Month: July 2021

Calculated Murder

Lawyer and businessman, Roumoult Cranston is notorious for solving bizarre cases. For him, the scandalous murder of millionaire playboy Garner Moss by a rich ex-model holds no interest. But fate intervenes when Roumoult becomes a prime suspect and is drawn into the tantalising murder investigation. Suddenly he’s in the spotlight, hassled by the media and scrutinized by NYPD detectives. To make matters worse, in his attempts to solve one murder, he uncovers two more bodies and moves to the top... [Read More...]

All Things Small

In the back streets of Old Rome, near the famous Bernini monument, The Fountain of the Four Rivers, La Dolce Vita turns from sweet…to sour. A naïve American tourist gets involved with poets, the Mafia, an opera singer, a movie star, and a film being shot at Cinecittà. In the grand tradition of Mark Twain, Norman B. Schwartz recounts the comic misadventures of an innocent abroad—neither an Ugly American nor a Quiet one—but someone young who soon learns that within the Eternal City on... [Read More...]

Free: Deceived

The battle between the Titans and the gods of old did not end with them. The demand for revenge has dripped down into the next generation. Twins, Marcus and Nicolas, heirs to the throne of the gods and sons of the last remaining Titan, learn that the purpose of their existence is to fulfill a prophecy born of hate and despair. They must battle for Pandora’s daughter’s heart, a girl lost to the human world and unaware of her hidden heritage. For four hundred years Marcus and Nicolas have onl... [Read More...]

Texas Dead

The body of a respected financial analyst is found dead in an alley downtown Corpus Christi, the fifteenth murder of the year. Classy detective, Mackenzie Michaels, known as Maxie, a celebrity for her stellar track record of solving murders, as well as her pure Texan charm, is on the scene with her partner, Detective Kobe Jameson. What they uncover leads to a complicated investigation of corruption reaching far into the administration, and a risky gambit on their part to solve the crime(s) and ... [Read More...]

The Ping-Pong Champion of Chinatown

Buffeted by an ever-optimistic attitude, Gertie McDowell, a naive young girl from backwoods Kentucky, pens her diary–a series of bizarre misadventures that take her from starring on a foot fetish site in Los Angeles to hustling bets as a mechanical bull rider in Texas. From serving a stint in West Virginia’s Alderson Prison, because she “trusted the wrong kind of fella,” to getting sold into white slavery. But perhaps her crowning mishap is seeking the ping-pong champion... [Read More...]

Free: OOF: An Online Outrage Fiesta for the Ages

Award-winning novelist and cultural critic Strobe Witherspoon interrogates his own profession. It goes terribly. OOF explores the role of satire in a society lurching from one ridiculous crisis to the next, where media outlets rely on clicks to stay alive and everything is filtered through a lens of anger and misinformation. ... [Read More...]

Blood Loss: A Vampire Story

Vampires are real. Deadly. And very, very hungry. Caroline Murray thinks vampires are the stuff of fantasy. A successful lawyer, engaged to a brilliant, if erratic, scientist, she has no idea of the horror about to engulf her. Ariane Van Helsing knows all about vampires. Her family have been fighting the lamia, as they call them, for centuries. She tries to convince Caroline of the danger facing her and her fiancé. She fails. At first. In a series of journal entries, texts, emails, blog posts ... [Read More...]