If your favorite installment of Kotaro Isaka’s Assassins series so far has been Bullet Train, then you’re in for a treat with Hotel Lucky Seven, his latest novel available in the English language! Translated from the Japanese by Brian Bergstrom, this rollicking tale of murder and misfortune brings back the hapless hero of that first…
What a treat for fans of thrillers that showcase women who are frighteningly competent lethal weapons. If you’ve enjoyed Deanna Raybourn’s Killers of a Certain Age and/or Cindy Dees’s Second Shot, A Serial Killer’s Guide to Marriage is right up your alley. Like the quartet of female assassins in Killers of a Certain Age, Hazel…
High school student Maggie Mitchell wakes up one morning with a pounding hangover. That’s almost to be expected on a decadent Spring Break vacation. What Maggie doesn’t expect, however, is to find herself accused of a close friend’s murder. Giselle Haverford is the gorgeous, wealthy daughter of Senator Robert Haverford. It was her idea to…
Leave No Trace and its predecessor, In the Blink of an Eye, are “inventive thrillers,” a description that barely encompasses the unusualness of Team Kat and Lock. Meet Detective Chief Superintendent Kat Frank of the Leek Wootton Police Department in Warwickshire, England. Leave No Trace opens with Kat verbally briefing her boss, Chief Constable McLeish,…
Heiress Muriel Carew has the shock of her life while attending a society party at the London home of wealthy philanthropist Simeon Courtenay. Her former fiance Dr. Henry Jekyll, whom she hasn’t seen in a decade, is somehow in attendance too. The last she’d heard of him, he’d disappeared to the continent after breaking off…
I am a longtime fan of Hanna Alkaf’s, so when I heard that she was setting her latest novel in one of the prestigious girl’s secondary schools of Kuala Lumpur, I absolutely had to get my hands on it. It isn’t just that I knew that, as with the rest of her books, the quality…
Stephanie Wrobel discovered the joy of books and storytelling at an early age but later made the decision to pursue a more practical career as an adult. After college, she worked as a copywriter, helping to pen and produce advertising spots for a variety of well-known brands in the Chicago area. Then, as a freelancer,…
When Gela Nathaniel proposes the idea of a new Multimedia Arts Masters Degree program to the Royal Hastings college of the University of London, little does she know exactly how much chaos she’s inviting both into her life and to the campus. Her six candidates have all been hand selected for the year-long pilot course,…
Once upon a time, Jenny St. John was an aspiring actress with one excellent leading role credit to her name. That movie, unfortunately, was never released, though its director Serge Grumet would go on to find lasting fame in the film industry. Jenny, on the other hand, bounced from audition to audition before finally giving…
A small town and the underbelly of lies and deception reveals itself when a young mother dies under mysterious circumstances. The town’s sole newspaper reporter, Roman Grady, loses his partner and love, Ashley, and instead of being there for their son, Mason, he isolates him since he can’t get past wanting answers. The family lived…
