1–What is the title of your latest release? BURNING DISTANCE 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? A modern-day Romeo and Juliet— set against the backdrop of deadly weapons smuggling. When ten-year-old Elizabeth West’s father dies in a plane crash over the Persian Gulf, her mother uproots their life in Washington, D.C. and moves to London where she marries a knighted British businessman who has two children, and Elizabeth (Lizzy) and her two sisters move in with their new family. While attending the American School of London, Lizzy meets and falls in love with Adil Hasan— but when Adil’s father, a noted arms middleman, is deported, Lizzy and Adil are separated. Lizzy’ s family also has ties to French-German industrialist Gerald Rene Wagner. Little does she know that Adil’s family has ties to the man as well. When a member of her family is murdered in Berlin under mysterious circumstances, questions surface about Wagner’ s dealings, and Lizzy reexamines what really may have happened to her father. All the while, she endeavors to reunite with her lost love, Adil, and reclaim the connection that was ripped away. Set in the years before and after the first Gulf War, Burning Distance is…

1–What is the title of your latest release? STORM WATCH, the 23rd book in my Joe Pickett series 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? During a series of severe spring snowstorms, Joe Pickett discovers a body near a remote high-tech facility.  His investigation is opposed by local law enforcement, federal agents, and even the governor.  The more he digs, the more he uncovers. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? I lived my whole life in Wyoming and Joe Pickett is a Wyoming game warden, so all the novels take place in there. 4–Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life? Yes.  He’s pretty easy to get along with. 5–What are three words that describe your protagonist? Dogged, loyal, misunderstood. 6–What’s something you learned while writing this book? Mining crypto currency can take place anywhere there is a reliable power source.  And crypto mining used A LOT of power. 7–Do you edit as you draft or wait until you are totally done? I edit as I write. 8–What’s your favorite foodie indulgence? Chicken fried elk steak.  My wife makes the best there is. 9–Describe your writing space/office! My office is located…

Bouthier had been busy setting up in the hotel room all morn­ing so when there was some unexpected downtime, he de­cided to try to squeeze in a quick workout. The hotel gym was downstairs off the lobby and even before he fully pulled open its glass door, he saw without surprise that it was tiny and complete shit. The only good thing about it was that its sole occupant, some pudgy thirty-something insurance-salesman-type on the exer­cise bike, immediately put on the brakes and began gathering up his stuff the split second Bouthier peeled off his shirt. It wasn’t surprising. Six foot and hard bodied with dark pitbull-like eyes, doorway-filling shoulders and a slab of a face that looked like it had been squared into shape with a bricklayer’s crack hammer, Bouthier rarely found social distancing to be too much of a problem.   “Before,” he said as he tracked the soft bubble butt’s hasty exit in the wall mirror. “After,” he said with a gruesome smile as he popped a rock-hard front f lex. He looked around. Without anything real to lift, he decided to do some CrossFit. Burpees, renegade rows, jumping lunges then some dumbbell thrusters with the pathetic…

1–What is the title of your latest release? CRITICAL THREAT 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? FBI Special Agent Grace Billingsley tracks serial killers. She never planned on falling in love with the son of one. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? This is book 3 in the series, so my character’s location was pre-determined by the very first book. But I also knew what her job was going to be, so had to have her in a specific location for that. 4–Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life? Absolutely. Lainie’s a cool person. I actually like and admire her a lot. 5–What are three words that describe your protagonist? Determined, Loyal, Compassionate 6–What’s something you learned while writing this book? I learned that it’s quite a process to become a Behavioral Analyst with the FBI. It was quite an eye-opening research journey. 7–Do you edit as you draft or wait until you are totally done? I edit as I go. 8–What’s your favorite foodie indulgence? A Krispy Kreme chocolate covered cream filled donut. I allow myself one about once every six months. 9–Describe your writing space/office! A mess!…

1–What is the title of your latest release? THE BONE RECORDS 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? NYPD academy washout Grigg Orlov must find the murderers of his immigrant father before he’s the next to die – his only clue an eerie artifact of the Soviet black market. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? The idea for the book started with the bone records, which were bootlegs of American rock ‘n’ roll songs cut from X-rays in the Soviet Union from 1945-1963. I loved the idea of including bone records in a story, but I didn’t want to set the book in the Soviet Union in, say, 1962. In Brooklyn, several neighborhoods are called Little Odessa because of the large proportion of Russian immigrants that live there. Older immigrants in these neighborhoods—Coney Island, Sheepshead Bay, Gravesend—would know about the discs, so I set the novel in Coney Island. It helped that I’m a huge Coney Island fan, with many visits over the years. 4–Would you hang out with your sleuth in real life? Yes, but would he want to hang out with me? 5–What are three words that describe your sleuth? Learning, instinctive, undaunted…

