Heroine Anna Blanc is a spirited woman who refuses to be a damsel in distress—unless it helps her to solve a case. Jennifer Kincheloe’s intrepidly stylish Anna Blanc returns in her latest adventure, "The Woman in the Camphor Trunk".... Read More

"Blood Truth" builds up compelling mysteries and thunders toward a surprising ending. Matt Coyle’s engrossing noir thriller "Blood Truth" finds Rick Cahill dredging up family mysteries while solving a seemingly simple cheating-husband... Read More

Thomas Locke’s science fiction straddles the line between tragic and comedic, striking a perfect balance. "Renegades", by Thomas Locke, is a sci-fi adventure with a cavalcade of distinct characters and well-described action. Among the... Read More

These stories offer a vivid glimpse of the lives of Rust Belt inhabitants. “Everything with a beating heart knows when aloneness has come to stay,” says a married woman living above the burning core of Centralia, Pennsylvania. She... Read More

Stories intertwine to eloquently convey the weirdness of the sunshine state. What makes a story inherently Floridian? A stray alligator strutting down the sidewalk? A conference in which scientists discuss the best way to clean up oil... Read More

The Canadian borderlands, and their lakes, rivers, and portages, are rendered with a journalistic eye for detail. Kirk Landers’s "Alone on the Shield" is an adventure story mixed with a love affair set deep in the Canadian wilderness.... Read More

Romano is a masterful storyteller, unfolding a captivating and imaginative tale. This engrossing, surprising, and psychologically astute novel takes a real-life event—the devastating 1958 fire at the Our Lady of the Angels school that... Read More

"Into the White" is a thoughtful and satisfying account of the the Terra Nova expedition to the South Pole. "Into the White" tells the harrowing and tragic tale of Robert Falcon Scott’s Terra Nova expedition to Antarctica. The book... Read More