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Links to my Short Fiction and Book Recommendations

  • Giant Steps – a Nick Crane Thriller

    Giant Steps is the closing chapter to Patrick Moore’s Nick Crane trilogy—and what a banger of a story and conclusion it is. And if you’re new to Nick Crane, don’t let it get in your way. Giant Steps is a kick ass novel that that reads like a top notch stand-alone as Crane, an intriguing…

  • Photograph by Brian Freeman

    Photograph (out October 7, 2025) by Brian Freeman, NYT Bestselling and award winning author, is a compelling, suspenseful tale that pulls you in and keeps you guessing—and—as the final pages barrel ever closer, the twists and reveals keep coming, long after you thought the dust had settled. Hidden in plain sight they are satisfying, logical,…

  • On Fire and Under Water

    On Fire and Under Water: A Climate Change Crime Fiction Anthology, Edited by Anthony-Award-Winning Curtis Ippolito and published by Rock and a Hard Place Press. This collection of 15 stories is a must read for crime fiction, noir, and mystery lovers or anyone else who gives a damn about the planet. This anthology sets the…

  • She Rides Shotgun by Jordan Harper

    A thrilling and poetic noir crime story that is one of my all time favorites. A tale of a young girl and her felon of a father and their struggle to survive a death sentence sent by some very rough people. A story that is as poignant and sensitive as it is hard driving and…

  • Picking Up The Pieces by JB Abbott

    On my TBR; A cozy mystery by friend and fellow agency sib. I know it’s a good one!

  • About Book Recommendations

    I highlight mostly new books and new/emerging authors I’ve enjoyed for others to discover. On Goodreads, etc., my minimum rating is 4 stars; 5 stars for the very best. If I don’t connect with a book, I won’t recommend it – book likes are subjective. My taste is not your taste. Finally, I recommend rather…

  • LAST ONE SEEN a psychological thriller by Rebecca Kanner

    RLAST ONE SEEN by Rebecca Kanner. Published by CLB on September 23, 2025 G. A. Rivers, July 24, 2025 LAST ONE SEEN is an interesting and compelling psychological thriller that begins with a great opening hook. Hannah, the protagonist, is speeding away in a car with her boyfriend, Eli, and  their friend Justine is dead. Eli…

  • Song of the Confessor

    A moody piece about a young singer/songwriter and the dark forces that powered his muse and rise to the top. Published in April 2025 by the wonderful folks at the storied Reckon Review, EIC Meagan Lucas. I hope you enjoy it – and check out Reckon Review for other terrific stories!

  • The Manipulator – a legal thriller debut by Dan Buzzetta

    Due out August 19, 2025. THE MANIPULATOR, the debut legal thriller by Dan Buzzetta, offers a fresh take on a well-established genre and proves that legal thrillers remain entertaining and as relevant to readers as ever. Buzzetta, no stranger to the law himself, has crafted an engaging story populated with well-defined characters, including the protagonist…

  • The Texas Wind is Dying

    Texas Wind: An Anthology Incited by Texas Singers and Songwriters (Cowboy Jamboree Press). Available at Amazon (Purchase Link coming soon). Proud to have a story in the TEXAS WIND Anthology by Cowboy Jamboree, EIC, Adam van Winkle. A story inspired by the songs of James McMurtry and Jimmy D Gilmour. A tale of a father…

  • Damage Forgotten

    Flash fiction noir in PUNK NOIR MAGAZINE – a man in the desert, on the run from the law and too many bad choices is determined to find water marked by the windmill that pumps it.

  • The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones

    What a story. I don’t read a lot of horror – but I do like the best of the best and Stephen Graham Jones never disappoints. This might be his best work yet. The story of a ‘vampire’ who lived (and killed) when Native Americans and the buffalo were being driven from their lands and…

  • Turkeyfoot by Rick Childers

    TURKEYFOOT by Rick Childers is a story of lost souls and the innocents unable to escape their destructive orbit; a story set amidst the melancholic beauty of today’s Appalachia. A story to humanize the damage and destruction the opioid epidemic has dealt to rural communities across the country. Such a description may echo with familiarity,…

  • Dust of the Bootheel – Short Crime Fiction

    My recent rural noir tale in which the protagonist is fed up with the system being rigged against men like him, so he decides to play the game their way. It ends poorly for some. I have to admit – I’m proud of this one – have received a lot of great feedback.

