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They Only Wear Black Hats by Edward Izzi

A taut, fast-paced thriller with wrenching twists and turns… Izzi returns with his latest thriller, featuring the sharp, gutsy Detective Mike Palazzola of Detroit’s Third Precinct embroiled in a serial killing investigation. Detective Palazzola is tired of seeing the hellish…
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Face the Night by Alan Lastufka

Densely textured and adroitly plotted… In Lastufka’s page-turning psychological suspense, a young woman’s search for a hellish figure leads her deep into a dark web of long-buried secrets. Adriana Krause is at her wit’s end: she is barely making the…
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Overcast by Michael Froilan

Varied, dexterous, and tender poems… Froilan’s latest is a collection of imaginative, evocative free verse poems. There is introspection. There are thoughtful reflections and musings about life, love, and happiness. Some poems touch upon racial and class disparity, woke culture,…
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Airborne: A Story Book that wants to fly by Heiner Thiessen

Delightful and thoroughly absorbing… Thiessen beautifully brings to life the courageous people throughout history who dared to go where no one had gone before in this entertaining story book. United by the common theme of the resilience of the human…
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A Time to Forget in East Berlin by CG FEWSTON

Vivid, nuanced, and poetic… Set in the 1970s in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), Fewston’s second installment in the three part series explores the grave moral complexities of life through the tense encounters of John Lockwood, a former CIA…
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What If Jesus Were A Coach? by Michael W Taylor

Contemplative, absorbing, and insightful… Truly a wonderful book. Taylor shares the spiritual pathway to connect with God without following strict religious doctrines that usually surround Christianity in his soul-searching latest book. He talks about his early childhood and later adult…
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Nothing in Time Separating by K. Lumpkin

A compelling and inspiring story of love, courage, and resilience… Lumpkin adeptly blends high-tension of a deeply suspenseful thriller with hefty doses of romance and religion, taking readers on one woman’s journey to unraveling the mysteries of her past. When…
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Boca by Moonlight by Brad Graber

A simply riveting read from cover to cover… A lonely widower learns the meaning of relationships and family in Graber’s latest page-turning novel. Struggling with the unexpected death of his decades-old wife, George Elden is barely going through the motions.…
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Barrio Butterfly by Alex Charns

Cleverly plotted, carefully nuanced, and immensely readable… A page-turner. Star and Zenko find themselves fighting the Durham, N.C. criminal justice system to save an innocent undocumented Salvadoran refugee from life imprisonment in Charns’s latest, an utterly engrossing courtroom drama. When…
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Outfection by Craig Stucko

A well-crafted, compelling, and wonderfully twisty SF thriller… Stucko’s latest book is an action-driven SF tale anchored by dynamic, deep characters, original premise, and tight plotting. A secret power that allows John Thimes to defy the odds and pull people…
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Who Killed Coriolanus? by Ron Fritsch

Brilliantly constructed and richly detailed… Stunning. Fritsch returns with this deeply engrossing stand-alone sequel to Helen’s Orphans, taking readers on an exhilarating journey laced with sinister motives, manipulations, and intrigues. Timon, the last surviving member of the Trojan royal family,…
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Tarnished Crowns a Memoir: The Power of Purpose and Authenticity by Pamela Rice

Beautifully captured… Candid and revealing. In this candid, vivid memoir, Rice transforms the events of her long, winding journey from brokenness to wholeness–fear to faith–and resistance to surrender into an immensely readable story. The narrative unfolds through a series of…
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Shared Sorrows by Vincent Panettiere

Atmospheric, intelligent, and engrossing… A remarkable feat. Set in New Jersey, Panettiere’s latest literary mystery takes readers on one man’s journey to love and redemption. Struggling with his father’s early death decades ago, the New Jersey college professor Frank DioGuardia…
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A Final Call by Eliot Parker

Thoroughly absorbing, suspenseful, and very, very tense… Go, grab it. Parker returns with this impeccably written tale laced with mystery and intrigue and featuring Cleveland Homicide Detective Stacy Tavitt. Stacy is still struggling to come to terms with her brother’s…
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THE GIRL FROM POTTER’S FIELD (ISLAND TALES) by James Gregory Kingston

A taut, compulsively readable tale… Set in 1944, Kingston’s stand-alone sequel to The City Island Messenger is a coming-of-age tale of love, friendship, revenge, and reincarnation. The world around City Island is caught up in war, and the close-knit community…
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God Favors You by Tannette Calderon

Insightful and thoughtful… Calderon takes readers to a journey of experiencing a deeper relationship with God while realizing their life purpose. With Scripture and personal reflections, Calderon delves into a vast array of puzzling questions about a person’s existence and…
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Mystic of the Midway by A.A. Blair

A thorough page-turner… Blair plays on themes of self-discovery, bullying, trauma, family ties, and friendship while taking readers on an exhilarating journey laced with supernatural intrigue in his highly engrossing debut. When a sudden accident left Effie feeling different, she…
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The Defender (The Gatlin Series #1) by Larissa Soehn 

Thrilling and enjoyable… Soehn’s engrossing SF debut, the first in The Gatlin series delivers atmospheric setting, fast action, and intergalactic intrigue. Alexia Harmon, a young mother and wife, is barely trudging through life, with anxiety and depression as her constant…