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Every month we pick a new theme and put ten to twelve mysteries on sale. This month we chose "Mysteries with Humor" featuring ebooks by Carl Hiaasen, Lawrence Sanders and more (http://www.openroadmedia.com/mysterie...)One of the first authors to use humor in mysteries with Donald Westlake.
"Donald invented two different kinds of mystery. The comedy mystery and the really hard-boiled crime mystery" - Lawrence Block
We put together a short little video about Westlake on YouTube if you're interested in learning more about his work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CkOH...
Loved the first Dortmunder book, which I read just recently. I've had a Hiaasen on my shelf for a long time too!
Welcome and thanks for posting your video.
Welcome and thanks for posting your video.
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Happy weekend all!We've been passing this link around Team Murder & Mayhem, about why women are some of the biggest buyers of crime fiction are women:
http://www.theguardian.com/books/book...
We'd love to know what you think!
What is it like to write with a co-author?Carl Hiaasen talks about writing three novels with legendary reporter Bill Montalbano:
"Early in my career, even as a young reporter, I knew who Bill Montalbano was, he was legendary." shares Carl Hiaasen. When he was offered a promotion at a Florida paper, he was told they wouldn't be able to give him much of a raise, but that they'd send him down to the paper and he would work "directly with Montalbano." That was all it took.
More here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMexf...
New Ebook Release Announcement: Ellis Peters! Credited with making historical mysteries popular, Ellis Peters wrote the incredibly successful Brother Cadfael series, which was turned into a PBS series.
“Ellis Peters has been regarded as the Queen of Historical Mystery Fiction for four decades—the British Crime Writers’ Association established their Ellis Peters Historical Award for the best historical crime novel of the year. The pinnacle of her achievements is the 21-volume series about Brother Cadfael, a medieval Benedictine monk, that combines romance and detective fiction and achieved best-seller status in both the United States and Great Britain, as well as inspiring a popular television series that starred Derek Jacobi.” —Otto Penzler, proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop and publisher, MysteriousPress.com
The ebook edition of these novels will be available August 5th.
Are you familiar with the series?
Heh.This may solve 'the mystery of the disappearing Cadfael books' which some of us have been discussing in different forums.
Lot of people were excited when they finally showed up for Kindle last summer...then they disappeared, only to show up again about three weeks ago (along with a few Felse titles)...and disappeared yet one more time a couple of days later.
Here's hoping they stick this time around! ;)
It's a great series. I've got most of the books and have read 5 or 6 at least..
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Not at the moment, no. But it's a good idea.
We do a ton of give-aways of Goodreads. Right now, readers can enter to win: "Moon Over Tangier" by Janice Law. This is the third book in her award-winning trilogy about British painter Francis Bacon. If you enjoy historical mysteries, you might like it! This book comes out in August.
"The Big Hit" by James Neal Harvey. This is a thriller that already received a starred review in Booklist and has 4/12 stars on Amazon. "The Big Hit" will be coming out next week.
We post more every week or so, and often do more than one giveaway of each title.
Sale Announcement: WesternsThis Saturday is National Day of the Cowboy and we've marked 12 ebooks down to $1.99.
Not all of them are mysteries, but there are some legendary titles by John Jakes, Ron Hansen, James Carlos Blake and others Link to sale page: http://www.openroadmedia.com/westerns...
Sale ends this weekend. SALE OVER.
Early August News:First up, our August sale is here and the theme is ... British Crime! Mysteries by Ruth Rendell,John Harvey and more on sale from $1.99. You can see them all here: http://www.openroadmedia.com/britishc...
This sale ends August 31st.
Weekly Mystery Highlight:
August 5th: Ellis Peters' entire 'Brother Cadfael Series' will be available as ebooks.
Open Road wrote: "Sale Announcement: WesternsThis Saturday is National Day of the Cowboy and we've marked 12 ebooks down to $1.99.
Not all of them are mysteries, but there are some legendary titles by John Jakes,..."
All set to get the Ron Hansen book but Amazon doesn't show it on sale. Neither does Kobo or B&N.
Hi Jan C., Sorry you missed the deal! The sale ended this weekend. I'll be sure to message you if the Ron Hansen title goes on sale again. I'll also start adding end dates to the sale posts so this won't happen again.
Thanks for posting.
Open Road wrote: "Hi Jan C., Sorry you missed the deal! The sale ended this weekend. I'll be sure to message you if the Ron Hansen title goes on sale again. I'll also start adding end dates to the sale posts so th..."
