A crisply written novel, "What Happened to Tasha Blue?" charts the response of family, friends, and neighbors after the title character, a high-school student, vanishes from the deserted outskirts of a working-class New Mexico town in... Read More

Just when one thinks the market has reached the saturation point in the vampire category, along comes John D. Kell’s refreshingly innovative "Mandate of Blood". In this bloodsucker society, vampires live in groups, known as Houses,... Read More

“This land is far too good for the likes of these worms! Let us bring upon them the rage they wrought!” Now that would have been a great opening line for Harrington Martin’s Of War and Consequence: The Consortium Chain.... Read More

A multitude of problems face the United States and other nations as they endeavor to deal with the environmental, social, and economic realities of the twenty-first century. Claude Gendreau, a Canadian-born veterinarian, thinks the... Read More

September 11, 2001, changed the United States forever. Terrorism became a much larger and more realistic fear, and many people began to look to the government for reassurance and protection. From this tragedy came the Department of... Read More

“The hardest part of mourning,” says Irene McGoldrick, “is that no one else can do it for you.” Most of us who have lost a loved one appreciate that truth. But we also know the blessing of a friend who has been there. In "Two... Read More

"Hotel Bosphorus" is light and flaky as Turkish baklava. It features a heroine who is “not the sort of woman to spend [her] time gazing at wrinkles and cellulite” when there is a crime to solve. A foreign film director has been... Read More

Award-winning Canadian-Israeli novelist Edeet Ravel dishes up an intriguing psychological thriller in this young adult novel about an American teen who is kidnapped during a summer stay in Greece. Blindfolded, disguised, and drugged,... Read More