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Cover art for ANGEL CITY
FICTION
Released: June 4, 2013

"If you read only one supernatural thriller with Albigensian overtones this year, this ought to be it."
What if they gave an apocalypse and everybody came? Read full book review >
Cover art for THE CARETAKER
FICTION
Released: May 21, 2013

"Top-notch effort in the first of a promising trilogy."
Ahmad debuts with a fast-paced literary thriller, shifting action from the desolate ice-clad Siachen glacier separating India and Pakistan to the posh environs of Martha's Vineyard. Read full book review >
Cover art for THE HEALER
FICTION
Released: May 14, 2013

"Tapani's search, which will lead him through an appalling series of cityscapes to some shattering discoveries about the wife he thought he knew so well, is the stuff of authentic nightmares."
In Tuomainen's first appearance in English translation, a long-unpublished poet takes to the streets of a grimly dystopian Helsinki in search of his vanished wife. Read full book review >
Cover art for A CASE OF REDEMPTION
FICTION
Released: May 14, 2013

"Law and Order-like twist-and-turn, moral-quandary suspense needing only the echoing cell door sound effect."
"[W]hen you help a rapist get acquitted and your wife and daughter are killed the next day, it's awfully hard to convince yourself that karma doesn't exist," muses Dan Sorenson in Mitzner's (A Conflict of Interest, 2011) second legal thriller. Read full book review >
Cover art for NIGHT TERRORS
FICTION
Released: May 7, 2013

"Some thrillers are beach reads. Palumbo's are strictly for late at night and for readers who have no pressing engagements early the next day."
Pittsburgh clinical psychologist Daniel Rinaldi (Fever Dream, 2011, etc.) finds to his sorrow that even serial killers have fans. Read full book review >
Cover art for Brood X
INDIE
Released: May 4, 2013

"A story of survival inventive enough to entice fans of the genre."
A novel debut thriller about a modern-day cicada plague. Read full book review >
Cover art for The Greater Glory
INDIE
Released: May 4, 2013

"A solid, often engaging thriller that will likely appeal to fans of conspiracy theories and high adventure."
Ruppert (The Seven Watchmen, 2009) delivers a fast-paced, intelligent thriller about a police detective's journey into an intricate underworld of religion and politics. Read full book review >
Cover art for SCREWED
FICTION
Released: May 2, 2013

"Colfer's work is entertaining and expertly judged. His terse, muscular prose makes even a car chase seem like a new idea, and his McEvoy is a durable raconteur."
This comic thriller sends a hard-luck New Jersey club owner tumbling through a mad, mad world of assorted nuts. Read full book review >
Cover art for The Six Train to Wisconsin
INDIE
Released: May 2, 2013

"An imaginative, if sometimes linguistically distracting, look at the consequences of extrasensory powers."
A harrowing psychological and paranormal novel of a marriage in crisis. Read full book review >
Cover art for POINT AND SHOOT
FICTION
Released: April 30, 2013

"Swierczynski's writing crackles with fresh attitude. But his plot may have jumped the shark this time, and readers unfamiliar with previous episodes could feel lost in the maelstrom."
Can the unkillable man make the epic journey from outer space to home in time to save his loved ones? Read full book review >
Cover art for TUESDAY'S GONE
FICTION
Released: April 8, 2013

"A fiercely intelligent, multilayered thriller, this book casts its narrative net wider than Blue Monday, making welcome demands on its readers."
Still haunted by the bizarre events in Blue Monday (2012), London psychotherapist turned police consultant Frieda Klein investigates the murder of an enigmatic con man whose naked, decomposing body is found in the home of a mentally ill young woman. Read full book review >
Cover art for JUGGERNAUT
FICTION
Released: April 2, 2013

"A high-velocity zombie-thriller that's as smart, daring and propulsive as the disparate stories it's mashing up."
A rogue band of mercenaries discover more resistance than they imagined during a coordinated assault on Saddam Hussein's treasure trove. Read full book review >