Book reviews are back! Have a book you’d like to submit? Email marketing@mechapandapublishing.com. Because of events in my own life, it took me a little bit of time to get into this book. But once I did I was hooked. It’s been a long time since a book has enticed me to stay up past…
By Billy Jensen Blurb Have you ever wanted to solve a murder? Gather the clues the police overlooked. Put together the pieces. Identify the suspect. Journalist Billy Jensen spent 15 years investigating unsolved murders, fighting for the families of victims. Every story he wrote had one thing in common – it didn’t have an ending.…
By Chen Weng In what ways is a toddler like a deadly weapon? What would it look like if your 2-year-old was an office worker? And how does being a parent completely transform one’s sense of fashion? These questions and many more are the focus of the hilarious and relatable comics by Weng Chen, a…
By Kella Campbell Is it overreacting to knock someone down for groping you? Nell Whelan is a black belt whose self-protective instincts kick in hard when she’s uncomfortable. Then she arrives at her hated day job to find the handsome jerk from the pub kicking the photocopier, and finds out that he looks familiar because…
By Helen Whistberry Jim Malhaven is a lonely hack reporter stringing along on assignments no one else wants at the local paper until he gets the scoop of his life. There’s a mysterious wraith haunting the local cemetery, and it’s up to him to get to the bottom of the ghostly goings-on. Along the way,…
By Katie Cross Lexie Greene has always had such a pretty face. Unfortunately, that’s where it seemed to stop. She’s grown up hearing her Mother constantly remind her that she needs to lose weight. And twenty-two-year-old Lexie knows she’s overweight. With her younger sister’s wedding on the horizon and a crush to stalk on Facebook,…
By Carol Rose Goldeneagle There are too many stories about Indigenous women who go missing or are murdered, and it doesn’t seem as though official sources such as government, police or the courts respond in a way that works toward finding justice or even solutions. At least that is the way Wren StrongEagle sees it.…
By Minka Kent After barely surviving a brutal attack, Brienne Dougray rarely leaves her house. Suffering from debilitating headaches and memory loss, she can rely only on her compassionate new tenant, Dr. Niall Emberlin, a welcome distraction from the discomfiting bubble that has become her existence. But Brienne’s growing confidence in her new routine is…
By Clare Pooley Julian Jessop, an eccentric, lonely artist and septuagenarian believes that most people aren’t really honest with each other. But what if they were? And so he writes–in a plain, green journal–the truth about his own life and leaves it in his local café. It’s run by the incredibly tidy and efficient Monica,…
This novel was originally serialized in Pulp Literature magazine in 2014 and 2015 as novella: ‘Stella Ryman and the Case of the Third Option’, Winter 2014; ‘The Poison Pen Affair’, Summer 2014; ‘Stella Ryman and the Four-Digit-Puzzle’, Winter 2015; and ‘Stella Ryman and the Case of the Vanishing Resident’, Summer 2015. I picked up this…