Instead of trying to find your perfect match in a dating app, we bring you the “Author-Reader Match” where we introduce you to authors you may fall in love with. It’s our great pleasure to present Kevin G. Chapman!   Writes: I’m a mystery/thriller author, but all my stories involve relationships and some romance. My new novel, Dead Winner, is all about the romance – but there’s still a mystery with some thrills involved. Dead Winner is about a man, Rory, who has always regretted not telling Monica the way he felt about her. Instead, his best friend, Tom, asked her out and ended up marrying her. Eight years later, Rory, now a successful trust & estates lawyer, finds himself in a position way outside his comfort zone. Monica needs him to be her protector, her criminal defense lawyer, and her private investigator. Along the way, their relationship heats up well beyond attorney and client. Rory must solve the mystery, protect the woman of his dreams, and be the hero he always imagined himself to be inside the video games he frequently plays. The question is, does he have what it takes to be a real-life hero?   About: I’m…

1–What is the title of your latest release? A GHOST OF CARIBOU 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? In the remote mountains of Washington state, wildlife biologist Alex Carter encounters an unsolved murder and a town in turmoil while in search of a mountain caribou, a majestic, all-but-vanished animal. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? I wanted to spin a suspenseful tale around the plight of mountain caribou, which used to live in the northeast corner of Washington state before they were driven to extinction there. The last two surviving animals, both females, were taken by Canada into British Columbia in 2019 because the American herd in Washington was virtually extinct. 4–Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life? Absolutely. Alex Carter and I have a lot in common. We’re both wildlife researchers and are passionate about conservation. 5–What are three words that describe your protagonist? Compassionate, resourceful, determined. 6–What’s something you learned while writing this book? Mountain caribou are endangered due to a variety of factors, including the clearcutting of old-growth forests, habitat fragmentation, climate change, and more. I really dove into the process of getting a species listed…

1–What is the title of your latest release? REINCEPTION 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? A corporation’s popular brain-modification technology is eradicating socially unacceptable behavior in 2126 New York City. When a college student and a government-labeled terrorist discover the truth of what’s happening inside people’s heads, they fight to preserve their free will and the future. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? In setting my book 100 years in the future, I thought carefully about what would change and what might remain the same. It was central to my story that my main character, Leandrea, be in college. I went to Barnard College/Columbia University in New York City. I liked the idea that Columbia University would endure, and I put Leandrea into places that I inhabited and explored in college and imagined what they might be like, and whether they would even exist, in 2126. In the same way that civilizations have always exploited existing infrastructures, I built future NYC on top of existing NYC. A complex city like New York is ripe for speculative futures. One imagines how things like climate change will impact a city that depends so heavily…

1–What is the title of your latest release? ANYWHERE YOU RUN which releases on October 25th 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? Two sisters run to different parts of the country to escape secrets they left behind. What they don’t realize is that a man with dark secrets of his own is hot on their trail with an unusual motive for finding the women. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? The book deals with the horror and traumatic effect of living under the oppression of segregation in 1964 so it was necessary that the story take place in the Jim Crow south. More specifically, it takes place in Mississippi, a state widely known for having some of the most racist and segregationist policies during that time. 4–Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life? I’d love to hang out with my protagonist. I just don’t know if she’d want to hang out with me because I’m not as outgoing as she is. 5–What are three words that describe your protagonist? Feisty, smart, and loving. 6–What’s something you learned while writing this book? How women had so few rights and were…

P 18–21 The Favor Copyright © 2022 by Nicci French.   “Anyway, congratulations,” said Liam, holding up his coffee cup. “What about?” “About your upcoming marriage.” “How do you know about that?” “Someone told me. When I was tracking you down.” Jude laughed. “Tracking me down? What are you, a private detective?” “Just an old friend.” He sipped his coffee. “A doctor, like you always said you’d be. You did it.” Jude’s throat felt tight. She had thought she would never see Liam again, and yet over the years she had imagined meeting him: by chance, on a bus, on a street, in a crowd of people, walking in the Clee Hills by her parents’ house in Shropshire. Because there were things that she needed to say, had needed to say for over a decade, although now the moment had actually come she didn’t know how to start saying them. “I should be the one tracking you down,” she said, haltingly. “I know that you . . .” She stopped. “I’ve never forgotten.” He frowned, as if he was considering this. When he spoke, he didn’t seem angry or even sad. Just reflective, as if he were talking about someone…