone, but is she really? Something new, horrifying, and utterly sinister replaces her, like a shadow left behind. There is an evil eating into the hearts of those it can penetrate, and the strange orange light that follows everyone’s move is a being with sinister intent. Rosaria Cast...
Tess Manchester (Shotover Press)
Stay Dark is the first installment in the Web of Dwellers series by Tess Manchester. It is a dark, tangled tale that blends supernatural elements with noir detective fiction. Neve Traxon is a former police academy trainee turned private investigator, and she hides a secret: she is a vampire, gifted with speed, strength, and enhanced senses. After witnessing a brutal alleyway murder, Neve intervenes to save a victim from a creature with haunting green eyes, only to realize the attacker is a fellow dweller, an infected supernatural being dependen...
Tess Manchester (Shotover Press)
Pivot Point by Tess Manchester is an adrenaline-fueled thriller that follows Blake Everhart, a committed U.S. Marshal who hasn’t fully recovered from the murder of her brother that took place seven years ago. haunted by her brother’s murder seven years ago. Robert Canton is a dangerous criminal, a fugitive who is at large, leaving bodies behind him, including an entire family. Now Blake is determined to stop him, and the fugitive takes her across the storm-ravaged Tennessee, through flooded streets, dense forests, and treacherous mountain roads...
Mark Lew (Mark Lew)
Etched in Stone by Mark Lew beautifully blends archeological mystery, supernatural intrigue, and spiritual currents to deliver an exhilaratingly breezy read. Jodie is a biochemist sent to a remote, dead zone in the Kalahari Desert to investigate a baffling anomaly: the absence of cyanobacteria in a vast area where they should be abundant. She discovers an ancient stone with Hebrew writing and imbued with supernatural powers. She and her team struggle with the strange effects of the stone, including resurrections, visions, and inexplicable pheno...
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