Review: Welcome, Reluctant Stranger! by E. Journey ★★★★★

Leilani Torres, a psychologist, helps people heal. But can she heal herself?
When she was only nine, Leilani, her mother, and two siblings flee their Pacific country, Costa Mora. Her father was supposed to follow them to the United States, but he never arrived and was never heard from again.
Justin Halverson is a brokenhearted computer nerd. After his girlfriend of seven years ends their relationship, he turns to booze to drown his sorrows. But he […]


Heart Break by MK Moskwik is a fun and spirited tech-driven mystery with a likable central character, Isabel Swift, an engaging protagonist for a new series. Swift is an up and coming police officer and human lie detector who dreams of making detective. Her mentor, Ben, dies mysteriously and Swift learns there may be a connection with his death and her latest case about stolen technology. She’s paired with a surly data scientist who’s making her job more difficult. When other cops are found murdered, Swift has only 48 hours to connect the dots, solve her mentor’s death, and make […]
Murder Over Kodiak, by Robin Barefield, is a clever Alaskan-set mystery that will keep readers guessing until the final pages.
The Street Rod Mystery by Judy Iverson is a spirited and engaging mystery about the disappearance of a young woman girl at a fifties car show. The girl is kept captive by a car-obsessed man who first fell in love with a 1959 Buick Electra 225 convertible. A huge manhunt begins for the young woman, while she tries to evade her captor, and we learn of his twisted impulses that led to the abduction, a plan that was thirty years in the making.
Dream Child by J. J. DiBenedetto continues the story of Dr. Sara Alderson, following on from the second book in the Dream series, Dream Doctor, as she and her husband Brian have become parents to four-year-old daughter Lizzie. Now a first-year resident pediatrician as well as wife and mother, Sara barely has time to dream herself when Lizzie begins to show signs of her mother’s ability to enter the dreams of others. As Sara prepares for two new surprise additions to her family, Lizzie enters the dreams of a new friend: a young boy who just so happens to […]
Dream Doctor by J. J. DiBenedetto is the second book in the Dream series, continuing the story of Sara Alderson (née Barnes), former pre-med – soon-to-be med student, and now newly-wed, as she tries to move on from the events of debut novel Dream Student.
The Dissector, by L. L. Spriggs, is medical school mystery that will make most readers think twice the next time they see their doctor.