Melody Dartford is broken. After the traumatising events she went through as a teenager, she has not healed. But is it really so? As the reader learns more about the young woman living a seemingly ordinary life in bustling London, suspicions inevitably creep in about something not being right with her in the first place.... Continue Reading →
“Mercy House” by Lubov Leonova
Picking up right from where my review of the previous book of the trilogy ended… Imagine the sinister castle with the dark corridors and dungeons hiding the sufferings of innocent victims – young girls who possess ‘destructive’ magic, something men ruling the world cannot allow women to wield, so they don’t lose their power… “Mercy... Continue Reading →
Category Winner in the 2025 Independent Author Awards
“The Accidental Cop” is a Category Winner in the 2025 Independent Author Awards. It feels especially gratifying that my cross-genre crime noir novel, with the setting unknown to most readers, has finally found its niche, winning in the “Social / Political Change” category in the 2025 Independent Author Awards. “The Accidental Cop” already won several... Continue Reading →
“Innocent Again” by Steven Decker
Becky is rich and beautiful. She doesn’t have to struggle with mortgage or student loan payments. She doesn’t even have to make a career, enjoying the benefits of well-off parents and a successful husband. Becky would have been blissfully happy had an unsavoury discovery about her husband having an affair not spoiled her charmed existence.... Continue Reading →
“Somebody’s Nobody” by Helen Aitchison
It is a bad thing to kill people. No one has a right to decide when someone’s life should end, even if the life this someone leads turns the existence of others into a nightmare. This is a rule everyone raised in a civilised society accepts as an axiom and never doubts. Unless one grows... Continue Reading →