The Mystery, Crime, and Thriller Group discussion

Barry wrote: "Thanks, Nancy. It's a bit of good news to give us heart for the sequel."

I'm not a big thriller fan, but it's been my experience that journalists who turn to fiction write more realistically. Former spies, too.

$0.99 Special Price for Kindle version of biotech thriller, “The True Virus”, during the month of July. Story takes place during the last Gaza/Israeli war, when a Hamas bioterrorist hacks into the DNA component of the CIA’s computer and creates a live virus which causes an epidemic.
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Looking for a good book to curl up with this 4th of July weekend? Check out my debut crime fiction novel The Mirror Stage, available for $2.99 on Amazon!

Mystery Danger and Romance set in exotic St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

Preorder Deadeye now and get Dead Reckoning FREE. Just copy and paste your pre-order receipt in a message to me.
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Time is running out guys, you have until the end of the day to get the first two parts of Tales from Majestic for free.
.This offer is available across all Amazon regions. If you’re a fan of the X Files, Dark Skies and all things alien then this is for you, hurry because the offer hasn’t got long to run. Don't forget to check out my main Amazon Page.

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Tales from Majestic – web of Traitors.
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Hi

A child's evidence convicted him. Now the media think she got it wrong.

Recognition, my psychological crime novel set in Yorkshire, is now 99p/99c on Kindle.

To read the synopsis or download a sample go to Amazon (universal link): http://mybook.to/Recognition

Thanks

Kate

Gold StreetToday is the final day of a kindle free sale. Here is the link if anyone likes to read political/financial thrillers: http://www.amazon.com/Gold-Street-Kat...

FORBIDDEN - FREE on Amazon July 7 - 11, 2014!

If you thought the secretive Vanger family in Stieg Larrson's Millennium Trilogy was twisted, then you'll most certainly want to read FORBIDDEN, the novella on which TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE is based. This psychological thriller is FREE on Amazon July 7 - 11, 2014. Download your copy TODAY!!


FORBIDDEN

The Bergamese Sect

A MYSTERIOUS FIGURE, hiding somewhere among the seven billion inhabitants of Earth, is threatening to reveal the startling truth behind a very modern myth.

A conspiracy so damaging it could destroy the very fabric of human culture.

Following the only lead he has, an encrypted email sent to an innocent proxy, Larry Walsh, Assistant Director of the National Security Agency, becomes embroiled in a race against time, fighting with subversives, saboteurs and religious fanatics to prevent a global iconoclasm.

The ancient deception he uncovers is stranger than he ever imagined...

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Revenge Best Served Bloody - Giveaway ends 7/21!

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Revenge Best Served Bloody

Where would the detonation of a nuclear bomb do the most significant damage to the American economy? The answer to that question is found in a terrorist plot uncovered by E.J. Stanley and her husband, Bret. Determined to foil the plot, E.J. and Bret become prey to the madmen who are poised to explode a nuclear device somewhere in the U.S. Complicating matters, an assassin with ties to Bret is intent upon murdering him and his wife. A lethal cat and mouse game played between E.J. and Bret and those trying to kill them ensues and jeopardizes the couple’s attempt to beat the terrorists to the punch.

A Dead Husband

Kindle Countdown Deal $0.99 All week July 14-21 US July 16-23 UK

A DEAD HUSBAND is the first Jessica Huntington Desert Cities Mystery. Jessica Huntington is hiding out from her own well-planned life, now in shambles. Her law career tanked by the Great Recession, she failed miserably as a desperate housewife in the Silicon Valley. Playing beat-the-clock with her 30-something hormones for 3 long years her final reward was a little baby fat, but no baby. The final blow, though, was walking in on her husband in bed with a well-known Hollywood blond.
The Rancho Mirage home where she grew up, surrounded by the beauty of the desert resort town near Palm Springs, seems the perfect place to take refuge. That is until her best friend's husband is murdered. Jessica and her friends are soon swept into the fray, stalked by scoundrels in pantyhose, stilettos, Bruno Maglis, and Armani suits. Roger Stone had something that got him killed. What was it and to what lengths will they go to get it back?

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CHEERS! Anna Celeste Burke

There’s nothing quite like waking up to a glowing review. See what author and reviewer D.E. Haggerty said about my new dark comic suspense novel, ‘The Exit Man’. http://bit.ly/1tQWx8v

Hey gang! Last day to get Lights Out for $0.99! Fill up those Kindles and Nooks!
Cheers!

