Author: John McMahon

Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons

ISBN: 978-0-593-32836-1

Author: NathanielHenderson

ISBN: 978-1735759098

Author: Robert McCaw

Publisher: Ocean View Publishing

ISBN: 9781608093687

Author: Brian Greene

Publisher: Knopf, 2020

ISBN:  9781524731670)

Author: Bill Rapp

Publisher: Epicenter Press

ISBN: 9781603815116

Author: Steven Max Russo

Publisher: Down and Out Books

ISBN:  978-1643960517

Author: Jussi Adler-Olsen

Publisher: Dutton

ISBN: 978-1-5247-4253-9

ISBN: 978-0-385-52131-4

Author: Archer Mayor

Publisher: Minotaur Books

ISBN: 978-1-250-25501-3

Author: Marlen Suyapa Bodden,

Publisher: Roatan Hall Press

ISBN: 978-1-7329747-1-5

Author: M. J. Markovski

Publisher: White Bird Publications

ISBN: 978-1633633773

Author: Michael Lewis

Publisher: Penguin Random House

ISBN: 978-0-241-37354-5

Let’s pretend this book is a short story collection where the stories are about U.S. executive departments A, B, C, and so forth, and their associated agencies. They’re not fictional stories, but the American public in general still has no idea about what A, B, and C does. A might be the U.S. Department of Commerce, for example, and that department contains NOAA and the National Weather Service (in fact, only less than 10% of that department has anything to do with commerce in the business sense because it manages science and technology data).

Author: David Carlson

Publisher: Coffee Town Press, 2018,

ISBN: 978-1-60381-393-8

Author: Ben Rhodes

Publisher: Random House

ISBN: 978-0-525-50935-6

Author: Terrence McCauley

Publisher: Polis Books

ISBN: 978-1-947993-05-1

Author: Gérôme Truc

Publisher: Polity Press

ISBN: 978-1-5095-2034-3

Authors: Chris Kennedy and Thomas A.May

Publisher: Theogony Books

ISBN: 978-1948485166 and ASIN B07BRTDBCJ

Author: Walter Isaacson,

Publisher: Simon & Schuster,

ISBN: 978-1-5011-3915-4

Author: Rebecca Marks

Publisher: Black Opal Books

ISBN:  978-1-626947-49-8

Author: Mareth Griffith

Publisher: Parvus Press

ISBN: 9780997661330

Author: A. H. Richardson

Publisher: Serano Press, 2015

ISBN: 978-1-5152-8397-3,

Author: Cristiano Gentili

Publisher: HelpAfricanAlbinos 

ASIN: B01N214BWU

Author: Elizabeth J. Sparrow

Publisher: The Waxing Gibbous Press

ISBN: 978-0-9976851-1-4

Author: Gerrie Ferris Finger

Publisher: Five Star Publishing

ISBN: 9781432832216:  ASIN:  B01K8P912W

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Author: Leah Devlin

Publisher: Penmore Press

ISBN:  978-1-942756-44-6

Author: Gerard Filitti
ISBN: 978-0996325905

Author: Rebecca Marks

Publisher: Black Opal Books,

ISBN: 987-1-626943-79-7

Author: Wheler Bradford

ASIN: B019EG1B0S

Author: Susan A. Fleet,

Publisher: Music and Mayhem Press

ASIN: B0056ASYCU

Author: Linda Hall

ASIN: B017RM1R9G

Author: Alexander McNabb

Publisher:Amazon Digital Services

ASIN:  B01632FH7E

Author: Katherine

Publisher: Hayton

ISBN: 978-0473330545

Author: Bun Yom
Publisher:  iUniverse
ISBNs 978-1-4917-5850-2 sc, 978-1-4917-5851-9 e

Author: Roy A. Teel Jr.

Publisher: Narroway Press

ASIN: B00KMHXWSI

Author: Thomas Waite

ISBN: 978-1477828403

Authors: Eric Giacometti and Jacques Revene, trans. Anne Trager,

Publisher: Le French Book

ISBN: 978-1-939474-30-8 (trade paperback)

ISBN: 978-1-939474-31-5 (hardback))

