February 2012 Blog Posts (116)

MEANS & OPPORTUNITY by C.S. Miller

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Added by C.S. Miller on February 12, 2012 at 5:27am — No Comments

"A person is a fool to become a writer. His only recourse is absolute freedom." Dahl

Luther Whitney is a thief with a conscience. He's breaking into a home of a wealthy family in Washington D.C. when the woman of the house returns with her lover.



Luther hides in the closet and the lovers proceed with their interlude. The sex gets rough and when the man is unable to perform due to his alcholoic state, there is an argument and the woman grabs a knife…

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Added by michael draper on February 12, 2012 at 5:10am — No Comments

LeftCoast, giveaways, reviews, mystery short stories, The Finder & more in new KRL issue

New issue of Kings River Life is up! We have another of our series of On The Road To Left Coast Crime featuring authors who will be attending this year's conference. This week we have J. Michael Orenduff with an interview, a review of his latest Pot Thief book, a chance to win a copy & an exclusive preview of his next book…

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Added by Lorie Ham on February 12, 2012 at 4:38am — No Comments

A Familiar Evil Only 99cents!

Jordan Russell had the perfect life until the brutal monster from her childhood resurfaced, opening up scars she thought were healed.  With the hope of finally finding closure Jordan leaves her cheating husband, and her career in the FBI, and returns to where her nightmare began.  But what awaits her in Thorny Creek will push her to the very edge of sanity and bring…

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Added by Anne Patrick on February 12, 2012 at 3:09am — No Comments

Spinetingler Award-Winning Blog Reviews Maynard Soloman

A fantastic review of 4 Funny Detective Stories - Starring Maynard Soloman from Detectives Beyond Borders:

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Added by Benjamin Sobieck on February 12, 2012 at 12:27am — 2 Comments

SCREAM CATCHER is FREE for KINDLE

The new stand alone thriller SCREAM CATCHER is FREE all weekend long for your Kindle!

Added by Vincent Zandri on February 11, 2012 at 10:54pm — 2 Comments

Prosper Snow Series

The Prosper Snow series is comprised of two books, The Kult and Killers. As a brief bit of info, The Kult was filmed over a year ago by an independent production company. No release details yet, but there's a trailer on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS-ZF67cEiI and the second book, Killers has just progressed to the 2nd round in the International Thriller Writers 2012 Awards.…

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Added by Shaun Jeffrey on February 11, 2012 at 9:16pm — No Comments

Meet Me in VA tomorrow

Tomorrow I’ll have a book signing in a Barnes and Noble. This is a great store - not their biggest but plenty big enough to have a huge selection, a great cafe, and helpful folks working there. Please stop by between 1pm and 5pm and say hi, and complete your collection of my Hannibal Jones mysteries of Stark & O'Brien thrillers. The store is at 12193 Fair Lakes Promenade, Fairfax, VA -…

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Added by Austin S. Camacho on February 11, 2012 at 3:57am — No Comments

Nice Read: City of Lost Girls by Declan Hughes (Review)

Declan Hughes (born 1963) is an Irish novelist, playwright and screenwriter most widely known for his crime novels center around the Irish-American detective Ed Loy. Hughes lives in Dublin with his wife and two daughters.

In…

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Added by Ehsan Ehsani on February 11, 2012 at 3:02am — 1 Comment

Review: "11 the Hardest Way" by Graham Smith

Let's get this out of the way first.…

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Added by Benjamin Sobieck on February 10, 2012 at 11:07pm — No Comments

Fear, Part 1

As the first anniversary of the publication of Night Shadows approaches (February 16), I want to present two blogs regarding fear.

 

I once read an article stating how fear is an acronym for False Evidence Against Reality. The article went on to discuss how most fears aren’t as devastating when the reality of the situation is revealed.

