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Featured Excerpt: Every Waking Hour by Joanna Schaffhausen

By Crime HQ

December 15, 2020

Chapter 1   Wait, you’re just going to leave us here? Alone?” Ellery Hathaway had faced down serial killers and lived to tell about it, but she felt a cold trickle of fear as she glanced at the lone child playing nearby on the grass. “I believe your ex-wife specifically forbade this proposition. In writing.…

Bending the Paw by Diane Kelly: New Excerpt

By Crime HQ

November 30, 2020

Chapter 1 ST. VALENTINE’S DAY MASSACRE The Slasher He reached over to the wooden block of serrated steak knives on the kitchen counter and yanked one out, clutching it in his fist. He slashed and slashed, and the blood splashed and splashed. Over the walls. Over the counter-tops. Over the floor. Over skin and clothing…

Violent Peace by David Poyer: New Excerpt

By Crime HQ

November 23, 2020

Chapter 1   Beijing The huge gray transport shook as it corkscrewed downward, and a barrage of violent bangs rattled the fuselage. Decoy flares being fired? The slim, fair-haired woman gripping the armrests hoped so. No doubt, to lessen the chance of some rogue commander targeting them as the mission came in to land. No…

Featured Excerpt: Murder, She Wrote: Murder in Season by Jessica Fletcher and Jon Land

By Crime HQ

November 17, 2020

“You look like you just saw a ghost, Doc,” Mort noted.  “Couple of them, it turns out,” Seth told us both. “Because there’s not one set of bones buried in that hole; there’s two. The second set looks to have belonged to a woman, and she didn’t die a couple hundred years ago either.” His…

Cold Wind by Paige Shelton: New Excerpt

By Crime HQ

November 16, 2020

Chapter 1 I lifted the curtain flap. Twilight was one of my new favorite things; an extended time here in my new neighborhood in Alaska before and after real sunrise and sunset. As we came upon the end of October, twilight in Benedict lasted about forty minutes at each end of the shorter days. We…

The Photographer by Mary Dixie Carter: Cover Reveal and Excerpt

By Crime HQ

November 11, 2020

Available wherever books are sold May 25, 2021 — pre-order today from any of these partner bookstores: Anderson’s Bookshops (Naperville, IL / Downers Grove, IL) An Unlikely Story (Plainville, MA) Books Are Magic (Brooklyn, NY) Book Passage (Corte Madera, CA / San Francisco, CA) Copper Dog Books (Beverly, MA) Fiction Addiction (Greenville, SC) McIntyre’s Books…

Sherlock Holmes and the Beast of the Stapletons by James Lovegrove: New Excerpt

By Crime HQ

November 10, 2020

“But to begin at the beginning…” said Corporal Benjamin Grier. “If you wouldn’t mind,” said Holmes. Sitting back, the American commenced his narrative. “I was owed several weeks’ leave by the army, and got it into my head that I should visit with my old pal Henry all the way across the Atlantic. I was…

Trial by Fire by Scott James: New Excerpt

By Crime HQ

November 5, 2020

FEBRUARY 20, 2003, 11:07 P.M. It takes ninety seconds to sing “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Human beings, on average, can hold their breath for up to ninety seconds. A typical person needs ninety seconds to read one page of this book. Ninety seconds marked the moment between life and death on the night of February 20,…

Hard Times by Les Edgerton: Cover Reveal + Excerpt

By Crime HQ

October 29, 2020

“Hard Times is the best country noir I’ve read in a long while. A knife-edged, cold-eyed story of love and hate at their most visceral, it’s worthy of a place of pride on the shelf next to William Gay and Daniel Woodrell.”—Scott Phillips, author of Ice Harvest and That Left Turn at Albuquerque Take a first look at…

Ink by Jonathan Maberry: Featured Excerpt

By Crime HQ

October 29, 2020

Prologue   “Will it hurt?” Patty Cakes paused, the tattoo needle in her hand, looking at the man who lay facedown on the table. He was as white and hairless as a worm. She could have lied to him, but she never did that. “Yes,” she said. The man took a long time before he…

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