Just After Midnight, Catherine Ryan Hyde, Lake Union – Thirty-something Faith escapes her abusive husband Robert and seeks refuge at her parent’s California beach house.
Cindy Matthews
Cindy A. Matthews' articles and essays have appeared in over forty publications. She works as a freelance manuscript evaluator, book reviewer, and copy editor. Her writer's guide, Defeating the Slushpile Monster, was a finalist in the self-help/non-fiction category of the 2009 EPIC awards and is now available in print and in Kindle formats. More information about her editorial services and non-fiction works can be found at her web site/blog www.cindyamatthews.com
Writing as Cynthianna, Cindy has published contemporary and fantasy romantic-comedies. Cindy also writes sf/paranormal erotic-romance as Celine Chatillon. See her work on Amazon.com.
Killer Thriller by Lee Goldberg
Killer Thriller, Lee Goldberg, Thomas & Mercer – Ian Ludlow, best-selling author of the Clint Straker thriller series, got an offer from the CIA. The agency is impressed by Ludlow’s talent for devising plots which have an unnerving habit of coming true, and wants to hire him to predict trouble for the United States, but Ludlow declines.
All This I Will Give To You by Dolores Redondo
All This I Will Give To You, Dolores Redondo, Amazon Crossing – Novelist Manuel Ortigosa is at home in Madrid when he learns his husband Álvaro has died in a car accident.
Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s edited by Leslie S. Klinger
Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s, editor Leslie S. Klinger, Pegasus Crime – Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle set the gold standard of detective fiction with his Sherlock Holmes stories, and for many years Conan-Doyle and other British crime writers, such as Agatha Christie, dominated the genre. In the 1920s American crime writers appeared on the scene with a distinctive style all their own.
In the Vines by Shannon Kirk
In the Vines, Shannon Kirk, Thomas & Mercer – Twenty-something Princeton student Mary Olivia Pentecost – “Mop” – is related to the Vandonbeers, an old New England family with “more family money than all the Kennedys ever had, combined.”
Jane Doe by Victoria Helen Stone
Jane Doe, Victoria Helen Stone, Lake Union – Steven Hepsworth has a nice life. He’s good looking, pleasant, a rising middle manager at work, and a deacon in his father’s church.
In Your Hands by Inês Pedrosa
In Your Hands, Inês Pedrosa, Amazon Publishing – Told in three parts, In Your Hands begins in Portugal in 1935. Wealthy socialite Jenny falls in love with businessman Antonio, who is already in love with bisexual Pedro.
The Lost Letters of William Woolf by Helen Cullen
The Lost Letters of William Wolf, Helen Cullen, Graydon House – Compatible in every way William and Clare Woolf’s marriage seemed a match made in heaven – then it began to break apart.
When the Lights Go Out by Mary Kubica
When the Lights Go Out, Mary Kubica, Park Row Books – Jessie Sloane is the twenty-something daughter of a single mom. From an early age Jessie questioned her identity, wondering about her father and why he’s no longer with the family.
A Murdered Peace by Candace Robb
A Murdered Peace, Candace Robb, Pegasus Crime – York, Winter, 1400AD. The previous year Henry Bollingbroke deposed his cousin King Richard II and became King Henry IV. England is still in turmoil following the Epiphany Uprising when Richard’s supporters failed to restore him to the throne.