  • Love You Till Tuesday by M.E. Proctor

    I loved this detective story by the extraordinary M.E. Proctor. If you occasionally feel the need to spend some quality time with a good detective story Love You Till Tuesday is for you. It’s a new, excellent detective story story that delivers all the intrigue and drama and real-to-life characters that define today’s version of…

  • The Last King of California by Jordan Harper

    One of the best books I’ve read over the past two years–ranks up there with SHE RIDES SHOTGUN, also by Jordan Harper. More details coming but don’t wait – check it out. Jordan Harper is one of our very best crime noir writers today.

  • Good-Looking Ugly by Rob D. Smith

    This is one of my favorites for 2025; a down home rip of a yarn. An entertaining heist of a story that is pulled along by the strength of family ties and a man’s need to understand and better himself. Rob D. Smith is a highly accomplished short story writer and Good Looking Ugly is…

  • Crime Fiction Micro by G.A. Rivers: Gone Fishing – a betrayal short fiction

    Here is a fun micro (300 words) story I wrote for Punk Noir Magazine, April 2024. Click the water image for the story. The theme was ‘betrayal’ and since betrayal comes in all shapes and sizes, I wrote it about an older couple out fishing. A story of betrayal and surprise. The water image takes…

  • Burn This Night by Alex Kenna

    BURN THIS NIGHT, Alex Kenna’s terrific follow up to her recent debut brings us a new protagonist, Kate Myles, a self-described ‘pathologically messy ex-cop-turned-private-eye with flaming ADHD.’ Still reeling from a recent divorce, losing custody of her young daughter, and an unfortunate opioid addiction she’s managed to conquer, Kate is trying to make her new…

  • Double Barrel Bluff by Lou Berney

    Lou Berney’s 2024 release, Double Barrel Bluff, brings the welcome return of his popular Shake Bouchon series in which the former wheelman for the Armenian mob, now settled into a quiet, domestic life in middle America, is confronted with an unwelcome face from the past. And it’s not just any face, but the face of…

  • The Queen City Detective Agency by Snowden Wright

    The Queen City Detective Agency is the latest by Snowden Wright and his opening salvo in a superb new detective series. If a PI tale steeped in Southern Noir and the complex persona of a Black female detective trying to stay afloat in her hometown of Meridian Mississippi where the locals leap off the page…

  • You’ll Never Find Me by Allison Brennan

    Allison Brennan is a can’t-miss-author with dozens of books and numerous awards under her belt. YOU’LL NEVER FIND ME is her latest work and the first in a planned series featuring Angelhart Investigations, a Phoenix based, family owned PI firm that is willing to work outside the system when necessary to help those whom the…

  • Folk Tales for Trauma Surgeons by Keith Rosson

    Of the several short story anthologies I’ve read over the past 2 years, my number one standout favorite is this compilation by emerging superstar Keith Rosson (author of Fever House and others); the stories are as varied and unique as they are epically powerful and written; the authorial voice in each story is top tier.…

  • Review: The Guest House by Bonnie Traymore

    Read my full review on The Big Thrill: www.thebigthrill.org/2024/03/the-big-thrill-recommends-the-guest-house-by-bonnie-traymore/ Allie’s arrival to Silicon Valley is not quite what she’d expected. Shortly after moving into a tiny guest house complete with an overly friendly landlord, she wakes in the night to observe him dragging a large duffle bag across the lawn. While he blames the incident…

  • Review: A Midnight Puzzle by Gigi Pandian

    Read my full review on The Big Thrill: www.thebigthrill.org/2024/03/a-midnight-puzzle-by-gigi-pandian/ USA Today bestseller and multiple award-winning author Gigi Pandian presents Tempest Raj and her gang of sleuths for another exciting Secret Staircase Mystery. Tempest, now living in her childhood bedroom after her career as a Las Vegas stage illusionist fell apart the previous summer, receives a midnight call…