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Book BLURB: The Adventures of Tooten and Ter Series by Chris McCloskey

Meet Colorado’s most sought-after sleuth team – 13-year-old Terrance O’Connell and his sidekick, Tooten, a black, curly-haired dog! There is no other option but foster care, and Ter is not thrilled to stay with his foster father who happens to…
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Black ≠ Inferior by Tolu’ A. Akinyemi

Profound and powerful… The beautiful latest collection by Akinyemi broaches an impressive array of challenging subjects, among them the complexity, joy, and heartbreak of black experience, death, acts of God, and celebration of love.  Akinyemi’s black culture is not an…
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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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Cake Popped Off (Cupcake Catering Mystery Book 2) by Kim Davis

A delightful, enchanting whodunit… In her second installment for the Cupcake Catering Mysteries, Davis throws in the mouth-watering descriptions of food galore, some well-placed red herrings, and a thoroughly intriguing murder mystery to create a delicious whodunit. The family feud…
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Stockboy Nation by Thomas Duffy

A provocative tale of intricacies of love and close relationships… In this beautifully constructed and paced, emotionally accurate tale, Duffy explores the searing emotions of ordinary people caught in unforeseen circumstances. His protagonist is Phillip Doherty, a struggling writer in…
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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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In the Country Dark by Mike Mallow

A skillful twister… Set in rural Appalachia, Mallow’s excellent crime thriller sees two childhood friends entangled in a life or death situation after a murder-for-hire goes wrong. When Cabel Walsh, a disenchanted journalist, offered to drive his childhood friend Troy…