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Shadow Life by Jason Mather Kobo Writing Life Sci Fi & Fantasy Pub Date 26 Feb 2018 Review Small independent publishers can be hit or miss on quality. There are times however that you find a gem. Jason Mather’s Shadow Life is one such gem. It is a suspenseful science fiction thriller with plenty of fast paced action. Mather does a bang up job of keeping the reader’s attention while only slowly revealing the novel’s secrets. And then there are the characters. Each is fl

DEAD JEALOUS by Helen H. Durrant Joffe Books Mystery & Thrillers Pub Date 17 Jul 2017 Review Once again Helen Durrant has crafted an impeccable police procedural where she successfully combines three complicated cases - two current and one from 17 years previous. 17years ago, Josie Wilkins’s daughter Jessica disappeared without a trace. No clues and no witnesses. Now someone has discovered an urn accompanied by what appears to be the toddler’s effects Flora Appleton, a

The Right Side A Novel by Spencer Quinn Atria Books Mystery & Thrillers , Women's Fiction Pub Date 27 Jun 2017 Review The Right Side is a very different book from what I’ve come to expect from Spencer Quinn. It is an excellent, moving portrayal of the struggles of an injured vet to regain comfort in herself and in her surroundings. LeAnne Hogan is not pleasant or likable, but you can understand her anger and her fears, her inability to cope with the everyday that is so

Four Stars For Danger by John Burke Endeavour Press Mystery & Thrillers Pub Date 24 Feb 2017 Review Four Stars for Danger is a pretty good thriller with just a touch of the gothic. It is important to realize that this is a reprint of an older title, otherwise you might be a bit put off by the chauvinism. Ellen Sawyer may be the lead character, but it is her male support who manages to solve all the intellectual aspects of the puzzle as well as guides her out of the physi

VENGEANCE by ROY CHESTER Joffe Books Mystery & Thrillers Pub Date 15 Dec 2016 Review As a criminal profiler and psychiatrist, Dr Hannah Nightingale has come across some of the most dangerous and disturbed individuals. Her efforts to help the police in their investigations have led to her being a target on more than one occasion - the last time resulting in her being suspended in a cage of glass. But despite all that she has suffered, Hannah has persevered. But now, she

The Many Selves of Katherine North by Emma Geen Bloomsbury Publishing Plc (UK & ANZ) Bloomsbury Circus General Fiction (Adult), Sci Fi & Fantasy Pub Date 02 Jun 2016 Review One part speculative fiction, one part scifi thriller, The Many Selves of Katherine North is an imaginative novel that should not be passed by. It is a story that will linger with readers long after the final chapter is read. What lies at the core of identity? Is it defined by body and sensati

Now You See Me By Jean Bedford Endeavour Press Mystery & Thrillers January 15, 2016 Review Now You See Me is a gripping psychological thriller which keeps the reader guessing until the final page. While disturbing, the novel is skillfully written and the characters are richly detailed. This isn't your run of the mill murder mystery. Instead, it is a tale of interconnected lives, all affected by a sociopathic killer. It is a story of secrets and deception, and the dreadful

The Witch Who Came in From the Cold: A Long Cold Winter by Lindsay Smith, Max Gladstone, Cassandra Rose Clark, and Ian Tregillis Serial Box Sci Fi & Fantasy, Espionage Pub Date: January 27, 2015 Review Cold war espionage plus magic - a definite winner when you throw in the writing talents of Max Gladstone, Lindsay Smith, and many others. I was intrigued by the premise. You have a cold war on a dual front, you have the CIA vs the KGB, and then you have the lines drawn betwee

The Luzern Photograph: A noir thriller by William Bayer Severn House Pub Date Jan 1, 2016 Description In this fascinating psychological neo-noir mystery, a notorious late 19th-century photograph provides the key to a contemporary murder. In 1882, the young Lou Andreas-Salome, writer, psychoanalyst and femme fatale, appears with Friedrich Nietzche and another man in a bizarre photograph taken in Luzern, Switzerland. Over thirty years later, an intense art student in Freud’s Vi

Dark Kills​ By T.J. Brearton Joffe Books Mystery & Thrillers Pub Date: November 27, 2015 Description A gripping new detective mystery from best-selling crime writer T.J. Brearton Who is murdering female college students and can they be stopped? The only link between the victims is their participation in an unusual psychology experiment. Leading the investigation is Detective Dana Gates. She has a past no one talks about and a husband and daughters she hardly ever sees. She's