SleuthSayers: Looking for Tips about Writing and Submitting Mystery Short Stories? This is the Blog Post for You

SleuthSayers: Looking for Tips about Writing and Submitting Myst...: You want to start writing crime/mystery short stories? Great. Jump right in. After all, you've gotta start somewhere. Every long journey...

Ghost Parachute: It’s Natural by Curtis Ippolito

Ghost Parachute: It’s Natural by Curtis Ippolito

DC: Zoinks! DC Offers More Than 250 Scooby-Doo Comics for Free

Scott told me about this and thought it might be of interest to some here: 

DC: Zoinks! DC Offers More Than 250 Scooby-Doo Comics for Free

Do Some Damage Blog: The Exquisite Corpse for Lockdown Noir (Serialized Story)

Do Some Damage: The Exquisite Corpse for Lockdown Noir: S o a few weeks ago, I got to thinking that -- to pass the time with something enjoyable -- someone should start up an exquisite corpse sto...

A Free Short Story: Tex and his Stetsons: A Fairy Tale Reimagined by Angela Crider Neary (Five Star Press)

A Free Short Story: Tex and his Stetsons: A Fairy Tale Reimagined by Angela Crider Neary (Five Star Press)

Gravetapping: Bargain Friday: Three Freebies!

Gravetapping: Bargain Friday: Three Freebies!: It’s bargain Friday, and this time around I’ve collected a few free ebooks for your consideration. The first is W. Glenn Duncan’s Raffer...

TP&WD: TPWD says ‘Thank You’ to Law Enforcement with New Free Fishing Weekend

TP&WD: TPWD says ‘Thank You’ to Law Enforcement with New Free Fishing Weekend

FREE Book Alert

 

BJ Bourg's JAMES 516 is currently free at amazon. My January 2015 review of the book when it was with a different publisher is here. As I wrote before in that review--- The book is compelling and intense from start to finish and one heck of a read.



From the Amazon synopsis....

Could a deep and dark secret be behind the sniper-style killing of a sheriff’s office captain, or is it simply the work of a madman with a rifle? Whatever the case, the killer is taunting the cops with a mysterious message, and Police Sniper London Carter is determined to decipher the message and capture the murderer. Will London solve the mystery in time, or will more officers die before he can bring the killer to justice?

A tense and exciting read with a surprise ending that most never see coming.

The 2016 EPIC eBook Awards Winner for Best Mystery!

(NOTE: The London Carter Novels are a spin-off of the Magnolia Parish Novels, with JAMES 516 taking place four years after HOLLOW BOND.)

FREE Book Alert: DUTY by Martin Roy Hill

From Martin Roy Hill:

Each year around Veteran's Day/Armistice Day, I make the Kindle version of my award-winning short story collection DUTY: Suspense and Mystery Stories from the Cold War and Beyond free for a limited time. If any of you are interested, you can download it from Amazon until Nov. 11.


Amazon Synopsis:

A collection of previously published and new short stories by author Martin Roy Hill. In the title story, "Duty," a Cold War soldier faces the prospect of starting WWIII. In "Something Far Away," a former Coastguardsman must face his ghosts from the past. A Navy investigator faces a different kind of ghost aboard a nuclear aircraft carrier in "Destroyer Turns." "Brandenberg's Diaries" tells the story of a retired spy's last mission during Glasnost. A group of soldiers faces the curse of war over several generations in "The Stragglers." And in "The Use of Innocence," a Vietnam vet contemplates a younger generation eager for another  war.

FREE Book Alert-- The Texan's Irish Bride by Caroline Clemmons

Good friend and former writing group partner, award winning author Caroline Clemmons currently has one of her romance novels available FREE in eBook form over at Amazon. From the description there:


"Cenora Rose O’Neill knows her father somehow arranged the trap for Dallas, but she agrees to wed the handsome stranger. She’d do anything to protect her family, and she wants to save herself from the bully Tom Williams. A fine settled man like Dallas will rid himself of her soon enough, but at least she and her family will be safely away from Tom Williams.

