We’re celebrating the release of Nothing but the Beast by Andrew Schrader!
Readers of gothic fiction and psychologically unsettling stories in the tradition of Shirley Jackson will love this!
Nothing but the Beast
Release Date: April 15, 2026
Genre: Psychological Suspense/ Thriller
“DON’T GET UP.
DON’T OPEN THE DOOR.
DON’T DO ANYTHING.”
Macy Miller had always done what was expected.
Until the night she didn’t.
By morning, her husband lies in a coma, the neighbors are whispering, and the past she buried won’t stay down. As the routines of daily life resume, Macy struggles to maintain the careful order she’s built on silence and conformity.
Nothing But the Beast is a literary psychological novel about complicity, self-deception, and the quiet horror of self-recognition, as a woman comes to realize that the most dangerous thing she feared was never outside her door.
We’re proud to present this stunning cover for an upcoming release called Blurred Images by Brandy Nacole!
Blurred Images
Expected Release Date: TBD
Genre: Psychological Thriller
Cover Artist: Marissa Shor
Unreliable Narrator
Karmic Retribution
Missing Person
Murder Mystery
Not every image tells the truth
She has the life she was supposed to want—a husband, children, a home filled with routine. From the outside, it looks complete.
Until her husband goes missing.
As memories begin to press in and the weight of unspoken grief grows heavier, she finds herself questioning everything she’s built. The past doesn’t stay buried, and the woman she used to be refuses to remain forgotten.
What begins as a quiet unease turns into something far more dangerous. A slow, psychological fracture that threatens to consume her from the inside out.
A woman’s life is upended when her past comes back to mess with her mind in this psychological thriller full of twists and turns.
There’s no such thing as perfect. It’s been fifteen years since Carly Bennett’s mother was brutaly murdered during a home robbery. Since then, she’s worked hard to build a normal life with a stelar career as an English professor—far away from the picture perfect step family that abandoned her at boarding school.
When a male coleague is found dead in Carly’s office—her name scrawled next to his body—everything she’s strived for starts to fal apart.
There are eerie similarities to her mother’s attack, and Carly determines to find the truth. Yet things take a bizarre turn when she suddenly experiences lost time, waking up in strange places, and flashes of dormant memories . . . memories that can’t possibly be real. Because, if they are, then she was there the night her mother was killed.
Could Carly have been responsible? Or is something more sinister at play in her stepfamily’s perfect world . . .?
This eerie domestic suspense is perfect for fans of Frieda McFadden and Lisa Jewell.
Jane Haseldine is a journalist, former crime reporter, columnist, newspaper editor, magazine writer, and deputy director of communications for a governor. Jane writes the Julia Gooden mystery series including The Last Time She Saw Him, Duplicity, Worth Kiling For and You Fit the Pattern.
My thoughts: So many disturbing things start happening to Carly, her colleague is murdered in her office, she’s hallucinating and behaving strangely, her stepbrothers have reappeared in her life (and one of them is definitely a psychopath), she’s falling apart, and her annoying assistant seems to be trying to take over her job.
Luckily her kickass best friend Ava is there to dig up the dirt and try to save Carly from the step family she thought had forgotten her – since she was sent away to boarding school and her mother was murdered, she’s had no contact with them. So why are they back in her life and why is everything going so horribly wrong?
Filled with twists, and with an empathetic protagonist in Carly (although Ava is a much more entertaining character – her bag of disguises, the relationship she has with her ex-husband, her avoidance of her family, her crazy job) I liked Carly, she was innocent and a little naive at times, but a genuinely good person who didn’t deserve all the awful things that had happened to her.
I enjoyed this book, and the twist at the end was very good, I didn’t see it coming at all. Carly is very lucky that Ava is in her life and that there was at least one detective willing to listen to her as she sought to prove her innocence.
*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in this blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.
Divorce can be murder . . . and divorce lawyers can get murdered.
I’m Kim DeLuca – assistant to Ollie Spalding, Connecticut’s most successful divorce lawyer. I’m the one who keeps his empire running while he charms his way through every courtroom in the state.
Ollie isn’t just my boss. I was a foster kid – he’s the closest thing I’ve ever had to family. My mentor. My protector. There’s nothing I wouldn’t do for him. He’s also the most feared divorce lawyer in the state. He took on people with money, power – and tempers that scared even the police.
