The Echo Wife
All kinds of moral and ethical questions are broached in a new science fiction domestic thriller, The Echo Wife. Several are solved the old-fashioned way through deception and murder. Evelyn is a respected scientist creating clones to perform various tasks. She is working through a divorce from her husband, Nathan.Continue Reading
Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead
“Beer is my holy water! The drink of the gods! Skipping work to get drunk. I’m a schlub and I love it…“—Tendo from Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead Tendo has been a salaryman for three years in his drone of a job. His department chief, Kosugi, has impossibleContinue Reading
This is How They Tell Me the World Ends
“The world is on the precipice of a cyber catastrophe.“ —from This is How They Tell Me the World Ends. Beginning with zero-days or back doors into famous software like Microsoft Windows, Google and Cisco, hackers have been hacking into our digital information since the 1990s. But the hackers areContinue Reading
Children of Chicago
The Children of Chicago are killing each other. Are there hints in local graffiti of their motive? Who or what is Pied Piper? Lauren is a troubled person. Only a police detective for a year, she has already killed one person in self-defense. Worse, she is literally haunted by herContinue Reading
Murder with a View
Cousins Whitney and Buck are renovating an old mid-century motel into high-end one-bedroom condos near Nashville in Murder with a View. They hire a squatter named Jimmy that they find living there to help. The next day another squatter is found in an adjoining room. Only this one is dead—andContinue Reading
The Future is Yours
In The Future is Yours, two Stanford misfits bond in college and subsequently discover a revolutionary process. Using quantum computing and a boat-load of start-up capital, they have a way to access future data from computers located in the present. Think of how disruptive this would be on society. NoContinue Reading
The Love Proof
Sophie’s arrival at Yale had her new Physics professors buzzing. After winning an international math tournament all four years during high school, Sophie was called “The Next Einstein” by the news media. However, a brilliant mind didn’t stop Sophie from quickly falling for handsome fellow student Jake. Which ends upContinue Reading
The Widow Catcher
My Review: Perhaps it was my years as an Internal Auditor but it was obvious at first acquaintance which character at the bank was the bad guy. Be suspicious, very suspicious, of bank employees living beyond their means by way of unverified lottery winnings. However, I only suspected he wasContinue Reading
The Power Couple
The Power Couple, Brian and Rebecca, play a zero sum game in their marriage where only one can win. But when their teenage daughter is kidnapped while they are on a family vacation, can they put aside their differences long enough to save her? Both Brian and Rebecca are insufferableContinue Reading
The Burning Girls
The Burning Girls is a spooky claustrophobic thriller by the author of The Chalk Man. Are you ready for some gothic horror? A female Church of England reverend is forced into becoming the interim vicar in the rural and superstitious town called Chapel Croft. The town’s history includes eight ProtestantContinue Reading
The Weak Spot
Have you ever read a book that revels in its uncertainty? The Weak Spot unfolds like the feeling of waking suddenly from a dream. The dream story still lays atop reality in an unsettling balance. The narrator of this story is not only unnamed but also ungendered. Therefore, I’m usingContinue Reading
The Four Winds
In The Four Winds, Elsa Wolcott is a plain and incredibly tall unmarried woman of twenty-five. Her parents hoard their love for her making her think she is unlovable. It is 1921. “By twenty-five, the die was cast. An unmarried woman was a spinster. ‘On the shelf’ they called her,Continue Reading
Truly Like Lightning
Truly Like Lightning is an engrossing tale of an unconventional family of polygamists who are forced to deal with modern society by a predatory real estate developer. There is so much description, character development, and hidden meaning here that I feel I may need a college literature class to decipherContinue Reading
Blink of an Eye
A young pop star is kidnapped in the middle of her concert in the latest fast-paced Kendra Michaels thriller, Blink of an Eye. The star, Delilah, has a rabid fan base. Did one of them take their stalking up a notch? Or are the kidnappers hoping to make a majorContinue Reading
Smalltime
Russell Shorto, the author, is not to be confused with his grandfather, Russell Shorto, the Smalltime Mafioso who was the No. 2 man in the small steel mill town of Johnstown between 1946 through 1960. This is the elder Shorto’s story. But more interesting, it is also the story ofContinue Reading
The Children God Forgot
In The Children God Forgot, women are having severely deformed babies. Crews working on cleaning London’s Victorian-era sewers see ghostly children who have murderous intent. People are killing each other in deranged rages. What is going on? More importantly, how can we stop it? Remember the pure and scary earlyContinue Reading