by Philip Eliot | May 5, 2026 | Cozy Mystery |
Amy’s getting married! Yes, that’s right, after all this time, Amy is getting married. But wait…which Amy? Is it Amy Simms or that other Amy? You know the one I mean, Amy-the-ex, Amy Harlan, as in ex-wife of Derek Harlan who himself is currently Amy Simms’ boyfriend? Wedding bells are ringing and necks are being wrung. Ouch, that’s a bad pun, I know. And it just might end up being a bad day for a wedding. Sorry, Billy, but that’s no Idol threat. Amy’s life is about to change forever and there just might be some till-death-do-us-parting when this pair of lovebirds goes to tie the knot at the altar of love and end up altering their own lives forever. Egrets, I’ve had a few…
by Philip Eliot | May 5, 2026 | Horror & Paranormal |
“Fans of early Anita Blake will definitely appreciate this!””I highly recommend this book – and I can’t wait for the next in the series!””The novel expertly balances suspense and supernatural elements”Maddy Madrigal doesn’t believe she’s magic. If she were, she wouldn’t be busting her butt every day working for the Los Angeles Police Department’s Occult Affairs division, rounding up the strange and nasty entities unleashed by the last earthquake. At forty, if she were magic, she’d have less aggravation and more money.So, when a security job opens up in an exclusive gated community, she takes it. Better money, great perks, and best of all, no entities.At first, her problems are solved—the job’s great, she’s made new friends, and a good-looking man has caught her eye. She even has time to cook her favorite Mexican dishes while her new cat watches, though there’s something not quite right about him.But the fancy neighborhood she was hired to protect hides a secret: something supernatural is attacking the residents, and as Maddy tries to unravel the mystery, she discovers a secret of her own: she may have inherited magical abilities from her famous great aunt, a Mexican witch.With monsters roaming the hilly streets, residents up in arms, and her boss breathing down her neck, Maddy must decide how far she’s willing to go to preserve her new life.Barely Magic is the first book in Maddy Madrigal Mysteries, a new urban fantasy series from Debra Castaneda, the award-winning author of The Monsters of Chavez Ravine and the Dark Earth Rising series including The Root Witch and A Dark and Rising Tide.
by Philip Eliot | May 5, 2026 | General Nonfiction |
A family tragedy propels this gripping true crime debut as a mother searches for answers in the shocking murder of her husband—and conviction of her son.In the early morning of October 18, 1986, Cherie Wier’s life collapses when her teenage son takes the life of her beloved husband. For years, Cherie grapples with events preceding and following the crime, struggling to overcome the consuming grief she suffers from her loss and the difficulty she faces as she attempts to forgive her son. The courtroom accounts of gruesome details and the shocking testimonies from experts, only add to Cherie’s yearning to make sense of the crime. She is tormented, wanting to know how and WHY this tragedy happened and if there was anything she could have done to prevent it . . .
by Philip Eliot | May 5, 2026 | Horror & Paranormal |
A Ray Drexler novella set deep beneath the Antarctic ice…In the frozen Antarctic wilderness, a team of Australian scientists vanishes without trace. Their last known location: a remote research facility.Trouble is, the outpost was abandoned years ago…When Major Ray Drexler and his highly trained DARC team is sent to investigate, it becomes clear this won’t be the straightforward search-and-rescue they were promised.In fact, they’ve just been dropped into hell.The outpost has been hiding a secret. Something that defies belief, that shouldn’t exist.Something that has escaped its icy prison and is now hellbent on hunting them down, one by one.Drexler and his men came here on a rescue mission. Now they’ll have to save themselves, and prevent an ancient enemy from escaping to the outside world…This is a novella set in the ‘Eight’ universe and follows on from the events in The Alpha Species.
by Philip Eliot | May 5, 2026 | Science Fiction |
The only bad part of a Jodi Taylor book is finishing it’ ? ?? ??’Fabulous writing, laugh-out-loud and gasp-in-horror from one page to another’ ? ?? ??’Just when I think these stories can’t get any more amazing…’ ? ?? ??’I am going to read it again after I get my breath back’ ? ?? ??The nail-bitingly tense, rib-crackingly funny new TIME POLICE mission from the million-copy bestselling author of THE CHRONICLES OF ST MARY’S.The Time Police don’t think twice about jumping to the past. But, this time, the past has come to them…What connects a dead dinosaur in Wales with Romulus the founder of Rome, a plot to murder the Princes in the Tower and a shocking cover-up at TPHQ?It sounds like a joke. It isn’t.The Time Police are determined to find the answers, helped – and occasionally hindered – by a certain wayward member of St Mary’s and a recently reunited Team 236. Will they succeed before Time runs out?And, as if all that wasn’t enough, something somewhere in the Timeline is wrong. Very, very wrong. What is the Time Map trying to tell them?BOOK 6 IN THE TIME POLICE SERIES. FOR FANS OF TERRY PRATCHETT, RICHARD OSMAN AND DOCTOR WHO’Jodi Taylor is quite simply the Queen of Time’ C. K. MCDONNELL