Texas rancher Dallas McClintock has no plans to wed for several years. Right now, he’s trying to establish himself as a successful horse breeder. Severely wounded rescuing Cenora from kidnappers, Dallas is taken to her family’s wagon to be tended. He is trapped into marrying Cenora, but he is not a man who goes back on his word. His wife has a silly superstition for everything, but passion-filled nights with her make up for everything—even when her wild, eccentric family drives crazy."

Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: Free Issue of Mystery Weekly MagazIne

Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: Free Issue of Mystery Weekly MagazIne: Subscribe to Mystery Weekly MagazIne : Click on the link and you can download the first issue for free.  You don't have to subscribe to ...

The Southwest Armchair Traveler: #FREE romantic mystery for the #Kindle

The Southwest Armchair Traveler: #FREE romantic mystery for the #Kindle: My romantic suspense novel, What We Found, is currently free on Amazon . Finding a dead body changes a person. 22-year-old Audra Nee...

Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: Free for Kindle for a Limited Time for Today Only

Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: Free for Kindle for a Limited Time for Today Only: The Shallows - Kindle edition by Nigel Bird. Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.   Lieutenant Bradley Heap has gone...

Free David Drake (Planetary Defense Command Blog)

Free David Drake (Planetary Defense Command Blog)

FREE Book Alert--"Tussinland" by Mike Monson

Also published by All Due Respect Books and currently free on Amazon in the eBook format is  Tussinland by Mike Monson. My review is here.

Amazon Synopsis:

"Addicted to cough syrup, television and Sugar Frosted Flakes, Paul Dunn is living in a state of torpor while staying at his mother's house after the humiliating ending of his third marriage. His inertia is broken when he becomes the chief suspect in the murders of his soon-to-be ex-wife and her new lover. Set in the town of Modesto, deep in California's Central Valley, Tussinland is about sex drugs, addiction, smart phones, Facebook and the internet, digital cable, anti-government militias, reality TV, fundamentalist homophobic Christians, families, 12-step groups, pornography, marriage, death, disease, and love. So noir it hurts."

FREE Book Alert-- "Selena" by Greg Barth

Selena by Greg Barth is currently FREE in the eBook format over on Amazon. If you buy a book published by All Due Respect Books you know going in violence and graphic language will be on full display.  All Due Respect publishes graphic crime filled books where cozy style tales have no place. The cover alone should make it clear what you are getting so don't complain later.

Having read this-- working on my review--- and enjoyed it a lot I can tell you it is one heck of a ride. 

Amazon synopsis:


Scatter shot revenge.

Selena is living the dream on her terms – carefree and sloppy and all in the pursuit of pleasure. When a careless act of petty theft puts her in the crosshairs of a violent crime syndicate, her choices are clear – either curl up and die, or tear down the whole damned organization one bloody shotgun blast at a time.

Nothing will satisfy her but savage retribution. Nothing can stop her. Get ready.

Cover design by Dyer Wilk. Edited by Chris Rhatigan and Rob Pierce. Published by Mike Monson and Chris Rhatigan.

FREE Book Alert---The Southwest Armchair Traveler: #Free Romantic Suspense in the Southwest

The Southwest Armchair Traveler: #Free Romantic Suspense in the Southwest: Whispers in the Dark  is romantic suspense with archaeology and intrigue among ancient Southwest ruins.  Reviewers give it a 4.3 star...

Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: Free WESTERN for Kindle for a Limited Time

Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: Free for Kindle for a Limited Time: The Nations - Kindle edition by Ken Farmer, Buck Stienke. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.   THE NATIONS also known as &...

FREE Book Alert-- "The Lizard's Ardent Uniform (Veridical Dreams Book 1)" Edited by David Cranmer

The excellent book  The Lizard's Ardent Uniform is currently free in e-book format from Amazon. My review from August 2014 is here. Amazon synopsis:

 "All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream." --Edgar Allan Poe

The Lizard's Ardent Uniform and Other Stories (Veridical Dreams Vol. I) takes you on several voyages into every day nightmares, bizarre detours, and hellish worlds. Enlisting the talents of authors Chris F. Holm (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine), Terrie Farley Moran (Well Read, Then Dead), Patti Abbott (Home Invasion), Evan V. Corder, Steve Weddle (Needle: A Magazine of Noir), Hilary Davidson (The Damage Done), and Garnett Elliott (Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine), thought-provoking fragments from the dream journals of Kyle J. Knapp (writer and poet of Pluvial Gardens and Celebrations in the Ossuary, who passed away in 2013 at the age of twenty-three) are fleshed out into seven stirring tales of crime, science fiction, literary, and fantasy. Edited and with an introduction by BEAT to a PULP's David Cranmer.

