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Sorrow's Garden

by Anthony Carinhas

Well-known as a prominent architect and skillful editor in Leipzig, Germany. Ridicule succumbs Radulf into a trench of repulsion the more peoples’ greediness is criticized. Ironically enough his own character is devoid of morals that the paradox isn’t enough to curtail his opportunist style. But the further he looks to advance his agenda, the obsession turns hostile and his appetite for lust gives way to a new motive.

Cooked to Death Vol. V

by Chris Norbury

An eclectic mix of food-related short stories with mystery and mayhem at their core. Fourteen Minnesota authors team up to serve a delectable menu of stories about restaurants and food. As a bonus, each story concludes with the recipe mentioned in the story. It's both entertaining reading and delicious eating.

shocking confessions

by walter marks

Tough, street-wise NYPD detective Neil Jericho, burnt out after years working violent homicide and drug cases in East Harlem, transfers to the police department of peaceful, posh East Hampton. But Jericho quickly finds that beneath its serene surface, the East End of Long Island is rife with crime; homicide, gang wars, drug conflicts, sex trafficking, hate crimes — much like the big city. Jericho is a fish-out-of-water, but his NYPD skills serve him well as he takes on these complex, violence-fi... more

With the Passion of a Pig

by Donna Sager Cowan

The Superhero School class returns in this third adventure with Catt, Simon, Patty, and Freddy. After their last adventure, the school is expanding to add more students. The only problem is their town matriarch, Mrs. Gee, and their teacher are missing. Patty tracked their last known location to the portal where Catt arrived weeks earlier. Did Mrs Gee go look for the missing animals? What should they do...wait or follow her through the portal into California? Join the gang in their late... more

With the Curiosity of a Cat

by Donna Sager Cowan

A cat and mouse try to save themselves and their new friends from diabolical monkeys before their next class! A cat and mouse land in the jungle after a skydiving school mishap. Barely escaping diabolical monkeys before they can mail themselves home, Simon the mouse and Catt the cat rescue their new trapped friends only to deliver them straight into monkey headquarters. Join your favorite Superhero School students in their second adventure to save the day before their next class!

Death in Paraiso by Jack Polo

by Artisan Book Reviews & Promotion

Private detectives Matt Singer and Jamal Wade’s plan to sell real estate as a side business explodes into murder when their client is brutally slain in a house they’ve listed for sale. In their search to find the real killer, Matt and Jamal are trapped in a Chinese puzzle box of cover-ups and corruption that goes to the very top of the southern California beach town known as Paradise. Before this case comes to its shattering conclusion they will uncover a man’s crushed skull and shattered ... more

Never Rest

by Jon Richter

Chris Sigurdsson has left the police force to start his own detective agency in London. He and his assistant, Priya, have built a strong reputation, and their casebook for the coming months is full. But Sigurdsson’s mind drifts back to his time as a Detective Inspector, and to the surreal week he spent investigating a case on Salvation Island. When the estranged wife of David Lithgow, a writer who had been working on the island, approaches him to help locate her missing spouse, he cannot res... more

Deadly Burial

by Jon Richter

A fight to the death… When DI Chris Sigurdsson is assigned a grisly murder case on remote Salvation Island, he knows that it might be his strangest yet. A forgotten wrestling star of the 1980s has been poisoned whilst in the ring, and amidst the slippery lies of his dangerous opponents, unravelling the victim’s murky past is almost impossible. And as a storm threatens to cut Salvation Island off from the mainland, the race is on for Sigurdsson to find the ruthless killer before he strik... more

Lights Above Cass

by Marilyn Brokaw Hall

Lights Above Cass will take you through a rollercoaster of emotions. You get to be happy when the truth is revealed but soon realize that you were not ready for the truth. Readers who enjoy thrillers, military action, and science fiction will want to read this book. Lucia a self-aware Quantum computer recovered from the Roswell crash was brought to a secret military base. Time on Earth and the completion of her mission will soon collide. She awaits the final codes to return home. While investi... more

Shocking Confessions

by walter marks

Two grisly crimes challenge East Hampton Detective Jericho and his new partner, Vangie Clarke. One is the discovery of a human arm in the belly of a shark. The other is a dog, whose strangled body is found under a bridge. As reviewed by Kirkus — "A briskly paced and engaging murder tale that should satisfy fans of this series."

Reclaiming Our Own

by Christopher Irons

How would you react if one of your loved ones was unexpectedly abducted from a seemingly safe environment? Would you fall apart and wait for life to pass you by, hoping and praying that your loved one would return? Would you continue to be there for your family and allow the authorities to do their job? Or would you take matters into your own hands and do whatever necessary to reclaim your own?

Maria

by Bethany A. Beeler

A 15-year-old deaf orphan, Maria has telepathic dreams that reveal a powerful religious leader committing demonic crimes. Her clairvoyance leads her on a careening course as those she views in her dreams discover that she’s watching them. And they know who she is.Now she must flee the school that has been her only home and the teacher who has been her only parent, into a world that holds either a grisly death at the claws of her pursuers or the hope offered by a young hero who stumbles into her ... more

The Fire Golem

by Bethany A. Beeler

FROM THE BOOK: “If what Diana suspected were true, she had to get back to the manse before that bastard had booby trapped the entire joint with poison and whatever other nightmares he could think of. Clay was insane or evil enough to have followed her to Pennsylvania and had holed up somewhere in the area in the attempt to make her life living hell, as he'd done when they were married. Would she never stop paying for her mistakes?”

Diana Atestesso has lost her daughter, ... more

Dharma, A Rekha Rao Mystery

by Vee Kumari

Rekha Rao, an Indian American professor of Art History, propelled by her sense of duty, dharma, sets out to find the killer of her mentor and father figure. She walks a thin line between her match-making family and the Homicide Detective she is attracted to, but also distrusts. Despite suffering bodily harm following a break-in of her home, Rekha tracks down the killer and in that process, tastes the prospect of an unexpected romance, and discovers her true calling.

The Dead Game

by cj Spenser

Isadora is the love of his life. It's a love he would give his last breath for. With a new baby's on the way, they prepare for the perfect future. Jack receives a threat from a psycho demanding a game of murder and deception. He's now trapped in a nightmare while living in the shadows. Stalked by a serial killer who loves to play games. A deadly kiss of death rises in his blood, causing an insane lust for murder. Secrets and lies can create a killer; Jack's world goes dark.

Mortal Conspiracy

by Noel Scidmore

Butch Kennedy, beloved husband and father, has just suffered his second-this time fatal-heart attack. This came as more than the usual shock to his distraught family since after his first heart attack he seemed to have made a good recovery and had almost completely returned to his old life. To get answers, they request an autopsy, the responsibility for which falls to the twenty-nine-year old pathology resident, Dr. Brad Pierson. Nothing out of the ordinary-or so he he thinks until weeks later h... more

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