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Allow me to formally introduce myself. My name is Paul Williams and I'm from Cleveland Ohio. I've been writing since I was a kid. I was heavily influenced by Goosebumps books that's when I first started writing short stories as I grew older I was influenced by hip hop music so I started crafting songs in my teens. I grew an appreciation for the rappers to tell stories on instrumentals.
I loved Jay Z Nas Tupac etc those guys shaped my formative years. I have music videos on other platforms as well.
But then I got into movies and the best director of all time to me is Martin Scorsese with his ability to reflect on the human element and emotion we all have.
I'm married with 2 kids and a wife and with a lot of time and patience I managed to complete a book series.

THE KING'S OMEN:
Bruce Edwards who has gangster ties dating back to the 1930s policy rackets vowed to never step foot into the game because his grandfather and mother both met an untimely death. He didn't want that for his family but he reaches a financial crisis and personal family issues which reel him into organized crime.
The paths he chooses in this story will be very vital towards the future of his familyThe King's Omen: The Fall of The Edwards Crime Family: Vol 1 The Book of Broken Families

Hello everyone!

My name is Juan Carlos Toral (J.C. Toral), and I'm excited to join this community. I'm a lifelong fan of science fiction and thrillers, especially stories that delve into the impact of technology, AI, and the high-stakes future battles that might await us. I'm based in Madrid, Spain.

Beyond being an avid reader, I've also recently taken the plunge into writing. My debut novel in English, "SWANWAKE: ECHOES OF FUTURE BATTLES," just launched on Amazon Kindle this week! It's a sci-fi technothriller that kicks off with a devastating city-wide blackout, sparking a futuristic war for AI supremacy, and follows characters fighting for survival amidst cyberwarfare, advanced drones, and deep-seated conspiracies.

To celebrate the launch, I'm planning a free promotion on Amazon Kindle starting tomorrow: Thursday, May 22nd, through Saturday, May 24th. I thought some of you might be interested in checking it out during the free days.
For those who might be interested, this novel is also available in its original Spanish version, titled "LA FIRMA DEL CISNE."

I'm really looking forward to discovering new books and authors through this group, participating in discussions, and sharing recommendations. I'm here to connect with fellow readers and genre fans, not just to promote.

You can find my author profile on Goodreads.

Thanks for having me, and I look forward to chatting books with you all!

Best,
J.C. Toral

SWANWAKE: ECHOES OF FUTURE BATTLES
LA FIRMA DEL CISNE

Hi! Thanks for having me in the group. I'm Kristie Wolf. I'm an indie author of military and smalltown romantic suspense.

My Project VIPER Series is about a team of special forces amputees who have been outfitted by the military with bionic, weaponized prosthetics and engineered into super soldiers. Books one and two, Too Dangerous to Love (opposites attract and bodyguard/alpha hero), and Too Lethal to Love (second chance, fake dating, and bodyguard/alpha hero) are out. Book Three, Too Guarded to Love, will be released in September.

Knife to the Heart is my enemies to lovers romantic thriller set in a Colorado ski town. My heroine is the FBI agent but hometown hero thinks he's the one with the badge.

I'm looking forward to getting to know you all. Happy Reading!

Hi everyone, my name is Thomas, and I am a crime novelist from Upstate New York, currently based in Ithaca. I’ve so far published two novels, and I am currently working on my third. While my first two novels reflect some of my experiences living in both the US and Germany, my next novel takes the reader to a small town in Upstate New York.
In addition to my novels, I have recently started writing short stories, which I am releasing in serial form on my blog (www.thomas-griffin-crime.com ). I am excited to connect with and learn about other people's work here! Sending best wishes, Thomas

I’m Peter J Charles, writing crime fiction under my pen name. My debut novel A Detective’s Dilemma draws heavily on lived experience. I’m ex‑military and later served in the drug squad in Surrey Police in the UK, working surveillance, undercover operations, and informant handling. In short: I’ve been there and done it.

These days my focus is on building a credible crime series with procedural authenticity at its core. Every detail is pressure‑tested for realism, from dialogue to atmosphere. I’m here to connect with fellow crime and thriller readers and writers, and to share the journey of launching A Detective’s Dilemma.

The second book in the series is 50% complete and the third is planned in my head.

