SPR’s book reviews of new self-published books
The Scheme by Amethyst Drake
When Olivia Ames, the brilliant daughter of a domineering CEO, goes missing, Katherine Carson and her crack team of private eyes reluctantly join the hunt in The Scheme by Amethyst Drake, a gritty and gripping first installment of the Carson Crime Files series.
Locating an uber-rich runaway is not the typical Carson Investigations case, but the deeper they dig, the more sinister the trail becomes. Olivia had a wildly promising future in the profitable realm of bio-printing research, and appears to have caught the attention of some powerful people, leading to a tangle of motives, family members, red herrings, suspects, […]
The fifth book in the precisely crafted and well-researched Barton Family Series, A Piece of My Heart by Katherine P. Stillerman is a heartfelt tribute to the resilience of women during World War II.
A fast-paced plunge into contemporary spycraft with some classic Cold War twists, Moscow Nights Return by Beth H. Macy is a gripping international thriller.
A violent clash of duty, truth, morality, and vengeance, Heavy Weight of Darkness by JM Erickson is a soul-searching second piece to an exceptional sci-fi series.
Told with the unmistakeable fire of a soldier who has seen too much scorched earth, Fighting the Shadow Warriors: A Marine in Vietnam by Harry Knickerbocker is a powerful memoir from a writer with passion and conviction.
Miles Gether, a sharpshooting school security guard, becomes the unlikely leader of a desperate group of survivors as the world crumbles into barbaric chaos in Never Far Gone by Kelvin Urena, a gritty and realistic apocalyptic thriller.
A fresh reinvention of classic mythology, Tales of the Bacchae: Queen of the Dead by Brian Andrew is a thrillingly creative work of mythic fantasy.