Author: Ellie O’Neill

Publisher: Touchstone

ISBN: 978-1476757551

Author: Lillian Melendez

Publisher: Black Rose Writing

ISBN:  978-1612962115

Author: Harlan Coben

Publisher: Dutton

ASIN: B00NMPN46W

Author: D. A. Karr

ASIN: B00QR54QG6

Author: Carolyn J. Rose

Publisher: Amazon Digital

ISBN: B00RC4X0XQ

Author: John Hohn

ASIN: B00OEXEK0K

ISBN: 978-0692250921

Author: Katherine Freese

Publisher: Princeton U. Press

ISBN: 978-0-691-15335-3

Publisher: Archway Publishing

ASIN: B00CWCYT9C

Author: Beverly Garside

Publisher: CreateSpace

ISBN: 978-1492187424

Author: Joan Hall Hovey

Publisher: BWL Publishing

ISBN: 978-1771452151

Author: Art Johnson

ISBN: 978-0989715461

Author: Sandra Parshall

Publisher: Pen Press

ISBN: 9781464202247

Author: David Freed

Publisher: The Permanent Press

ISBN: 978-1-57962-355-5

Author: James Corkill,

Publisher: Amazon Digital Services,
ASIN: B00CB0OXCI

Editors: D. E. Wittkower and Lucinda Rush

Publisher: Open Court

ISBN-10: 0812698347

ISBN-13: 978-0812698343

Author: Damien Dsoul

ASIN: B00FRV3IPG

Author: DK Halling

Publisher:  Quantum Dot Publishing

ISBN: 978-1491264225

Author: John Betcher

Publisher: Amazon Digital Services

ASIN: B00EARNQ2I

Author: R. Ira Harris

Publisher: Bridge Works Publishing

ISBN: 978-0-9816175-5-8

Author: Clifford B. Bowyer

Publisher: Silver Leaf Books

ISBN 978-1-60975-037-4

Author: Darden North

Publisher: Sartoris Literary Group

ISBN: 978-0-9889474-7-4

Author: D. M. Annechino

Publisher: Thomas & Mercer (October 16, 2012)

ISBN:-10: 1612184227  ISBN:-13: 978-1612184227

Author: Bob Adamov

ASIN: B00BMZNCMU

Author: Thomas Wm. Hamilton 

Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing and Rights Co.

ISBN: 978-1-62212-028-4

Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 978-1482023770

Author: Carolyn J. Rose

ISBN: 0983735956

Author: Tim Young

Publisher: Harmony Publishing

ASIN: B009EAV6VY

Author: Edgardo David Holzman,

Publisher: Nortia Press

ISBN: 978-0-9842252-7-9

Author: Joanne Elder

Publisher: MuseItUp Publishing,

ISBN: B008QWRL9M

Author: Carolyn J. Rose

ASIN: B008HU0RMG)

Author: John L. Betcher

Publisher: Create Space

ISBN:  978-1475180589

Author: Ben Coes

Publisher: St. Martins

ISBN: 978-1250007155

Author: H. Prévost

ISBN: 978-1-927361-16-0

Author: Joanne  Elder

ISBN: 9781927085103

Author:  Gary Lindberg

ISBN:  978-0-9848565-1-0

Authors: James and Lance Morcan…

Publisher: Sterling Gate Books

ISBN: 978-0473193133

ASIN: B0056I4FKC (Kindle Edition)

Author: Steven M. Forman

Publisher: Forge Books

ISBN: 978-0-7653-2876-2

ASIN:  B006LAOIWY

Author: Mike Nettleton

ISBN:  978-0984652419

Author: Dennis Quiles

Publisher: CreateSpace,

ISBN: 978-1456301033

Author: Jim Bruno

Publisher: Bittersweet House Press

ISBN: 0983764204

Kindle Edition
ASIN: B005G0JH2G

Author: Carla Neggers

ISBN: 978-0-7783-1235-2

Publisher: Mira

Author: William Brown

ISBN: 9781617505119

Author: Bob Nesoff

Publisher: Strategic Publishing Group

ISBN: 978-1-61204-044-8

Authors: David R. Fett and Stephen Langford

Publisher: Synergy Books

ISBN: 978-0-9845040-2-2

Author: Steven Manly Visions

Publisher: New Page Books

ISBN:  978-1-60163-129-9

Visions of the Multiverse is a very readable introduction to some very strange concepts in physics. Its advantage is that it’s short and requires no math expertise from the lay reader, even though much of it is really about mathematics. However, it does require you to think about things. Its disadvantage is that it’s short and requires no math expertise—in other words, you may arrive at the end somewhat dissatisfied by your lack of understanding of these topics. If that’s the case, bless your soul, there are more meaty tomes (also with little or no mathematics) that expand on the ideas contained in this book.

Author: Armen Melikian

ISBN: 978-1-935097-51-8

Publisher: Two Harbors Press

If you like to read experimental and avant garde works, your prose and poetic muse will suffer satisfactory shock and awe with this novel. It is orthogonal to that literary and commercial space where you might find a good, well-plotted story to accompany you, say, on that long and uncomfortable plane ride from New York to LA. I call it a novel even though the story becomes lost in philosophical soliloquies and I’m sure at least some of it is autobiographical.

