The Edgar Awards Panel discussion

Tell us about your newest book. Is it a continuation of your previous work? How do you feel it fits in with your other work?

My newest novel is GETTING OFF, published by Hard Case Crime in September. It's the picaresque tale of a bright and personable young woman who enjoys picking up men, having sex with them, and killing them. What can I say? Girls just wanna have fun.

My newest book? In October I self-published THE NIGHT AND THE MUSIC, the complete Matthew Scudder short stories, including two entries that have never appeared before.

And there's one newer than that, so new it won't be out until February. It's called HIT ME, and it's the fifth book about Keller. He's an assassin and an ardent stamp collector, though not at the same time. When he last left him, at the end of HIT AND RUN, he was married and living in New Orleans.

I'll be interested to see how you carry that on, as - if I recall - Dot has upped-sticks and gone into hiding, or purdah, or something ...
[Edit and potential spoiler] Or did she die? Dammit, will have to hunt down the book again now ...

My next novel is CURSE OF THE JADE LILY, which should be out June 5 about the heist of a priceless artifact from a Twin Cities museum, although, like Mr. Block, I have a self-published book. Through Down and Out Books, Renee Valois and I have brought out a gothic romance thriller adventure crime novel called THE DEVIL AND THE DIVA in ebook and POD.

I've got a new young adult novel out called Crazy Dangerous. It's the first stand-alone I've done in the genre after the Homelanders series. It's kind of off-beat - about a kid who befriends a schizophrenic classmate and begins to think her hallucinations are actually prophecies.

Patrick wrote: "Tell us about your newest book. Is it a continuation of your previous work? How do you feel it fits in with your other work?"

I'm writing a spy thriller set in Arab Spring -- kind of CONDOR shot through OUR MAN IN HAVANA. I've had to go slow as the setting for my book is created while I'm writing it, but it's been a blast, in part because the story is as much about America, espionage and politics from Brooklyn to the San Francisco Bay as it is "Arab" Spring.

Patrick wrote: "Tell us about your newest book. Is it a continuation of your previous work? How do you feel it fits in with your other work?"

My newest is HARBOR NOCTURNE, the 5th in my HOLLYWOOD STATION series. This time a lot of the action takes place, not in Hollywood, but at the Port of Los Angeles, a gritty and ethnically diverse place where an improbably romance between a Croatian-American longshoreman and a Mexican exotic dancer becomes a through-story when the young lovers become pursued by mobsters from Hollywood.

HellBurger, my fifth book & fourth mystery takes place in the now defunk Hell Burger resaurant in Dulth, MN. The owners are named as characters. I used first person finding it gave me a whole new latitude for injecting the protagonists thoughts.

Patrick wrote: "Tell us about your newest book. Is it a continuation of your previous work? How do you feel it fits in with your other work?"
NO FOOTPRINTS will be out in August. It's the fifth Darcy Lott. Some books are easy to write--or at least they seem so after they're done--and some are, well, not. Some grab you by the throat and you can't not write them. No Footprints start on the Golden Gate Bridge.

Joseph wrote: "Patrick wrote: "Tell us about your newest book. Is it a continuation of your previous work? How do you feel it fits in with your other work?"

My newest is HARBOR NOCTURNE, the 5th in my HOLLYWOOD ..."

Joseph wrote: "Patrick wrote: "Tell us about your newest book. Is it a continuation of your previous work? How do you feel it fits in with your other work?"

My newest is HARBOR NOCTURNE, the 5th in my HOLLYWOOD ..."

Joseph wrote: "Patrick wrote: "Tell us about your newest book. Is it a continuation of your previous work? How do you feel it fits in with your other work?"

My newest is HARBOR NOCTURNE, the 5th in my HOLLYWOOD ..."

Best news that I have had this year! Can't wait. Probably not the place to rave and gush...but can't miss the opportunity!

Ruth wrote: "Joseph wrote: "Patrick wrote: "Tell us about your newest book. Is it a continuation of your previous work? How do you feel it fits in with your other work?"

My newest is HARBOR NOCTURNE, the 5th i..."

Thanks, Ruth! I'm okay with gushers.--Joe W.

My latest novel is the Kindle version of one of my back list titles, KILLING CARLA. The book is finding a new audience and readers seem to like it. It's one of my shortest novels. Originally published by Pocket Books, I love having it available for digital e-books now.
Billie Sue Mosiman

Looking for a page-turning business thriller? My debut thriller, FAT PROFITS, is about a corrupt food company that will stop at nothing to become a Wall Street darling. Want to learn more or read the first chapter for free? Check out the FAT PROFITS website here: www.fatprofits.brucebradley.com

There is a Goodreads giveaway ending Saturday where 5 autographed copies are up for grabs. You can enter here: www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/42170...

Thanks everyone for giving it a look. I promise, if you read the first chapter, you'll be hooked!

Patrick wrote: "Tell us about your newest book. Is it a continuation of your previous work? How do you feel it fits in with your other work?"

I have the third of my Sam Dyke Investigations private eye novels now available on the Amazon site, in both paperback and Kindle format. The first two were written in classic PI style, in the first person, but in this one I've opted for the third person to tell the story from a variety of viewpoints.

It links two real episodes from WWII to a modern-day British government minister who is trying to prevent the leaking of information that might be damaging to him, his family and his political career. Our hero finds himself helping out a young woman who is in possession of information that the minister and his ex-army goons are trying to extract from her ... The Hard Swim is available here: http://www.amazon.com/Hard-Swim-Dyke-...

I have just published my first book, 'Ten, A Lincoln Polk Thriller'.

A new live TV phenomenon is breaking ratings records with a whodunit format shot live for audiences to solve at home. Someone else knows the script and is shadowing the show as it travels to ten city locations across America.

The plot takes the reader on the chase with protagonist, Special Agent Lincoln Polk, as he hunts the cross-country killer. Polk must catch his man caught between a mounting public outcry, and a bloodthirsty national viewing audience.

I have designed the Lincoln Polk character to spawn a series which will feature himself as an FBI agent, and which will spin off books about his older brother, Frank, who works for the State department, and his younger brother, Woodrow, who is a lawyer in New York. I am nearing the end of work on the second Lincoln Polk manuscript now.

The book versions are on amazon and elsewhere. The ebook is on http://www.ebookmall.com/ebook/ten-a-... now, and will be everywhere else in coming weeks.

Congratulations! Your book sounds interesting. I am looking forward to reading a copy. Please tell me it is in physical format as well as digital. I am old-school and prefer my books "in hand".

Respectfully,
PamelaK

Hi Pamela, I prefer paper too.

You will definitely find Ten as a paperback or a hardcover on Amazon or Barnes & Noble. You may need to search the whole title: 'Ten, a Lincoln Polk Thriller'.

Best regards,

Rowan Hodge

My latest book is a continuation of a series that tells the "origin story" of Sherlock Holmes. The first book in the series was The Crack in the Lens which tell of traumatic events that occurred when he was 17 that lead him to becoming a detective. It was too be followed by The Consulting Detective which was to follow Holmes until he met Watson. But the book grew into a trilogy. The Consulting Detective Trilogy Part I: University told about his time at Cambridge. The latest book, The Consulting Detective Part II: On Stage, tells about his many adventures while working as a Shakespearean actor on the Victorian stage.


The Consulting Detective Trilogy Part II: On Stage