Humanity prepared for an alien invasion.
They weren’t the first.
After 80 years in space, the last survivors of Earth reach Eden—a new world full of promise.
And buried danger.
The planet is alive. Watching. Waiting.
Its ancient systems are starting to wake.
Then a second human ship arrives.
Stronger. Engineered. Connected as one.
Not quite human anymore.
Two versions of humanity. One planet.
This isn’t a war between species.
It’s a battle over the future itself.
If humanity survives… which one deserves to?
Outsphere: First Contact Was Only the Beginning by Guy-Roger Duvert
Anthrax to Zodiac - A Snarky PI Delves into the Most Notorious Unsolved Mysteries of the Past 150 Years by Denise Diana Huddle
Reeling from the devastation of 9/11, Americans anxiously waited for the other shoe to drop. Then the anthrax letters came, branded by the FBI as the worst biological attacks in US history. Despite a lengthy and expensive investigation, no suspect was ever charged.
Six hours after Patsy Ramsey called the Boulder police and frantically reported that her daughter had been kidnapped, on the day after Christmas, 1996, JonBenét Ramsey’s father cried out from the basement of their home and emerged from the stairs carrying the corpse of his six-year-old daughter, launching one of the most notorious murder investigations of modern times. Twenty-seven years after the crime, no one has ever been tried for the murder.
In the summer of 1969, as the first astronaut stepped on the moon and 350,000 Americans flocked to Woodstock, the Zodiac killer terrorized California residents, claiming his murder victims would be his slaves in the afterlife. Despite one of the longest-running investigations in the state’s history, the killer has never been identified.
On January 15, 1947, the body of the woman called the Black Dahlia was discovered in a vacant lot in Los Angeles. The corpse had been cut in two at the waist, eviscerated, and drained of blood. The search for her killer morphed into one of the most extensive homicide investigations in the history of the LAPD. In spite of thousands of leads and multiple confessions, the murder of Elizabeth Short has never been solved. Or has it?
Twenty-month-old Charles Lindbergh Jr. was kidnapped from the nursery of the New Jersey home of his parents, Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, on March 1, 1932. When the baby’s nurse discovered the child was missing, Charles Lindbergh summoned the police, launching the investigation into the crime of the century. Bruno Hauptmann was convicted and executed for the murder of the baby, but did Hauptmann act alone? Or could he have been aided by Charles Lindbergh himself?
On August 4, 1892, in Fall River, Massachusetts, Andrew Borden and his wife, Abby, were found dead of multiple head wounds inflicted by a sharp-edged hacking instrument. After the inquest into their deaths, Andrew Borden's eldest daughter, Lizzie, was indicted for the murders. Lizzie Borden was tried for the crimes and acquitted. No other suspect was ever charged, and the murders remain unsolved. So, we may never really know if Lizzie Borden took an axe...
Journey back through time from 2001 to 1892 as veteran PI Denise Diana Huddle brings her field-hone investigative skills and trademark snark to her in-depth examination of seven of America’s mot notorious unsolved mysteries.
From A to Z, Huddle lays out the events and evidence, identifies patterns, and tests theories. As disturbing details of the mysteries that have haunted America over the last century are revealed, the cases you thought you knew may not be so clear-cut after all.
You be the judge...Who did it?
The Catalogue: A High-Stakes Espionage Thriller by Ty Mitchell
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The Catalogue wasn’t meant to exist.
It’s a classified registry of the world’s deadliest mercenaries — operatives embedded across governments, corporations, and criminal syndicates.
And it’s been stolen.
When a brutal homicide in the Catskills of New York exposes ties to a clandestine mercenary network known only as V.E.N.O.M. (Veiled and Exclusive Nation of Organized Mercenaries), NYPD detective Jake Penny is drawn into a covert conflict far beyond rural crime scenes and police tape.
As bodies surface and operatives mobilize to recover the stolen file, Jake is pulled into a shadow war he recognizes more than he should. Intelligence agencies scramble to contain the breach. A ruthless NSA handler begins tightening the perimeter. And someone inside the network believes Jake knows far too much.
The deeper he digs, the clearer the danger becomes: in the world of V.E.N.O.M., exposure isn’t containment.
It’s elimination.
