Tyson Stewart: The Return of the Nish
The Return of the Nish is an emotionally charged debut that blends family drama with the pull of noir.
Gerry Smith, a commercial pilot has spent much of his life living with the absence of his father. Dale finally reappears, not with apology or clarity, but with a dangerous proposition. He needs Gerry’s skills as a pilot for a lucrative, illegal run.
Tyson Stewart’s use of Anishinaabe identity gives the novel its deeper current. The “return” of the title is not only about a father coming back, but about family, land, memory, and self-recognition.
This is a story about temptation, blood ties, and the painful hunger to understand where we come from, even when the answers are damaging. It’s intimate, and quietly haunting.
Emily Lloyd-Jones: August Pine Does Not Exist
Augusta Pine’s reckless hack lead to a fatal accident, but she is offered a brutal choice: face the consequences of her crime or disappear into a new life as a covert operative for the Identity Security Division.
Her work requires secrecy, reinvention, and moral compromise. The years have moved on and Pine is skilled at her work but she is deeply lonely.
Pine becomes caught in a building lockdown involving cyberterrorists, hostages, and secrets worth killing for all while she is trying to understand who she is when her old life has been erased.
Augusta Pine Does Not Exist is a smart, high-energy thriller that blends cybercrime, spy fiction, and one fast-moving story.
D.D. Black: The Things She Stole
Brandon Penny is a man shaped by a criminal childhood, a missing mother and a past that he wants to forget.
His love of movies and his dead-end current life create an interesting contrast with the formidable skills he learned as a boy.
His mother abandoned him 12-years ago on the run for a murder charge. Now, Penny hears there’s a heist being planned and his mother may be back in Portland to carry it out.
D.D. Black writes with clear pacing and an easy sense of suspense. The Things She Stole has the energy of a caper, but with darker emotional undertones of betrayal, grief, and identity.
~ June Lorraine Roberts
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