The Only Child by Mi-Ae Seo is an eerie and absorbing novel following a criminal psychologist who has discovered shocking and possibly dangerous connections between a serial killer and her stepdaughter. Yi Seonkyeong is a young criminal psychologist who’s just wrapping up her first semester of teaching when she receives a curious request. A convicted serial killer named…
In his new dystopian novel, The Last Day, Andrew Hunter Murray explores a question we all wonder: What happens on the day the earth stands still? Andrew Hunter Murray took an idea that sounds simple – the world stops turning – and spun it into a gripping novel about those with power and sunlight on…
The book I’ve written (my debut novel) is called The Last Day. It is set in our world, forty years into the future—a world in which, thanks to a catastrophe in the heavens, the planet’s rotation has ground to a halt. Half the planet faces inwards, towards the sun; half faces out, towards the bleak,…
In this debut novel, Raymond Fleischmann takes readers to remote Alaska where Else seeks the truth about her long lost sister from a man she knows to be a murderer. 1941. It’s been over twenty years since Elisabeth’s twin sister, Jacqueline, vanished. Else, as she’s known to friends and family, has moved on with her…
The story of a modern-day ninja warrior following the code of the #MeToo movement, The Ninja Daughter by Tori Eldridge is as impactful as a throwing star. The Ninja Daughter by Tori Eldridge is a debut novel that is perfectly positioned as the first in a series following a lovable, yet deadly, young female ninja…
When It’s Time for Leaving by Ang Pompano introduces former police officer Al DeSantis, who must deal with his past, his estranged father, and murder in this debut novel. Connecticut’s Ang Pompano has been writing mysteries for more than two decades. While his first novel, When It’s Time for Leaving, just came out, his short stories…
Winner of the Daily Mail First Novel Competition, A Girl Named Anna by Lizzy Barber is a psychologically riveting read that introduces Lizzy Barber as an outstanding new voice in suspense fiction. British author Lizzy Barber makes her fiction debut with the suspenseful novel A Girl Named Anna. Barber, a former English major from Cambridge University, had concentrated…
In August of 2014, a deer hunter stumbled upon a hundred thousand marijuana plants growing in untended woods in Southeast Texas. The DEA would estimate the plants’ worth at close to $175 million dollars. The setting was enough to make any crime writer drool: a beautiful woods with acres of lacy green plants, an abandoned…
Simmering in Patagonian myth, The Tenth Girl by Sara Faring is a debut novel and a gothic psychological thriller with a haunting twist. I’m a sucker for boarding school novels, especially ones that incorporate mystery and horror into the proceedings. So I leaped at the chance to review Sara Faring’s The Tenth Girl, which is billed as…
Ain’t Nobody Nobody by Heather Harper Ellett is a riveting debut novel about family and loyalty, old grudges, and new lives—a cross between Faulkner and Breaking Bad from a talented new writer with an authentic Texas voice. Heather Harper Ellett is a vibrant new voice in the mystery scene. Ain’t Nobody Nobody was a delight to…
