Today I talk about how we decided to feed attendees at our upcoming Creatures, Crimes & Creativity conference on my blog, Another Writer's Life. http://ascamacho.blogspot.com/

 Andrew Gross's latest book - 15 Seconds- is exactly the kind of story that draws me in from the first page. Everyday guy…

Another great book I finished far too quickly! Crow's Landing by Brad Smith is the second book featuring Virgil Cain. I read the first book (…

Today I talk about the mission of our new small press, Intrigue Publishing, on my blog, Another Writer's Life. http://ascamacho.blogspot.com/

The District of Wonders Network, home of four genre podcasts (StarShip Sofa, Tales to Terrify, Crime City Central and Protecting Project Pulp) wants to take things up a notch. The original episode of SSS still gets downloaded 200 times a week. Our four shows get 70,000 downloads a month. That's a lot of audio traffic.

We'll air your story for free. Would you like to advertise your publishing house or another new venture? Are you interested in sponsoring a show? We've come up with a…

My new publisher, Intrigue Publishing, has finally gotten the rights to my first published novel, Blood and Bone. To celebrate you can get get a copy for free this week! Just click here.…

On TV, it works in about three seconds and it's right every time. I want it. I know the face is familiar, but where have I seen it, what is my connection to it, and most importantly, what name is attached to it?

It happens often at book signings, but first, know this: I taught school for many years. Decades, even. Figure somewhere between a hundred fifty to two hundred students each year. Then add in all the people I worked with, especially those who moved on after only a year or two:…

The new issue of Kings River Life has a fun mystery short story by Kaye George http://kingsriverlife.com/08/04/you-can-do-the-math-mystery-short-story/

There's also a review of Lee Goldberg's latest Monk book, "Mr. Monk Is A Mess", a behind the book interview with Lee & you can enter for a chance to win a copy of the book…

12 million people take a cruise each year.

Most have fun.

Some die.

Henry Grave investigates.

Join Henry Grave aboard the cruise ship Indulgence.

Henry Grave is an investigator for the Association of Cruising Vessel Operators.  A World War II P.O.W., Henry is as cunning as he is charming, and…

I'm stepping away from my FBI related blogs just to chat for a moment about craft. I had a major epiphany this week that not only will help me in turning a so-so book to a must read story. But it will also ease the process of writing the future books in the series. I can almost feel the stories coming now.



I've been going through quite a bit of turmoil over this story--this J.J. McCall…

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The best thrillers feature complex characters thrown into impossible situations that generate nerve-shattering suspense. By that definition, THE SURVIVOR by Gregg Hurwitz might be one of the best. Read my review in The Big Thrill, the newsletter of the International Thrillers Writers.
http://www.thebigthrill.org/2012/07/the-survivor-by-gregg-hurwitz/

The first Friday in August bodes another day of heat and no rain…just like the last, uh, I can’t remember how many. The weather girl on WHO Radio is bored out of her mind because the forecast never changes.

So, I’m off to pick up this week’s featured author and we transport to what she calls her wonderland. (Again, I don’t know the actual destination because…

Oh, it has been waaaay too long since the last book by Inger Ash Wolfe in this absolutely wonderful Canadian series! My copy of A Door in the River arrived - I set it aside and picked the day I would read it. Yes, the one…

“Oh, come on. If I’ve got to watch my language just because they let a few broads in, I’m going to quit. How the hell can you run a goddamn railroad without swearing?”

-Caz Dolowicz (Tom Pedi), The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)

Book Title:   A DENIABLE DEATH

Author:  Gerald Seymour    

ISBN:  9781444705850

Location:  Afghanistan, Iran

Series:  Badger Baxter

Publisher:  Hodder & Stoughton

Year of Publication:  2011



C.R.O.P.: Covert Rural Observation Posts are places where men like Danny 'Badger' Baxter hide for endless, motionless hours, secretly recording criminal or terrorist activity.



But now Badger has a bigger job than photographing dissident Republicans in muddy…

I recently had a patron ask if I knew of a good historical mystery series for her. She was older, and said she liked stories set in the war years such as Charles Todd's Bess Crawford books. (which she highly recommended) Well, I did indeed have a series for her, but although I was familiar with…

The Past Never Ends, a legal mystery by Jackson Burnett, is now available for the Kindle and Nook.  A paper edition will be available soon from Amazon.com.

This is the upshot:

A simple task, Attorney Chester Morgan thinks. Get a copy of a public record for a young man whose only friend has died in an unexplained accidental death.…