S.J.Bennett-"A Death In Diamonds"
In “A Death in Diamonds”, Prince Philip uses her as an alibi for the night of a double murder. She knows he didn’t do it, but he wasn’t with her … so what really happened?
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Independent mystery & thriller author Kevin G. Chapman’s award-winning Mike Stoneman series has a new installment, Double Takedown. This fast-paced, multi-layered mystery, brings Kevin’s beloved characters into the post-pandemic present after a three-year hiatus. Forward Reviews raves: “Two quick-witted detectives investigate the multilayered murder of a Broadway actor in this exciting mystery novel. . . . The mystery unfolds with compelling speed, which makes for delicious dramatic irony and compulsive reading.”
Read MoreDelia Pitts-"Trouble In Queenstown"
I am excited to welcome you to the world of Vandy Myrick, the private investigator who leads my new mystery, Trouble in Queenstown (Minotaur Books). The story follows a tangled case in which Vandy confronts the entrenched powers of her fictional New Jersey hometown to solve a racially charged murder.
Lori Rader-Day- "The Death Of Us"
Dear Reader,
I have a confession. The first time I tried to write a story, I was, at best, seven years old. It was also my first foray into crime.
I was a big reader, coming home from the library each week with a stack of books. My favorites were the Ramona Quimby books. Then, one day, I noticed that someone’s name, not just Ramona’s, was on the cover of my favorite book. Who was this Beverly Cleary person?
That’s when I realized authors existed, and that I wanted to be one. I immediately gave it a try, writing my own Ramona story. Today we would call it fan fiction, but back then? It would have been cold-blooded copyright infringement.
But I was off to the races. I was a writer!
Not an author. It would take me a long time to get to that stage. But writing has been with me always—sometimes a frustrating way to spend my time, sometimes a life raft.
That’s not even a metaphor. During the pandemic lockdown, I was working on the hardest writing project of my life, a historical set at Agatha Christie’s holiday home during World War II called Death at Greenway. When I couldn’t leave my house, I could still escape to Agatha’s house. In 2022, when I was once again captive—this time, to cancer treatment—I turned to writing, to remind me who I was.
I wrote The Death of Us, a book about family, secrets, and truth brought up from the depths of time. (I’m also healthy now, thanks for wondering.) I got the idea for The Death of Us from looking out the window of a plane on a clear day and far, far below, identified a water-filled quarry. I thought, as any crime novelist would, there must be a lot of dead bodies hiding in water like that.
Hope you will check out The Death of Us or another of my novels, dear reader, and support this fantastic independent bookstore.
Lori Rader-Day
Lori Rader-Day is the Edgar Award-nominated and Agatha, Anthony, and Mary Higgins Clark award-winning author of The Death of Us, Death at Greenway, The Lucky One, Under a Dark Sky, and others. Lori lives in Chicago, where she co-chairs the Midwest Mystery Conference and teaches creative writing at Northwestern University. Her next novel features a protagonist who will make you love Patsy Cline. And dogs.
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Susan Furlong- "The Killer's Wife"
A serial killer, a woman on the run, and an obsessive parole officer tangle in a psychological net of death and secrets will keep you riveted to “The Killer’s Wife” with its surprise ending in a final twist of lies and betrayal. Great Summer read https://bookshop.org/a/52/9781645060574
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