Black Velvet - Mystery by Sal Casamassima
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Theo Holmes, a direct descendant of Sherlock, is called in by the San Diego and Las Vegas police departments when eerily similar homicides of the homeless occur in each city. Assisted by Delaney Watson and PAM, a beautiful AI robot, Holmes and his team tackle DNA evidence that contradicts eye witness statements. There’s also a bizarre connection to Elvis and the beautiful song - Black Velvet - that pays homage to his life. This contemporary novel is a psychological thriller filled with unique characters, forensic science, the world of AI, and plot twists that will keep you guessing until the very end.
The Second World - a satirical science fiction novel by Jake Korell
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It's only a short 225-million kilometer, nine-month trip to the Martian biosphere in author’s satirical sci-fi “The Second World” (Feb 24, 2026).
Debut author Jake Korell takes readers to a newly sovereign Mars—where bureaucracy, ego, and generational divides run as deep as the Martian ice. When Flip Buchanan, the reluctant son of the most powerful man on the Red Planet, stumbles through two tumultuous decades of alien discoveries, killer clones, and interplanetary conflict, he discovers that building a new world isn't so different from ruining the old one.
After a decade of working in Hollywood on shows like Arrested Development and a project with Danny DeVito and Jeff Goldblum, Korell dusted off an old TV pilot and adapted it into his first novel. The result is a darkly funny, irreverent satire about American history, political and media spectacle, and the human urge to make a finite life matter in an infinite universe. The Second World blends the wit and worldbuilding of Andy Weir and John Scalzi with the biting social commentary of Kurt Vonnegut and Matt Haig. It's a speculative coming-of-age story for our era of misinformation, memes, and misplaced idealism—equal parts hilarious and heartfelt.
More about the book: Mars has declared its independence from Earth. But founding a new nation takes more than a flag, an anthem, and naming a donkey the national animal. In this satirical space epic about power, legacy, and culture, The Second World needles the myth of progress and legacy with humor, heart, and a little bit of sci-fi madness. As Mars fights to define itself, Flip Buchanan learns that the hardest part of independence—personal or planetary—is figuring out what to do with it.
Psychic Echoes: Mary Jameson Book 2: A Supernatural Thriller by J.P. Alters
Mary Jameson communicates with the dead but craves a normal life away from her paranormal past. However, when Detective Jay Santiago seeks her psychic abilities to locate a missing boy, Mary is pulled back into the supernatural realm. Facing immense danger, she must decide if rescuing the boy is worth risking her own life.
"Both a thrilling and heartbreaking tale of found family, love, sacrifice and the consequences of our choices."
The Second Signature: An Edmund Finch Art Forgery Mystery - a cozy art forgery mystery by Edward Ellis
The Second Signature: An Edmund Finch Art Forgery Mystery is a clue-driven cozy mystery set in the world of museum conservation, Dutch Golden Age painting, and wartime provenance.
Houston, 1974. Edmund Finch is a senior conservator at the Museum of Fine Arts, a man whose life is built around routine, precision, and the patient study of surfaces. He is not a detective. He does not chase danger. He examines paintings, records what he sees, and trusts that enough attention will eventually reveal the truth.
When a seventeenth-century Dutch market scene arrives in his studio for restoration, Edmund expects a difficult but ordinary conservation project: darkened varnish, surface grime, old repairs, and the familiar uncertainties of attribution. The painting has long been catalogued as the work of an artist in the circle of Jan van Kessel the Elder — valuable, interesting, but not especially mysterious.
Then Edmund finds a pigment that should not be there.
A section of the sky contains titanium white, a modern material that could not belong to a painting from the 1600s. What first seems like a technical irregularity soon becomes something stranger and more deliberate. The painting is not simply damaged, misattributed, or poorly restored. Someone has left evidence inside it, and the evidence points back to 1943.
With the help of his friend Victor Holm, an art historian at Rice University, Edmund begins to follow the trail through archives, old records, provenance files, and the evidence held in the painting itself. The deeper he looks, the clearer it becomes that the forgery was not made simply to deceive. It was made to preserve something.
For readers who enjoy atmospheric mysteries without graphic violence, The Second Signature offers a slower, more thoughtful investigation, one built on observation, patience, art history, and the small details other people miss.
A cozy art mystery for readers who enjoy museum settings, historical secrets, provenance puzzles, no graphic violence, no explicit sex, and a methodical male protagonist who solves mysteries by looking more closely than anyone else.






