by M. L. Taylor

4.2 stars – 117 reviews

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Makenna Vandenberg’s life is about to change. She’s the eldest daughter of Baron Roland Vandenberg, and her new stepmother plans to marry her off to the first man who will take her. These same men are vile and twice her age. Unwilling to bend to her stepmother’s evil plan, Makenna packs a few of her belongs and disguises herself as a maid. She thinks if she can escape across the sea to her aunts in Norwich, everything will fall into place for her. But she’s naive and unprepared for how the real world works. She’s blind to people’s questionable intentions and lured outside a lowly tavern. Makenna wakes up a few hours later on Sir Julian Remington’s ship with no resources and, more importantly, no money. Sir Julian makes her an offer she can’t refuse. He wants her to be his companion for three months, then he will deliver her to Norwich without strings attached. It’s a scandalous proposition, but she can’t say no to it. Please join me in this adventure to see if Julian and Makenna can put their differences aside and let love bloom. This novel is book one in The Remington Series.

by Arthur Kane

4.5 stars – 23 reviews

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“Kane delivers a compelling story… [that] skillfully leads readers through [Jeff German’s] homicide investigation that reveals a surprise suspect charged with the killing of a journalist who made plenty of enemies for his exposes of crime and corruption in America’s fabled Sin City.” —BRIAN ROSS, Chief Investigative Reporter, Law & Crime Network, former correspondent at NBC News, former investigative reporter at ABC News and author of The Madoff Chronicles

THE LAST STORY: The Murder of an Investigative Journalist in Las Vegas is an exclusive deep dive into a chilling true tale of sex, ambition, retribution, and homicide.

Jeff German, a veteran Las Vegas Review-Journal investigative reporter, was no stranger to controversy or the danger of his work. For more than four decades, he wrote stories relentlessly confronting the mob, corrupt politicians, and greedy bureaucrats. As a result, he was often threatened—enough that he and his friend and fellow investigative reporter, Arthur Kane, sometimes joked about reporting on these threats if they were ever acted upon.

Then, in the spring of 2022, German received a tip about abuses at a little-known county office. His subsequent investigation unearthed a scandalous, sexually incriminating video of a rising politician, Robert Telles. The resulting stories in the Review-Journal ended Telles’s political aspirations.

Less than six months later, on September 3, German’s lifeless body was discovered outside his home with multiple stab wounds. His dedicated newsroom colleagues, including Kane, vowed to find the killer. In doing so, they exposed the true depths of corruption and malice in Sin City.

Meanwhile, the police struggled to identify a suspect until they released a photo of the suspect’s vehicle to the media. That tip led them to none other than Robert Telles, who was subsequently arrested. In August 2024, with the national media in attendance at his trial, Telles was convicted of first-degree murder and later sentenced to twenty years in prison.

In THE LAST STORY, Kane delivers an intense narrative of courage, betrayal, and the unrelenting quest for justice.

by Joanne Parsons

4.3 stars – 71 reviews

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Suzie Housley, Midwest Book Review…”Parsons writes with an intense purpose that will leave the reader fully satisfied. Masterfully crafted…readers will find themselves unable to put this book down.”

Cambridge, Massachusetts…Detective Karl Shea is drinking Tanqueray London Dry Gin, straight up, at a bar in Harvard Square. He hasn’t been to church in thirty years, but the prayer he learned to the rhythmic tap of the nuns’ rulers ruminates through his brain…confess my sins, do penance, and amend my life, Amen. Amend. With less than a year to live, Karl knows he has to start amending now if he’s to secure that friendly nod at the pearly gates.
There’s his wife. He’s been a womanizing, beer-guzzling, crappy husband to Shirley every day of their marriage. It won’t be easy, but he’ll earn her forgiveness. And there’s the matter of his last case. A child gone missing from her mother’s boyfriend’s backyard. He’ll find her, even if it kills him, as amends for the one he let slip through his fingers.
So, the redemption plan is complete. Follow the doctor’s orders, quit the cigarettes and cut down on the booze, say sorry to Shirley, and find a missing child.

But not so fast, Karl. Turns out, Shirley wants a lot more than an almost-on-your deathbed apology, and she’s holding you to it. And as for the missing kid…

Winner of the 2021 Fiction Award from the Independent Publishers of New England

by Pete Brassett

4.2 stars – 5,455 reviews

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When the known stalker of a young woman is arrested for her murder, it should be an open-and-shut case for DI Charlie West.

A woman is found bludgeoned to death in a swimming pool. A pensioner who disappeared many moons ago turns up out of the blue. A cockeyed boxer has more success outside the ring than in it.

What connects these events may or may not be the clue DI Charlie West is looking for to solve the latest murder on her patch.

With her mentor James Munro recovering from heart bypass surgery, she will have to rely on her own wits and those of her trusted team to progress the investigation.

But just when West has a likely suspect in custody and looks set to finally cut the apron strings, Munro returns to the scene – his enforced repose having done little to dent his appetite for the finer and richer things in life – with an oblique angle on the case.

Has West got it right, or will her suspect go free and the investigation have to start from square one?

by Charles Brass

4.1 stars – 12 reviews

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She thought recovering from a devastating injury would be the hardest challenge of her young life. She could not have been more wrong…

Two seasons ago, then-fifteen-celebrations-old Lake-Ellen Redwood’s Path in life changed when she became a fledgling Lady of the Leaves. On the morning she attempts to resume her lifelong goal of becoming a guild-certified accountant, she suffers a lightning strike while meditating beneath the massive Heart of the Forest.

Fearful the incident blasted into her the devil rumored to be slumbering within the two-millennia-old tree, the local ruling council banishes her under penalty of death. Forced to flee, she travels to her uncle’s house in a distant city to heal in anonymity.

At first, her recovery goes well. But as the season turns and the telltale signs of possession manifest, and the death toll rises, Lake-Ellen is forced to confront the all-too-real possibility that a being of unimaginable power has rooted within her, putting the city in grave danger, and bringing frantic authorities in pursuit. In addition, she’s receiving calls for help from a second devil, somewhere else in her world.

Only the fires of decoherence will set her free—at the cost of her life. No one will settle for anything less…