All Blog Posts Tagged 'crime' (194)

A Fun Caper With Lovebird Bank Robbers

 Bottom line: free on Kindle today and tomorrow.

Next to the bottom line: I’m crusin’ hard for reviews and think you’ll enjoy this enough to give me some stars.

BAILIN’ started life as a screenplay.  But if there is one thing harder to sell than a novel, it’s a movie script.  So, on the advice of TVwriter.com guru Larry Brody, I…

It’s 1983. Four local surfers who work in the luggage department of Los Angeles Airport devise an ingenious plan to smuggle drugs. Their goal? To make quick, easy money in order to fullfill their dreams and open a hotel in Costa Rica. They partner with a rich, successful marijuana smuggler named August Taracina and soon they put their plan into action. Eventually they run into an…

Mar Preston is the author of two mystery novels set in Santa Monica, California, featuring Detective Dave Mason of the Santa Monica Police Department. His girlfriend is a community activist, liberal in bent, which clashes with Mason’s traditional cop views. A third…

Can't help but feel a little melancholy. The final chapter of Reprisal is now available. It has been a long ride. The confrontation between Eddie and the Shadow is at hand. After this, I am going to take a break. I need to get some perspective, but then I will be back with Severed and some other surprises.…

Do you know when you get to Reprisal?

I am definately over 21 and at present work in IT in Leicester for a well known bank (the red one who support F1).

I am married with two children and two grandchildren and have a slightly overweight chocolate labrador called Rocco. 

My interests include Motor racing, especially Karting and Great Danes (I help out with rescuing Danes that need new homes)

This is my first book of a proposed trilogy. Book 2 is well under way and due out…

Chapter 6 of Reprisal, Sugar and Snails, will be released this week. My publisher, Trestle Press, is also starting another great sale this week. If you haven't started Reprisalyet, you can get all 6 volumes for the price of 3!

The Book Traveller is F*R*E*E* to download on Friday and Saturday 6 & 7 January 2012

The ‘crime fictionista’ strikes again! Goodbye Noel by Nike Chillemi starts with a bang and never lets up. This is the second in Chillemi’s ‘Sanctuary Point’ Series – mystery crime stories set in a small, post WW II American town.  This installment takes place right after Christmas when a young mother is found dead under her Christmas tree. Katrina Lenart, a maternity nurse who happens to stumble upon the scene, is given temporary custody of the orphaned infant while Inspector Ian…

In Australia we haven't exercised the death penalty since 1967.  The Act itself was repealed, I think, in the early 1970s.  There are good reasons for not having the death penalty.  Of course, there is the heavy possibility that somebody INNOCENT may get executed.  There is the fact that it is not a deterrent, because most  murders are committed in the heat of the moment, ie, crimes of passion.  Well, I have found another one.  It just may inspire songs like 'Womens' Prison', performed by…

As I looked beyond the fields of trees and dry land, there, over in a gaze was a woman standing there waving! Looking deeper, she resembled a frighten women who looked familiar!

“Is that me,” A whisper came into my mind! There in back of her was a man with a gun! It was Creighton!  Her lips started moving, shouting out a warning that her life was at an end!

 I screamed franticly to help her! But at the same time she was yelling for help, not for herself! She…

Dark Mind

Vigilante detective Emily Stone continues her covert pursuits to find serial killers and child abductors,…

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The Night of the Beast

Timing was crucial. It was the third…

A Different Kind of Hero

I write a short story series about an atypical hit man. Atypical in that he does things you least expect from a professional killer. And it is this unexpected, unanticipated quirk in the man's personality which I…

Free peek at an essay from Noir Nation No.1 on why Noir is such a hot and trending topic. 

Why Noir Now  http://ning.it/uIwD94

I’m very honored that SILENT PARTNER won the 2011 SILVER AWARD for BEST in SUSPENSE at Reader’s Favorite.  Thank you!  Congratulations to all winning authors!

This story was a very special project and close to my heart.

Here’s a recent blog post about this book:…