“I went into Fractured expecting a standard suspense novel and found instead a richly layered psychological exploration wrapped in a haunting mystery. Jason Melby has crafted a story that thrives on nuance and emotional authenticity, elevating it far above the genre’s typical offerings. What sets this novel apart is its atmosphere, a suffocating, mesmerizing sense of dread that slowly wraps...

“Jason Melby’s Fractured is an exquisitely crafted thriller that rewards patient readers with one of the most unsettling and emotionally resonant narratives I’ve encountered this year. The novel lingers on the fragile edges of grief, identity, and moral ambiguity, all while wrapping its readers in an atmosphere thick enough to taste. The setup is irresistible: Stu Harvey, a man already...

  Simon selected the needle nose pliers for reasons obvious to him. The pliers were more industrial, unlike his dental tools designed for specific applications. The pliers were easier to grip with the rubber handles and fit comfortably in his hand. Crude but highly effective, needle nose pliers served his objective without regard for a certain technique or developed skill...

Stu typed on his laptop behind a wobbly wooden desk positioned away from the window in his room to avoid the distraction from windblown trees and their bounty of autumn foliage exploding with vibrant orange, red, and yellow hues. Spurred by his aggressive first draft deadline, he reviewed the notes he’d compiled during previous conversations with Simon. A prolific author...

Lisa Harvey rocked back and forth empty-handed in her nursery glider beside a cadre of miniature zoo animals hanging from the musical mobile above the finished crib. A hand-painted nightlight cast a soft glow near one end of the darkened room bathed in lavender scent from a plug-in air freshener. “The room looks nice,” she told Stu, who entered the...

Jason Melby Unveils His Forthcoming Thriller, “Fractured” Suspense fiction is about to get another jolt with FRACTURED, the latest thriller from author Jason Melby, scheduled for release in October 2025. FRACTURED is Melby’s follow-up novel to his previous work, PSYCHOPATHIC. Less cerebral and more visceral in some respect, FRACTURED exemplifies Melby’s ability to craft compelling narratives with unique characters that...

Faith sat forward on the Red Line Metro departing Dupont Circle three blocks from her apartment. Situated in a window seat with Zeus in front of her, she felt the train lurch forward as it got underway inside the station tunnel. Minutes later, she heard the brakes hiss and squeal as the train came to a gradual stop along the...

Dr. Steven Jenkins clinked his wedding band against the computer mouse on his stand-up desk near a two-story window overlooking a dreary winter skyline above the ice-encrusted landscape surrounding the Coma Recovery Center in Cold Spring, New York. A well-groomed goatee, a shade lighter than his thinning, silver hair, extended from his prominent chin. He gazed at the monitor through...

1 Labor Forty-two-year-old Stewart Roland Harvey yanked his kitchen junk drawer off the rails and turned it upside down, spilling the contents on the granite countertop. Television news stoked hurricane fears with B-roll footage of Florida reporters on scene, followed by grievous weatherman predictions for catastrophic winds and biblical storm surge along a westerly track toward the greater Orlando area....

MIAMI LIVING Suspense fiction is about to get another jolt with FRACTURED, the latest thriller from author Jason Melby, scheduled for release in October 2025. FRACTURED is Melby’s follow-up novel to his previous work, PSYCHOPATHIC. Less cerebral and more visceral in some respect, FRACTURED exemplifies Melby’s ability to craft compelling narratives with unique characters that explore the boundaries of paranoia,...