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Robin Yocum: The Sacrifice of Lester Yates
Hutch Van Buren is the Attorney General of Ohio and bored beyond belief. Always someone who roots for the underdog and a talented, driven prosecutor, he longs for more of… something. ‘Something’ walks into his office one day without an appointment. Black binders carried by prison guard Reno Moretti. Lester Yates, the Egypt Valley Strangler…
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Stephen J. Golds: Love Like Bleeding Out
With an Empty Gun in Your Hand Love Like Bleeding out is a broad look at the work of Stephen J. Golds and it will rouse and churn you. It’s the kind of collection impossible to complete in one reading. For me, breathing space was necessary to ruminate and digest. The kind of work your…
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Amy Suiter Clarke: Girl, 11
Available April 20th Elle Castillo is a podcaster who investigates crime. She’s good at it, having solved two cases in as many years as she’s been on air. Deciding to investigate whether The Countdown Killer (TCK) is alive 20-years after he stopped, has her listener audience rapidly increasing. Investigators believe he died in a cabin…
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Jonathan Brown: Don’t Shoot the Drummer
There’s a 3-member burglary crew around Los Angeles targeting homes under fumigation tents. The press dubs them, the Tent Gang. They’ve been successful, in and out with no problems. Until the night a security guard catches them and is shot and killed for his efforts. Lou Crasher the dynamic, amateur PI is working with the…
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C.S. O’Cinneide: Starr Sign + Interview
The Return of Candace Starr The next book in The Candace Starr Series couldn’t have come at a better time. Starr is out there as a character, and we could all use a little bit of out right now. Starr becomes determined to find her mother. The same mother who abandoned her as a young…
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Andy McNab: SAS Red Notice
Sergeant Tom Buckingham is member of an SAS Regiment and he’s met the love of his life, Delphine. Kinda nice right? Their relationship is floundering though, he’s often deployed at a moment’s notice, or unable to resolve his mission in time, continually missing events and their time together. Believing it’s over, Delphine boards the Eurostar…
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Will Staples: Animals
This is the world of endangered animal poaching. It’s a terrible world, and haunting. And in this world insurance investigatior Randall Knight and Kruger National Park ranger Cobus Venter converge. Venter turns vigillante after two Kruger rangers are killed. Knight is on the verge of discovering a virus that could turn into a deadly pandemic.…
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Heather Chavez: No Bad Deed
Let her die, and I’ll let you live Veternarian Cassie Larkin is in trouble. It began when she stopped a man from attacking a woman on the side of the road. He warned her, told her to leave, but she didn’t listen. Perhaps she should have. His name is Carver Sweet, which is quite the…
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K.A. Masson: Alter Ego
Alex Kendrew has a healthy libido and is dating online at a furious pace. It’s not just sex she is looking for, as a single parent of a seven year-old boy, she’s looking for a loving connection. As she moves from one-night stands to quasi relationships, she meets Mal and her heart is fully engaged.…
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Halley Sutton: The Lady Upstairs
Blackmail, Corruption – All in a Day’s Work Jo, Lou and Jackal all work for the Lady Upstairs. Lou is the only one who has direct contact with Lady. She delivers the targets, and they get to work. The targets: wealthy men who are somehow on Lady’s radar. Generally, cheating, corrupt, thieving, assholes. Jackal didn’t…
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Christopher Swann: Never Turn Back
Ethan Faulkner lives a moderate life as an English professor. There is much in his past, namely the survival of a home invasion, that he’s worked at forgetting. Along with his sister Susannah, he is taken in by his Uncle Gavin. Ethan coped well, but Susannah…she had issues. Issues, that in the end, Ethan couldn’t…
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Simon Maltman: Witness
How have things come to this? ‘Lord is this your will?‘ Pastor Tom has a past. Many do in East Belfast post-Troubles. Sure there’d been times he’d been called upon to inflict a ‘punishment beating.’ But that’s all behind him. Has been for years. He lives the straight life now with his lovely wife and…
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Jason Beech: American Spartan +Interview +Bonus Book-1 Review
SOFTLY, SOFTLY Ricky Nardilo is a cop in the small town where he grew up. His position there is tenuous – he doesn’t know who on the police force he can trust. Everyone in town is owned by Vale. Vale who haunts his life and watches his every step. It wasn’t a great town when…
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Trace Conger: Mirage Man
Fans of Trace Connor will immediately recognize, through writing alone, that Connor Harding is the brother of Finn Harding from the award winning Mr. Finn Series. The Harding brothers have other things in common besides family. They are both quick to act and both see things through. Both have taken lives, but one brother without…
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‘Tis the Season
May this Holiday Season bring you happiness and many blessings. It may not be your usual celebration so clap your hands, honour your elders, blow a horn, salute the veterans, throw a kiss, thank our helpers, and be as joyful as you can. Meantime, a short hiatus for me 🙂 ~ June Lorraine MurderInCommon.com is…