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Thrillers

ITW Spotlight: A Paranormal NYC in “The Spectral City”

When she’s not writing bestselling and award-winning Gothic Victorian Fantasy, Leanna Renee Hieber moonlights as a licensed ghost tour guide in New York City’s Boroughs of the Dead. Perhaps that should come as no surprise. An online search for “ghosts of New York City” yields more than 80 million results,…
Jaden Terrell
December 6, 2018
Thrillers

Opium and Identity: 19th Century Woman Battles Crime

Port Townsend, Washington, 1887. An ex-Pinkerton agent named Alma Rosales is hunting for opium stolen from her employer, criminal boss Delphine Beaumond, one of the most dangerous women in the Northwest. Also on the hunt is a dockworker named Jack Camp, a rough brawler with his own plans for the…
Neil Nyren
November 7, 2018
Fiction

A Quest for Meaning and Moby-Dick—A Whale of a Tale

The Moby-Dick Blues (Roundfire Books) by Michael Strelow chronicles the hunt for not only literary treasure, but the search for admiration and purpose: “The story of Arvin and his family and the manuscript for Moby-Dick, the unlikely tale of unlikely characters just like Melville’s story.” Arvin Kraft is used to being…
K.L. Romo
December 5, 2018