Now he’s dead. And the police want to know who his enemies are. He had more than I can count. But I’ll find out who killed him.
Perfect for fans of Freida McFadden, Daniel Hurst, T.M. Logan, Patricia MacDonald and Shari Lapena
McGarvey studied voice at Manhattan School of Music and was later a theatre major in college. She pursued an acting career but later moved into a magazine and digital media career.
During that time, she sold advertising and managed sales teams for companies like Conde Nast, WebMD and worked for brands including GQ, Travel + Leisure, and Allure.
In between, she took a year off and backpacked alone around the world. Later, after having two children, she left media and became an executive recruiter for internet companies. In 2017, she began writing full time and has since published six novels.
My thoughts: When her boss, Ollie, is murdered Kim determines to help the police find his killer. At first she thinks that it could be the angry former spouses of one of their clients, Ollie was considered one of the best divorce lawyers in the state, and several of the unhappy parties have made threats.
As the police and Kim dig into the lives and connections of these threatening men (and women, but they seem to lack the wealth and connections needed), they narrow it down to two possibilities.
But as always the police must look closer to home as well, Ollie had two adult children and a younger wife. She has inherited a fortune, a fortune that just might be worth killing for….
Can Kim and the detective, Fitz, find out who killed Ollie and devastated his family, as well as Kim? Or will there be more victims?
Clever, with a huge twist, and some others along the way, I was hooked and couldn’t put it down. You will be too!
*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in this blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.
A MYSTERIOUS OFFER When Thea deciphers a cryptic invitation, she can’t believe it’s real. Yet the next moment she’s on a jet, being whisked off to a private Caribbean island.
BUT THIS IS NO ORDINARY HOLIDAY Her fellow guests are richer than rich – billionaires, tech bros, even royalty; all in paradise to sign a global deal. So what is Thea doing here?
THERE IS NO ESCAPE By the morning, their host is dead – and so is any hope of getting off the island.
NO GETAWAY As guests are picked off one by one, the group’s suspicions turn on Thea.
ONLY A FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL But the killer isn’t the only threat on the island – and escape means facing her worst fears . . .
My thoughts: Summoned to a deserted island, Thea is at a loss as to why she, a defence barrister, is there. The other guests include a minor royal, her MP husband, several entrepreneurs and billionaires, a pop star, a supermodel and a journalist. Her husband seems to be involved with their host Olga, and that really throws Thea, who invites their lover’s wife to their super secret summit?
Unfortunately things go from bad to worse when Olga is found drowned in the swimming pool the next morning. Their phones were confiscated on arrival, the WiFi is off, the staff have been sent away, there’s no way off the island and no way to call for help.
As the group squabble and try to work out which one of them is a killer, the situation continues to deteriorate. Thea tries to be rational, but the things really aren’t. Someone there is a murderer, there’s a hungry panther roaming the island (big cats do not make good pets) and then more bodies show up violently murdered. Can she survive the weekend? Can any of them? Will help ever arrive? And why did Olga invite them all there?
Clever, funny (if you’re a bit dark and twisted like me), but with an interesting point to make, this was a really enjoyable, smart read from a writer whose previous books I really like.
*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in this blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.
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Framed
Release Date: January 2026
Genre: Thriller
She’s taking on Big Oil. But when her star witness is arrested for bank robbery, the fight for justice becomes a battle for survival.
Environmental attorney Jo Turner is building the case of a lifetime, suing World Petrol, one of the country’s largest refineries, for toxic emissions linked to rising cancer rates along the Houston Ship Channel. Her crucial evidence comes from Dr. Tori Nelson, a respected physician and Jo’s college crush, whose research exposes devastating community health impacts.
But just as the lawsuit gains momentum, Tori is arrested for a shocking, high-profile bank robbery. Jo knows it’s a setup. Someone is trying to silence Tori to bury the findings that could bring World Petrol down.
As Jo races to prove Tori’s innocence, she uncovers a chilling conspiracy that reaches deeper than she imagined. With Tori’s freedom, career, and the lives of an entire community at stake, Jo has a choice: walk away or risk everything.
A high-speed train. A deadly game. Three hours to save your family.
