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We know how hard 2020 has been. To help you end the year on a better note, we wanted to give you the gift of free audiobooks! Hence, the Holiday 2020 Audiobook Giveaway! You're probably thinking of gifts for others right now, like we always do during the holidays. But you know exactly what you want so go ahead and get yourself some new audiobooks while they're free! Browse by genre and select the cover to get more information and your free … [Read more...]
RAVEN’S RIDGE
Hang onto your shamrocks and shillelaghs, folks. Max Blake, that hard-boiled private detective and former muck-raking journalist, along with his fearless fiancée Caeli Brown, are back in action and up to their Walther P99s in slick hypnotic robberies and terrorist plots in their newly adopted Irish homeland. A favor to a new friend who works with the Irish police brings them out of retirement to solve a series of thefts at Bunratty … [Read more...]
RAPTOR’S RIDGE: A Max Blake Mystery
In this prequel to the exciting Max Blake Mystery books, Emerald Ridge and Melia Ridge, a mild-mannered college professor becomes an unlikely candidate to hunt down the killer of the town’s richest man and his movie star paramour. But as things progress, it quickly becomes apparent that every attractive woman on the West Coast has become a maniac's idea of the most dangerous game. Called in because of a chance encounter years before, Max … [Read more...]
Award Winning Author Peter Eichstaedt Starts His Wine Country Mystery Series With NAPA NOIR
When northern California’s idyllic Napa Valley is shattered by the vineyard shooting deaths of two men, investigative-reporter-turned-wine-editor Dante Rath seizes the chance to salvage his sagging career. One of the dead is the winery’s top investor, a high-tech genius, who was shot and killed by the winery’s owner, who in turn was gunned down by Napa County sheriff deputies. At the murder scene, Dante encounters Carmen Carelli, the lawyer … [Read more...]
The Max Blake Mystery Series Continues With MELIA RIDGE
Hang on! Just a minute! When last we checked in with hard-boiled private eye and former muck-raking journalist Max Blake and his intrepid fiancee, Caeli Brown, they were traveling across the entirety of Ireland to find her Uncle Jack, only to see him shockingly cut down in a hail of gunfire on a remote island. But the same postcard that jump-started the sorrowful end to the archbishop’s life, along with his cause, in EMERALD RIDGE shows up again … [Read more...]
William Florence Adds to the Hit Max Blake Mystery Series with EMERALD RIDGE
How do you go about fixing a problem that doesn't want to be fixed? Private detective Max Blake and his intrepid fiancée, Caeli Brown, battle this conundrum in a new addition to the series of mysteries by author William Florence. Caeli's Uncle Jack, the Archbishop of Armagh in Northern Ireland, sent her a postcard, a prearranged signal that something has gone terribly wrong in his normally stoic world. Unable to contact her uncle, Caeli leaves … [Read more...]
Author William Florence
William Florence is the author of the Max Blake Mysteries series, which currently features five titles: Raptor’s Ridge, Misery Ridge, Faraway Ridge, Snowfall Ridge, and Emerald Ridge. A former reporter, editor, and college professor, he worked at newspapers in Michigan, Washington, D.C., South Dakota, Indiana, and Oregon for 25 years and for 22 years as a journalism and writing instructor at a community college. He has won various writing … [Read more...]
Author Colin Campbell Discusses His Inspiration For Writing
I remember a quote from the Spielberg movie, Always, where Audrey Hepburn tells the deceased pilot Richard Dreyfuss that the inspiration he felt when he was learning to fly was breathed into him and that he was there to do the same for the next pilot. Divine breath. Now, I’m not saying that Richard Dreyfuss breathed inspiration into my writing but we all get inspiration from somewhere. For writers it usually comes from other writers and their … [Read more...]
Colin Campbell: “Once A Cop Always A Cop”
“Once a cop always a cop.” A common phrase that does have some merit, although I know a few retired police officers who avoid being an ex-cop like the plague. For me? More later. “Write what you know.” Another common phrase, but one that I believe has considerably less merit. Did Stan Lee know about climbing buildings and slinging webs after being bitten by a spider? Did George Lucas have experience of a galaxy far, far away? I think the … [Read more...]
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