The Deadly Gamble

Part One - The Crime

Private Investigator Alexander Steele needs a break.  Earlier this year he took on drug kingpin Fat Daddy in the Case of the Death Dealer.  On the…

The Deadly Gamble

The Suspects

Here is the list of suspects based on access and motive.

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I know many of you are at Bouchercon, but when you get some down time and for those of us who couldn't go, check out the new issue of Kings River Life again filled with mystery fun, some of it with a touch of the supernatural during our month of celebrating Halloween!

First we have a review of "An Apple For The Creature" which has a Sookie story by Charlaine Harris and stories from Rhys Bowen, Amber Benson & many others & you can enter to win a copy of the…

Want radio access to talk about your novel? Information on such a site is on this week's Friday Round-Up. You'll also find links to valuable articles such as tips for goal-setting and success, basics for creating a website and making memorable settings. Read about the career path of Medieval priests and a sexy excerpt of a novel. Plus, should the book written by a member of SEAL Team 6 ever been published? Just one person's opinion.…

Back in April this year, I fired off a story in the general direction of that award winning home of fine fiction, Thrillers, Killers 'N' Chillers.

I had forgotten all about it, (or maybe subconsciously I just blocked it out) until an e-mail from new crime editor and former Flash Fiction Offensive head honcho, David Barber hit my in box the other week.

David had found my beer stained, unintelligible scribble languishing…

This weekend I will be signing my novels at the Oktoberfest Arts & Crafts Bazaar at Fort Belvoir. Like in Germany, this Oktoberfest is a community wide event that celebrates the season with carnival rides, authentic traditional food, and an Arts & Crafts Bazaar!

The Belvoir Enlisted Spouses’ Club hosts the Arts & Crafts Bazaar each year as their major fundraiser for their Military Dependent Scholarship Fund. So come on out, get your autographed novels, and make their event…

A whole host of titles in the popular DI Andy Horton crime series by Pauline Rowson are to be released over the next eight months.Responding to demand Severn House Publishers is to publish the new DI Andy Horton crime novel, Undercurrent, the ninth in the series, in the UK in January 2013 and in the USA in May 2013. They have also…

From now to Columbus Day you could make a great discovery too – my mystery novel Collateral Damage which is FREE for Kindle owners through Monday! –
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The Reading Divas Book Club’s official reviewer said some very nice things about Damaged Goods on Amazon. Because her five-star review represents a group of tough-minded and picky readers I made it the featured review on my web site. http://ww.ascamacho.com  

Jack Reacher returns in the A Wanted Man - the 17th entry in this series by Lee Child.…

If you head over to Out Of The Gutter you'll be staring down the barrel of my latest. 'The Legend of Johnny Kool' is a story I've wanted to write for a while. I guess you could call it fan fiction, but not in the way you're thinking. Celebrity can be a blessing and a curse or so I'm told, it's not something I'll ever need to worry about!

Whether you’re looking for a new mystery, an intriguing caper story or a taut thriller by a writer who has something to say about today’s society, you’ll want to check out Gary Phillips’ the WARLORD OF WILLOW RIDGE. I reviewed it for the International Thriller Writers newletter, The Big Thrill. Check it out!

http://www.thebigthrill.org/2012/09/the-warlord-of-willow-ridge-by-gary-phillips

This book was reviewed by a former Guardian and Times writer and came across it on Amazon Kindle Store.

I  really enjoyed it, as much as I've enjoyed anything this year. Fresh style, interesting characters and great story. It might not be for hard boiled fans, though to be honest if you enjoy a good CF read you're bound to like it. Don't expect serial killers and cantankerous detecitves... do expect an investment in a great new character Jill Shadow and a book that increases with pace…

Book Title:  SHADOW OF THE ROCK

Author: Thomas Mogford

ISBN:  9781408824160

Location:  Gibraltar, Tangiers

Series:  Spike Sanguinetti

Publisher:  Bloomsbury

Year of Publication:  2012



On a humid summer night in Gibraltar, lawyer Spike Sanguinetti finds Solomon Hassan, an old school friend, waiting on his doorstep.



Accused of murdering a Spanish girl in Tangiers, Solomon swears his innocence. He has managed to skip across the Straits, but the Moroccan…

I was hooked on Karin Slaughter's writing from the first book, Blindsighted.  The first six books were set in Grant County and featured the local sheriff and his wife, the local coroner. They're excellent crime/mystery books, with great…

We just started a blog for the Creatures, Crimes & Creativity Con. Everyone attending will be invited to post there. You can keep up with the latest news there and ask questions in the comments space. http://creaturescrimescreativity.blogspot.com  /

I've given up telling people I'm going to Bouchercon next weekend, at least the people who aren't rabid mystery writers like me. Instead I say I'm attending a big meeting for mystery readers and writers in Cleveland. Most of the time that gets me a funny look that might mean, "I knew you were a little nuts." Mystery conferences are in some ways like the teachers' meetings I used to have to attend. There has to be programming, a sort of raison d'etre, so panels on various aspects of reading…

A Killing Coast, the seventh in the DI Horton series is now available as an ebook pubished by Severn House. 

Set on the South Coast of England, in the Solent area, Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight,…