I posted an excerpt from my Prohibition era novel, The Yankee Club. I'll post new excerpts weekly until the novel is released on August 12. Hope you'll take a look.
http://blog.mjmurphy.com/?p=1144

Michael

Dear Reader

Free Kindle version of Once a Killer this weekend

As well as the current Goodreads Giveaway draw for signed paperback copies of my recent thriller novel, Once a Killer, I thought you might be interested to learn that the Kindle version will be available free on Amazon this weekend (July 19 and 20 US PST) only. After that, it will return to its usual price.

I hope you enjoy reading it and good luck in the upcoming draw if you have entered!

Cheers

Martin

Hello,
I am looking for a new audience for a book series I launched in 2012.
Set in Great Britain during the 1950 The Angel Committee is about a Cambridge physicist who is asked by Winston Churchill to look into a spate of UFO sightings. The book is very much a cold war science fiction spy thriller set against the backdrop of cold war paranoia.
I came up with the story when I found out that Winston Churchill actually wrote a memo in 1952 expressing his concern regarding flying saucers
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‘What do all this stuff about flying saucers amount to, what can it mean, what is the truth? Let me have a report at your convenience.’
At the time a group known as The Flying Saucer Working Party operated within the British Government and investigated UFO sightings across the UK. I thought it would make a good story for a one off novel. However as I neared the end I thought that it would make a good book series. I am releasing the sequel in the summer and the third part next year. I am also planning another trilogy of novels set in the 1960s.
The X Files and Dark Skies were big in their day, so I am hoping to revive this kind of conspiracy genre in book form. The Angel Committee has been given rave reviews on both sides of the Atlantic and is available on Amazon.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00ACKIZVY
Many thanks
Jason Chapman

Three five-star Amazon reviews so far.
According to Alexander McCall Smith I am a 'find'.
Two reviewers say it's a good holiday read.
Set in St Andrews, a banker is bludgeoned to death on the second tee of the iconic Old Course and three very different detectives investigate. One reviewer says it's 'VERY funny in places and topical, it keeps one guessing.'
Available to reviewers and bloggers on NetGalley for the next five weeks.
Amazon.com $9.81 paperback, $4.24 Kindle
Amazon.co.uk £5.59 paperback, £2.49 Kindle.

Russian Reckoning is on sale for $1.99 through July 20th.

"Intricately layered like the Russian nested doll, this tale of vengeance and hatred flavored with a Russian cultural backdrop will appeal to readers who enjoy unusual mysteries with an international setting." Library Journal

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The new Maknazpy thriller.

The new cold war is heating up - pump primed by oil and the race to control the pipelines. Cyber warriors mine the dark side of international finance to destabilize 'enemy' governments. Their money trail stretches from Macau and New York to Rio de Janeiro, Cyprus, Beirut and Odessa, and the finance lines of governments and gangsters criss cross through Ukraine and Crimea.

When Jorginho the Black Hat hacker goes AWOL in Portugal with the secrets of America's role in the Arab Spring rebellions, Maknazpy is enlisted to bring him back - dead or alive.
Maknazpy tracks the runaway through the narrow streets of old Lisbon until he is betrayed and the hunter becomes the hunted.
Juggling a hot money scam and cold war treachery, Maknazpy keeps one step ahead of his own US handlers, Chinese Military Intelligence, the Russian Mafia and a Brazilian street gang. But this time he is weak.
Subjected to scrambled mind games and capricious illusions, Maknazpy freefalls into a crisis of identity that threatens to choke his will to go on - unless he can scrape enough faith to scourge deep into his dark soul for that rugged core of self belief and self knowledge that has lain dormant for so long.

Then he might remember what it means to believe, to hope, even to trust. Maknazpy is starting all over again.

Reviews for Maknazpy 1 - Blood from a Shadow

"He aims at a diverse readership. One that demands a page-turning violent saga, and another that savors a more polished gloss" - Prof JL Murphy, Los Angeles - Amazon Top 500

"Based on this fast-paced intricate thriller Gerard Cappa deserves elevation to the top rank of thriller writers." - Scott Parsons, Ottawa

"This kind of talent is something seen in the great and famous writers around the world, and Cappa is a great writer." - Dragonmount Books, Brazil

"Attempts a new approach to the conspiracy action thriller, but even read on this surface level alone, it's written in a way that delivers thrills without insulting your intelligence." Keris Nine, Amazon Top 500

"Very strong characters and beautifully written Conspiracy Thriller" - Duygo Altinok, Istanbul

"This was a great story with lovely prose, if that sort of violence can be lovely." - Linda Rowland, Texas

"Displays a commendable ruthlessness: unlike many thrillers, this one treats the death of innocents as considerably more than a plot motor, and we are never allowed to forget that being injured hurts and that redemption comes at a price." - Philip Challinor, London

"Distinctively drawn and interesting characters, fast-paced with a super abundance of sub-plots, story line twists, and gritty violence to satisfy any aficionado of the genre" - Joseph Haschka, California, Amazon Top 500 Reviewer

I highly recommend this thriller.

