There’re special discounts on the eBook versions of the Travelers books 1-5. That’s The Traveling Man: free, The Computer Heist: $.99, The Blackmail Photos: $.99, The Freeport Robbery: $.99, and The Kidnap Victim: $.99.
These discounts run through November 2, so if you haven’t read the early books and want to catch up, or you know someone who’d like to try them, now’s your chance.
Got the manuscript for the new KD Thorne book, The Hidden Mine at Agua Dulce, back from the copyeditor. He made some valuable suggestions, so I’ve got a little more work to do.
In the meantime, from May 6-10 Travelers books 1-5 will be discounted. So if you need to catch up with the Travelers, now is your chance. I’ll send out an email with the details next week.
And here’re two thrillers from the 1980s that I read last month, where the men are still macho and women are beginning to assert themselves.
A Trouble of Fools (Carlotta Carlyle Book 1, 1987) by Linda Barnes. Carlyle is an ex-cop newbie private investigator in Boston, circa late 1980s, so the background is drugs, guns, the Italian mob, and the last vestige of support for the IRA.
Carlyle is hired by an Irish spinster to find her missing brother, who drives for the cab company that Carlyle used to drive for after she left the police force. The case turns from missing person to something much more dangerous after the spinster is attacked and her home ransacked. Finding out the who and the why takes Carlyle down the back alleys of Boston where she has to use all of her connections and street knowledge to figure out what’s really going on and put a stop to it.
Interesting characters and a complex point of view make for fun reading, particularly after Barnes gets the various plot threads moving.
Second, Rafferty’s Rules (Rafferty P.I. Book 1, 1987) by Bill Duncan. Rafferty is a wise-cracking ex-cop PI working the mean streets of Dallas, Texas, so there’s a slight comic element playing against the hard-boiled style.
Rafferty is hired by a wealthy couple to find and bring in dead-or-alive the outlaw bikers who kidnapped, raped, and brainwashed their daughter. Rafferty wastes no time kicking the hornet’s nest of local outlaw bikers to get on the trail of the thugs he’s after, and pretty soon things turn from ugly to brutal as he tracks his prey across rural Texas. A fast-paced, tightly plotted thriller.
Just a short note. Enjoying the northern hemisphere fall colors and making good progress on the new KD Thorne book. I’ll have more to say about it as I get closer to being finished.
In the meantime, Fall discounts on Traveler books 1-5.
From today November 7 to Sunday November 12, the Travelers eBooks 1-5 will be $.99 (US). After that, they go back to their usual prices. So if you need to catch up on the earlier books in the series, or you know someone who’d like to give them a try, now is your chance.
Here are the universal links to your favorite bookstore:
To celebrate the release of Grifters’ Hopscotch: The Travelers Book 10, from today (August 11, Friday) through August 16 (Wednesday) the Grifters’ Hopscotch eBook will be $2.99 US and the Travelers Books 1-5 will be $.99 US. After that, Grifters’ goes back up to $4.99 US and the other books to their usual prices. So if you need to catch up on the earlier books, or you need the discount on the new book, now is your time.
Here are the universal links to your favorite bookstore:
I’ll send a reminder with the universal links on August 16.
In case you haven’t seen the description of Grifters’ Hopscotch:
It all started with a simple blackmail scheme.
The Travelers, con artists who specialize in stealing from criminals, find themselves short on cash and plan on making a quick $100,000 blackmailing a prosecuting attorney with a taste for call girls. Convincing a call girl to partner with them was easy, but they hadn’t counted on the dogged persistence of a rule-bending FBI agent and the maliciousness of the criminals whose help they need to make their escape.
Broke and on the run, they must outmaneuver the FBI while they set up an even riskier robbery to recoup their losses. And in the meantime, a criminal gang they’d scammed previously is back on their trail, seeking revenge.
Grifters’ Hopscotch is a fast-paced thriller that will keep you guessing. If you like criminal intrigue, ingenious suspense, and unpredictable plot twists, you’ll love the tenth novel in the Travelers series.
Some of you have already found and purchased Grifters’ Hopscotch: The Travelers Book 10 at full price, which I really appreciate. From August 11 (Friday) through August 16 (Wednesday) the Grifters’ Hopscotch eBook will be $2.99 US and the Travelers Books 1-5 will be $.99 US to celebrate the release. After that, Grifters’ goes back up to $4.99 US and the other books to their usual prices. So if you need to catch up on the earlier books, or you need the discount on the new book, now is your time.
I’ll send a reminder with the universal links to your favorite bookstore on August 11.
The last few years, I’ve been writing the KD Thorne thrillers because I wanted to try something new. Readers have enjoyed them, and I’ve had fun writing them, but I really love writing the Travelers thrillers and, judging from the reaction to Grifters’ Hopscotch thus far, a lot of you love reading them.
Here’s the description:
It all started with a simple blackmail scheme.
The Travelers, con artists who specialize in stealing from criminals, find themselves short on cash and plan on making a quick $100,000 blackmailing a prosecuting attorney with a taste for call girls. Convincing a call girl to partner with them was easy, but they hadn’t counted on the dogged persistence of a rule-bending FBI agent and the maliciousness of the criminals whose help they need to make their escape.
Broke and on the run, they must outmaneuver the FBI while they set up an even riskier robbery to recoup their losses. And in the meantime, a criminal gang they’d scammed previously is back on their trail, seeking revenge.
Grifters’ Hopscotch is a fast-paced thriller that will keep you guessing. If you like criminal intrigue, ingenious suspense, and unpredictable plot twists, you’ll love the tenth novel in the Travelers series.
And here’s The Hunt for the Ransomware Hackers blurb:
Ransomware attacks on hydroelectric dams in the US. The power grid disrupted. Downstream communities flooded. Who are these mystery hackers?
