The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century by Joel F. Harrington is the biography of a professional executioner based on the man's own journal (available March 19, 2013). Based on the rare and until now overlooked journal of a Renaissance-era executioner, the noted historian Joel F. Harrington’s The…
No Safe Ground by Julia Pomeroy is a thriller set in upstate New York about a female vet who's returned from Iraq with scars and a killer in pursuit (available March 18, 2013). Reynolds Packard's life is the way he's made it – dreary and uneventful. He drives a limo for a living and lives…
Virus Thirteen by Joshua Alan Parry is a medical thriller set in the very near future (available March 26, 2013). Scientists James Logan and his wife, Linda, have their dream careers at the world’s leading biotech company, GeneFirm, Inc. But their happiness is interrupted by a devastating bioterrorist attack: a deadly superflu that quickly becomes…
The Disciple of Las Vegas by Ian Hamilton is a high-octane financial thriller that introduces Ava Lee, forensic accountant and martial arts expert. Fifty million dollars has disappeared into thin air from the accounts of one of the richest men in the Philippines, Tommy Ordonez. His one hope is Ava Lee—sleek, capable forensic accountant and sleuth. With…
An excerpt of Scratchgravel Road by Tricia Fields, the second book in the series featuring Texas police chief Josie Gray (available March 5, 2013). It was pure luck that Josie Gray spotted Cassidy Harper’s car, abandoned on the side of the road. If she hadn’t, then she’d never have found Cassidy, lying nearly dead of…
Evil in All Its Disguises by Hilary Davidson is the third Lily Moore mystery and is set in Acapulco (available March 5, 2013) When travel writer Lily Moore joins a group of journalists for an all-expenses-paid press junket to Acapulco, she expects sun, sand, and margaritas. Instead, she finds that the Mexican city, once the…
The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War by Daniel Stashower is a work of historical narrative non-fiction (available January 29, 2013). In February of 1861, just days before he assumed the presidency, Abraham Lincoln faced a “clear and fully-matured” threat of assassination as he traveled by train from…
An excerpt of Murder, Actually by Stephanie McCarthy, a cozy mystery debut featuring a romance novelist who suddenly finds herself surrounded by bodies—and not the kind busting out of bodices (available February 14, 2013). Romance novelist Elspeth Gray doesn’t have time for mysteries. She’s too busy concocting the next sweet offering in her popular line…
Three Graves Full by Jamie Mason is a humorous crime novel about a man who finds himself in most unusual circumstances (available February 12, 2013). Sad sack Jason Getty has lived in fear ever since killing a man in a rage and burying the body in a remote corner of his yard some 17 months…
An excerpt of The Warlord of the Air, the first book in the alt-historical adventure series, Nomad of the Time Streams, by Michael Moorcock. It is 1973, and the stately airships of the Great Powers hold benign sway over a peaceful world. The balance of power is maintained by the British Empire—a most equitable and…