Author: Sven Michael Davison

Publisher: Bedouin Press

ISBN: 978-0-9666149-2-3

With State of Mind, Mr. Davison has written a bloody and mind-blowing tour de force, both literally and figuratively. It is both entertaining and thought-provoking but definitely not for the faint of heart.

Author: Daniel Palmer, Delirious

Publisher: Kensington Books

ISBN: 978-0-7582-4664-6)

Author: Boston Teran

ISBN:  9781567030563

Author: John J. Hohn

Publisher: Outskirts Press

ISBN: 978-1-4327-5875-2

Deadly Portfolio is a pleasant mixture of mystery and suspense that will entertain you by the fire with your sherry during a few fall or winter evenings.

Publishers: Krillpress
ISBN: 978-0-9821443-6-7

ISBN: 978-1-4357-0895-2

Publisher: Lulu

Author: Leona Bodie

Publisher: WRB Publishing

ISBN: 978-0-9844198-1-4

There is no mystery here. Shadow Cay is a thriller and the subject is revenge

Author: John L. Betcher

ISBN: 9781451521016

Do you need an entertaining and action-packed book for your summer reading? This is it! A very realistically portrayed terrorist attack in an unusual setting provided me with a nerve-wrenching adrenalin rush. If you’re into suspenseful thrillers, try this one on for size

Author: Carolyn J. Rose

Publisher: Five Star Publishing

ISBN: 978-1-59414-884-2

I recommend that you try this book—you’ll end up thoughtful about the human condition. You also may end up emotionally exhausted. But you’ll be entertained in the process.

Author: John L. Betcher
ISBN: 978-1451512717

The main theme of this novel, that the threat of cyber attacks becomes more and more important as the complexities of the chip manufacturing process bring us to the point where machines design the chips, is a very real one

Author: E. E. Hunt
Publisher: Publish America
ISBN: 1-60836-560-3

This novel is a mixed bag

Author: R. J. McDonnell
Publisher:  Killeena Publishing
ISBN: 978-0-9814914-2-4

You may approach it with some misgivings like I did—the title sounds too much like the first book, so you wonder.  Don’t.  McDonnell still tells an entertaining story, if not so funny this time

Author: Tempest O’Rourke
Publisher: Synergy Books
ISBN: 978-0-9823140-3-6

There are many lessons to be learned here.  The author has a wealth of real world experience behind him and this translates well to the written page.  He has constructed a thriller with philosophical meat, unusual for our times.  The negatives I have mentioned do not distract from this first-rate page turner.  I found it an excellent read.  Try it

Author: D. M. Annechino
ISBN: 978-098255503-3

This novel provided me with a comfortable evening sitting in my recliner and sipping my Jameson’s.  But I’m not sure this kind of suspense novel should be “comfortable.”  Deaver at his best is not comfortable.  Harris’ Hannibal is not comfortable.  Annechino’s story lacks that twist that leaves you breathless and wondering about the evil side of genius.On the other hand, this story ranks right up there with some of Deaver’s and Patterson’s work (which recently has become somewhat formulistic). I recommend you take a look.  Like I said, it has all the right stuff.

Author: Nan Becklean
Publisher: BookLocker
ISBN: 978-1-60145-747-9

Authors: Carolyn J. Rose and Mike Nettleton
Publisher: Krill Press
ISBN: 978-0-9821443-3-6

The Big Grabowski is subtitled A Devil’s Harbor Mystery.  Hopefully this means that there will be more in the series.  I recommend this one for your spring reading, or even to accompany your Irish coffee when the nor’easter is raging outside.  Enjoy it.  I did.

Author: Lawrence Lapin
ISBN: 978-0-9821020-0-8

This novel is about immortality—whether it’s a good thing and what you do when you get it

Author: Roberto Kusminsky 
Publisher: Krillpress
ISBN: 9780982144343

Author: Jay Kinney
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN:  978-0-06-082256-9

Author: P. D. LaFleur
Publisher: RGI Press
ISBN: 978-0-9792597-2-2

With books like this coming out of independent publishers, readers have a new and reliable source of suspenseful, well written books to entertain them.  It is my pleasure as a reviewer to introduce them to the readers

Author: Jim Ciullo
Publisher: Mainly Murder Press
ISBN: 0-615-29012-4

Action and Intrigue in South America

ISBN: 978-0-9814914-1-7

There is a lot of interesting and entertaining fiction out there that needs to be discovered.  This novel is representative: it is a good, light summer read