Time for a spy thriller: Monsoon Ghost Image by Tom Vater.

I am going from cozy whodunit to dark and macabre. I am going from witty mystery to nightmare-inducing mayhem. German born Tom Vater recently released the third book in his Detective Maier Mystery Series.

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When award-winning German conflict photographer Martin Ritter disappears in a boating accident in Thailand, the nation mourns the loss of a cultural icon. But a few weeks later, Detective Maier’s agency in Hamburg gets a call from Ritter’s wife. Her husband has been seen alive on the streets of Bangkok. Maier decides to travel to Thailand to find Ritter. But all he finds is trouble and a photograph. 

As soon as Maier puts his hands on the Monsoon Ghost Image, the detective turns from hunter to hunted – the CIA, international business interests, a doctor with a penchant for mutilation and a woman who calls herself the Wicked Witch of the East all want to get their fingers on Martin Ritter’s most important piece of work – visual proof of a post 9/11 CIA rendition and the torture of a suspected Muslim terrorist on Thai soil. From the concrete canyons of the Thai capital to the savage jungles and hedonist party islands of southern Thailand, Maier and his sidekick Mikhail race against formidable foes to discover some of our darkest truths and to save their lives into the bargain.

Sounds like a wild ride. Are you game?

Here is the Amazon link: https://amzn.to/2CEK4hm

For the first two books in the series and gritty crime fiction, check out Crime Wave Press:
http://www.crimewavepress.com/

Happy Holidays, everyone! I'm getting back into writing! #CoverReveal

Back in 1985, I first started writing (and re-writing) a Time Travel novella, Jan of Cleveland. I tried it as a screenplay, then as a short radio play which I had aired on KFAI, public access radio Minneapolis/St. Paul in 1994. In 1999, a good friend and co-worker at the University of Minnesota told me about iUniverse and their $150 publishing program. I published it in 1999, then re-wrote it and re-published it in 2001. Back then, social media was in its infancy and you had to buy expensive display ads in magazines in order to get publicity.

I pretty much gave up on writing until 2011. I completely re-wrote Jan for about the seventh time and sold it on Amazon as an ebook. Since I only attracted trolls as reviewers, I gave up and got into blogging and text editing. After nearly nine years of this good writing experience, I am finishing up an eighth complete overhaul of the novella and having some book club friends critique it for me.

I am thinking it will be released next month. I have renamed it Maiden Voyage and have taken the pen name of Liz Meegan, my first and middle name. I am inspired by Ray Charles whose real name is Ray Robinson, but because of Sugar Ray Robinson, used his first and middle name.

Once it's released, I'll be Facebook sharing and Tweeting up a storm. As Natalie Wood sang in Inside Daisy Clover, You're Gonna Hear From Me! 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOrtClx0V5o

A Cozy Mystery Giveaway: One Taste Too Many by Debra H. Goldstein.

Remember Jell-O in a can? Recipe link and entertainment to follow. You can even enter the Giveaway for the One Taste Too Many Book Tour. This the first of the Sarah Blair Mystery series.

What's the book about?

Married at eighteen, divorced at twenty‑eight, Sarah Blair reluctantly swaps her luxury lifestyle for a cramped studio apartment and a law firm receptionist job in the tired hometown she never left. With nothing much to show for the last decade but her feisty Siamese cat, RahRah, and some clumsy domestic skills, she’s the polar opposite of her bubbly twin, Emily—an ambitious chef determined to take her culinary ambitions to the top at a local gourmet restaurant . . .

Sarah knew starting over would be messy. But things fall apart completely when her ex drops dead, seemingly poisoned by Emily’s award-winning rhubarb crisp. Now, with RahRah wanted by the woman who broke up her marriage and Emily wanted by the police for murder, Sarah needs to figure out the right recipe to crack the case before time runs out. Unfortunately, for a gal whose idea of good china is floral paper plates, catching the real killer and living to tell about it could mean facing a fate worse than death—being in the kitchen!

Yikes!

The Amazon Link: https://www.amazon.com/Taste-Many-Sarah-Blair-Mystery/dp/1496719476

I found this fun book on the Cozy Mystery Giveaways group on Facebook and here is their link:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1180507948736194/

And now for the Jell-O in a Can recipe: https://bit.ly/2BpDxVF

I want an AngelWitch for Christmas! #NewRelease

Jessica Samuels has merged six years of working at Wal Mart with her vivid imagination about the realm of the Angels, the Witches and other supernatural beings. She is already working on Book 2 of the series.

Here is more about the book and the Amazon link:

Angeline is just a Kyle's General Store worker. When she goes to her local witches shop she gets a surprise - a guy with wings. Not just any guy, but the one in her dreams. ... and she is something greater than just your average retail worker. https://amzn.to/2EaVStD