Physician author weaves a web of abuse and retribution in mystery about relationships gone bad. Craig Jernigan is a stressed-out police reporter with an explosive temper in this clever debut thriller by longtime physician Gerald Bullock.... Read More

"The Software Society" by William Meisel is a unique look at how computer programs have changed life in ways that are both technological and sociological. The first part of the book looks at software and society from a cultural... Read More

Thrillers based on technological prowess interest readers of both science fiction and murder mysteries. Falling firmly into that category is Norman Harrison’s The Entity. Liz Young, an ambitious young special agent, settles into her... Read More

“No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.” The speaker was U.S. Army Gen. George Patton, whose attitude toward wartime behavior is espoused by Hunter,... Read More

The universe of "Hideous Exuberance", the new novel by Stephen C. Bird, is one of demented imagination and verve. It can also be exhausting. The work lies somewhere between Harry Potter burlesque and Tolkien satire, with doses of... Read More

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

Twenty-four-year-old Sophia is at a crossroads in her life in London. “The bright lights, the eccentric people, had all lost their glitter. It was no longer an adventure here, just a very lonely place full of very lonely people.”... Read More