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Fool Her Once by Joanna Elm: Cover Reveal & Excerpt

By Crime HQ

October 14, 2021

Chapter One JUNE 2019 Week One: THURSDAY It took him four minutes to circle the block. He drove slowly, looking for a parking space on Jenna’s street while keeping one eye out for surveillance cameras. He’d read somewhere that Midtown had more security cameras per block than any other neighborhood in the city. It made…

Fan Fiction by Brent Spiner: New Excerpt

By Crime HQ

October 8, 2021

PROLOGUE WHEN I WAS twenty-two years old, I left home for the first time and departed for New York City along with a meager cache of savings and the dream of being an actor. Traveling by train from Houston to Chicago to Buffalo and then down into Manhattan, I arrived on New Year’s Eve 1972…

The Boy from County Hell by Thomas Pluck: Cover Reveal and Excerpt

By Thomas Pluck

September 30, 2021

Jay Desmarteaux raised a whole lot of hell in New Jersey after he was released from prison after 25 years for the murder of a rapist bully at his school. Now he’s on the run in his home state of Louisiana, where he traces his roots to an evil family tree that’s grown large and…

Sleepless by Romy Hausmann: New Excerpt

By Crime HQ

September 30, 2021

My angel,    I’ve written you dozens of letters and, now more than ever, regret never having sent a single one of them. I ought to have done. Definitely. You’ve every right to find out what really happened back then. To find out from me, in my own words, words I always believed to be…

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…

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