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The Return of the Pharaoh by Nicholas Meyer: Featured Excerpt

By Crime HQ

September 28, 2021

Curtain Raiser As the Turkish police began to dig up the remains, Holmes and I gratefully sniffed the morning desert air. It was chilly at this hour but the heat would soon become insupportable. “Remember Nietzsche’s dictum,” the detective remarked, lighting his pipe. “Nothing not written in blood is worth reading.” “Or writing, in this…

The Stowaway by James S. Murray and Darren Wearmouth: Featured Excerpt

By Crime HQ

September 14, 2021

Chapter 1   Most of the media had already made up their minds. They were calling Wyatt Butler the worst serial killer in decades. Depraved. Evil. A twisted, calculated madman who had preyed on innocent children. News vans and angry members of the public packed Foley Square outside the New York County Courthouse on this,…

The Favor by Nora Murphy: Cover Reveal and Excerpt

By Crime HQ

September 13, 2021

Now Friday, May 3 Leah The key is to go to a few different stores. I used to always go to Jerry’s Liquors on Bonifant Avenue. I was a regular. Too regular. Jerry’s mouth started to form a thin line when I’d come in. I could see the conflict on his face. He was glad…

Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney: Featured Excerpt

By Crime HQ

August 31, 2021

Amelia FEBRUARY 2020 My husband doesn’t recognize my face. I feel him staring at me as I drive, and wonder what he sees. Nobody else looks familiar to him either, but it is still strange to think that the man I married wouldn’t be able to pick me out in a police lineup. I know…

Marked Man by Archer Mayor: New Excerpt

By Crime HQ

August 23, 2021

CHAPTER 1  Warren Kitzmiller looked around the large, almost empty morgue, tugging at the sleeve of his starched white lab coat and painfully aware he should be presenting a more detached demeanor. He was standing alone beside a flayed, cold, gray corpse, spread out in a grotesque parody of a post-Thanksgiving feast. It was supine…

Where I Left Her by Amber Garza: New Excerpt

By Crime HQ

August 16, 2021

Saturday, 10:00 a.m., seventeen hours after drop-off Whitney had been up for hours, and still hadn’t heard from Amelia. Last night was restful. Quiet. Peaceful. All the things Whitney had wanted it to be. Much needed. But this morning she was suffering from a serious case of mom guilt. She missed her daughter. Was anxious…

The Elimination Threat by Michael Laurence: New Excerpt

By Crime HQ

August 12, 2021

Chapter 2 DENVER, COLORADO July 2   Special Agent James Mason emerged from the elevator onto the fortieth floor of a building that resembled a giant obsidian stake driven into the heart of downtown Denver. He’d thrown on a plain white T-shirt, jeans, and a baseball cap, covering his sandy blond hair and shielding his…

The Secret Staircase by Sheila Connolly: New Excerpt

By Crime HQ

August 9, 2021

Chapter 1 I looked at the faces of the people around the large oval table in the dining room of the Asheboro Bed & Breakfast—the place I was calling home, at least temporarily. I knew I should begin the meeting soon, but I was relishing the sight of my ragtag gang, assembled all in one…

Gone for Good by Joanna Schaffhausen: Featured Excerpt

By Crime HQ

August 3, 2021

Prologue GRACE NOTES Journal Entry #441 DO YOU REMEMBER THE MOMENT YOU REALIZED YOU WERE GOING TO DIE? I was five years old, lying in my princess bed with its canopy and pink dust ruffles. My mother had sent me there after I put her expensive brassiere on Louie, our beagle. I might’ve gotten away…

American Demon by Daniel Stashower: Excerpt and Trailer

By Crime HQ

Watch the Trailer: Exclusive Excerpt 3: Jackass Hill Outside a red fuse flickers fitfully by the rails where an engine is switching, and in the distance the sky glows dully with the lights around Public Square. A Rapid Transit train rattles and rolls, leaning on the curve, its windows a streak against the black cliffs;…

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