Hi everyone — I’m A. A. Edwards, a new author based in the UK.

I haven’t been writing very long. In fact, I only started while recovering from bowel cancer. Writing began as something to help me get through recovery, give my days purpose, and make sense of everything that had happened — and somewhere along the way, it turned into something I genuinely fell in love with.

My first two books were non-fiction self-help titles, drawn from lived experience. But Bristol Summer is my first step into fiction — and crime fiction felt like the natural place for me to land.

I’m drawn to flawed characters. People who make mistakes, carry guilt, and don’t always get things right — but who are given the space to confront themselves and, hopefully, find some form of redemption. That’s the kind of story I love reading, and the kind I enjoy writing.

I come from a working-class background and still very much write from that perspective. I live in the UK, and Bristol plays a big role in my storytelling — not just as a setting, but as a living, breathing character in its own right.

Things have started to get unexpectedly exciting recently too — I’ve been invited to take part in a live BBC radio interview, which still feels a bit surreal for someone who only began writing during recovery.

I’m really looking forward to being part of this group, discovering new authors, and learning from fellow crime fiction fans.
Thanks for having me,
A. A. Edwards

Introducing myself and my series to this group. I write the Jackson Gamble PI mystery series — five books set in Nashville, Tennessee, published by Level Best Books. Started writing this character in 1983 on a commuter train in Chicago. Spent thirty-eight years being rejected before Lost Little Girl won the 2022 Shamus Award for Best First PI Novel. The newest book Goodbye is Forever, the fifth in the series, asks whether a dying triple murderer deserves one last goodbye. Gamble takes the case and the answer is not clean. If you love series PI fiction with a seasoned protagonist who gets older and more complicated with every case — this one is worth your time. The easiest way to find it on Amazon is to type "Goodbye is Forever/Stout." That will take you right to it.

Hi everyone — I'm Ane Kraus, author of the Vestfjord Echoes series, a psychological Nordic thriller series set among the fjords and fishing villages of Lofoten, Norway.

The series follows a recurring trio: Inspector Karin Eide, a methodical Norwegian detective who reads crime scenes the way other people read weather; Mikkel Arnesen, a Kabelvåg local who knows the landscape and its people better than he wants to; and Olivia Wren, an English photographer whose eye catches what it was never supposed to see. Together, they move through cases where old crimes don't die — they just get absorbed into the walls, the weather, and the silence of people who've lived too long in the same village.

My latest, THE GUEST LEDGER (Book 3), just came out. A man checks into a remote guesthouse in Kabelvåg under the name of someone dead for nineteen years — and then vanishes. No body. No explanation. Just an untouched bed, a wet shower, a window open over a drop no one should survive, and an old iron key to a door that everyone insists no longer exists. Inspector Eide knows the room was staged. What she doesn't yet know is who needed the truth buried badly enough to do it twice.

If you enjoy atmospheric Nordic noir with a gothic edge — where the house, the village, and the weather are as much characters as the people — I think you'll find something to like here.

The series starts with BLUE HOUR, followed by COLD FRONT. THE GUEST LEDGER is the third installment — with more to come.

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Hi everyone — I'm Ane Kraus, author of the Vestfjord Echoes series, a psychological Nordic thriller series set among the fjords and fishing villages of Lofoten, Norway.

The series follows a recurring trio: Inspector Karin Eide, a methodical Norwegian detective who reads crime scenes the way other people read weather; Mikkel Arnesen, a Kabelvåg local who knows the landscape and its people better than he wants to; and Olivia Wren, an English photographer whose eye catches what it was never supposed to see. Together, they move through cases where old crimes don't die — they just get absorbed into the walls, the weather, and the silence of people who've lived too long in the same village.

My latest, THE GUEST LEDGER (Book 3), just came out. A man checks into a remote guesthouse in Kabelvåg under the name of someone dead for nineteen years — and then vanishes. No body. No explanation. Just an untouched bed, a wet shower, a window open over a drop no one should survive, and an old iron key to a door that everyone insists no longer exists. Inspector Eide knows the room was staged. What she doesn't yet know is who needed the truth buried badly enough to do it twice.

