In Stefan Mattessich’s fantastical novel "The Riverbed", an isolated teenager encounters a troubled friend’s fantasy world and learns to accept his own strangeness. After a move to Orange, California, Fox is feeling solitary, knowing... Read More

An actuary-turned-business-owner races the clock to find a killer in Antti Tuomainen’s thriller "The Beaver Theory". Henri’s life has become quite exciting of late: he moved in with his girlfriend, Laura, and her daughter; a sketchy... Read More

Essie Fox’s novel "The Fascination" is a scintillating cabinet of curiosities. Theo—whose mother died in childbirth and whose father is, for him, a question mark—grows up love-deprived, hidden on a country estate whose grandeur... Read More

In the contemporary thriller "Vaccine", political interests and greed worsen a global health-care emergency. In Floyd Jordan’s thriller "Vaccine", there are consequences to rushing vaccination trials. Aramis and his coworkers at the... Read More

A wounded man ingratiates himself to a community on the edge in the mythical novel "Life at the Precipice". In R. F. Vincent’s humane novel "Life at the Precipice", a navigator investigates a decimated Canadian hamlet. On the heels of... Read More