Anthony Lee (Independently Published)
In Poison Pill by Anthony Lee, Dr. Mark Lin, a hospitalist at Ivory Memorial Hospital, uncovers a lethal conspiracy linking two seemingly unrelated weight-loss treatments: the herbal supplement Motileaf and the pharmaceutical drug Naxipil. When patients, including a young man with bilateral kidney failure and a morbidly obese patient with sudden pulmonary hypertension, experience bizarre, organ damage, Lin traces the source to a sophisticated counterfeit drug operation. He discovers that identical triplets Stuart, Garrett, and Rupert Wang,...
Thomas Steele (OEU Books)
The Prodigium by Thomas Steele is a psychological thriller with a labyrinthine plot, structured as a therapeutic dream journal divided into fourteen cantos. The story follows an unnamed, affluent narrator who discovers a disturbing photograph, depicting what appear to be the lifeless legs of an adolescent, on his wife's digital picture frame. Convinced this image reveals a hidden truth about his mysterious, Southern-born spouse (cryptically called “Doe”), the protagonist abandons his corporate existence to trace the origins of the photograph th...
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Shivani Jai (Independent)
In Shivani Jai's psychological thriller, What's Coming to You, Marilys Daniels falls for the charismatic Mason Goodridge and can’t believe it. Mason is everything any woman wants in a man. But she soon finds out that she is trapped in a marriage poisoned by his infidelity and her desperate desire for a family. Mari is pregnant when she discovers Mason's affair with her assistant Jeanine Alder, and their final confrontation turns deadly. Mason strangles Mari in a fit of rage and, with Jeanine's complicity, stages her death as a tragic car a...
Matthew Fults (Tradecraft Werks Inc.)
Nikolai's Secret (The Ukraine Stories) by Matthew Fults is a Cold War thriller narrated by Nikolai Kovalenko, a Ukrainian electronics technician employed by the KGB-affiliated surveillance division of the Soviet Ministry of Communications. Spanning 1965 to 1983, the story traces Nikolai’s career from army conscription in Leningrad to a classified facility in Brovary, Ukraine, where he discovers a tape recording of a conversation between East German Stasi agent Dieter Werner and co-conspirators plotting regime change in Poland. When his supervis...
William J. Cook (Next Chapter Publishing)
In William J. Cook's intense psychological thriller Persona, Dr. Carter Lane, a Salem psychiatrist, faces a nightmare after his best friend Michael’s suicide and therapist Roslyn’s attack. When his wife Julia is murdered and decapitated, mimicking the infamous “Hoffman Horror,” a case from Carter’s past where he treated a man who killed his family. Suspecting his dissociative identity disorder (DID) patient, Arthur Frampton, Carter is pulled into a complex web of deceit and disturbing accusations. As persistent detectives Rochefort and Dyk...
David Axson (SONAX GROUP)
Berlin Bitte is the second book in the Behind the Curtain series by David A. J. Axson, and having read False Flag, the first book in the series, I picked this one with excitement. It didn’t disappoint. The story pulled me in with the setting in 1966, an important moment in the Cold War dynamics, as the Iron Curtain shows signs of fracturing. MI6 agent Nic Slater is stationed in Berlin to rebuild Britain’s already nonexistent spy network following numerous defections. Meanwhile, in Moscow, his former clandestine partner and KGB agent Irina Sashk...
David A. J. Axson (SONAX GROUP)
In David A. J. Axson’s False Flag, MI6 recruit Nic Slater deploys to Moscow in 1964, encountering KGB agent Irina Sashkaya. The Cold War is at its peak, and the US is enmeshed in a war in Vietnam. The two agents uncover Operation Vanquish, a Soviet strategy linking events like JFK's assassination to planned invasions of Finland and Iran. Collaborating as double agents, they manipulate intelligence services—including MI6's SirRod and CIA’s Moses Ranger—to bluff the Politburo into aborting attacks. Can the SAS and US interventions thwart the inva...
Robert Saniscalchi (Independently Published)
In Magnanotron: A Bond of Brothers Thriller by Robert J. Saniscalchi, Colonel Jason Patrick and his elite Delta Team face a high-stakes threat when scientists Peter Androvski and Darious Patel develop a revolutionary wearable forcefield technology. While the U.S. military celebrates this breakthrough, Russian SRV operatives, led by the ruthless Demetri Romanov, plot to steal the secret. The conflict escalates when the spies abduct Patel, intending to transport him to Russia through a freight train. Racing against time, Delta Team deploys to Mal...
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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