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Jeff Markowitz

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Hometown:
Monmouth Junction, NJ
About Me:
I am the author of the Cassie O'Malley Mysteries, quirky stories set deep in the NJ Pine Barrens. For more than 30 years, I have worked in the non-profit sector, developing programs that enhance quality of life. Recently, I discovered that I also have something of a flair for killing people.

I love to write early in the morning. You can usually find me at my computer at 5:30 in the morning, plotting someone's murder.
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Writer
Website:
http://www.publishedauthors.net/jeffmarkowitz
Books And Authors I Like:
Megan Abbott, James Sallis, Elmore Leonard, Jack Getze, Ken Bruen, Jason Starr, Dashiell Hammett, Michael Chabon, Jack Kerouac, Kurt Vonnegut, Charles Dickens, Dr. Suess
Rag sheet journalist and amateur sleuth Cassie O’Malley is back in A Minor Case of Murder. When Andy MacTavish brings minor league baseball to White Sands Beach, not everyone welcomes the club. Birders are especially upset by the location of Sand Skeeter Ballpark, but will they resort to murder to protect the birds’ nesting areas? When a woman dies at the ballpark, during the final game of the season, Andy asks Cassie for help. Is it murder? Is the dead woman the intended target? Does the dead woman signal the end of the dispute or is this just the beginning of hostilities?

Tag along as Cassie and her unusual band of cohorts attempt to untangle the clues in A Minor Case of Murder.

"...This fine sports whodunit pays homage to minor league baseball…The story line is a cozy that looks deep into the soul of the heroine as she begins to unravel the motive behind the murder of the mascot until she finally hits a walk off homerun. Sub-genre fans will want to watch all nine innings of this delightful hometown baseball mystery." --- Midwest Book Review

"...As Cassie balances the Skeeter case, her new-found love life, her newspaper job and her friend Cheyenne's mayoral campaign, we are introduced to a large cast of fascinating characters. Jeff Markowitz does a terrific job of fleshing out even the minor characters. We learn to know and like all of them, even the one who turns out to be the one who done it." --- Crimespree Magazine

"Jeff Markowitz approaches the mystery genre with a rare and refreshing sense of humor, bringing his readers on a journey through an entertaining world where his characters are intelligent, fun and wonderfully lovable." --- Wild River Review

A Five Star First Edition Mystery from Thomson Gale
ISBN 1594144877

www.publishedauthors.net/jeffmarkowitz

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I'm guest blogging today at The Stiletto Gang (www.thestilettogang.blogspot.com). I hope you'll take a few minutes out from your Fourth of July festivities to check out my post about True Crime. Thanks. And Happy Fourth!

Posted on July 5, 2008 at 12:07am —

Jeff Markowitz

Goodbye 2007

The location of the annual New Year’s Eve Party had been in an established rotation for more years than they could count. A neighborhood tradition, eight families, each one taking their turn as hosts. Once every eight years it was Jimmy and Ellen Thomson’s turn. Always they followed John and Susan Berryman and preceded Marty and Ronnie Stansfield. The tradition, which began before any of them had children, had continue

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Posted on December 18, 2007 at 10:06am —

Jeff Markowitz

Book Signing Tonight

I'll be speaking and signing copies of A Minor Case of Murder at 7:00 tonight at the Bound Brook Memorial Library in Bound Brook, NJ. If you're in the neighborhood, I hope you'll stop by and say hello.

Posted on August 23, 2007 at 8:38pm —

Jeff Markowitz

Thorndike Press Author Day

I'd like to use this space today to thank Mary P. Smith, Tiffany Schofield and everyone else at Thorndike Press/Five Star for their gracious hospitality at Author Day, last Friday in Waterville, Maine.

Also to my fellow Five Star authors who made the trip to Waterville - it was great good fun.

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Posted on August 7, 2007 at 10:18pm —

Jeff Markowitz

Summer Mystery Reading Challenge

Every day this summer you can find wonderful books in the Summer Mystery Reading Challenge at Reviewed by Liz. I am very pleased to be the featured author today. So stop by her site and leave a comment or question.

And go back from time-to-time to discover other wonderful mystery writers. You might even want to sign up and take the challenge. To borrow from Liz, "Because life is too short for mediocre books."…

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Posted on July 20, 2007 at 9:39pm —

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At 8:07am on April 4, 2008, Earl Merkel said…
Jeff:

I thoroughly enjoyed the LIM interview also.

Thanks for the good wishes about VIRGINS AND MARTYRS. Pub date is April 15, but the wait was eased somewhat when, earlier this week, I was informed that the April 1 issue of Library Journal gave a "starred" review to V&M, in the book's first national review. T'was a nice way to start 'er off.

I'll check in on your website, and urge others to do likewise.

Best,

--Earl Merkel
At 6:41am on April 4, 2008, Jennie Spallone said…
How's it been going since LIM?
At 2:40am on April 4, 2008, L.J. Sellers said…
Hi Jeff
I write first thing in the morning too . . . before all the other responsibilities kick in.
Sounds like a fun series.
At 8:25am on December 19, 2007, Jackie Tritt said…
Wow, Jeff, that must be the fastest acceptance on record. Hoping I can find Cassie O'Malley in the wilds of Oz.

Jackie
At 4:44am on November 7, 2007, Eddie Vincent said…
Hi Jeff,
Hope all is well, I'm looking forward to next book in the Cassie O'Malley Mysteries series.
I loved the one I read.
At 9:35am on August 9, 2007, Michael Allan Mallory said…
Jeff, it was great to meet you in Waterville. It was a fun day. Best of luck to you, too!
At 10:47pm on August 7, 2007, Jack Getze said…
Thanks, Jeff, for the kind words. I hope you got a few laughs. I'm hoping to catch up on my reading at the end of September.
At 2:17am on August 3, 2007, Chip DePew said…
Hey Jeff, Rosie had a smash-up interview with ya a little while back, you are quite a character!

Have a great day!
At 8:38am on July 27, 2007, Kelli Stanley said…
Hi, Jeff, and thanks for the invite! The BEA sounds like it was a lot of fun (as does the book!)

I'm planning to attend our regional independent book dealer's expo in October. Any plans for Bouchercon?
At 11:45pm on July 13, 2007, carole gill said…
I got into hardboiled fiction not too long ago. And I do enjoy pulp. Glad to see you do. I understand it's making a comeback?
Any way, that's what I'm writing now. Just joined. all the best.
 
 

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