Donovan’s M.I.A.: Big Stories for a Small World, by Sid Lenington, isn’t quite a book of short stories. Three of its four stories might better be called novellas. In the titular “Donovan’s M.I.A.,” which reads like a literary memoir, the author shares a dark family...
MONARCH: Stories is a debut collection of short stories by Emily Jon Tobias that takes you into the dark heart of American lives, mostly those of young women on the run from, and to, a lot of trouble. As the author herself explains in her introduction, she left home...
One Half Truth, is the sixth in Eva Dolan’s series of police procedural mysteries featuring Detective Inspector (DI) Zigic and Detective Sergeant (DS) Ferreira novel by Eva Dolan. Set in the British city of Peterborough, which is about 75 miles from London, the book...
Escape is the third in the Billy Harney series of thrillers by James Patterson and David Ellis. Harney leads an elite team of Chicago police. The book opens with Harney and his partner, Clara, hot on the trail of a pedophile kidnapper. They chase the man into a house,...
Movieland is the fourth installment of Lee Goldberg’s Eve Ronin series. At 26, Ronin is the youngest homicide investigator in the history of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s department. She shot up the ranks of detectives, past more senior, male deputies after being...
