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Colorado

Book Review: Freefall by Jessica Barry

By Kristin Centorcelli

January 12, 2019

Freefall by Jessica Barry is a thriller about a plane that crashes amidst the Rocky Mountains and the woman who is the sole survivor and has a reason much bigger than herself to stay alive. Maggie Carpenter’s world is shattered when she learns that her 31-year-old daughter, Allison, has been in a plane crash over the…

Jessica Barry, author of Freefall

Taming the Wilderness: Jessica Barry on How to Write Survival Fiction

By Jessica Barry

January 9, 2019

When the idea for my debut thriller, Freefall, first came to me, I knew it was one I wanted to develop: a plane crashes in the Colorado Rockies and the sole survivor must fight her way through the wilderness with the clothes on her back and whatever supplies she can salvage from the wreckage. The…

The Homeplace: A Mystery by Kevin Wolf

The Homeplace: New Excerpt

By Kevin Wolf

August 31, 2016

A suspenseful, dramatic crime novel, The Homeplace by Kevin Wolf captures the stark beauty of life on the Colorado plains (Available September 6, 2016). Chase Ford was the first of four generations of Ford men to leave Comanche County, Colorado. For Chase, leaving saved the best and hid the worst. But now, he has come home.…

Shadow on the Mountain: New Excerpt

By Stephen Singular

March 17, 2016

Shadow on the Mountain: Nancy Pfister, Dr. William Styler, and the Murder of Aspen's Golden Girl by Stephen and Joyce Singular is the true crime tale of the murder of Nancy Pfister in the mountains of Aspen, Colorado (Available March 22, 2016). Nancy Pfister, heir to Buttermilk Mountain, the world-renowned site of the Winter X…

The ZINNG: Staub’s Movie, Barker’s TV, Things to Do in Denver (and London)

By Crime HQ

September 24, 2015

Set your DVRs for Wendy Corsi Staub's novel Hello, It's Me (written as Wendy Markham) airing Sunday at 9p Eastern on the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries Channel. Many Congratulations to superfans and crime-reader-advocates Bill and Toby Gottfried, who'll be awarded the 2015 David Thompson Award at Bouchercon next month! Read more at Janet Rudolph's Mystery…

Ed Gorman’s Relentless Western Noir

By David Cranmer

April 1, 2015

Relentless by Ed Gorman was published in 2003 and has now been rereleased in eBook format through Rough Edges Press. As a marshal working in Skylar, Colorado, Lane Morgan sees it all and then some. His day has him separating two old timers with medical conditions to keep them from beating each other up, relaying…

Touch Not the Guinea Pig

By Crime HQ

July 8, 2014

What criminal plot requires an 8-inch long baby hippo? Reading the police blotter can be edifying. You’ll often stumble upon a crime you’d never heard of committed for a reason you can’t imagine. To wit, this item from Arvada, Colorado: A guinea pig breeder in…Arvada notified policed June 3 that one of her prized animals…

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