Sorry, I didn't notice the date of the posting.
R.I.P. Dorothy Salisbury Davis (April 26, 1916 – August 3, 2014)"Dorothy Salisbury Davis is a name that has (undeservedly) slipped from the public eye, but this Grand Master is hailed in mystery circles as a premier writer of domestic suspense. The heyday of this subgenre spanned the post–World War II years through the mid-1970s, when primarily female writers explored the darker side of home life underneath the veneer of the ideal nuclear family. Absent are the trench-coated PIs and tortured ex-cops we expect of crime fiction; instead, Davis handles, with masterful subtlety, the psychology of unremarkable people facing twisted situations. As fellow mystery writer Sara Paretsky put it, Davis “[has] an awareness of how easy it is for ordinary people to do nasty or wicked deeds . . . She lived among bootleggers, immigrants, sharecroppers, and itinerant workers in her early years, and there’s a richness to her understanding of the human condition that is missing from most contemporary crime fiction.”
Weekend Update: We're half way though August and there are just a few long weekends of reading left!We've listed a giveaway for Spectrum (the newest Karen Vail thriller, set in 1995) by Alan Jacobson on Goodreads
(https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sh...)
The Strand Magazine shared an essay by James Neal Harvey (whose most recent mystery is The Big Hit) on why he writes: http://www.mysterycenter.com/2014/08/...
Have a great weekend!
What is noir detective fiction? Otto Penzler (publisher of the Mysterious Press) explains: "The noir story with a happy ending has never been written, nor can it be. The lost and corrupt souls who populate these tales were doomed before we met them because of their hollow hearts and depraved sensibilities.
I love noir fiction. It makes doom fun. And who doesn't like fun?"
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"The noir story with a happy ending has never been written, nor can it be. The lost and corrupt souls wh..."
I love noir. Absolutely. It should be required reading for existentialists.
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"The noir story with a happy ending has never been written, nor can it be. The lost an..."
Just added your The So Blue Marble to my kindle. Thanks!
September Sale Alert! Does Fall make you as nostalgic as it makes us?We've put together a collection of vintage mysteries and pulp fiction thrillers by authors including James M. Cain, Michael Crichton (writing as John Lange) and Horace McCoy.
See our Prime Crime Collection at the link and find ebooks for $1.99
http://www.openroadmedia.com/primecri...
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Retro Read: The Haigerloch Project by Ib MelchiorWhy we're reading this WWII Thriller
1. The author worked as a counterintelligence agent during WWII, earning decorations from three countries
2. His books have been translated into 25 languages
3. The Haigerloch Project is based on the author's own experiences as a CIC agent
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
October is here and so is our monthly sale update:First up, we've got a collection of Cold War themed mysteries on sale: http://www.openroadmedia.com/coldwarm... for $1.99
And, because Halloween is coming up soon, we've put a selection of titles on sale as well. You can see this sale here:
http://www.openroadmedia.com/scaryrea...
Some of the ebooks are about Halloween, such as "Quoth the Raven" by Jane Haddam, and others cross genres between thriller and Psychological Suspense.
Both of these sales are on until the end of October. We hope you find something you like!
Thanks for your sale update. Some interesting looking books there. Quoth the Raven is a past favourite of mine.
Thanks Bill! Jane Haddam's series of holiday mysteries is really fun. We thought it would be interesting to do a Cold War campaign. It was such a complicated time and sometimes the most interesting stories can be woven out of the circumstances we already know (or think we know!)
What is it about mystery writers and mustaches? We've compiled an infographic for Movember celebrating some of the genre's best writers and their facial hair: https://www.facebook.com/murderandmayhem and here: http://www.the-line-up.com/movember-m...This month's sale includes classic spy tales from Joseph Hone, John Gardner, and Edward D. Hoch. You can see the complete list of $1.99 ebooks here: http://www.openroadmedia.com/spythril...
This sale lasts until the end of November.
Related Reading: "TOP 10 SPY SLEUTHS IN THE LITERARY GAME" http://www.the-line-up.com/top-spy-sl...
Happy Holidays!!Some of the things we're excited about this month:
The new Whitey Bulger documentary is on Netflix. Crime author and reporter T.J. English was interviewed for the documentary.
www.christmasmysteries.com is our list of Christmas Mysteries (also on sale until 12/31/2014)
Neil Cross, the creator of Luther, also wrote books! We're publishing 6 of them for the first time in the US on January 27th. http://www.openroadmedia.com/neil-cross
Happy Reading!
