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Sunday, February 25, 2007

DANCE ON HIS GRAVE by Sylvia Dickey Smith

Sylvia Dickey Smith is thrilled to announce that she recently sold DANCE ON HIS GRAVE, the first mystery/suspense in her Third Eye series featuring reluctant private detective Sid Smart to L & L Dreamspell. She's hard at work on the second book in this series, and will keep everyone posted on the launch date of the first, tentatively scheduled for release May 19,2007. Sylvia will attend Sleuthfest, in Miami, Florida this April, and is scheduling book signings and speaking engagements.

Sidra Smart, disillusioned ex-wife of a fundamentalist preacher, never imagined herself running a PI business, that is until she inherits her late brother's detective agency.

Soon, a woman stumbles in with vague flashbacks of a 30-year-old murder. Intrigued by the story, Sid takes the case and soon plunges into a surreal world where the flames of Creole superstition and passion burn as hot as the memories of child abuse, arson, and murder.

Click here to view book trailer.

Other titles in the Third Eye series will include:

KATE'S GHOST (working title)

Bloody Ax Slaying. Headlines shout the front page story of Abe and Cherrie Collins' death. Middle-aged couple, faithful members of local Baptist church, dead at the hands of Tilly Durwood, local artist. Motive: unknown. Evidence: fingerprints on the murder weapon, bloody shoe prints at the foot of the Collins' bed, and Durwood's apparent suicide on the railroad tracks behind the Collins house.

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CATCH A FALLEN STAR

Boo Murphy paddles her pirogue through mosquito-infested swamp, the taste of stewed squirrel already on her tongue, her 410 gauge shotgun by her side. Spellbound by a peculiar low tide, she maneuvers the boat around a bend when a sunken ship looms in front of her, the brass bow poking eight feet up out of the water. After she overcomes her surprise, the old woman climbs out onto the bow of the ship, and for a brief time, she imagines she sees her ancestor, pirate Anne Bonny, sailing the Gulf of Mexico with Calico Jack.

News of the schooners resurrection spreads like a grassfire throughout the small southeast Texas town. Sid Smart, owner of THE THIRD EYE private detective agency, hears it's a slave trader, the souls of slaves in the vessel's belly, slaves stolen and transported to the area from Barbados in the 1800s. Human cargo, sequestered in shacks near the Louisiana border, awaiting shipment east. Others dream the sunken ship is Jean Lafitte's brass-bowed Hotspur, long suspected sunk in the area. Or perhaps the schooner carries the lost bars of silver removed from the Santa Rosa before it sank. Todays estimated value, more than $6 million.

To visit the official website of author Sylvia Dickey Smith, go to www.sylviadickeysmith.com.

For more information on this upcoming title, click on the cover image to be redirected to L & L Dreamspell.

Saturday, February 24, 2007

Saturday, December 16, 2006

DBA Lehane

Friday, December 15, 2006

THE BLUE CHEER

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“This is pure sheer first-rate mystery, the reason we read the genre, and as long as we have such stunning, grab-you-by-the-collar-and-not-let-go narrative, the future of mystery is not only assured, it’s damn essential.”—Ken Bruen

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PI Frank Johnson has moved to Scarab, West Virginia, drawn by the promise of lazy days and the lure of its tranquil mountains. What he finds instead is a Stinger rocket exploding over his back yard. His ensuing investigation uncovers a cult called the Blue Cheer, a racist group with ugly terrorist plans. As events heat up, blood starts to spill, and for Frank it all gets real personal real quick. With the help of his bounty hunter pal, he sets out to bring the Blue Cheer to justice—any way he can.

Told in a stylish, modern hardboiled voice, The Blue Cheer is about one man’s struggle to understand violence and redemption in a post-9/11 America.

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Advance Praise

“This is a New Wave Gold Medal novel, intricate, harrowing, rich in people good and bad, ripe with nasty surprise. Ed Lynskey manages to honor his literary hero Charles Williams, bringing that sensibility into the 21st century but adding the psycho rage and psycho sorrow of our time into it as well.  Something new in New Wave.  A fine, fine debut.”—Ed Gorman

“Fast-paced and gripping, with well-drawn characters and a vividly described background, The Blue Cheer is a strong noir debut reminiscent of the work of Philip Atlee and others in the golden stable of Gold Medal writers.  I look forward to Ed Lynskey’s next.”—Bill Pronzini

About the Author

Ed Lynskey is a crime fiction writer and poet living in Washington, D.C. His first two books are mysteries featuring his PI Frank Johnson: The Dirt-Brown Derby (Mundania Press, 2006) and The Blue Cheer (Point Blank, 2007). Two sequels include Pelham Fell Here (Mundania Press, 2008) and Troglodytes (Mundania Press, 2008). His short fiction has appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine and poems have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly. His reviews have appeared in New York Times Book Review and Washington Post. His mystery fiction has been praised by Linda Fairstein, Ken Bruen, Bill Pronzini, and John Lutz.

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