Unlawful Acts Small Crimes: Mambo, OCD, and Tattoos for 5/1/2020

Unlawful Acts Small Crimes: Mambo, OCD, and Tattoos for 5/1/2020

Unlawful Acts Small Crimes: Monday Reads for 4/20/2020

Unlawful Acts Small Crimes: Monday Reads for 4/20/2020

Not Your Usual Suspects: Publicity – Boon, Bane or Just Dratted Distraction? by Janis Patterson

Not Your Usual Suspects: Publicity – Boon, Bane or Just Dratted Distraction...: by Janis Patterson Whether you self-publish or go with a traditional publisher, the burden of publicity falls on you. Yes, even with a...

Free David Drake (Planetary Defense Command Blog)

Free David Drake (Planetary Defense Command Blog)

FREE Book Alert-- "The Lawyer: Six Guns at Sundown" by Eric Beetner

As linked to here yesterday,  The Lawyer: Six Guns at Sundown by  Eric Beetner is the latest one in this awesome Western series. For today only it is also available for free. Amazon synopsis:

"Seething hatred spurs The Lawyer forward, with a burning vengeance for his family slaughtered by seven hardened gunslingers. He’s tracking them down, one by one, until every killer is in the ground. His next target, Big Jim Kimbrough, left tracks to the small town of Sundown, Arkansas, where The Lawyer learns his prey has already moved on.

But he can’t leave after he witnesses a black man named Josiah being dragged behind a horse, the man’s only crime is allegedly taking food from a white man’s table, and is about to be lynched. The Lawyer takes up arms to save Josiah, realizing Kimbrough is slipping from his grasp with every minute he spends in Sundown. None of that will matter, though, if The Lawyer doesn’t survive the next twelve hours in the wake of a racially charged mob, fueled by the town’s tyrant and cheap liquor.

Eric Beetner (The Year I Died Seven Times) is no stranger to writing terse, action-packed storylines. He shifts his gifted prose from modern crime tales to the gritty world of the Old West without missing a beat. SIX GUNS AT SUNDOWN is a riveting Western that continually tightens its grip to the last provocative page."

While you are at it, pick up the western novellas The Lawyer: Stay of Execution and  The Lawyer: The Retributioners.

Urban Warfare and Free Books (The Rap Sheet)

Urban Warfare and Free Books (The Rap Sheet)

SleuthSayers: Bouchercon 2: I whine, others talk

SleuthSayers: Bouchercon 2: I whine, others talk: by Robert Lopresti photo (at Bcon) by Peter Rozovsky When I wrote recently about the World Science Fiction Convention I talked abou...

FREE Read for Now: CARNOSAUR WEEKEND

CARNOSAUR  WEEKEND is one heck of a read and is currently a free e-book at Amazon. The synopsis is:

It’s a dirty job ...

Policing the timelines has always been dangerous, but the brave agents of Continuity Inc. have arguably the most important job in human history. Protecting human history.

Newly promoted agent Kyler Knightly teams up with his uncle, Damon Cole, to stop unscrupulous developers from exploiting the Late Cretaceous. A luxury subdivision smack-dab in the middle of dinosaur country threatens not only the present, but super-rich homeowners looking for the ultimate getaway.

CARNOSAUR WEEKEND includes the original Kyler Knightly story “The Zygma Gambit,” inspired by the dream journals of Kyle J. Knapp, and a sci-fi short story “The Worms of Terpsichore,” all together totaling nearly 16K words.


My review is here. 

Tip of the cap to Bill Crider who mentioned this earlier today.

Costly Witch Hunts, Free Books (The Rap Sheet)

 Costly Witch Hunts, Free Books (The Rap Sheet)

Via Mark Troy-- Black and White Friday (FREE BOOKS)

As posted elsewhere....

Let's turn Black Friday into Black and White Friday, that is, a day for reading instead of shopping. What could be better than a comfortable chair, a leftover turkey sandwich, and a good mystery? 

To get it going, I am making my novella, The Rules, available for free download to Kindle from today through Sunday: http://amzn.to/1iljnye  And my collection of short stories, Game Face, will be available free on Smashwords during the same period: http://bit.ly/1HEqcWN 
 
The Rules is an Ava Rome mystery. Game Face is a collection of all the Val Lyon short stories.

Mark Troy
metroy@mac.com
http://marktroymysterywriter.com
The Splintered Paddle, an Ava Rome Mystery from Five Star Publishing

Via Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: Free for Kindle for a Limited Time-- Carnosaur Weekend

Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: Free for Kindle for a Limited Time: Amazon.com: Carnosaur Weekend (Kyler Knightly and Damon Cole Book 1) eBook: Garnett Elliott: Kindle Store : It’s a dirty job ...  Policing...

Via The Education of a Pulp Writer: Free eBooks!

The Education of a Pulp Writer: Free eBooks!: Two Jack Laramie, The Drifter Detective, novellas are free for the Kindle over the next several days: The Girls of Bunker Pines by Garnet...

Via Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: Free for Kindle for a Limited Time--Hawthorne: Tales of a Weirder West

Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: Free for Kindle for a Limited Time: Hawthorne: Tales of a Weirder West - Kindle edition by Heath Lowrance. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com. : There are mons...

Free Book ALERT-- MIND PRISON: A SHORT STORY by Dave Zeltserman

The short story MIND PRISON is currently available for free at Amazon and you should get it as it is good. My review from last November is here if you need more details on why you should get it.

Via Alexandra Sokoloff: Book of Shadows, FREE!

Alexandra Sokoloff: Book of Shadows, FREE!: My spooky (and maybe - but maybe not! - supernatural) crime thriller  Book of Shadows  is free on Kindle today and tomorrow, July 14-15.  ...

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

Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: Free for Kindle For a Limited Time: Amazon.com: My Name is Harley and This is My Story eBook: Harley Barley: Kindle Store : A look at the life of a Corgi named Harley Doodle Ba...

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

Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: Free for Kindle For a Limited Time: Amazon.com: The Doomsday Bag (Ed Noon Mystery) eBook: Michael Avallone: Kindle Store : “The Bagman disappeared at approximately 1:30, and ha...

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

Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: Free for Kindle For a Limited Time: Amazon.com: DARK THRILLERS-A Box Set of Suspense Novels eBook: BILLIE SUE MOSIMAN: Kindle Store : DARK THRILLERS is a boxed set of two suspe...

Via The Education of a Pulp Writer: Three for Free!

 Good Ones All!!!!!

The Education of a Pulp Writer: Three for Free!: These ebook titles are free for a few days ... The Girls of Bunker Pines , BEAT to a PULP: Superhero , and BEAT to a PULP: Roun...

FREE BOOK--- "The Shamus Sampler" Editor Jochem Vandersteen

For the weekend The Shamus Sampler edited by Jochem Vandersteen is free over at Amazon. The synopsis there is:

"An anthology full of exciting PI fiction and an essay written by popular names like Reed Farrel Coleman, Bill Crider, James Winter, Fred Zackel, J.L. Abramo, Keith Dixon, Jochem Vandersteen, Sean Dexter and some newer names like Kit Rohrbacher, Peter DiChellis and others.

This is the perfect anthology to pick up if you want to get introduced to all the great PI writers out there, all recommended by Sons of Spade (http://sonsofspade.blogspot.com) blogger and author Jochem Vandersteen."


If you are still not convinced, check out my spoiler free review of this very good book here on the blog from last November.  Pick it up---you will be glad you did.