Stories:
The Lizard's Ardent Uniform -- Chris F. Holm
Dust to Dust -- Terrie Farley Moran
Twin Talk -- Patti Abbott
The Malignant Reality -- Evan V. Corder (including "The Needles" poem by Kyle J. Knapp)
Ghosts in the Fog -- Steve Weddle
The Debt -- Hilary Davidson
The Zygma Gambit -- Garnett Elliott

A portion of the proceeds from this collection will go to higher education.

FREE Book Alert-- "Eight Mystery Writers You Should be Reading Now"

Bill Crider mentioned this a week ago when it came up free for one day only. I missed out that day. It is free again today for one day only. I got mine. Hope you get your copy. By the way, in the post I linked to yesterday, Robert Lopresti mentioned one of the stories as his best read of the week.  Amazon synopsis:

"It’s easy to find a book; it’s hard to find the book, that new author who sets your life on fire.

That’s why we put this collection together. This book gives you an easy way to sample a group of eight up-and-coming mystery writers who you may not have heard of, but who critics and award committees have noticed. We’ve assembled eight very different styles to let you sample a wide array of stories and find new voices you might have trouble finding on your own.

We have hard-boiled detectives, and we have crime-solving animals. We have deeply flawed characters, and we have cute youngsters. We have damaged women, kick-ass women, noble women and mean women, sometimes in the same character. We have tough guys in spades, and we have funny in spades.

Each writer contributed a story, a sample chapter from a book, and an interview. Because of our variety, there’s sure to be something here you’ll love, and maybe love for life.

So come on in for a taste. Here’s our menu:

Lisa Alber – Mystery with a smattering of psychological suspense and tons of atmosphere. Beautifully written, complex stories set in the Irish countryside. Reminiscent of Erin Hart, Julia Spencer-Fleming, and Susan Hill. Rosebud Award and Pushcart Prize Nominee.

Kathleen Cosgrove –Florida weird with a middle-aged woman returning home. Kick-ass funny.

Michael Guillebeau –Broken war hero has to navigate the oddballs and save the girl to get back to the bar he’s been hiding in. Reminiscent of Elmore Leonard and Carl Hiaasen. Silver Falchion Finalist, and Library Journal Mystery Debut of the Month.

Chris Knopf –Hardboiled in the Hamptons. Ex-boxer Sam Acquillo is a noir descendent of Travis McGee and Spencer, and one of my favorite characters. Nero award winner.

Jessie Bishop Powell— Cozy noir mysteries that embrace the genre’s extremes. In The Marriage at the Rue Morgue, police suspect an orangutan of murder. Primatologists Noel Rue and Lance Lakeland have to save the ape and still find time to get married. Sounds light, but Powell’s stuff is as intense as it is funny.

Larissa Reinhart—If you like Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum, you need to read Reinhart’s Cherry Tucker. A damaged artist with twice the depth, twice the funny of Plum and set in small-town Georgia. I dare you to put this down. Daphne du Maurier Finalist

Jaden Terrell—Hardboiled PI with a Soft Heart. Nashville PI Jared McKean has enough emotional issues to carry a book by himself, and then Terrell throws him into big issues like human trafficking. Shamus Award Finalist.

Lisa Wysocky—Multiple awards for Lisa’s books about a horse trainer with a smart horse who helps her solve crimes. One of the most realistic and loving use of animals in mystery. Winner of American Horse Publication Awards, and the National Indie Excellence Awards.

We invite you to see what looks good, and take a bite for yourself. If you find something you like, our chefs will be happy to give you a full meal.

And we all deliver."