There’s a string of seemingly unrelated murders occurring in New Zealand, and it takes Vanda Symon’s sassy, smart detective Sam Shephard to tie them together. "The Ringmaster" is a multilayered, absorbing mystery that is full of... Read More

An exciting new voice in crime fiction emerges with "Zen and the Art of Murder", the first novel in Oliver Bottini’s Black Forest Investigation series. The book opens with a badly beaten monk wandering the snow-covered German... Read More

Catherine Ryan Howard’s unique thriller "Rewind" begins when an Instagram star, Natalie’s, death is caught on video. It then rewinds to explain why Natalie was where she was, and who is responsible for her brutal murder. Natalie and... Read More

In Peter Robertson’s "Conclusion", healthy individuals can be scanned and “welded” to enjoy a guaranteed, healthy twenty more years of life. The catch is that they will die, or conclude, at the end of those two decades. Colin and... Read More

A teenager fights for his sanity as his mother fights to support him in "A Divided Mind", M. Billiter’s emotional portrait of mental illness. Seventeen-year-old Branson has a supportive family, a wonderful girlfriend, and a bright... Read More

Science writer Eugene Linden’s fiction debut "Deep Past" is an intriguing, science-minded thriller. When anthropologist Claire Knowland receives a new assignment in Kazakhstan to study domesticated horses, she’s less than thrilled.... Read More

Dark, emotional, and incredibly creepy, Sean Padraic McCarthy’s "In the Midst of the Sea" is an unsettling supernatural thriller. Diana agrees to move to Martha’s Vineyard with her husband Ford and their young daughter Sam, but she... Read More

Vanda Symon introduces a cheeky, brave new heroine in "Overkill", the first in her Sam Shephard series of mysteries set in New Zealand. When Sam, the lone officer in tiny Mataura, is called in to investigate a missing person case, she... Read More