I will be on an author’s panel at the Virginia Festival of the Book. You can check out all the details here. http://www.vabook.org/site12/participants/details.php?partID=175

Have you read or heard of Mo Hayder? Well, if you're a thriller/mystery/crime addict, you'll want to look her up.

Hanging Hill is in set in England. In the prologue we're introduced to a pair of sisters - Zoe, always the strong, resilient one,  is a police…

I wanted to let members of CrimeSpace know about a new crime fiction ebook publishing company that my partners and I are setting up and ask you to help spread the word to authors looking for a publisher.



Bang! Publishing is currently accepting submissions. Our guidelines are on our temporary website www.bangpublishing.com and any sub-genre of crime fiction is welcome. The main things that we are looking…

Much has happened since my last post here.First, I had a great book signing at the Annapolis Bookstore.It’s one of the last great independent bookstores in my area, with a café and a nice selection of used, antique and new books.I made a lot of new friends that day.

I also signed books at the monthly luncheon put on by…

Another great week on The G-ZONE!

Great guests, plenty of fun and most of all: great stuff for any reader or author. Tune in,call in, email in a question, be part of the conversation!

Monday Jan. 30 11.30 am EST- International Best-Selling author David L. Hoof

Tues. Jan. 31 4pm EST- Jo-Anne Vandermullen

Wed. Feb 1 2.30 pm EST- Lisa Doctor

Thursday Feb. 2 5.30 pm EST – Stephen H. King

Friday –TGIF-Feb. 3 4pm EST-CK Webb/Anthony Neil Smith/Les Edgerton…

Book Title:   THE COLD COLD GROUND

Author:  Adrian McKinty

Location:   Northern Ireland

Series:   Sean Duffy

Publisher:   Serpents Tail / Allen & Unwin

Year of Publication:   2012



Northern Ireland. Spring 1981.



Hunger strikes. Riots. Power cuts.



A homophobic serial killer with a penchant for opera. And a young woman's suicide that may yet turn out to be murder.



On the surface, the events are unconnected, but then things - and people…

Book Title:   COCAINE BLUES

Author:  Kerry Greenwood

ISBN:   9781742377438

Location:   Melbourne

Series:   Phryne Fisher

Publisher:   Allen & Unwin

Year of Publication:   2012



Introducing Australia's most elegant and irrepressible sleuth.



The London season is in full fling at the end of the 1920s, but the Honourable Phryne Fisher - she of the green-grey eyes, diamante garters and outfits that should not be sprung suddenly on those of nervous…

Book Title:   MILES OFF COURSE

Author:  Sulari Gentill

ISBN:   9780987068521

Location:  New South Wales

Series:   Rowland Sinclair

Publisher:   Pantera Press

Year of Publication:   2012



In early 1933, Rowland Sinclair and his companions are ensconced in the superlative luxury of The Hydro Majestic - Medlow Bath, where trouble seems distant indeed.



And then Harry Simpson vanishes.



Croquet and pre-dinner cocktails are abandoned for the High…

Lee Child returns to Jack Reacher's time while a member of the military to tell this story.

Reacher is a major in the military police and assigned to observe a murder investigation outside of a U.S. Ranger base in rural Mississippi.

He meets the sheriff, Elizabeth Devereaux. She tells him she's investigating the death of that woman but also two…

Here's the second version of the cover to my upcoming reference e-book. What do you think? Here's a link to the first one.

In the FBI action against Kim Dotcom uploaders of copy right protected items now also face a laundering charge. It is a good example of the way in which the state bends and strechted the legal tools which were once put into place for a specific threat: first against drug money, then against organised crime (whatever that means), to protect the integrity of the financial system (but undermined by its own most non-integre…

New issue of Kings River Life is up! We have a fun interview with suspense/spy novelist Thomas Caplan, a review of his book "The Spy Who Jumped Off the Screen" & a chance to win a copy of the book http://kingsriverlife.com/01/28/interview-with-suspense-author-thomas-caplanbook-reviewgiveaway/

Some history on how Left Coast Crime was first created & some tips on doing…

I'd like to introduce Amy Alessio, my partner in crime, or Hearts & Daggers, three novellas celebrating Valentine's Day.

Amy is an outstanding YA librarian, an author, a collector of vintage cookbooks, and Amy offers very successful cooking & cookbook programs to Libraries-successful as in room filled to capacity-successful. Did I forget to mention that Amy is a wife and mother? I have no idea how she does it, maybe some of her energy I'd like to introduce my partner in crime…

When you hear the name Sherlock Holmes, what are some of the things you imagine? The distinctive deerstalker hat? The curved pipe, maybe a magnifying glass? It’s a classic image, somewhat created by those who portrayed Holmes on stage. Maybe some remember Holmes playing the violin during periods when a case particularly perplexed him. Or maybe his storing his tobacco in a stocking. Possibly the true fans will remember his use of cocaine.

Nero Wolfe brings to mind a large man…

“Amish Forever-Volume 4- A Cold Winter”- Roger Rheinheimer & Crystal Linn

“Amish Knitting Circle- Volume 8- Wings To Fly”- Karen Anna Vogel

“What Friends Are Made Of”- Randy K. Wallace

“How I Met Your Mother- Volume 5- Shattered Glass”- Mark cooper

“Slouching Toward Bethlehem- Volume 4- The Stranger in Dreams”- William Tooker

“Without Notice”- Jason Hughes

“The Man of Shadows-Volume 3”- Angel Zapata

“Wicked Little Lies-Volume 3” –Tanya…

Heartland Gothic is a black comedy of going home and reawaking. Depression, early midlife crisis, and strange small town eccentricities drive this gothic story of failed Hollywood screen writer Mark West after he survives losing his contract, agent, car, girlfriend, and a comical suicide attempt on the same day he gets the news his mother in Iowa has been killed by a drunk…

Starting today for a very brief time, my 2007 debut novel, HEAD GAMES, is available for free download exclusively for your Kindle right here.

This is the novel that introduced crime novelist Hector Lassiter, “the man who lives what he…

  Carl Miller isn't good with people and goes out of his way to avoid them. Eric Eastman is a popular architect and friends with everyone. When the two men meet, by chance, at Herm's bar, they strike up an instant friendship unfamiliar to Carl.

His life begins to unfold in ways he could never have imagined until his new friend asks him for a favor. It's a very simple…