Brandon is twenty-eight years old when he’s laid off from his comfortable job working in magazine publishing. Feeling spun out, he makes a series of questionable choices, the absolute nadir of which may be deciding to look over his shoulder behind him while walking into what he assumes is a waiting elevator. When he regains…
Writers are often asked if there’s a genre that they want to write but haven’t. For me, it’s historical fiction. There is nothing like a historical novel to whisk me away to another place, another time, another world. So why haven’t I written one? Because I’m not a historian. ☺ Every time I started a…
Chris Holm is the author of six critically acclaimed novels and numerous works of short fiction. His books include the genre-bending Collector trilogy (Dead Harvest, The Wrong Goodbye, and The Big Reap) and, more recently, two thrillers featuring hitman Michael Hendricks, The Killing Kind and Red Right Hand; the former won the 2016 Anthony Award…
The 22 Murders of Madison May by Max Barry is a mind-bending speculative psychological suspense thriller about a serial killer pursuing his victim across time and space and the woman who is determined to stop him, even if it upends her own reality. Felicity Staples is a journalist who mostly likes her New York City…
CHAPTER ONE The little purple Christmas tree had a lot to answer for. Con hadn’t celebrated Christmas in the three years she’d lived in Washington DC. Hadn’t meant to this year either. But then on the way home from the corner store, she noticed the tree in a box of junk left on the sidewalk…
Crime movies are often deeply linked to the settings in which they take place. The prohibition era of speakeasies and bootleggers gave us The Untouchables. The glittering casinos of Las Vegas gave us Ocean’s Eleven. The gritty streets of Los Angeles have given us everything from Training Day to Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs. In…
In a dystopian near-future America, Elena Fischer Fairchild is one of those upper-middle-class women who are only too happy to be complicit in an unjust system of government until her own interests are affected. The system in question is one she helped devise as a teenager with her then-boyfriend Malcolm Fairchild. Somehow, they managed to…
You are most well-known for your bestselling holiday fiction writings such as The Christmas Shoes and The Christmas Town, but what inspired you to move in a different direction and blend fiction with biblical prophecy for The Time of Jacob’s Trouble? People are wondering, “What in the world is going on?” I heard a poll…
CHAPTER 1 Queens, NY We have to get out of the city!” twenty-five-year-old Emma Grady shouts, watching images of destruction on the TV. Her boyfriend Matt grabs her arm, yelling as he pulls her to the door. “No time! Get to the basement!” They scream and yell through the hallway, warning people in the other…
CHAPTER 1 Queens, NY We have to get out of the city!” twenty-five-year-old Emma Grady shouts, watching images of destruction on the TV. Her boyfriend Matt grabs her arm, yelling as he pulls her to the door. “No time! Get to the basement!” They scream and yell through the hallway, warning people in the other…
