The Mystery, Crime, and Thriller Group discussion

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I've written a new post about some of the shady historical characters and incidents that influenced my latest book, Liberated: A Novel of Germany, 1945. Find the post here:

The Wild West of Occupied Germany



Thanks!

Hi everyone,

Here's a blog post I wrote about the importance of choices to, well, not only writing but to our entire lives.

It's been reblogged a couple of times too, so can't be too bad... ;-)

https://angelomarcos.wordpress.com/20...

Thanks!

Angelo

Hi, I have recently started a blog:

A COZY MURDER IS ANNOUNCED

http://acozymurderisannounced.blogspo...

The main objective is to recommend wonderful authors of cozy mysteries...! This might be especially useful for those who are new to cozy mysteries... and/or are confused regarding which of the many cozy mystery series to read next...!

Thanks...!

Hi, everyone,

I've just recently joined the group; I'm an author of a series of military thrillers set in the present day, inspired by my deployments with the Air National Guard. My titles from Putnam include The Mullah's Storm, Silent Enemy, The Renegades, The Warriors, and Sand and Fire.

Of course, I welcome any feedback. For more info, feel free to check out my website: http://tomyoungbooks.com

All the best….

Hi Everyone,

I've recently joined the group; I'm an author of a series I Am Incredible - An Incredible Path For Galloway. Please, check it out at www.dilipkumarkaza.com. I would be glad if I get reviews/comments for you guys. Thank you.

Hi there,

My author blog is right here on Goodreads. Here's a link to my latest post.
https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...

Hello, you thrill seeking mystery readers!

I'm both a brand new member as well as a brand new writer. I am self-publishing my mystery, The Girl who went Missing, on April 23rd. Do you like mysteries set in other countries? Mysteries that deal with a socially pressing topic?

Then please read the following blurb to my novel.

When June Warner arrives in India to visit her sister Thalia, a trip to take her mind off her jilted engagement, she is greeted by the bright hot chaos of Mumbai but not her sister. She goes to the YMCA where Thalia is staying, only to find that she is not there.
Convinced that Thalia is in danger, June begins a desperate search for her younger sister.
Police Commissioner Oscar D'Costa, scarred by the tragedies of his past, swears he will never again ignore his gut instinct when it comes to a missing girl. And with more and more dead foreign women being found in his precinct, he becomes convinced a conspiracy is at play.
Through the 2 worlds (chaos and beauty) of India, they must find the girl who went missing.

The Girl who went Missing by Ace Varkey.

And of course, being mystery readers, you know that the girl who went missing will be found -- on April 23rd, when the book comes out.

My blog is unique because it features both my crime novel and my personal experiences with the paranormal. If you liked The Enfield Haunting, you will love this.

http://www.caroline-writes.com

I am at the bar mixing the perfect martini and spinning intrigue on a fellow author's blog! http://sloanetaylor.blogspot.com/2015... #mystery #chess

Sweet little post about my virtual tour

https://danecursepi.wordpress.com/201...

We've posted a blog on how haunted bridges and spooky legends led to the inspiration for our book Crying Woman Bridge. If you're interested in La Llorona and other legends, please drop by!

http://mcquede.blogspot.com/

Hi all. The inspiration behind my leading lady; Natasha Curland (My good lady wife) has expressed a wish to write a blog as her character/alter ego. What are your thoughts on this? She wants it to be a diary (set in the past) of Natasha's thoughts and feelings. (The books are written from her husbands POV) The dialogue is pretty racy in the first book, then downright dark and disturbing in the second.
The third and final book 'Bittersweet Retribution'(Published shortly)chronicles the inspirational emancipation of Natasha. She began the journey as a somewhat shallow figure who learns to take control of her own affairs in a divisive and devastating style.
I'd love to pick peoples brains on how they think this would be received
Bittersweet Humiliation
Bittersweet Sacrifice

Hi Everyone,
Thought I'd point out the eZine and blog content that we're cranking out on a regular basis:
https://wildbluepress.com/category/ez...
https://wildbluepress.com/category/blog/
Both have excellent stories written by our true crime, mystery and thriller authors.

