Category: For Readers

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…