More free books on the Internet
If you’re favourite genres are murder, mystery, suspense, crime or thriller then happy days. There’s still a chance to get your heads on some fab free reads. Fill your boots.
Libraries are cultural conduits
A lovely article from The Guardian (where else?) which has been dredged out of the archives from 1910. There was a meeting of representatives from over 500 libraries mainly from the UK but from the US too. With the advent of new legislation enabling public libraries to exist, statistics had been compiled showing that 24% …
Another chance to fill your boots
The Prolific Reader remains a great resource for those of you who don’t want to spend any money on your novels. The Heist is in there as well as many other books. Fill. Your. Boots!
The Bowery Slugger first draft: done
The headline says it all really. I just thought I’d announce something I’m pleased about: I finished the first draft of the first book in a new series. The book is called The Bowery Slugger and it will form part of the Alex Cohen series. My current plan – subject to change like all my …
Brand New Second Hand Lie
This isn’t something I do every day, but I’d like to give a special shout out to Pamela Crane and her novel, A Second Hand Lie. You can grab yourself a copy at InstaFreebie which means there’s zero cost to you. Fill your boots.
The Heist eBook is available to buy NOW!
Today is a special day: The Heist is out on Amazon today. This is my first novel in the crime noir genre and I’m very excited about it. There are a host of different characters to follow on the seedy side of the 1967 Baltimore tracks. As ever with noir, the number of essentially good …
FREE Books from Many Genres
This is a fine selection of free eBooks across all sorts of genres including crime and thrillers. You’ll find The Heist buried in there too. Fill your boots, support indy authors and carry on reading!
On Sequels
Howard Jacobson has written a piece on sequels in The Guardian; it’s about TV shows but speaks to novels too. He argues that due to the nature of TV funding, anyone who writes a series never knows whether it will get commissioned for a second season. In the hope it might happen, the scriptwriters tend …
Free Thrillers for Those Who Like That Kind of Thing
And here’s an opportunity to grab yourself some FREE thriller, mystery and suspense novels. As you might have guessed, The Heist is available through this offer but so are many other stories too. I’ve said it before and I reckon I’ll say it again: fill your boots.
Crime Read Recommendations
There was a fab list of recommended crime novels in The Guardian so I thought I’d share it with you. I’d love to provide a personal comment on each of them but that would require me to either have read them all or just to make up something to pretend. Neither of these events has …
