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Author Rebecca Hodge: Wildland
“Hell is empty, and all the devils are here.” Kat’s cancer is back after a three year remission, and it doesn’t look good. She rents a cabin in the mountains to determine her next steps. Treatment or no treatment. That life and death decision is curtailed by another. Escape a deadly wildfire enveloping the mountain.…
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From the Archives – C.S. O’Cinneide: Starr Sting Scale
She’s 6-feet + of mean and will cut you down with nary a side look. She also has the occasional soft spot in certain circumstances, but don’t count on it to keep you safe. Candace Starr retired after her release from prison. A contract killer, she often took after her father in methodology – snapping…
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Author Henry Roi: With Her Fists
Prison is what you make it Clarice Ares, has recently retired as a two-time, Bantamweight Champion boxer. She and her husband Ace run a combined car shop and tattoo parlour. Custom Ace and Tattoology are considered first class operations. A cartel mule’s vehicle has electrical problems. The nearest shop for a quick repair is Custom…
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Shawn Wilson: Relentless
Brian ‘Brick’ Kavanagh, a homicide detective in Washington DC, is called out to investigate the body of a woman in the Tidal Basin. Cherry blossom season means heavy tourist traffic and the city executives aren’t happy about the optics of the murder. Their rush to judgement means they want an immediate arrest. When the woman’s…
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Lee Goldberg: Lost Hills
Eve Ronin Book #1 Deputy Eve Ronin has been transferred to homicide in the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. She became a viral sensation dealing with an abusive actor and the Sheriff’s Department needed some good press to offset a scandal. The homicide detectives that worked their way up through the ranks are not happy,…
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Yigal Zur: Death in Shangri-La
Dotan Naor has known Willy Mizrachi for many years. A ruthless Israeli arms dealer Mizrachi is a dangerous man. But his son Itiel is missing in the Himalayas and he needs Naor’s help. Naor, formerly an Israeli operative, is now a private investigator. With a bet that involves a bottle of fine spirits he agrees…
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Allen Eskens: Nothing More Dangerous
“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr. Boady Sanden is a white 15-year old who’s counting down the days. He’s getting the hell out of Jessup, Missouri. Things are brewing in 70s Jessup though. Lida Poe, the African American bookkeeper at the plastics…
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Oliver Bottini: Zen and the Art of Murder
DCI Louise Boni tracks the battered Buddhist monk through the gathering snow and gloom. She knows he needs help, but there is a language barrier. All Boni has is her insight and intuition. Something she is excellent with. The thing is, Boni has an alcohol problem. She is completely self-destructive, internally driven by the ghosts…
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Rob Hart: The Warehouse
It’s your future! Zinnia is at The Cloud to engage in corporate espionage. Money drives her for the freedom it will bring. Paxton has come to The Cloud for two reasons. He desperately needs a job and maybe there will be a chance to tell Gibson, the creator of The Cloud, how his company destroyed…
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Heather Harper Ellett: Ain’t Nobody Nobody
East Texas in the 90s is a hardscrabble time. People make do, and some do what they shouldn’t. You’ve got some decent people round about but all the scuttlebutt is at the feed store where the three Jimmies pass judgement on the goings on. Randy Mayhill once had a best friend. Van was his name…
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John Vercher: Three-Fifths
Bobby and Aaron have been friends since their school years. But when Aaron comes out of prison years after his sentencing, Bobby barely recognizes him. Gone is the wanna-be, pseudo black persona. In its place, a hardened, white supremacist full of tattoos and hatred. Bobby who’s always hidden that he’s bi-racial, is terror struck the…
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TH1RT3EN: Steve Cavanagh
The wife of a Hollywood ‘It’ couple is found dead with her security guard in bed beside her. The husband, Robert Solomon is charged with their murders, and it’s the sensational trial of the year. The defense team hires Eddie Flynn to take on the police evidence. He’s got a bad history with the police…
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Benedict J Jones: The Gingerbread Houses
With bonus Q&A below Not much is pretty about the Gingerbread Houses, an image that normally conjures beauty and charm. These Gingerbread Houses are vile places where degenerate behaviours are forced upon the young. PI Charlie ‘Bars’ Constantinople is hired to find a pedophile using the name Teddy Bear. A man who has left the…
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Florence Wetzel: The Grand Man
A Scandinavian Thriller Time for a bit of refresh and this may hit the spot for you. The Grand Man has lots going on as there are three crimes to be solved. Two past, one present. The murder of Sweden’s Prime Minister Olaf Palme in 1986, Stieg Larrson’s missing 4th book, and the murder of…
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Matt Phillips – Countdown Q&A
San Diego > Toronto Communiqué A large part of my interest in noir crime fiction is the background story. Why these characters, why this place. So Matt and I did a little Q&A for you regarding Countdown. Here’s what went on in his head for this book. And can you equate that smile in his…