The Orion Plan by Mark Alpert is an extraterrestrial thriller that sees an alien species find a way to send a probe across hundreds of light-years to begin the process of colonizing Earth unless NASA scientist Sarah Pooley and her team can stop them (Available February 16, 2016). Scientists thought that Earth was safe from…
Murder on a Summer's Day by Frances Brody is the 5th installment of the Kate Shackleton Mystery series where Kate must work to solve the inexplicable murder of Maharajah Narayan found shot through the heart and placed in the woods (Available February 9, 2016). When the India Office seek help in finding Maharajah Narayan, last…
Prime Time by Hank Phillippi Ryan is the first book in the Charlotte McNally series following reporter Charlotte McNally as she investigates a story about email, murder, mayhem, and a multimillion-dollar fraud ring (Available February 9, 2016). In the cutthroat world of television journalism, seasoned reporter Charlotte McNally knows that she'd better pull out all…
Watch The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and NCIS star David McCallum expertly narrate his debut thriller, Once a Crooked Man. Crime pays. And pays well. Sal, Max and Enzo Bruschetti have proved this over a lifetime of nefarious activity that they have kept hidden from law enforcement. Nowhere in any file, on any computer is there…
In honor of Tessa Arlen's Agatha Award nomination for Best First Novel, here is an excerpt of the first chapter of Death of a Dishonorable Gentleman! Lady Montfort has been planning her annual summer costume ball for months with scrupulous care. Pulling together the food, flowers and a thousand other details for one of the…
Into Oblivion by Arnaldur Indridason is an Icelandic thriller and the 11th of the Inspector Erlendur series, following newly promoted Detective Erlendur as he deals with a litany of cases in this small, remote country. (Now available in paperback!) A woman swims in a remote, milky-blue lagoon. Steam rises from the water and as it clears,…
Keep Calm by Mike Binder follows American ex-cop Adam Tatum who, after seemingly being set up in a foreign country when a bomb detonates during a high-stakes conference and wounds the prime minister, must keep his family safe and race to uncover the conspiracy before it's too late (Available today, February 2, 2016). Former Michigan…
The Mystery of the Venus Island Fetish by Tim Flannery is set in 1932 and follows young anthropologist Archie Meek and the Great Venus Island Fetish—a ceremonial mask surrounded by 32 human skulls—that might be the key to the recent deaths and disappearances at the museum it resides in (Available February 2, 2016). It’s 1932,…
The Language of Secrets by Ausma Zehanat Khan follows Detectives Esa Khattak and Rachel Getty as they investigate the murder of a friend who had been undercover in an Islamic terrorist cell that Rachel infiltrates herself to try and solve the case (Available February 2, 2016). Detective Esa Khattak heads up Canada's Community Policing Section,…
Writing The Secrets of Lizzie Borden was a fascinating experience for me. I am always drawn to the flawed and damaged figures from history, but it is the perceived villains who interest me most of all. I have been reading about unsolved mysteries and murders almost since the time I first learned to read, and…
