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What Doesn’t Kill Us by David Housewright: New Excerpt

By Crime HQ

April 22, 2021

JUST SO YOU KNOW I was shot in the back at close range by a .32-caliber handgun yet did not die, at least not permanently. Dr. Lillian Linder, the emergency medical specialist who saved my life, said it was a miracle. Lilly had patched me up on numerous occasions over the past decade, though, and…

Ragnar Jónasson Backlist + ARC Sweepstakes

By Crime HQ

March 22, 2021

Enter below for a chance to win these 8 thrillers from bestselling author Ragnar Jónasson, including an advance reader copy of The Girl Who Died! * Country Select oneUnited StatesOther Sorry, you cannot enter at this time. * E-mail Official Rules Ragnar Jonasson Backlist + ARC Sweepstakes OFFICIAL RULES NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND IS NECESSARY…

The Photographer (ARC + Viewfinder) Sweepstakes

By Crime HQ

February 22, 2021

Be 1 of 5 grand prize winners who will win an advance ARC copy of The Photographer by Mary Dixie Carter and a 3D Retro Viewfinder with a reel featuring scenes from The Photographer book trailer. Enter below for a chance to win! Sorry, you cannot enter at this time. Country Select oneUnited StatesOther E-mail…

New Excerpt: Every Last Fear by Alex Finlay

By Crime HQ

February 12, 2021

CHAPTER 7 SARAH KELLER Agent Keller slid the key into the door of the small ranch-style house, moths circling the porch light above her. Readington, New Jersey, wasn’t a fancy neighborhood, which was just as well. That would’ve been cost prohibitive, given her FBI salary. But it was safe, filled with working-class families and young…

Why I Like to Emotionally Destroy My Readers (And Four Thrillers that Emotionally Destroyed Me)

By Courtney Summers

February 1, 2021

When Wednesday Books and I began to finesse the messaging that would frame the promotion of my new novel, The Project, “COURTNEY SUMMERS WILL DESTROY YOU” seemed like the most obvious choice.  For over a decade, I’ve built a brand around my utter delight in emotionally traumatizing my readers with hard-hitting books about young women…

The Highway Sweepstakes

By Crime HQ

January 4, 2021

Be 1 of 50 grand prize winners who will win a copy of The Highway by C.J. Box, the inspiration for the new ABC series Big Sky. Enter below for a chance to win! Sorry, you cannot enter at this time. Country Select oneUnited StatesOther E-mail First name Last Name Address 1 Address 2 City…

Deputy Roosevelt and the Case of the Stolen Scow

By Erin Lindsey

November 13, 2020

Theodore Roosevelt is remembered for many things—so many, indeed, that periods of his life that would feature as headlines in the biographies of lesser mortals are relegated to mere footnotes in his legacy. That’s my excuse, anyway, and I’m sticking to it; it certainly came as a surprise to me to learn that among his…

The Gold in Golden Age Detective Fiction

By Anthony Horowitz

November 9, 2020

My novel, Moonflower Murders, is actually two books in one. My heroine, an editor called Susan Ryeland, lives in the twenty-first century and is called upon to solve a crime whose perpetrator (the wrong man as it turns out) is still in jail. The clue that reveals the real killer is concealed in a book…

Win an eBook Copy of Family Meal: Recipes from Our Community!

By Terrie Farley Moran

September 10, 2020

Hello everyone. I’m Terrie Farley Moran and I write cozy mysteries including the Read ’Em and Eat series. In those cozies, Sassy Cabot and Bridgy Mayfield own a café and bookstore in Fort Myers Beach, Florida. At the Read ’Em and Eat book lovers can find such luscious treats such as Old Man and the…

The Orphan’s Guilt by Archer Mayor: New Excerpt

By Crime HQ

September 9, 2020

CHAPTER FOUR Searching the Weeds “Brattleboro Reformer. Rachel Reiling speaking.” “Hi, Rachel. It’s Anne Proctor, from Proctor and Harris? Remember me?” “Sure.” Rachel pulled up her contacts on the screen and rediscovered that Proctor and Harris was a funeral home in Westminster, and thus the source of some biographical tidbits in the past—not that she’d…

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