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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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 bomb at Oxford University. But who is Delia, and would anyone murder her? Her murder connects to a conspiracy involving smuggled plutonium, a Russian nuclear scientist posing as “Miss Potato Pa...
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...
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