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

Five Stars for Dead Air: A Talk Radio Mystery by Mary Kennedy.

I never publish book reviews unless I give them five stars.

So here goes...

This is a good book to relax with. The kind that keeps you reading and makes you laugh. 

Maggie Walsh left her psychotherapy practice in Manhattan to be the star of a talk radio show in Cypress Grove, Florida. When the overweight self-help Guru is a guest on her show and ends up dead in his hotel room, one of his acolytes is a major suspect. She happens to be Maggie's roommate, Lark. And Rafe, the hot and spicy detective won't believe a word Lark says and firmly tells Maggie not to meddle. Funny and unexpectedly helpful is Maggie's mother Lola, who played a minor part in a soap opera, but never gives up hope of being a star. I laughed a lot and look forward to reading more. And there are three more books in the Talk Radio series.

Here is the Amazon Kindle link: https://amzn.to/2TY4YhN

And for more entertaining Cozy Mysteries, click here: https://www.cozychicksblog.com/https://www.cozychicksblog.com/

Civil Unrest in 1920s India: A Greater God takes you there.

This is the fourth of Brian Stoddart's Le Fanu Series.

The British are slowly losing the grip on the subcontinent. The end of the colonial enterprise is in sight and the city on India’s east coast is teeming with intrigue. 

Muslims are being murdered and communal tensions escalating as Superintendent Chris Le Fanu returns, reluctantly, to 1920s Madras from the Straits Settlements. He comes under fire, literally and figuratively, as more Muslims and policemen are killed by revolutionaries in clashes fomented by his boss, Inspector-General Arthur ‘The Jockey’ Jepson.

As the riots spread, Le Fanu’s trusted assistants – Mohammad Habibullah and Jackson Caldicott – disagree on both the origins and the handling of this new crisis. Le Fanu becomes further isolated as his only government allies, the Governor and the Chief Secretary, are being transferred away from Madras.

Even more pressure bears in on him when former housekeeper and lover, Ro McPhedran, falls critically ill in Hyderabad, and Jenlin Koh, his new love, is listed among those aboard a ship missing en route to India. Le Fanu’s entire professional and personal future is at risk as he confronts these challenges.

The Amazon link: https://www.bookgoodies.com/a/B07J6GJWB9

About the Author: 

A Madras Miasma was the first in a series of books set in 1920s Madras in India, and featuring Superintendent Chris Le Fanu. The Pallampur Predicament was the second and A Straits Settlement has appeared in 2016 as the third.

A Straits Settlement was longlisted for the 2017 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best New Zealand Crime Novel.

A Greater God is the fourth in the Le Fanu series and appeared in 2018.

He has published extensively in non-fiction, too. A House in Damascus: Before the Fall recounts his experience of living in an old house in the Old City of Damascus immediately before the outbreak of the war in Syria. That memoir became an Amazon #1 in Middle East Travel, and won gold and silver medals at the 2012 e-Book Awards for Creative Non-Fiction and Travel respectively.

Brian Stoddart also works as an international higher education consultant on programs in Cambodia, Lao PDR, Syria and Jordan as well as in the UK and USA. This work follows a successful career as university researcher, teacher and senior executive which culminated in a term as Vice-Chancellor and President of La Trobe University in Australia where he is now an Emeritus Professor. That academic career took him all over the world including long periods in India, Malaysia, Canada, the Caribbean, China and Southeast Asia.

He also writes extensively for mainstream and new media as well as expert commentary for press, radio and television. Brian is also a cruise ship lecturer, specialising in international affairs and history.

In his spare time, he enjoys photography, reading (especially crime fiction),travel to new places, and listening to music, especially gypsy jazz

Giveaway: Celebrating the release of Overdose in Paradise!

Where is the crime solving couple off to now? Madison and Fab are solving another case in Tarpon Cove. This time, the venue is Dr. A's beach house with an added bonus to get the doctor in real trouble!

A woman's been found dead in Dr. A's beach house, face down in enough cocaine to put him away for life. 

It's going to take more than trading a couple of favors to help the doctor, who's always been there for Madison, no questions asked, no blood left behind.
 
Plus being on the radar of a big-time drug dealer, shoots up the street value on their lives a million-fold. They could be in a felonious hot mess.
 
Nice things about living in Tarpon Cove? Favors are traded like cryptocurrency. If anybody asks, nobody saw anything. 

And even the worst day can end with a pitcher of margaritas--glass optional.

And now, the giveaway part...

WIN a signed copy of Overdose in Paradise and an Amazon gift card.

HERE’S HOW TO ENTER: 

1. Share this post anyway you want. Could be FaceBook, Twitter, Instagram.
2. Come back and tell me what you did in a comment.
Amazon: https://amzn.to/2PvTcwO
FREE on Kindle Unlimited
Universal Amazon: mybook.to/OverdoseinP

I will choose one winner on Tuesday morning 11-20-2018
FACEBOOK is not associated with this giveaway.

Here is the link to enter the drawing. This is also the post to share.

http://bit.ly/2BbCutB

Good luck!