 

For instance, I fear change. Change in my residence or employment usually produces a queasy feeling in my stomach.…

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Added by Stephen Brayton on February 10, 2012 at 5:21pm — No Comments

Review - The Winter of the Lions, Jan Costin Wagner

Book Title:   THE WINTER OF THE LIONS

Author:  Jan Costin Wagner

ISBN:   9781846553462

Location:   Finland

Series:  Kimmo Joentaa

Publisher:   Harvill Secker

Year of Publication:   2011



Every year since the tragic death of his wife Detective Kimmo Joentaa has prepared for the isolation of Christmas with a glass of milk and a bottle of vodka to arm him against the harsh Finnish winter. However, this year events take an unexpected turn when a young prostitute…

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Added by Karen from AustCrime on February 10, 2012 at 3:18pm — No Comments

Review - Tooth and Claw, Nigel McCrery

Book Title:   TOOTH AND CLAW

Author:  Nigel McCrery

ISBN:  9781849160186

Location:   United Kingdom

Series:   Mark Lapslie

Publisher: Quercus

Year of Publication:  2009



Carl Whittley is at home.  He's twenty-two and charged with caring for his crippled father.  It's not much of a life but he has plenty of distractions.  He's just tortured a sexy, young TV presenter to death and he's planning to blow an anonymous commuter to pieces.



DCI Mark Lapslie…

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Added by Karen from AustCrime on February 10, 2012 at 12:32pm — No Comments

A Free Kindle Story

If you've got a Kindle or Kindle app, you might want to take a free look at my short story "The Devil's Snare." The Devil himself narrates about the time he messed with the wrong 72 year-old and tried to tempt Edith Porter. If you liked the Screwtape Letters, there's a chance you'll enjoy this one. Free at Amazon today and tomorrow.

Added by Steven Torres on February 10, 2012 at 10:46am — No Comments

Weekly best seller list for Scandinavian Crime Fiction

Thanks to a tattooed, adventurous , bisexual computer hacker named Lisbeth Salander, Scandinavian crime fiction is now one of the most popular categories among mystery readers around the world. So far Noir-flavored books from Scandinavia have sold more than 6 million copies in the United States and 35 million copies worldwide and have become a publishing…

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Added by Ehsan Ehsani on February 10, 2012 at 9:16am — 2 Comments

Get Real

In one of my favorite movies, Misery, based on Stephen King’s novel of the same name, James Caan plays Paul Sheldon, the famous author of a popular historical romance series. Paul decides that, if he’s ever going to be a “real” writer again, he needs to produce something else. He goes to his usual writer’s retreat, a lodge in the mountains, and completes a new novel, as yet untitled; he’s very…
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Added by Patricia Gligor on February 10, 2012 at 12:15am — 2 Comments

Three Reasons I Gave My Royalty Check to Charity





There are three reasons I decided to donate my royalty payment to the National Kidney Foundation.



1) It's a great charity, rated four stars (the highest possible) by…

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Added by Benjamin Sobieck on February 9, 2012 at 10:30pm — 1 Comment

Ideas for crime and thrillers can come from anywhere including social networks and cyber crime says crime author Pauline Rowson

I came across a fascinating article on the Writers Forensic Blog, which not only provides some basic research for someone writing a crime or thriller novel but can also throw up ideas for plots and perhaps warn those using social networks to be a little bit more careful about what they post.



Below is just a flavour of  what can happen from author and law professor, Lori Andrews…

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Added by Pauline Rowson on February 9, 2012 at 9:40pm — No Comments

Defending the truth is done for various purposes and sometimes as an end itself.

Andy Barber is an assistant district attorney outside Boston Mass.

He accepts the case when a child at his son Jacob's school is murdered.



Soon Andy's life begins to explode. Jacob is accused of murder and Andy is accused of failure to give the case to another attorney because of conflict of interest.

 

An ambitious assistant D.A. in Andy's office says enough so Andy is placed on administrative leave and the other attorney gets the…

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Added by michael draper on February 9, 2012 at 10:32am — No Comments

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