by Alexandra Sirowy | Aug 29, 2025 | Author Workspaces, Features
My dark thrillers are often described as eerie and atmospheric. Setting is no mere passenger to my plot. Often, place—as well as the protagonist’s voice—inspires much of the story arc before I’ve even started writing. A summer spent swimming in the lakes of Minnesota...
by Elise Cooper | Aug 29, 2025 | Author Interviews, Books, Features
Murder at Arleigh A Gilded Newport Mystery Book 13 Alyssa Maxwell Kensington Pub August 2025 Murder at Arleigh by Alyssa Maxwell highlights high society drama. This suspenseful plot brings back reporter-sleuth Emma Cross Andrews who must decide if the whispered...
by Erin Mitchell | Aug 28, 2025 | Home Entertainment, TV
“Nothing is black and white in his [writer Chris Lang’s] scripts and his characters are never black and white – we all live in brilliant shades of grey.”-Sinéad Keenan With this, Sinéad Keenan encapsulates why UNFORGOTTEN remains the best series on television. But...
by Dan Buzzetta | Aug 27, 2025 | Features, Five Things
Setting in a story is as important as ingredients in a recipe. It provides texture, flavor and color and brings the prose to life. A carefully chosen setting can influence characters, paint a picture, set the mood, heighten suspense, and add layers of complexity. If a...
by Peter Rosch | Aug 26, 2025 | Author Workspaces, Features
I snapped this picture of my workspace after very little staging. At times, despite my best efforts, the table becomes a depository for snail mail. I removed a few bills; otherwise, it’s accurate. The table is a zinc-top number that my wife and I found in the...
by Stephanie | Aug 25, 2025 | Books, Reviews
Editor’s Note: This doesn’t happen very often, but two of our reviewers read this one and enjoyed it enough to review it! As a reader, if you find yourself rooting for a serial killer, don’t be surprised, Sienna Sharpe makes it disturbingly easy. Lily...
by Elise Cooper | Aug 25, 2025 | Features, Home Entertainment, TV
NCIS: Tony & Ziva premieres September 4 on Paramount+ with a total of ten episodes. Michael Weatherly and Cote de Pablo are reprising their roles as NCIS agents Tony DiNozzo and Ziva David. These well-known former NCIS agents now live in Europe with...
by Elise Cooper | Aug 24, 2025 | Author Interviews, Features
Believe Me Now Detective Helen Stratton Book 1 S. M. Govett Crooked Lane Books June 10th, 2025 Believe Me Now by S. M. Govett is a gripping thriller with a very puzzling case. The dual narration between a victim and a detective help to make the story more suspenseful....
by Sarah Reida | Aug 22, 2025 | Books, Reviews
A Killer Getaway by Sienna Sharpe Sourcebooks Landmark/August 12, 2025 If Dexter was a hot chick resembling a Barbie doll, he might be Lily Lennox. In Sienna Sharpe’s A Killer Getaway, despite operating a successful catering business in Ohio, for five...
by Elise Cooper | Aug 22, 2025 | Author Interviews, Books, Features
Agony Hill Hunter’s Heart Ridge Sarah Stewart Taylor Minotaur Books Agony Hill and Hunter’s Heart Ridge by Sarah Stewart Taylor combine a historical novel and a police procedural. Readers will travel back in time to 1965 to rural Vermont and revisit the...
