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Ed Lynskey's Mysteries News, January 2025Hi Everybody,
I remain blessed with good health and spent the past year writing, editing, and publishing the next titles in my long-running P.I. Frank Johnson Mystery Series. 30 of them are now available. One of the front covers is shown here. All Frank Johnson books are on sale for $2.99. Here is the web link to my Amazon author's page, which is the easiest way to see my P.I. Frank Johnson novels: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08P7LZTM9
Many of my fiction titles published through ECL Press, including my new Frank Johnson mysteries, are sold as trade paperbacks on Amazon. You can also purchase my ebooks from Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Apple, and other online ebook sellers.
This past year, I also released my new cozy mystery title, NOZY CAT 5 (its front cover shown above): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DHW9BMH1
Finally, I published my standalone private eye title, OUTSIDE THE WIRE, as a Kindle Unlimted which you can read for FREE at this link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0D...
Since readers are more likely to buy something with ratings, you can help me out by taking a few minutes to rate my books on Amazon (or wherever you prefer). Be on the lookout for my next books newsletter, coming out in early 2026. Until then, I wish you a healthy and happy time filled with loads of terrific reads.
Best,
Ed Lynskey
P.S. As always, Frannie Cat says hello!
Diane wrote: "Murder on the Orient Express is one of my favorites - I love the 1974 with Sean Connery and Lauren Bacall. I saw the 2017 with Johnny Depp and Michelle Pfeiffer but something was missing (smile) Of..."Thanks for the wonderful comments, Diane. I enjoyed reading them again this morning! I also like Lauren Bacall.
This 2015 short documentary shows the neighborhood and duplex where Raymond Chandler lived (in 1932) and wrote his short stories. The narrator says it looks a lot now as it did in during Chandler's lifetime. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REJRI...
Sue Grafton discusses her V Is For Vengeance in her alphabet mystery series. Funny and insightful, it's worth a listen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIOiZ...
Insightful interview taped with Ross Macdonald in the mid-1970s and released in 1977 under an NEA grant. We meet his grandson (who later OD'ed in Las Vegas) and his dogs. The worn-out film quality makes it sound scratchy and wavery. He shows us his writing space and describes his creative process of using notebooks written in longhand. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT3Qp...
The following list was first published in The Guardian. I have seen the movie adaptations of Murder on the Orient Express and And Then There Were None. https://www.theguardian.com/books/200...
The 1958 interview Raymond Chandler gave with Ian Fleming for the BBC is available on YouTube. Chandler sounds half in the bag. They touch on various writerly subjects. I first heard it years ago, and this time found more humor in their chat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj6cc...
Not a very good quality recording of author Harry Crews interviewed by Dennis Miller on his TV talk show. He discussed his novel, SCAR LOVER.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpeFm...
I had the pleasure and honor to interview the late, great mystery writer, Dorothy Uhnak, in 2004. Here's the link:http://www.mysteryfile.com/Uhnak/Uhna...
Diane wrote: "I love the cozy mystery read with knitting because I knit and so I can relate. I've been busy with blankets for all my friends too! It is relaxing and they keep saying it's like meditation."Thanks, Diane. It's getting hot. Stay cool!
I don't knit but my wife does all the time, it seems. She's knitted baby blankets for all the newborn nieces and nephews. She finds it is relaxing.https://www.toledolibrary.org/blog/kn...
I joined Goodreads in July 2008 and have posted 698 reviews of the books I have read. I published my first book, The Dirt-Brown Derby, in July 2006. I post the major news about my books, past and new titles, in my Isabel and Alma Trumbo Cozy Mystery, Nozy Cat Cozy Mystery, and Private Investigator Frank Johnson Mystery series. My books that can be found at Goodreads are displayed on the group's bookshelf. I primarily write mysteries with one science fiction novel, too.
James Dickey played the sheriff in the movie Deliverance based on his adventure novel by the same name:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gh5B...
I haven't read these recommendations or the authors either. I like, however, the Southern settings and atmosphere.https://duesouth.media/our-six-favori...
I’ve mentioned before that I like a book with a distinctive style. Well, Ed Lynskey’s new novel LAKE CHARLES has that in spades, and that’s a good thing.LAKE CHARLES is set in eastern Tennessee in 1979 and is the story of two young men who are best friends and brothers-in-law, Brendan Fishback (the narrator) and Cobb Kuzawa, who go out bass fishing on the lake of the title and run into much more trouble than they ever imagined they would. Brendan’s twin sister and Cobb’s estranged wife Edna is with them, riding her jet ski on the lake, when she mysteriously disappears. Brendan and Cobb start searching for her, and their search leads them into danger.
Oh, and did I mention that when the book begins, Brendan already has a murder charge hanging over his head because he woke up in a very Gold Medal-esque situation: in a sleazy motel with a beautiful but dead girl who happens to be the daughter of the richest and most powerful man in the area? Yeah, he has that to deal with, too.
From that beginning, the book races off on several days of near-nonstop action involving kidnapping, drug dealers, crooked cops, Federal agents, shoot-outs, murder by crossbow, and assorted other mayhem, all of it told in Lynskey’s off-beat but very effective style. You may think you have everything figured out in this book, but I guarantee some of the plot twists will take you by surprise. They surprised me, anyway.
I guess LAKE CHARLES falls into the hardboiled redneck genre, but I prefer to think of it as a fine crime novel that you shouldn’t miss. You can pre-order it on Amazon now. Highly recommended.
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Movie clip is taken from 1977's Thunder and Lightning. Willeford knew Roger Corman after his book Cockfighter was turned into a film by Monte Hellman. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmPMM...
A nice tribute to the cozy mystery writer Anne George who was also so much more:https://www.al.com/entertainment/2017...
I'd wanted to read A, Ms. Grafton's debut title in the series, but only B was on the library shelf. But then B shows Kinsey in her full profile and element. She cuts her own hair. She uses the washer for her hamper. She jogs. She eats junk food. In short, a very likable PI protagonist. I've also liked her wry wit a few books ago. Sue Grafton's PI is my comfort read. She's always been reliable for delivering a sturdy tale which is just the something I often crave. I'll go on devouring the alphabet now up to U, I believe. 29 Goodreads Likes
Short, interesting documentary on David Goodis, a crime noir novelist who lived and died young in Philadelphia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGT1n...