We also have Special Author Reports that dig deeper into their subjects like Steve Jackson's From Russia With Love about his trips to Russia on the subject of his upcoming book Finding Anastasia:
https://wildbluepress.com/from-russia...

Kevin Sullivan recently hit the road researching his upcoming book about Ted Bundy, the 2nd book he wrote about Bundy: https://wildbluepress.com/on-the-trai...

We just released the suspense thriller PITFALL by Cameron Bane:
http://wbp.bz/pitfall

So, lots to consume, and we're committed to giving you the best of each of the genres we publish, so come along and get acquainted with us at WildBlue Press!

Hi everyone! My blog is www.lawschoolheretic.com

I discuss legal issues, medieval history, my upcoming books, etc. but I try to make it interesting!

Thanks!
Maria

I'm hosting a giveaway for The Convictions of John Delahunt on my blog this week:

http://jadbb.blogspot.com/

Next week, I'll have a preview and giveaway for Quicksand: A Nora Khalil Novel by Carolyn Baugh.

Hi everyone! Freebies, freebies, freebies. I'm well into my free short series "Mayhem, Murder, and Music"--it's regular feature on my blog. Stop by and read a few (all the freebies are cached in my blog category "Steve's Shorts"). While you're there, take a gander at my portfolio of ebooks. Maybe you'll see something you like?
r/Steve

Not enough caffeine--I forgot the link: http://stevenmmoore.com.

Hello everyone. I am the author of 14 books. I just released the first book to a new series, Murder for Justice. It's a police procedural. It's available on Amazon, ibooks and in paperback.

www.author-dominiquelwatson.com
http://authordominiquelwatson.wordpre...

Hi Everyone! If you are interested in reading about some true Alaskan crimes, please sign up for my newsletter at http://www.robinbarefield.com (scroll to the bottom of the page for the sign-up form). My first newsletter will chronicle the McCarthy massacre of 1983, and it will be e-mailed on 1-6. Thanks!

Hi all!
My debut thriller Nation of Enemies is currently $.99 and getting some great reviews here:

Amazon: http://amazon.com/Nation-Enemies-Thri...

2032. Turned away by London Immigration because of his family’s inferior DNA, Dr. Cole Fitzgerald returns to work at Boston’s Mass General hospital. He purchases ballistics skins for family, a bulletproof car and a house in a Safe District. As the War at Home escalates, Cole begins an underground revolution to restore civil liberties and wipe away the inequity of biology. Along the way he’ll risk his family, his career and his life when he discovers the U.S. government may pose a greater threat than the terrorists themselves.

And you're welcome to enter the world of 2032 here... www.nationofenemies.com

Cheers!

Hi,

My friend is giving free ebook after the launch. The book will be free on 16-17, Jan 2016 (Pacific Timing). Here is the brief.

Hunter and Lpoki are trying to find the Location in Lost World. They have spent many years but couldn’t find it. While searching, they come across a cave where symbols are fixed on the wall. They are shocked. Lpoki uses the Quisto to bring back Realm from the past. But with it many things come: Aplatoses and the horror. Both are in Realm with so many hand-written letters exchanged by the kings. Hundreds of men are with them to protect the place. But you can’t do anything if you bring something from the past and don’t know the history.

Frenzo left Mahaloni with his friends to the Forest of Dead. He’s the one who can find the people in the village to get the Location. It’s his onus to find it. He’s heard so many stories about the forest from the people, and he believes all the stories are wrong. But when he reaches the village, his thoughts change.

Elviner tries to keep the things to few people. Even Ranjil and Fupalini don’t know what is happening in Horizama. He’s taken Drithi’s help to find Xerine Vl’krane, the Bris Alein who is out there, looking for a plan to kill innocent people.

And the big problem for all of them is that nobody knows Xerine Vl’krane. Nobody has seen her as it’s been centuries. And the one thing that they don’t want to believe is that she is better than everyone.

