Rage Against the Dying by Becky Masterman is a debut thriller featuring a former FBI agent who has retired to Arizona, but hasn’t been able to leave her job behind (available March 12, 2013). Brigid Quinn is a tough-talking former FBI agent, forced into retirement after fatally shooting an unarmed perp. She’s haunted still by…
The Family Way by Rhys Bowen, the newest book in the Molly Murphy historical mystery series, puts Molly on the trail of a missing servant (available March 5, 2013). The 12th book in the award-winning Molly Murphy mystery series finds Molly happily married and heavily pregnant but also incredibly bored. It is the summer of…
Three Graves Full by Jamie Mason is a thriller with a twist and a macabre sense of humor (available February 12, 2013). Three Graves Full is a crime novel that begins with a twist. Our protagonist, Jason Getty, spends the opening chapter getting over the fact that he’s killed a man and buried the corpse…
Bad Medicine Volume 1: New Moon by Nunzio deFilippis and Christina Weir is a paranormal police procedural/medical thriller graphic novel (available January 30, 2013). This graphic novel is split into two parts, following the exploits of a diverse inter-agency team as they investigate the involvement of biological agents in strange deaths reminiscent of classic monster…
I’ve always been an indiscriminate reader. Growing up, I wasn’t surrounded with a wealth of reading material so I read whatever I could lay my hands on. I never had the luxury of considering myself a genre reader or even the inclination: satisfying the urge to read, no matter what the material, was paramount. And…
Sacrifice Fly by Tim O’Mara is a traditional mystery featuring a former New York City cop turned middle school teacher as he tries to find the killer of a student’s father (available October 16, 2012). I went into reading this novel expecting that, with a title like Sacrifice Fly, there would be a lot of…
Sailor Twain: or, the Mermaid in the Hudson by Mark Siegel is a graphic novel from First Second Press that collects the installments originally published at SailorTwain.com (available October 2, 2012). Set in 1887 New York, it opens with a cloaked woman finally tracking down the title character to a waterfront dive. He doesn’t want…
Invisible Murder by Lene Kaaberbol and Agnete Friis is the second Nina Borg nordic mystery set in Denmark (available October 2, 2012). When I saw that this book had finally come on the market, I leapt at the chance to read it. I loved the first novel in the Nina Borg series, The Boy In…
The Incense Game by Laura Joh Rowland is the 16th book in the Sano Ichiro series. Set in feudal Japan, it follows the career of a samurai who struggles with the conflict between his adherence to the code of Bushido and his personal sense of integrity (available September 18, 2012). With this series, Laura Joh…
Blades of Winter by G.T. Almasi is the first in the Shadowstorm series, an action-packed thriller revolving around genetically enhanced spies in a reimagined version of the Cold War (available August 28, 2012). Blades Of Winter is G.T. Almasi’s debut novel, and promises to be the first in a series of exciting, action-packed thrillers revolving…
