From the first page, In Her Shadow grabs you by the throat and won’t you go. “‘Help.’ My voice is hoarse. Fading fast. Someone help me. But no one’s coming. No one knows I’m down here.” And then the first trickle of smoke appears, the house where Colleen is trappedContinue Reading
“These are the Tidelands: half tide, half land, good for nothing.” On Sealsea Island, England, in 1648, Alinor is only twenty-seven. Her husband has either run off with their small fishing boat—or died at sea. She has two children: thirteen-year-old Alys and twelve-year-old Rob. Alinor also has the “sight” likeContinue Reading
From the author of Jar of Hearts comes another twisty domestic suspense novel writ large, Little Secrets. “The FBI estimates that there are currently over thirty thousand active missing person cases for children.” Marin is shopping with her four-year-old son, Sebastian, in Seattle’s touristy Pike’s Place Market. Her husband, Derek,Continue Reading
“I would live your life so much better than you If I Had Your Face.” In a culture that only values females for their youth and beauty, is it any wonder that plastic surgery has become an almost-mandatory South Korean ritual for teen girls? The story is told from theContinue Reading
In the not too distant future, Korea has been overtaken by greedy companies. The populace forgets its poverty and hopelessness by playing a massively multiplayer online game, VOIDWAR. People are so obsessed with buying virtual goods for VOIDWAR that now they buy them with real money on credit. If theyContinue Reading
“Where do you see yourself In Five Years?” is a standard interview question. Dannie is a driven corporate attorney interviewing for her dream job. It’s December 15, 2020. Later that night, Dannie’s boyfriend, David, proposes and she accepts. Slightly high from champagne, Dannie falls asleep on the couch and dreams…Continue Reading
Guest Post Cara Putman’s Bucket List Bucket lists are such fun ideas. A list of items, experiences, places we hope to have while we’re able. I haven’t written down a bucket list before, but it didn’t take long to create this list. You’ll see it’s a mix of writing andContinue Reading
My Review “Some sins were hard to forgive no matter how willing she was to try.” Especially when the sin was her husband having an affair, and a child, with her sister. But that was water under the bridge and a long time ago. Now her teenage niece Addy JoContinue Reading
Welcome to the dream world that is Vagabonds! The translation creates a prose poem that lasts through hundreds of pages. In the beginning, the Earth colonized Mars. Next, came the civil wars breaking the two worlds into separate societies. Finally, came peace activities including delegations from each world visiting theContinue Reading
Character Interview of Sheriff Bet Rivers 1.What was your most exciting case when you worked on patrol in South Central Los Angeles? I don’t know if it was the most exciting, but it was certainly the most bizarre. I once participated in a slow speed chase. You read that right,Continue Reading
The Address Book addresses why addresses are important. So why are addresses important? “Addresses are one of the cheapest ways to lift people out of poverty, facilitating access to credit, voting rights, and worldwide markets.” And, “most households in the world don’t have street addresses.” Before Americans feel too superior,Continue Reading
Which comes first, the feeling of fear or the physical expression of it? Surprisingly, in Nerve: Adventures in the Science of Fear, the author presents scientific studies showing that the physical symptoms are interpreted by our brain into the feelings—rather than the other way around. The author of this bookContinue Reading
My Review The Fireman has escaped from custody and the serial killings begin again in The Final Deception, the fifth book in the New York Confidential series. The Fireman strangles his victims, cuts out their tongues, gouges their eyes out, and burns their, then dead, bodies. FBI Agent Craig andContinue Reading
Okay, I can see by page 10 why this comic upset so many people—even non-Christians. The god in this comic (indicated by a lowercase g) is a dick. As are most of the humans within Second Coming: Volume One. The book’s god calls all humans “jerks” and much worse. HeContinue Reading
The author of the paranormal Charley Davidson mysteries begins a new comic and romantic mystery series with A Bad Day for Sunshine. Sunshine is the name of the Sheriff of tiny Del Sol, New Mexico. Del Sol is her hometown that she left at seventeen after a tragic incident. Now,Continue Reading
In Mastering the Process: From Idea to Novel, the author of the Inspector Lynsey series reveals the process she uses to write her crime novels. How will her process help budding writers? “By developing and utilizing a process, we eradicate our fears of the blank page and eliminate the chaosContinue Reading