She is the history. And the rest are the present.


LINK of the book - getbook.at/theturmoil

p.s - a genuine review is always welcome (even if you didn't like the book) to help others. :)

Hi,

My friend is giving free ebook (The Turmoil) after the launch. The book will be free on 16-17, Jan 2016 (Pacific Timing). Here is the brief.

Hunter and Lpoki are trying to find the Location in Lost World. They have spent many years but couldn’t find it. While searching, they come across a cave where symbols are fixed on the wall. They are shocked. Lpoki uses the Quisto to bring back Realm from the past. But with it many things come: Aplatoses and the horror. Both are in Realm with so many hand-written letters exchanged by the kings. Hundreds of men are with them to protect the place. But you can’t do anything if you bring something from the past and don’t know the history.

Frenzo left Mahaloni with his friends to the Forest of Dead. He’s the one who can find the people in the village to get the Location. It’s his onus to find it. He’s heard so many stories about the forest from the people, and he believes all the stories are wrong. But when he reaches the village, his thoughts change.

Elviner tries to keep the things to few people. Even Ranjil and Fupalini don’t know what is happening in Horizama. He’s taken Drithi’s help to find Xerine Vl’krane, the Bris Alein who is out there, looking for a plan to kill innocent people.

And the big problem for all of them is that nobody knows Xerine Vl’krane. Nobody has seen her as it’s been centuries. And the one thing that they don’t want to believe is that she is better than everyone.

She is the history. And the rest are the present.


LINK of the book - getbook.at/theturmoil

p.s - a genuine review is always welcome (even if you didn't like the book) to help others. :)

I have a short story blog featuring free reads of mystery, thrillers, ghost stories, etc. This week is "The Killers" by Ernest Hemingway. Audio and film too.

Did you ever know hit men to eat with their gloves on? Hemingway writes a terse story, full of suspense, in the noir style. These killers are cool and slick.

At Reading Fiction, Tales of Terror Blog:

https://paulacappa.wordpress.com/2016...

The Day My Teacher Told Me to Keep A Secret
http://khaledtalibthriller.com/the-da...

:-)

Enjoy the read,
Best wishes
Khaled

I'm always late to the party. Here are a couple of my blogs (I manage a few):

Adventures with Steve

A Smaller Budget

Quiet Keystrokes and Midnight Ramblings

In 2008, at San Diego State University, the Drug Enforcement Agency executed Operation Sudden Fall, resulting in one of the largest collegiate drug busts in U.S. history. My novel, Montezuma Kings, is the first of a two-part series fictionally inspired by those events.

You can download it on Amazon for $2.99 here

OR, if you message me your email address, I can gift it to you for free!

Montezuma Kings

Thomas Ensch

FREE short story on my short fiction blog: Girl With the Hungry Eyes by Fritz Leiber: https://paulacappa.wordpress.com/2016...

Hi all,

I blog over at www.LauraBWrites.com about what I'm doing writing and RPG gaming wise. Also have a tumblr, collecting stuff I find interesting: https://laurabwrites.tumblr.com/

One of my pet peeves as a reader is the overuse of dialogue tags. Here's an article I wrote on the subject. How do you feel about it?

http://bit.ly/dumbrules

Joyce Carol Oates' Big Momma, free read ...

“Damn you, Violet—you are a shameless liar.”
...In her mother’s hot-vibrating presence Violet wore her sulky face. It was an airtight mask of some material like satin or silk, which she could draw down over her actual face. Like Hallowe’en.

Joyce Carol Oates' Big Momma is a wicked short story, written by a master author of the macabre.
This story is tender, emotional, and ever so creepy. A shocking ending that is sure to chill.

Read it FREE at Reading Fiction Blog
https://paulacappa.wordpress.com/2016...

I write amateur sleuth murder mystery. My short stories regularly appear in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine. Two novels in my Rock Shop Mystery series, set in a small Colorado mountain town, are available for Kindle, and hardcover via B&N and Amazon.
My blog covers anything that catches my interest, from Colorado scenery to writing. This week's post is about participating in the Garden of the Gods ten mile race.
http://www.catherinedilts.com/

Hello, everyone!