To clarify: I recommend this thriller refers to Gerard Cappa's Black Boat Dancing. I greatly enjoyed it

I'm interested

The sequel An Agent's Rise to


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The comment by Ade is very much on the mark. Amazon is in a major fight with Hachette and other publishers and are squeezing publishers and authors to a point where it becomes unprofitable. Stephen Colbert brought this up on the Colbert Report and succeeded in getting a book named California onto the NY Times bestseller list by asking viewers to purchase it through independents. More power to those who are trying to flog their own books, the products of much love and labour.

Thank you, moderators for this li'l corner of the lit world. That was nice of you!

Donna wrote: "To all the wonderful writers who create the books we so enjoy thank you for all you do.

This is the thread to post your advertisements. This way all our members will know where to look for the lat..."

I'm working on Books 3 & 4 in the Sutherland Mystery Series and have just started tweeting on twitter. If you'd like to Follow me I'm @ellajfraser.

Book to movie efforts are coming along for Deadwaiter, 2nd in the Country Inn, Dead & Breakfast series. We'd love your peeking in and giving us a thumbs up. Encouragement is an important ingredient in a successful mission accomplished and we appreciate your support. Find us at Rally
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What price, revenge? Operation Angelica

What price, revenge? Operation Angelica

New release by bestselling author Nika Lubitsch:
The 2nd Face
After a rushed marriage the German PR-woman Julia, follows George Osterman, a world famous author of thrillers, to the States - only to find herself the sole and lonely occupant of a gilded cage in Florida, while George takes himself off to an undisclosed location to write. When suddenly human remains are discovered in the Everglades, the bodies have been dismembered in a way that eerily reminds Julia of some of the murders in George´s books. Who is this man she promised to love and cherish and who is now hiding from her in a beach house?
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Nika Lubitsch

Just received a tremendous review from Rick Schindler, culture critic and author of "Fandemonium" about my book ENTROPY:

“In thermodynamics, entropy is unusable energy; in literature and popular culture, it has become a metaphor for inexorable decay and disorder. It is the title of one of Thomas Pynchon’s earliest stories and a motif in some of his most emblematic works, including The Crying of Lot 49 and Gravity’s Rainbow. And it is also the title and motif of an elegiac crime novel by Robert Raker.

Entropy revolves around a series of grisly child murders in a woebegone region of Pennsylvania. Raker excels at painting its dismal landscape: a once-thriving farm reduced to mire by a blinding rainstorm; a neglected swimming pool in which a small body floats; a sweltering bus.

He is similarly adept at delineating the desolate hearts of the four narrators who tell his tale in turn, in fractured chronology redolent of Joseph Conrad: the diver contracted by police to retrieve the victims’ bodies, a man more comfortable immersed in water than in the mainstream of life; a musician marred by more than the loss of an arm; an undercover agent corrupted by the criminal identities he must assume, and an artist’s model numbed by tragedy and betrayal.

À la film noir, there are no heroes in Entropy to solve the case and save the day; just tormented souls grasping in vain for happiness and human connection. And they are connected, but only like flies caught in the same web. The complex pattern of that web becomes fully apparent only at this compelling novel’s cathartic climax.”

Review by Rick Schindler, Culture Critic and Author of Fandemonium

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LAST CHANCE! July is almost over for the SPECIAL 99cent price for the timely Kindle thriller novel – “The True Virus”. This story takes place during the last major Gaza/Israeli war. A Hamas bioterrorist hacks into the DNA component of the CIA’s main computer and plants a program that produces an Ebola virus which causes an epidemic in Bethlehem.
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THE BERGAMESE SECT: A MYSTERIOUS FIGURE, hiding somewhere among the seven billion inhabitants of Earth, is threatening to reveal the startling truth behind a very modern myth.

A conspiracy so damaging it could destroy the very fabric of human society.

Following the only lead he has, an encrypted email sent to an innocent proxy, Larry Walsh, Assistant Director of the National Security Agency, becomes embroiled in a race against time, fighting with subversives, saboteurs and religious fanatics to prevent a global iconoclasm.

The ancient deception he uncovers is stranger than he ever imagined...