A father and daughter are caught in a deadly game of ‘I Spy’ on a train journey from Paris to London in this brand-new claustrophobic thriller from C. M. Ewan, author of The House Hunt and One Wrong Turn.
Whilst queuing for the Eurostar in Paris, Mark’s four-year-old-daughter points out a fellow traveller – a ‘Bad Man’ – during a game of ‘I Spy’. As they board the train, he realizes her description may not have been wrong, as the man now carries a different suitcase – and is sitting very near to them.
This new high-octane thriller weaves an emotional family survival plot and will leave readers shuddering.
C. M. Ewan is a pseudonym for Chris Ewan, the critically acclaimed and bestselling author of many mystery and thriller novels. Chris’s first standalone thriller, Safe House, was a bestseller in the UK and was shortlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award.
He is also the author of the thrillers One Wrong Turn, The House Hunt, The Interview, Dead Line, Dark Tides, Long Time Lost and A Window Breaks, as well as the Good Thief’s Guide series of mystery novels. The Good Thief’s Guide to Amsterdam won the Long Barn Books First Novel Award and has been published in thirteen countries.
Chris lives with his wife and their two children in Somerset, where he writes full time.
Find Chris on twitter/X: @ChrisEwan and Instagram: @c.m.ewan
My thoughts: Travelling with children is stressful enough without one of them being kidnapped on the Eurostar between Paris and London, but that’s what happens to Mark as he returns from a solo parenting holiday with his young daughter and stepdaughter, teenager Freya.
He looks away for a few minutes and Freya’s gone. With his toddler in his arms, he can’t search as thoroughly as he’d like, but then a stranger tells him to sit down. If he does as he’s told then Freya will be fine. But if he doesn’t, she dies.
His wife Claire isn’t stuck at work dealing with IT chaos, she’s meeting someone, someone they all believed had died six years before. And the people who have Freya would like to talk to that someone. Mark has to make that happen. But with no way to talk to Claire due to the huge underwater tunnel he’s in, he’s stuck begging for the life of his teenage daughter and keeping his other daughter occupied. It might not be a long trip but for Mark it’s the longest train ride of his life.
It’s a really compelling and fascinating concept, they’re stuck on a train, there’s nowhere to go, no way to get help, but also super limited places to stash a teenage girl. Even when they arrive at St Pancras, with the millions of CCTV cameras everywhere, they still can’t rescue Freya from her captors without problems. And when you learn what it is the kidnappers want, and how totally beyond Mark and Claire’s normal life things have become, it’s jaw dropping.
Utterly gripping, very clever and filled with so many twists, you’ll be up all night!
*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in this blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.
Winter came for the pancakes. Hollowvale fed him the dead.
Dane Winter is unemployed and on a lonely road to nowhere. Riding his motorcycle west from New York, he spots a sign on the Interstate: Hollowvale, Pennsylvania. A place he hasn’t visited since his Redwind Security days. Back then, the town was known for its coal mines and the best pancakes he ever tasted.
A chance encounter with a distraught local woman pulls him into investigating her friend’s disappearance. When Jacob Rhodes’ body is found at the bottom of an abandoned mine shaft, the local authorities are quick to label it an accident. Winter isn’t convinced…
Between the death of Jacob and the unexplained illnesses spreading through the local population, it’s clear that nothing is as it seems in the town of Hollowvale. Worse still, Winter thinks it might have something to do with his time there two years earlier.
What starts as a quest for answers becomes a fight to expose a conspiracy that reaches far beyond the small town. But Winter is never one to give up, and he’s willing to burn it all down in order to uncover the horrific truth.
Sam Cogley is the author of popular action thrillers, melding suspense-laden espionage plots with the mesmerising world of high-tech innovations. He writes the high-octane Dane Winter thrillers for Boldwood Books. Sam lives in Victoria, Australia with his wife and children.
My thoughts: Stopping off for what he remembers as excellent pancakes, Dane Winter finds himself embroiled in a murder case and some dodgy dealings at the local plastic recycling plant after a teacher knocks him off his motorbike.
Her friend is missing, having gone camping in the woods, and she fears the worst. Dane offers to help her search for him, but what they find will send shockeaves through the local community when the truth is exposed.
Gripping, full of twists and turns, bent cops, evil corporations and one man with the skills to stay alive and shine a light on the misdeeds of others.
*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in this blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.