I'm a huge horror addict, thanks to Stephen King. I tend to write psychological thrillers. My debut novel, Dead by Morning, is available now! Here's my website :)

kaylakrantz.wix.com/horror

Denise Wallace, author of upcoming true crime book Daddy's Little Secret, wrote a step-by-step guide to writing about true crime on WildBlue Press's blog: https://wildbluepress.com/author-deni...

I started a blog a few months ago so I could request books from Netgalley.
Well...... I finally figured out to put a 'follow me' gadget on there and I could use some followers.

Here's the link: http://reviewsbybarbsaffer.blogspot.com/

I'd be happy to follow you in return if you post a link to your blog :)

Hi all. Lois Winston is a USA Today bestseller of mysteries who runs a blog, Killer Crafts and Crafty Killers. A great place to promote your books and to learn about new mysteries. She allows authors to guest blog on her site. This month, I wrote about the role of aromas or scents in evoking memories in our writing in The Sweet Aroma of Memories. I discussed my memories of visits to Portuguese bakeries in East Cambridge as a child and how these bakeries and baked goods play a role in my Marguerite “Monty” Montez Mystery series. I also share a family recipe for biscoitos (Portuguese cookies). Have fun and let me know how your biscoitos turn out.

I would like to introduce myself. My name is Debbra Lynn and I am a fairly new author who has just recently released my second book in my crime trilogy. The trilogy is called Hollywood Lies and the first book is called Beyond the Red Carpet and the second is called Heart of Stone. I have been very actively getting out there to promote myself and my books and I decided it was time to get more active with Goodreads. You can look up both my books under Debbra Lynn. I am constantly looking for bloggers and reviewers who would like to cover my books. I have attached both of the links so you can all take a look at them. Like I said it is a crime trilogy, a story of love, lust, murder and betrayal.

Beyond the Red Carpet - http://amzn.to/2bGUOLV
Heart of Stone - http://amzn.to/2cc53cg

I also have both of my book trailers posted on my author page and you can subscribe to my youtube channel as well at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw2N...

I thank all of you for your time, and please fee free to contact me at contact@debbralynn.com if you would like to review my book.

Thanks everyone

Hey Everyone, This Sunday will mark the one year anniversary of the release of my crime thriller Opium Warfare. I am honoring this occasion by having a celebration. There will be discussions on the book as well as giveaways, contests and a chance to gain exclusive access to the book along with bonus material. Check it out if interested, I'd love for you to attend!

https://www.facebook.com/events/68979...

I just posted a book review and author interview for He Knew a Firefly by Smita Bhattacharya

It's a disturbing story of a woman with unnatural insights.

You can find the review here -
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/ann-g...

It's part of a short series I'm blogging on Huffington Post UK - 'Discover 10 New Authors of Colour'

Hello, everyone,

I'm the author of four international crime thrillers. As a promotion, Unsavory Delicacies is FREE for all those who join my mailinglist. Don't worry, you won't be bombarded with emails every week, but occasionally you'll be the first to know about promotions, book tours, and other fun stuff. You'll also receive teasers from my upcoming sequel to Chill Run when they're available.

Thanks for your support, and happy reading.

Russell

Hello! The third book in my Rock Shop Mystery series was released October 10. I announce the release on my blog.

When Colorado rock shop owner Morgan Iverson's reclusive neighbor is blown to bits, the police believe he stumbled into his own trap. His granddaughter claims he was murdered, and asks Morgan and newspaperman Kurt Willard to find his killer. Park hippies, alien hunters, and local politics complicate the case. In book three of the Rock Shop Mystery series, amateur sleuth Morgan must follow a trail of dinosaur bones to solve a Stone Cold Blooded murder.

