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Cozy Mystery Sweepstakes

By Crime HQ

April 13, 2020

Start your spring reading with six cozy mysteries! Enter below for a chance to win: one ARC of Lineage Most Lethal by S.C. Perkins one mass market paperback copy of Hems & Homicide by Elizabeth Penny one mass market paperback copy of Egg Drop Dead by Vivien Chien one hardcover copy of The Stolen Letter…

5 Thrillers Set in Paris You Should Be Reading

By Elle Marr

April 1, 2020

Despite being the subject of countless romance and literary fiction novels, the City of Light also wields the dark and disturbing ambience for thrillers. Dead end pedestrian streets, loose cobblestone, underground lairs, and mass graves stemming from epidemics offer up the perfect setting for a tense narrative. Get transported to Paris’ atmospheric arrondissements in each…

A Reasonable Doubt Audio Excerpt + Sweepstakes

By Crime HQ

March 18, 2020

  Click here and fill out the form to enter for a chance to win an audiobook download code of A Reasonable Doubt by Phillip Margolin!

Sandie Jones Collection Sweepstakes

By Crime HQ

March 16, 2020

From the New York Times bestselling author and Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick Sandie Jones, enter below for a chance to win the advance reader’s copy of The Half Sister, plus copies of both The Other Woman and The First Mistake, and three signed bookplates!

Hard Cash Valley: Featured Excerpt

By Brian Panowich

March 10, 2020

Chapter 1   Arnie Blackwell was sweating bullets. He’d sweat so bad on the plane, he felt like he’d just stepped out of a shower fully dressed. When he’d boarded the plane in Atlanta, he’d had no idea that the suitcase he’d used to pack up the cash would be too big for him to…

Writing Fiction from Real Life

By Christi Daugherty

March 9, 2020

Late on the night of May 29, 1997, a talented young musician named Jeff Buckley walked into a tributary channel of the Mississippi River near Memphis, and disappeared. At the time, his star was in the ascendancy—his first album had received widespread acclaim. He was 30 years old, dark-haired and beautiful, with a voice that…

A Bad Day for Sunshine by Darynda Jones: New Excerpt

By Darynda Jones

March 2, 2020

CHAPTER 1 Welcome to Del Sol, a town full of sunshine, fresh air, and friendly faces. (Barring three or four old grouches.) Sunshine Vicram pushed down the dread and sticky knot of angst in her chest and wondered, yet again, if she were ready to be sheriff of a town even…

The Story Behind Eight Perfect Murders

By Peter Swanson

February 26, 2020

Most of the ideas for my books come in dribs and drabs. A premise will occur to me, then stick in my brain for a couple of months before another idea joins that first one. More often than not, these imagined novels wither on the vine. But sometimes they flower. It can take a year,…

The Warsaw Protocol by Steve Berry: Audio Excerpt

By Steve Berry

February 26, 2020

In this audiobook, Steve Berry and Macmillan Audio team up again to bring listeners an expanded, annotated Writer’s Cut edition of The Warsaw Protocol. This Writer’s Cut edition features fascinating behind-the-scenes commentary read by the author, and critically-acclaimed and award-winning narrator Scott Brick returns to his role as Cotton Malone – eponymous hero of Berry’s iconic New…

Prodigal Son

Why Prodigal Son is a Must-Watch Show

By Allison Brennan

January 30, 2020

A year ago, I saw the trailer for Prodigal Son, a new series on FOX, and loved the premise: the son of a serial killer becomes a profiler while battling his own demons and missing memories. It was one of those ideas I wish I’d thought of. But as we all know, great ideas can…

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