If this whole saga was a fight between good and evil, then who had won?
As far as Miriam could work out, neither good nor evil had triumphed yet. Now she was having to confront the grim consequences of Will’s behaviour, and she was mortally afraid. Maybe he and his darkness would win after all.
The tragic suicide of a young student starts a shocking chain of events for William Marshall, his wife Miriam and their son, Ollie. As Will descends into madness, a ghostly presence appears in their old house to protect Ollie. However, when two strangers threaten Miriam and an attempt is made to snatch Ollie, mother and son are forced to flee.
Amidst ever-present danger, they shake off pursuers to seek sanctuary in Rock House in Dorset, where they meet Caitlin and her friends. Twenty years have passed since Charlie Bond helped Caitlin solve the mystery of her mother’s death. Now, it is the turn of Charlie’s sidekick, Sam Haskell, to investigate a mysterious cult and unmask a killer.
Gill Calvin Thomas has retired from academic life and lives with her husband in Swanage, Dorset. She finds inspiration while walking in the Isle of Purbeck. Here, she is able to escape into a world of her own making, getting to know her characters, whilst she plans the next twist and turn of the plot.
As writing has become a major part of Gill’s life, she has withdrawn from taking a leading role in many community volunteer activities, although she has retained her interest in local and national politics. A lifelong feminist, Gill likes nothing better than a spirited debate on the issues of the day with family and friends. As her writing career develops, she hopes to explore those issues in her stories.
My thoughts: Worried about the changes in her husband, Miriam and her son Ollie flee their home for the safety of her cousin’s home in Dorset. Unfortunately the other members of the cult her husband seems to have founded are still after Ollie.
Especially the rather malevolent Sister Olive, who has plans of her own for William, her own husband Leo and young Ollie.
But Miriam has some new friends who want to help her stay safe and Sam goes undercover in the group to try to discern their plans and find the missing William.
Twisted and strange, this cult has deviated from their original beliefs and now Olive has seized control, and no one feels safe.
The story is clever and full of twists and turns as Miriam and Ollie try to stay ahead of this dangerous woman.
*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in this blog tour, but all opinions remain my own
She’s the woman of his dreams. He’s the monster from her nightmares.
When Daniella rescues elderly Peggy from a mugger on a Boston street, she expects nothing in return. But then she meets Peggy’s son, Lucas—devastatingly handsome and utterly captivating. Unlike her distant husband Grant, Lucas sees her. Wants her.
Daniella can’t resist and they spend one reckless night together which she immediately regrets.
Too late, because Lucas doesn’t just want Daniella. He needs her. And he’s willing to destroy everything—and everyone—standing in his way.
Lucas plays the long game, worming his way into Daniella’s life—befriending Grant, charming her twin daughters, inveigling his way into her family. Every time she turns around, he seems to be there.
As the depths of his obsession become clear, Daniella realizes she’s in a fight for her life. Because the family she tried to help is hiding something dark. Something deadly.
And she’s already in too deep to escape.
Don’t Answer the Phone – the chilling psychological thriller from the best-selling author of One Little Mistake and The Visitors.
Miranda Rijks is a writer of fast-paced, twisty psychological thrillers many of which have been Amazon bestsellers. She has an eclectic background ranging from law to running a garden centre. After surviving bone cancer, Miranda turned to writing and is now living the dream, writing suspense novels full time. She lives in West Sussex, England with her Dutch husband and two black Labradors and spends as much time as she can in the Swiss Alps.
My thoughts: Daniella helps an older woman who was being mugged. Peggy is very grateful and the two women become friends. Unfortunately this brings Daniella, a married mother of twins, to the attentions of Peggy’s son, Lucas. He’s obsessive, violent and likes to get his own way. He decides that Daniella is the one for him, and won’t let anyone – his mother, her husband, get in his way.
His campaign to win over Daniella starts well, but as she rejects him, he turns violent. But not towards her. He believes that he can still convince her to be his. Things get nastier, more violent, Daniella becomes a victim too.
There are plenty of red flags in Lucas’ behaviour, and Daniella certainly spots some of them. He’s scarily obsessive, the death of his former girlfriend worries her, other incidents make things worse. The story is gripping and full of sudden twists and turns, Daniella and her family are put into danger, and things change for them forever.
*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in this blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.
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