I usually have a nice reading list planned out for the summer. This year? Not so much. Too much to do, too much to finalize for the releases coming your way this fall.
That doesn’t mean there aren’t a ton of books I’m excited to dive into when I have the chance.
Book recommendations!
Lostlander by Dean F Wilson
Welcome to nowhere.
Nox, the Coilhunter, wakes up in unfamiliar territory, victim of a deranged man who claims he’s from another world, and who’s building an army of slaves to help him get back there.
The eccentric bounty hunter must face off the wild of the desert and the wild in men, all the while trying to piece together what happened from his fractured memory.
Some go to the Lostlands to find themselves, but the Coilhunter is on the hunt for the true Lostlander: the Man with the Silver Mane. Folk say those Magi are lost without their magic, but Nox has long found his own kind of mojo in his gadgets and his guns.
I can’t get enough of this series and book 4 looks like the best one yet. Check out the Coilhunter series now!
Saints of the Shadow Bible by Ian Rankin
Rebus and Malcolm Fox go head-to-head when a 30-year-old murder investigation resurfaces, forcing Rebus to confront crimes of the past
Rebus is back on the force, albeit with a demotion and a chip on his shoulder. He is investigating a car accident when news arrives that a case from 30 years ago is being reopened. Rebus’s team from those days is suspected of helping a murderer escape justice to further their own ends.
Malcolm Fox, in what will be his last case as an internal affairs cop, is tasked with finding out the truth. Past and present are about to collide in shocking and murderous fashion. What does Rebus have to hide? And whose side is he really on? His colleagues back then called themselves “The Saints,” and swore a bond on something called the Shadow Bible. But times have changed and the crimes of the past may not stay hidden much longer — and may also play a role in the present, as Scotland gears up for a referendum on independence.
Allegiances are being formed, enemies made, and huge questions asked. Who are the saints and who the sinners? And can the one ever become the other?
It’s been ten years since I read Resurrection Men and fell in love with the Inspector Rebus series. Love every installment. This is crime fiction at its absolute best!
Bang-Bang You’re Dead by Joe Janowicz
A Nice Place to Live. A Nice Place to Die.
Someone is killing old people. The quaint and quiet Sunny Side Up Retirement Home is known as the last stop on a life journey before entering the pearly white gates of Heaven – but now it has become the doorway to Hell.
On a cold and rainy night, an evil, soulless Killer roams the Retirement Home hallways, forcing intended victims to share their life story before he decides whether they live or die. Their stories unfold with many twists and turns, revealing their innermost secrets of lives filled with happiness and sadness, joy and pain.
As the number of murdered residents increases, it becomes apparent that the Killer is treating death like a game. Each killing has a beginning, middle, and end story as the killer plays “cat and mouse” with each person. Acting as both their Judge and Jury, is this some sort of a random murderous game, or a night of planned and bloody revenge? Or maybe something else? And why old people?
For the elderly people living in the Sunny Side Up Retirement Home who are part of this blood- filled nightmare there is only one ending – death.
Joe Janowicz’s debut thriller is a fantastic page-turner. This is an author to keep an eye on!
A Throne for Sisters by Morgan Rice
In A THRONE FOR SISTERS, Sophia, 17, and her younger sister Kate, 15, are desperate to leave their horrific orphanage. Orphans, unwanted and unloved, they nonetheless dream of coming of age elsewhere, of finding a better life, even if that means living on the streets of the brutal city of Ashton.
Sophia and Kate, also best friends, have each other’s backs—and yet they want different things from life. Sophia, a romantic, more elegant, dreams of entering court and finding a noble to fall in love with. Kate, a fighter, dreams of mastering the sword, of battling dragons, and becoming a warrior. They are both united, though, by their secret, paranormal power to read other’s minds, their only saving grace in a world that seems bent to destroy them.
As they each embark on a quest and adventure their own ways, they struggle to survive. Faced with choices neither can imagine, their choices may propel them to the highest power—or plunge them to the lowest depths.
Morgan Rice is an unrelenting force in fiction. An unbelievable imagination and a back catalog you have to see to believe! This book is FREE right now so check it out.