If you enjoy atmospheric Nordic noir with a gothic edge — where the house, the village, and the weather are as much characters as the people — I think you'll find something to like here.

The series starts with BLUE HOUR, followed by COLD FRONT. THE GUEST LEDGER is the third installment — with more to come.

Red Tide

Get ready for an action-packed military thriller that takes readers into a world of rising global tensions, dangerous alliances, and high-stakes conflict. Red Tide by Richard Hess delivers a gripping story set in the South China Sea, where the discovery of massive resources sparks a race for power and pushes nations toward the edge of war.

With intense military strategy, compelling characters, pulse-racing aerial combat, and suspense that keeps the pages turning, this book offers an unforgettable experience for readers who enjoy modern warfare fiction and geopolitical thrillers.

Join us as we dive into this thrilling adventure and explore the action, decisions, sacrifices, and twists that make Red Tide a powerful addition to our reading discussions. 🚀📖

Hello everyone. I'm Ian Goddard, a Surrey-based author and theatre enthusiast. I've recently published Thespianage, a comic espionage thriller that combines amateur dramatics with international intrigue. Looking forward to discussing books and meeting fellow readers.

Hi everyone,

I'm Daniel Laz, a crime fiction writer from Budapest, Hungary. I've been here as a reader for a while, so it's time to introduce myself as an author too.

I write the Frankie Voss series: five slow-burn literary crime novels following forensic consultant Francesca "Frankie" Voss through Budapest, Tokyo, Istanbul, New York and Saint Petersburg.

Fair warning: Frankie is not very good at car chases or kicking down doors. She's very good at noticing when something in the evidence doesn't make sense. Each case starts with a detail that doesn't fit and pulls her back into history, and into her own family's past.

If you enjoy Tana French or le Carré-style patience in your mysteries, Book 1 is a good place to start: VOSS: Scene Documentation – Budapest
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H373VLN2

Happy to answer any questions, and always glad to hear what you're reading.

Daniel

It clearly looks like an interesting, enjoyable, and engaging book.
Very good.
I hope you visit my page on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJQ6LGPB

Daniel wrote: "Frankie is not very good at car chases or kicking down doors. She’s very good at noticing when something in the evidence doesn’t make sense. Each case starts with a detail that doesn’t fit and pulls her back into history, and into her own family’s past."

Daniel, a lead who is bad at car chases and good at noticing is the kind I will follow across five cities, and the le Carré patience is the part that sold me. Does the family thread run under all five, or does each city get its own piece of it? And how did you settle on Budapest for the first one, home advantage or because the city gave you the detail that does not fit?

Thanks, Barron. Each city has its own investigation, so the books function as separate cases, but a few threads also run quietly through the series.
Frankie’s family history is one of those threads, but it isn’t always in the foreground. In some books it matters more directly; in others the focus shifts much more toward the case itself, the records, the institutions, and what the evidence is actually saying.
Budapest was the natural place to start because it allowed those two sides of Frankie to meet: her forensic method and a part of her own past. I know the city well, so there was some home advantage, but the bigger reason was that Budapest gave me the right tension between something deeply personal and something she still had to approach as evidence.
And that last part became important to me: Frankie is very good at noticing the detail that doesn’t fit — but it gets harder when the detail belongs to her own life.

Daniel wrote: "Frankie is very good at noticing the detail that doesn't fit — but it gets harder when the detail belongs to her own life."

That last line is the whole series in one sentence, Daniel, the detail that does not fit is easy to spot in a stranger's file and nearly impossible in your own, and starting her in the city where the two overlap is a smart way to show us the method before you break it. Does Frankie know going in that Budapest is personal, or does the case walk her into it? And which of the five was hardest to keep the family thread quiet in?

Thanks, Barron. I’d probably frame it a little differently: the family element is there, especially in Budapest, but it isn’t really the spine of the whole series.

Frankie goes into Budapest because of the case, and the personal connection emerges as one layer of that investigation rather than taking it over. After that, each book is driven much more by its own case, setting, records, institutions, and evidence.

So I wouldn’t say there was one book where the family thread was especially difficult to keep quiet — because most of the time it simply isn’t the dominant thread.

What does carry through more consistently is Frankie’s way of looking at things: what is documented, what is missing, and what happens when the official version doesn’t quite hold together.