In Devil’s Night, Denver cab driver, Brendan Murphy, a.k.a. “Murph,” drops off four costumed teens at a Halloween-themed haunted house party. Later, worried about whether the kids made it home safely, he is pulled into the vortex of an eerie con game. He endures a hellish week of seances, arson and a spooky graveyard chase. Murph has only himself to blame for his troubles. He’s violated his most cherished principle: Never, under any circumstances, get involved in the personal lives of your fares.

The Discharge is the third novel in a trilogy about military life and its aftermath by the late writer Gary Reilly. The novels are based on Reilly's service as an MP in Vietnam and his experiences before and after the war. Private Palmer, Reilly's protagonist, has trained to become a military policeman (The Enlisted Men's Club, ) served a year in the Southeast Asian war zone (The Detachment) and now faces the challenge of finding his away again as a civilian (The Discharge). The transition at home is rocky. Palmer's strategies for surviving military...