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All His Works: On the Eighth Day by Ainny Klover

Imaginative and suspenseful … Klover’s suspense thriller follows Alex Bryn, a retired musician who finds himself entangled in his former lover’s murder investigation. As a musician, Alex Bryn had seen his fair share of success, but his music carrier didn’t…
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When Life Was like a Cucumber by Greg Wyss

Expansive, witty, and hugely satisfying…  A young man sets on a self-exploratory journey after his long overdue split from his wife in Wyss’s hilarious, satirical tale. It is 1971. Jeffrey Hesse, a recent graduate from Northeastern University, moves with his…
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Surulere, Lagos by Taiwo Aloba

A lean, searing celebration of a place rooted in hunger, violence, and intrigue… In this first-rate short collection of poetry and prose, Aloba recalls growing up in Lagos, capturing the essence of a vibrant, heaving city where people meander, both…
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Repenter: The Hidden Chapters: Players of the Game Book 1.5 by James McGowan

A thrilling ride… This thoroughly enthralling companion novella to Repenter, the first installment in the Players of the Game series, finds McGowan’s engaging antihero Ashe Stelfire on hunt for a lost adapting blade crafted by Gathiner, God of Invention. Emotions…
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Pigeon-Blood Red (3 book series) by Ed Duncan

A transfixing and highly readable series… Duncan’s electric action thriller trilogy features an endearing antihero, abundant action, and nonstop thrills. In the sharply realized series launcher, an ordinary job of retrieving his boss, Frank Litvak’s priceless pigeon-blood red ruby necklace…
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Boulder Girl, Remember Me When the Moon Hangs Low by Cynthia L. Clark

A riveting tale of love and obsession… Unhinged obsession of a sinister psychopath takes center stage in Clark’s thoroughly gripping suspense thriller. After dissolution of her unhappy decade-long marriage, thirty-year-old Lana Ross, a magazine editor for Boulder Essence, is set…
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Amir of Guelph by Albert Marsolais

A whopper of a near-future SF mystery… Set in Near-future, Marsolais’s excellent latest, a sweetly charming, delightedly entertaining tale of a group of people trying to unravel a government conspiracy examines friendship, family ties, and loyalty while probing bigger questions,…
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Demented by Joe Clark

Intense, dark, and an absolute page-turner… As much social commentary as crime drama, Clark’s solid latest finds a rape victim trying to deal with her past trauma. Cindy Foster was gang raped fifteen years ago after her then-boyfriend, the handsome…
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Penchant for Darkness by J. Elizaga

A combination of vivid characterization and palpable tension, this slender novella makes for a page-turner… Elizaga gives new spin to the traditional war between angels and the demon from the Book of Revelation in her latest urban fantasy, uplifting the…
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The Gemini Gate Series by Steven E. Wilde

  A tension-filled, entertaining SF thriller… A nuclear detonation on US soil pushes the world toward a global thermonuclear war, unleashing severe destruction in its wake in Wilde’s swiftly paced, engrossing SF series. In Omega Crisis, the first book in…