New Releases

SPR’s book reviews of new self-published books

Sam Razor, Private Investigator: The Blonde with the Bad Nose Job by Carlo Armenise

The Case of the Blonde with the Bad Nose Job by Carlo Armenise

Sam Razor, a rugged PI with skills for the highest bidder, gets caught up with messy Sin City mob dealings in The Blonde with the Bad Nose Job, the first case in author Carlo Armenise’s Sam Razor, Private Investigator chronicles.

Hunting down the sister of a wealthy Vegas socialite, Sam has to plumb the dirty depths of Vegas, but the real threat may actually be coming from closer to home. Navigating a tangle of lies, false identities, and a number of guns being pointed at his head, this quick-with-a-joke PI jumps from one pot of boiling water to another, […]

2020-03-16T06:53:41+02:00March 9th, 2020|Categories: New Releases|Tags: |

Arnold Falls by Charlie Suisman

Arnold Falls by Charlie Suisman

Author Charlie Suisman delivers a home-cooked platter of playful jabs and thoughtful relationships in Arnold Falls, a book about small town life in all of its strange intimacy.

In a place where everyone knows your business, people’s lives and stories collide in wondrous moments of synchronicity and gossip. In the hamlet of Arnold Falls, this seems particularly true, but that’s mostly due to the insightful lens of Suisman’s writing.

Jeebie Walker sits at the center of this tale as a highly original and unpredictable protagonist, but he is also supported by a cavalcade of memorable characters, as quirky locals […]

24 Hours of Love at the Silver Bell Wedding Chapel by Jacki Gluck

24 Hours of Love at the Silver Bell Wedding Chapel by Jacki Gluck

24 Hours of Love at the Silver Bell Wedding Chapel is a heartfelt and fascinating glimpse into one of the most famous chapels in the wedding-heavy wonderland of Las Vegas.

The amount of strange love that has been founded between those walls can fill far more than a single book, but author Jacki Gluck, through direct interviews with the original owners of the chapel, Jim and Vicki Duszynski, has created a remarkable homage to this Sin City staple. The fact that the purveyors of this place are also her parents gives the story even more of a heart-tapping tone, as […]

2020-02-24T08:08:08+02:00February 21st, 2020|Categories: New Releases|Tags: , |

The Missing Son by Chamnol Cheng

When mysterious objects of a possibly alien origin begin appearing near his island home, Nakoy’s life and the safety of everyone he loves is threatened in The Missing Son by Chamnol Cheng.

After discovering a sinister metal structure in the forest, and then a slimy egg-like object floating in their fishing grounds, Nakoy’s family tries to hide these strange puzzle pieces, but they aren’t the only ones who know about these odd artifacts. A hundred light-years from Earth, a species called Asidrans have been sending their egg pods to different planets for generations, and they aren’t happy when one of […]

2020-02-18T11:46:03+02:00February 18th, 2020|Categories: New Releases|Tags: |

The Matriarch by Frank Dravis

The Matriarch by Frank Dravis

Intergalactic intrigue, forbidden romance, a missing agent from an advanced peace-keeping organization, and a primitive planet’s ultimate fate collide in The Matriarch, the second book of the impressive Dianis, A World in Turmoil series by author Frank Dravis.

A violent and self-serving mining company is threatening to take control of the precious aquamarine resources on Dianis, while Chief Achelous of the IDB has disappeared and is being hunted, but his son and wife may hold the secret to the planet’s powerful religious sect and the contentious world’s entire future. Heavy with military procedure, sci-fi drama, and remarkably detailed world-building, along […]

2020-02-17T12:17:00+02:00February 14th, 2020|Categories: New Releases|Tags: |

Casindra Lost by Marti Ward

Casindra Lost by Marti WardThe multi-author Paradisi Chronicles kicks off in celestial style with Casindra Lost by Marti Ward, in which Commander Jerome Sideris of the SS Casindra embarks on a solo mission across the stars – a lab rat on the first manned mission to the Andromeda Galaxy.

The front end of the book is exposition-heavy, introducing readers to a future universe of new technology and jargon, from nanorobots, cryochambers, and spider-like construction robots to Lagrangian points, wormhole theory, and EmDrives. The daunting vocabulary quickly becomes natural, however, so even readers new to the genre will quickly become immersed and comfortable.

The sci-fi […]

2020-02-26T11:48:06+02:00February 7th, 2020|Categories: New Releases|Tags: |

Into the Suffering City by Bill LeFurgy

Into the Suffering City by Bill LeFurgy Baltimore from a century ago gleams under a sinister spotlight in author Bill LeFurgy’s electric Into the Suffering City.

Dr. Sarah Kennecott is a gifted medical examiner, but eccentric behavior and a brilliant mind in a woman is not appreciated in such misogynistic times. Finding herself an unlikely ally in a local private detective, Jack Harden, she is determined to see that justice is done for a murdered showgirl, even if that means doing it outside the boundaries of the law. In a town where violence, corruption, brutality and ignorance still reign, Sarah is a fiercely independent light and […]

House of the Shrieking Woman by Steven Ramirez

House of the Shrieking Woman by Steven RamirezAuthor Steven Ramirez weaves a gripping tale of demons and dark forces in House of the Shrieking Woman. The second book in the Sarah Greene Mysteries sees the 33-year-old psychic delving back into the world of the supernatural, determined to use her ghostly gifts for the good of others.

This time around, Sarah must journey into one woman’s shadowy past to help her find peace from demons both inside and out. Pitting her nascent investigative skills against a sinister power that thrives in places of pain and suffering, the main character makes this quick thriller hard to put down. Sarah […]

2020-01-21T07:49:34+02:00January 21st, 2020|Categories: New Releases|Tags: , |
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