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David Bell: Try Not to Breathe
Three sisters, Alisha, Avery, and Anna, who is their step-sister. Avery Rogers gives up her career with the Kentucky State Police after a near-death experience. She’s working as campus security – boring but safer. Her father, a retired police chief, says Anna is missing. He coerces Avery into looking for her. Anna Rogers is acting…
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Hayley Scrivenor: Dirt Creek
Ronnie and Ester are best friends and do most things together. They are lively girls, up for an adventure. The mothers of Ester and Ronnie are also best friends. Constance Bianchi is Esters mum, and Shelly McFarlane is Ronnie’s. The women and their children spend a lot of time together. Their husbands, not so much.…
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Dieter Kalteis: The Get
Toronto in the 70s. Long hair on men normalizing, multi-cultural neighbourhoods entrenching, and politicians demanding a crackdown on crime. Two collectors for Ernie Zimm’s protection racket: Gabe ‘the Twist” Zoller and Lenny Ovitz. Zoller has a bit of a problem collecting at the Merchant of Mink leading to the owner and his bookkeeper being killed…
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D.L. Mark: Twist of Fate
Claudine Durdage is a nationally known communications consultant. Her real life is about grieving the loss of her stillborn child. Jethro is her brother, 188 IQ and a rambling, sweet natured hermit, plagued with schizophrenia. He shows up at her office lobby to tell her something incredibly important. Before that can happen a bloodied man…
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Lowell Cauffiel: Below the Line
Edwin Blake is a former Detroit Homicide cop, working in Hollywood as a technical advisor for film and televisions cop shows. Times have been tough lately, the jobs have dried up leaving Blake living off his police pension. Jason Perry, or JP, was the media mogul who brought Blake into the industry. His own profile…
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T. Jefferson Parker: The Rescue
Available April, 25, 2023: Pre-Order Here Journalist Bettina Blazak is reporting on a Tijuana, Mexico, animal shelter when she sees him. A street dog she falls in love with and so takes him home with her, naming him Felix. There is much more to Felix than expected. He’s incredibly well trained, so curiosity about him…
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James W. Ziskin: Bombay Monsoon
India’s June 1975 ‘State Emergency’ is still debated as a dark era in the country’s history. It was a period of inordinate confinement, depression of civil rights, the silencing of opponents, and the deep censorship of the press. Into a volatile environment tyro reporter Danny Jacobs is sent to investigate and report. He arrives days…
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Ripley Jones: Missing Clarissa
Cam Muñoz and Blair Johnson are working on a journalism project assigned by their teacher. The subject, and how they choose to cover it, is up to them. Clarissa Campbell has been missing from Oreville, Washington, for more than 20-years. Muñoz thinks doing a podcast on this hometown girl could lead to fame and fortune,…
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Eryk Pruitt: Something Bad Wrong
Available May 1, 2023 Pre-Order Here Jess Keeler is doing a true crime podcast. It’s not just any crime, it’s about her grandfather, Sheriff’s Deputy Jim Ballard, and an unsolved double murder from 1972. A young couple went missing and their bodies were found tied to trees -it wasn’t pretty. “Big Jim” Ballard is assigned…
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Leanne Kale Sparks: Every Missing Girl
Frankie is a great hockey player. The team welcomed her, with the exception of one player who felt she had stolen his spot. When Frankie disappears from her home town rink the search is on. Has she run away? It seems unlikely for her but you never know with teenagers. If someone took her they…
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Mary Ann Miller: Bones Under the Ice
Pre-Order Here Jhonni Laurent is the Sheriff of Field’s Crossing, Indiana, and unsurprisingly, the first female sheriff. Her patch is rural farm country and generally not much happens. During a blizzard the body of teenager Stephanie Gattison is found in a park where the city trucks dump the snow. Did she die in the park…
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George Albert Brown: Who Killed Jerusalem
Ickey Jerusalem is a noted poet in 1970s California. It’s somewhat incongruous then, when his body is discovered in an airplane toilet amid flight. Aboard the flight is Dedalus “Ded” Smith, recently divorced insurance claims adjuster. Sick over his divorce and tired to death of his dead end job. Upon deplaning in San Francisco, Smith…
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Noelle Holten: 6 Ripley Avenue
Ripley House Approved Premises. It’s a probation hostel or perhaps halfway house in my parlance. Several ex-cons are resident here, and now one of them, Danny Wells, is dead. Jeanette Macey is the probation officer in charge of the house and it seems that the surveillance system has malfunctioned. Neglect, or by design? Either way…
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Eric Beetner: There and Back
The Truth Must Not be Unearthed It’s a team building exercise into the forest for 10 colleagues. Many don’t want to be there, but two promotions are available and they know this is a test. Things go wrong immediately. When crossing over a fast moving river, a rope bridge entangles one of them and it’s…
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A.J. Devlin: Five Moves of Doom
Back with you at last and an entertaining book to get us going. Elijah Lennox displays his diamond studded UFC Championship belt in his gym. He uses it as an incentive for the young men he trains. One day it’s missing. Lennox turns to “Hammerhead” Jed Ounstead, a retired pro wrestler turned PI who’s known…