The hackers operate in cyberspace, their messages and the ransom money bouncing between countries until their trail disappears off the grid in Eastern Europe.
As National Defense Agency operative KD Thorne and her partner Jeffery Blunt track the hackers from dam to dam across the US, the hackers create a web of misinformation to conceal their identities and hide their stolen money.
Can KD and Blunt cut through the subterfuge and lay a trap to catch the hackers before they rob their last target and disappear with the ransom cash?
The Hunt for the Ransomware Hackers is a fast-paced thriller you won’t be able to put down. If you like surprising plot twists and no-holds-barred action, you’ll love the third novel in the KD Thorne series.
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I hope you enjoy the new book. And I’d love to hear what you think.
Murder at Mercy Creek, the second KD Thorne thriller, is out now. Whoo-hoo!
To celebrate the release, the eBooks for Murder at Mercy Creek and The Hunt for the Hijacked Nerve Agent (KD Thorne Book 1) are each $2.99 (US) for the next seven days. After that, they go up to $4.99. (The paperback for Murder at Mercy Creek will be out shortly.)
Here’re the universal links to your favorite store:
A few fingers sticking up out of freshly dug dirt…
After an undercover FBI agent working for an interagency taskforce is found dead in a county park, National Defense Agency operatives KD Thorne and Jeffery Blunt are sent to Mercy Creek, Iowa, to run a parallel investigation into drug running, gun smuggling, and police corruption.
Who’s running the guns and trafficking the drugs? How was the undercover agent discovered? Which cops can be trusted and how many are on the take?
As KD and Blunt follow the money trail and contraband up and down Interstate 35 from Iowa to south Texas, the traffickers push back, eager to protect their anonymity and their business. Will KD and Blunt unravel the conspiracy before the traffickers find the opportunity to put them in their graves?
Murder at Mercy Creek is a swiftly paced thriller that will keep you reading into the night. If you like unpredictable plot twists and nail-biting suspense, you’ll love the second novel in the KD Thorne series.
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I hope you enjoy it. And I’d love to hear what you think.
As promised, The Murder Run: The Travelers Book 6 eBook is $0.99 through February 3. So if you need to catch up on the series, now’s your chance. Here’s the universal link to your favorite store:
The Traveling Man takes on a quick and easy safecracking job…easy until his partners are murdered and he’s on the run.
His wife is trying to settle into her new role as a rich man’s girlfriend, so she isn’t at his side.
Who are these killers who are after him? And how are they connected to the government agency that wants the envelope he took from the safe?
With the help of a new associate, he tracks the killers until he’s steered into a trap. They think he’s cornered, but he’s still got one ace up his sleeve. . .
The Murder Run is a gritty, hard-boiled crime thriller. If you like criminal intrigue, surprising plot twists, and high-speed action, you’ll love the sixth novel in the Travelers series.
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By the way, this is the first book to make mention of Clara Garcia and the National Defense Agency, the organization that KD Thorne and Jeffery Blunt work for in the KD Thorne thrillers.
The new KD Thorne thriller, Murder at Mercy Creek, should be out as an eBook in about two weeks.
The Hunt for the Hijacked Nerve Agent, the first KD Thorne thriller, is out now. Whoo-hoo!
(You may notice that the title has changed since the last time I mentioned it. I got some great advice from my editor, and I always try to listen to great advice.)
To celebrate the release, the eBook is $2.99 (US) for the next seven days. After that, it goes up to $4.99. (The paperback will be another six weeks.) Here’s the universal link to your favorite store: https://books2read.com/u/bMwaXv
And here’s the blurb:
Stolen nerve agent. Scheming terrorists. Federal agents running out of time.
A deadly nerve agent has been stolen from a federal containment facility. When the National Defense Agency is tasked with recovering it, operative KD Thorne and her partner Jeffery Blunt are put on point. Find the nerve agent. Eliminate the threat.
KD Thorne knows trouble.
Four tours in Afghanistan, a stint at NASA that went sideways, a marriage gone bad. She needs to work to keep her head on straight.
But as she and Blunt track the nerve agent from pharma executives and a military contractor team through white supremacists to a European far right faction, her personal life comes unraveled.
Can KD and Blunt stop the terrorists and retrieve the nerve agent before it’s released and innocents die?
The Hunt for the Hijacked Nerve Agent is a fast-moving thriller that will keep you turning pages. If you like pulse-pounding action and surprising plot twists, you’ll love the first novel in the KD Thorne series.
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I hope you enjoy it. And I’d love to hear what you think.
We’re in the deep freeze here in Iowa. Thought we might escape the worst winter weather this year, then February came howling in with snow and below zero (F) temperatures. Looking forward to some relief in March.
At least it’s good weather to be at the computer writing a new book, which, of course, means research and reading.
On the research side, here’s an article on date rape drugs. The intro to the article says that at least 25% of American women have been sexually assaulted or raped. A pretty sobering statistic.
On the reading front, for Christmas, my wife got me an exceptionally good crime thriller about a getaway driver trying to go straight and digging himself in deeper—Blacktop Wasteland by SA Cosby. Haven’t seen it discounted anywhere, but I’m definitely going to be looking for this writer’s next book.
Also, I knew that William F. Buckley had written a series of spy novels featuring CIA agent Blackford Oakes. I’ve been wanting to check one out, and I found the third one—Who’s on First—discounted. Not realistic (for realism there’s George Smiley) but an eccentric and fun cold war thriller (published in 1980), if that’s your cup of tea.
Finally, if you know someone who’d like to try the Travelers series (or if you’re catching up), The Freeport Robbery: The Travelers Book 4 is $2.99 through Monday February 15.
Here’s the universal link so you can shop at your favorite store:
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