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by Brian Kenney

Stewart brings us back to a time of tumult: mid-1960s rural Vermont. In this sequel to Agony Hill, we are reintroduced to Detective Frank …

by Danise Hoover

Twists within deceptions are at the heart of O’Connor’s story of insanity, confusion, and murder. Some readers, in fact, may need to take notes …

by Henrietta Thornton

In Solvinic’s debut, The Hunter’s Daughter, readers met Detective Anna Koray, daughter of a forest-god worshipping serial killer, who was in therapy to bring …

by Jeff Ayers

An astrophysicist, Dr. Mikayla Johnson, uncovers evidence from the Voyager spacecrafts that an enormous object of some type will crash into Earth. Jim Hardgray …

by Jeff Ayers

Chase Burke works as a sommelier for a restaurant in New York’s Chrysler Building and has put his military life behind him. He’s about …

by Brian Kenney

This is one of those binary books. As darkly funny as it’s poignant and moving. Light and cozy, except when it’s suspenseful and horrifying. …