Stone Cold Blooded: A Rock Shop Mystery is available on both Kindle and Nook for $2.99. Paperbacks may also be purchased at Amazon and Barnes and Noble.
Thank you!
Catherine

If you're looking for a great read from a new author I just did a book review and author interview for by V.M. Sawh

It's a dark, short story, perfect for the Halloween season.

here it is
http://anngirdharry.weebly.com/blog

It's #2 of a short series - 'Discover 10 New Authors of Colour'

Hi everyone! I'm an avid mystery reader and an author. After a long career as a news writer and editor, I retired early to do what I've always wanted to do: write fiction. I grew up reading and rereading Agatha Christie mysteries and write in the whodunit style with a number of suspects. I've written two mystery novels and several novellas, all of which are getting good reviews and doing well.
If you have a moment and would like to know what my stories are about, I would appreciate it if you'd read my blog "Did you really just say that?" Many thanks!
http://judymooreauthor.com/

Catherine wrote: "Hello! The third book in my Rock Shop Mystery series was released October 10. I announce the release on my blog.
When Colorado rock shop owner Morgan Iverson's reclusive neighbor is blown to bits..."

Catherine was kind enough to write a fascinating feature entitled 'A Tale of a Dinosaur Tail' for my blog (currently focused on Mystery Thriller Week).

http://jennifersalderson.com/2017/02/...

In it she shares some of the stories that inspired her novels, fascinating real-life discoveries involving million-dollar fossils, dinosaur poop and a tail bone found in Myanmar.

“A theme running through the Rock Shop Mystery series is that what may appear to hold no value may instead be worth a considerable chunk of change. Like geodes, those dull round rocks that reveal beautiful crystals when cracked open, most rock shops don’t look like much from the outside. Step inside, and you can discover amazing treasures.”

It's well worth the read!

Thanks, Jennifer! My scientist coworker told me about the dinosaur tail discovery, which was announced just last December.

Whispered Imagination - Jul 2

And now a few words about Elsinore, Oklahoma – with a particular nod to our folks in the Major Media who only interrupt the in-flight move to gaze at the American Heartland from 30,000 feet.

Like Lake Wobegon, Yoknapatawpha County, or Brigadoon, you won’t find Elsinore on any map. No telephone directory shows it. No Google mapping cars have ever found it.

Not invented though. Stitched together. Quilting squares of memory from the tiny town where I grew up, the village where we were exiled for a time, the city where I went away to college, and fragments of so many people whose attitudes, and conversation, and schemes I remember.

Elsinore is proudly rural – which suggests a brief mention of what might be called our Two Americas Problem. Even though this issue gets some media attention, it doesn’t seem to be the right kind of attention. Because the split we are experiencing, the vehemence and barking we hear every day, is a matter of Time – Past versus Future. A matter of Age – Old versus Young. And a matter of Place – Rural versus Urban.

Within the last two days, I have heard the phrases “depopulated America” and “knuckledragger Amerca” used as equivalents. The good people who still reside in the Heartland might label themselves “ignored America”.

They didn’t want to be ignored before – and they don’t want to be ignored now. They don’t want their states to be thought of as natural grasslands where buffalo can be released to wander free again, now that so many people have gone.

The Heartland feels that America is losing its heart. Losing its way. Losing focus. Losing its heritage — and its priorities.

The Heartland was once very young. And now is becoming very old. It is not just the “brain drain” of the best and brightest. It is the absence of children, and grandchildren, as older people find themselves in the company of the Unworthy - the Worthy children having left, never to return. Small town America is filled with people who settled for what was there at home - and they're not a very inspiring bunch.

They are caught up, of course, in the epic movement of people all over the world – the inexorable movement from farms to the city. One of the foundational characteristics of the 21st Century: the countryside emptying out while the cities fill up. But rural people don’t really concern themselves about trends in global population. They would love to feel a little less left behind – a little less marginalized. At the same time, they’re not particularly interested in the challenges of Modern Times.

That’s part of the charm. Small Town America is not the site of challenges. Not the theatre of ambition. The operative phrase is "used to". Place where things used to happen. Where people used to live. (https://medium.com/…/where-people-onc...…).