The Bergamese Sect

I invite you to enjoy the trailers for my two international suspense novels:

COVERT DREAMS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9drU...

DEADLY EYES: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWLBt...

Out today the Kindle version of the sequel to An Agent's Demise - An Agent's Rise



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Deviations, volume 2 in the Detectives Seagate and Miner Mystery series, is on sale for 99¢ Thursday and Friday only. "Seagate and Miner are not to be missed." http://amzn.to/1jRSXGL

Kindle Countdown Deal begins on 1st August for one week only! Get The Bergamese Sect, by Alastair Gunn, "the greatest challenger to Dan Brown's crown".

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Michael wrote: "I posted an excerpt from my Prohibition era novel, The Yankee Club. I'll post new excerpts weekly until the novel is released on August 12. Hope you'll take a look.
http://blog.mjmurphy.com/?p=1144..."

I read The Yankee Club. It was a great read. You will enjoy it.

Just letting everyone know that the Kindle version of Lisbon Water Kills, a crime novel set in Portugal during the recent European financial crisis, is discounted to $0.99 from today through Sunday on amazon.com. Lisbon Water Kills
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I’m sorry to announce that the $0.99 July Special is over for the Kindle version of the biotech thriller – “The True Virus”. However, this novel is now available at no charge through Kindle Unlimited or the Kindle Owners' Lending Library for Amazon Prime members.
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The Bergamese Sect is now only $1.99 on Amazon Kindle Countdown Deals, for one week only. "Some secrets should never be revealed" http://amzn.to/1r8o40D
The Bergamese Sect

THE LIFE OF A COLONIAL FUGITIVE

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An historical thriller based in the American Revolution. Young Jonathan E. Lee is falsely accused of heinous war crimes by his treacherous regimental commander! Jonathan is forced to flee the colonies to save his neck from the hangman's noose, fighting his way across a stormy Atlantic and then joining a mercenary army that is deploying to warring Siam, a kingdom that is squirming under the iron-fist of a madman.

Greetings! I am Dr. Leonardo Noto, a former military battalion surgeon. The idea for "The Life of a Colonial Fugitive" was born out of my passion for American military history and my enthusiasm for the sport of muay Thai (Thai boxing). While training in a Thai boxing camp during the days and working on a novel based in the American Revolution during the nights, I noticed that Thai history during the 1780s was as turbulent as the American history of the period. After two years of detailed research, including nearly forty references, "The Life of a Colonial Fugitive" was born. I hope that you enjoy reading my novel as much as I enjoyed writing it!

Dr. Leonardo Noto
Practicing Physician and Author of "The Life of a Colonial Fugitive," "The Cannabinoid Hypothesis," "Intrusive Memory," and "Medical School 101."

Please visit my blog, "The Health and Medical Blog with a Personality," at www.leonardonoto.com. Thanks for reading!

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1945-A shipwreck of epic proportions leaves a young boy in possession of one of the darkest secrets of the Third Reich.

2012-A billionaire, obsessed with revenge, prepares at a long-lost science facility near Cape Horn for a diabolical and unimaginable event that will shock the world.

Long Beach, California-The famous cruise ship, the Queen Mary, prepares for her final voyage-but nothing is as it seems.

At the ship's farewell gathering, maritime historian Jake Sands spots a face from his past, and it could only mean one thing-a catastrophe at sea.

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A Dead Husband

The first one is FREE...

Get A DEAD HUSBAND FREE--the book, not an actual dead guy! A free kindle copy to new subscribers at my site http://www.desertcitiesmystery.com
This is the first book in the Jessica Huntington Desert Cities Mystery series


Cheers!

All That Glitters, coming January 6, is the second Jake and Laura Mystery. Today is the cover reveal. https://www.facebook.com/readalibi

Hi Guys
Ahead of the release of the Angel Conspiracy, I am running a series of promotions. You can get The Angel Committee for $1.99 and £1.99 on Amazon USA and Amazon UK all weekend.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00ACKIZVY

All this week, The Bergamese Sect is only $1.99 on Amazon Kindle Countdown Deals.

A MYSTERIOUS FIGURE, hiding somewhere among the seven billion inhabitants of Earth, is threatening to reveal the startling truth behind a very modern myth.

A conspiracy so damaging it could destroy the very fabric of human society.

Following the only lead he has, an encrypted email sent to an innocent proxy, Larry Walsh, Assistant Director of the National Security Agency, becomes embroiled in a race against time, fighting with subversives, saboteurs and religious fanatics to prevent a global iconoclasm.

The ancient deception he uncovers is stranger than he ever imagined...

The Bergamese Sect