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Murder USA: A Crime Fiction Tour of the Nation Kindle Edition
Murder, U.S.A. is a compilation of excerpts from thirty-one full-length crime fiction novels. Each mystery, thriller, or suspense novel in the collection is set somewhere in the United States; together, the collection offers a "murder tour of the nation" to readers of all sub-genres of crime fiction. Organized by setting and labeled by sub-genre, the collection features pieces of romantic suspense, cozy mystery, legal and corporate thriller, paranormal mystery, historical mystery, dystopian suspense, near-future thriller, medical mystery, traditional mystery, political procedurals, hard-boiled/noir, international thriller, and psychological suspense.
Excerpts from Patrick Balester, Stephen Brayton, Joyce Ann Brown, Craig Faustus Buck, James R. Callan, Lance Charnes, Sue Coletta, G.G. Collins, Diana Deverell, Lesley A. Diehl, Pam Eglinski, Kristen Elise, Ph.D., Elaine Faber, Sunny Frazier, M.M. Gornell, Michael Hebler, Dorothy Howell, Gay Kinman, Tracy Lawson, Sheila Lowe, Janet Elizabeth Lynn, Kathy McIntosh, Kelly Miller, Cathy Perkins, Sara Rickover, Carole Sojka, Linda Thorne, and Will Zeilinger.
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateFebruary 12, 2016
- File size3.8 MB
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Product details
- ASIN : B01BQLXB48
- Publisher : Murder Lab Press (February 12, 2016)
- Publication date : February 12, 2016
- Language : English
- File size : 3.8 MB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 502 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #26,458 Free in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
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About the authors
A native Oregonian, Diana Deverell was a US Foreign Service Officer and served in Washington DC, San Salvador, and Warsaw, before she moved to rural Denmark to write full-time.
Her latest release is LAY BARE THE LIE, the sixth book in the Nora Dockson legal thriller series, featuring a woman ex-con turned appeals lawyer. The first five books in order are HELP ME NORA, RIGHT THE WRONG, HEAR MY PLEA, JUDGE ME NOT, and OPEN THE DOOR. “Mercy Find Me”, a story spun off the series, was a finalist for the 2019 Derringer Award for short mystery fiction.
Diana debuted as a published writer in 1998 with 12 DRUMMERS DRUMMING, her first international thriller. The latest thriller in the series is CHINA BOX. The four-book series spans seventeen years in the career of her heroine, State Department intelligence analyst Casey Collins.
Diana has also written the political thriller BITCH OUT OF HELL starring security pro Bella Hinton and told in Bella’s own salty words. Bella is the heroine of “Payback is a Bitch,” a short story appearing in FICTION RIVER – PULSE POUNDERS: COUNTDOWN edited by Kevin J. Anderson. Before shining in stories of her own, Bella played a supporting role in several international thrillers taking place from the Cold War to the present.
Diana’s published short fiction includes six stories starring FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd. All are available as ebook short stories. Dawna’s past adventures are collected in RUN & GUN: A DOZEN TALES OF GIRLS WITH GUNS and she plays a supporting role in BITCH OUT OF HELL and three international thrillers.
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G G Collins loves the southwestern US where many of her stories are located. She can be found hiking through ruins of the ancient ones and enjoying New Mexican cuisine. When not traipsing about, she makes up stories with great friendships, quirky characters and, oh yeah, dead bodies. In real life she shares her time with a man, several neurotic—and psychic—cats and the ongoing struggle to grow a garden.
About her books: Inspired by the American southwest, its many cultures and Native American traditions, GG Collins writes two mystery series set in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Whether you enjoy chilling paranormal mysteries/thrillers or cozy cat-inhabited puzzles, Collins delivers. The Rachel Blackstone Paranormal Mysteries are infused with shamans, power animals and spirits while being grounded in contemporary issues and events. Rachel often finds she becomes part of the stories she reports while trying to avoid becoming the headline. The Taylor Browning Cozy Mysteries are more time-honored. Taylor, a mystery editor at a book publisher, does a little sleuthing on the side. She finds she can’t edit her way out of real murder.
Rachel Blackstone Paranormal Mysteries
Taylor Browning Cozy Mysteries
Young Adult Fiction
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Kristen Elise, Ph.D. is the author of The Katrina Stone Novels - a best-selling series of medical and historical thrillers including The Vesuvius Isotope, The Death Row Complex, and The Pharaoh Project. A professional drug discovery biologist and life-long travel addict, Elise takes the inspiration for her novels from real-life mysteries and discoveries made both in and out of the laboratory.
Many years ago, while in the lab hunting for inhibitors of a biological weapon, Elise stumbled upon a powerful activator instead. From this discovery, this molecular grenade with the pin still attached, The Death Row Complex was born. A fast-paced science and medical thriller, The Death Row Complex explores a fictitious but all-too-plausible genetically engineered strain of anthrax and the desperate world of bioengineering that created it. Fans of Robin Cook and Michael Crichton will love The Death Row Complex.
Elise' work as a drug hunter converged with a research trip through the ruins of Pompeii and Herculaneum to spark The Vesuvius Isotope. Likened to the works of Dan Brown including Angels and Demons and The Da Vinci Code, The Vesuvius Isotope is a treasure hunt through Italy and Egypt, investigating several non-fictional mysteries that have endured for more than two thousand years. More historical mystery/thriller than science thriller, The Vesuvius Isotope traces the tragically misunderstood life of the last pharaoh of Egypt, Cleopatra VII, and blurs the lines between fact and fiction, medicine and magic, science and superstition, history and legend.
The Pharaoh Project is a sequel to The Vesuvius Isotope, taking place five years later in a world where the global pandemic has become the norm. Like the story that precedes it, The Pharaoh Project chases ancient history and legend into modern-day conflicts, illuminating very real and contemporary threats along the way.
Kristen Elise lives in San Diego, California. When not investigating historical mysteries, she continues to hunt for drugs and the stories they tell.
Sue Coletta is an award-winning crime writer and an active member of Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, and International Thriller Writers. Feedspot and Expertido.org named her Murder Blog as “Best 100 Crime Blogs on the Net.” She also blogs at the Kill Zone (Writer’s Digest “101 Best Websites for Writers”) and is a Resident Writing Coach at Writers Helping Writers.
Sue lives with her husband in the Lakes Region of New Hampshire. Her backlist includes psychological thrillers, the Mayhem Series books 1-3, psychological thriller/mysteries, Grafton County Series, and true crime/narrative nonfiction, Pretty Evil New England. Now, she exclusively writes eco-thrillers, the Mayhem Series books 4-7 and continuing.
Sue’s appeared on the Emmy award-winning true crime series, Storm of Suspicion, and three episodes of A Time to Kill on Investigation Discovery. Learn more about Sue and her books at https://suecoletta.com.
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- Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2020Crime fiction read absolutely great
- Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2016This book has multiple writers from around the country. There is just enough of the writer's work to pique your interest, then the story stops. It would be good samples to decide if you wanted to delve more into a specific writer's work.
- Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2023Didn't like this book. Had to stop reading because I got interested in the story, and then it ended. If you want a sneak peek at a book this is a good book.