But even in the tiny sparks of light you can see from 30,000 feet there are people living, loving, working, hoping, and (sometimes) losing hope.

As much as any street in Brooklyn, any slum in Calcutta, any apartment house in Paris, Elsinore shows people living as they have always lived. My people of Elsinore might wonder if the Heartland will ever be relevant to the larger nation again, but – in the meantime – they have things to do.

Like figuring out how to gt their hands on their husbands' life insurance. (More on this later).

Talented folks welcomed and appreciated in those thriving, striving metropolises, come home after––even during––their heady successes. A speaker of the U.S. Congress returned to McAlester OK, population 18,000, congenial, comfortable; a country singer/movie star, still at the height, is caught sniffing cantaloups at a local market. Businessmen and women, achievers, come home to the slower pace. A man with a golden parachute reopened the barber shop where he learned that skill in high school, joyous, not feeling demoted, but elevated. Exceptional students who left to contribute to space exploration, to devise new techniques in medicine and powering industry, who bested the best, endured, achieved, then, spent, came back to recharge on hugs and laughter then, eventually, peacefully, to Oak Hill, buried among family and ancestors. Nothing wrong with dying among people who knew, not only a person's God-given talents, but their souls, the backgrounds and difficulties that honed those abilities and drive. We also laud those who stayed or returned for what one gifted man termed, "The quality of life here." Who sacrificed daily commutes, kissing loved ones goodbye before daylight and hello on the way to bed. Who wanted to be able to take his wife to lunch and leave the office to straighten out a son challenging a teacher at school. Who wanted to mow his own yard and donate blood for his friend and fish and move at his own pace. Check out the heart of the heartland and you will find we beat as powerfully as ever. We are here in Elsinore and McAlester, real and thriving. Come home. Check us out. You may decide to stay.

The Last Wives Club

Whispered Imagination - Jul 9

And now a word about Trust – since lack of Trust is one of the reasons so many promising crimes don’t succeed in the world of crime fiction.

Imagine it's 1951 (for example) - imagine you are tennis star Guy Haines cornered during a routine train journey by a charming, but a little off-center, character named Bruno (hereafter referred to as Idea Man). An “idea man” obviously, since he has lots of ideas he’s willing to share with someone he's just met (maybe he should have been a writer).

One of his most exciting concepts involves the removal of Motive in murder. It’s commonly known that, after an incident of foul play, the police investigation moves out in concentric circles: similar to ripples from a stone falling into still water. They always begin with the spouse – or, in Guy’s case, the unhappy spouse - since Guy’s wife is now Officially Inconvenient.

Bruno’s father, as it happens, is also Officially Inconvenient, and Bruno (hereafter referred to as Mr Excitement) is inspired by the sudden inspiration of two men who can resolve these Inconveniences by just “trading murders”. Bruno refers to it as “criss-cross” – a mutually beneficial transaction.

It’s only natural to think that – if eminently practical plans like this were adopted more often – murders would be much harder to solve.

But the narrative arc of the story is how the plan comes to nothing – since tennis star Guy Haines has no inclination to Trust a stranger he's met on a train – even though Bruno (hereafter referred to as Killer A) seems to trust his companion on sight.

There’s “criss” – but not “cross” – and we end with a final startling scene (the least merry merry-go-round ever).

But – taking the theme a little further – what if there were Trust? What if the conspirators were not strangers, but women of mature and careful judgment who have known each other all their lives? What if there were not only means, but method, motivation, and leadership?

What then?

“The Last Wives Club”. Hitchcock in the Heartland.
Available exclusively through Amazon

Hello Everyone!


Here is the link to my new blog post! It includes teaser photos depicting scenes from my thriller novel released in April 2017.

https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...

Thanks so much for reading,
L.J. Kane

L.J. wrote: "Hello Everyone!


Here is the link to my new blog post! It includes teaser photos depicting scenes from my thriller novel released in April 2017.

https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog......"

Good pics :)