I have the edited sample chapter of A Game of Poisons up on my webpage. Give it a read and tell me what you think. It's a new series, though a spin-off, and I'm anxious about whether the opening works.
http://www.susannashore.com/gameofpoisonsread.html
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I have edits for A Game of Poisons back from my editor, so that'll take this week to go through. I'll try to update an edited version of the sample chapter on my webpage some time today, so stay tuned for that.
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Mara Ellison has appraised farms, mills and flood plain for seventeen years, and she has never appraised a cemetery. Until Chandler County asks her to.
THE FORGED LEDGER. $2.99 on Kindle.
https://harris-book-autopilot.netlify.app/b/the-forged-ledger/ma/t-priceopen
My song pick to read it by: "Sweet Vibrations" by Latimore. Listen: https://harris-book-autopilot.netlify.app/m/1crgguz/ma
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Preorder links are now up for my upcoming buddy cop police procedural A Game of Poisons, Thorne & Hayes 1. Out December 6.
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Nicky Costa could find the hole in any fence in the city. By twelve he was working the corner. His best friend Danny could hit. ONE OF US GETS OUT.
https://harris-book-autopilot.netlify.app/b/one-of-us-gets-out/ma/a-6b7u7k
Play this while you read (my pick): "Don't Look Back in Anger" by Oasis. Listen: https://harris-book-autopilot.netlify.app/m/1vxi1nq/ma
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Free review copies: if you'd like to read THE WAITING KIND and maybe review it, ask for a free ebook copy.
No review required. If you do post one, an honest one is all I ask, and please mention you got a free copy.
A confession to a murder that hasn't happened yet.
Ask here: https://harris-book-autopilot.netlify.app/b/the-waiting-kind/ma/s-arc/arc
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Dark. Mysterious. The kind of story that stays with you. Set in Cade's Fork, SAY IT BACK follows a hospice nurse who hears the same name spoken by dying patients who have no reason to know each other. Emotional and unsettling.
https://harris-book-autopilot.netlify.app/b/say-it-back/ma/a-azzmmr
The song I'd put on for this one: "Here You Come Again" by Dolly Parton. Listen: https://harris-book-autopilot.netlify.app/m/12napdy/ma
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The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup
By Laura WilsonThe Heights by Ian Rankin; The Mortons by Scott Westerfeld and Justine Larbalestier; Murder Most Cryptic by Alys Cummings; The Deadly Inheritance of Everest Macdonald by AJ West; Inheritance by Gillian Slovo
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/oct/16/the-best-recent-and-thrillers-review-roundup
#Crimefiction #Thrillers #Fiction #Books #Culture #TheGuardian #LauraWilson
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For the October reading pile:
A published true-crime account, and the accused woman's answer in the margins.
WHAT THE ICE HELD
https://harris-book-autopilot.netlify.app/b/what-the-ice-held/ma/t-reader
Play this while you read (my pick): "Radical" by Shunned at a Funeral. Listen: https://harris-book-autopilot.netlify.app/m/2v12bj/ma
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New lower price on TEND THE GRAVE: Kindle $2.99, paperback $9.99 and hardcover $17.99.
Some graves are kept. This one was guarded.
Read the first pages free: https://harris-book-autopilot.netlify.app/b/tend-the-grave/ma/t-lower/read
Reading soundtrack, my pick: "You've Got a Friend" by James Taylor. Listen: https://harris-book-autopilot.netlify.app/m/1j5eusm/ma
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DOWN & OUT BOOKS is Down. And. Back! Read the exciting news about their new ownership and their pipeline of releases for 2026 and 2027: https://www.amberunmasked.com/down-out-is-back/ #crimefiction #indie #publishing
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Never miss a free Kindle day. One short email when one of my books is new or free, and nothing else.
THE HARRIS EFFECT: Thirty-one years of outcomes he cannot explain.
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She goes to look at the property and finds a shoreline that has moved.
THE DROWNED DEED
https://harris-book-autopilot.netlify.app/b/the-drowned-deed/ma/t-para1
Reading soundtrack, my pick: "Rooster" by Alice In Chains. Listen: https://harris-book-autopilot.netlify.app/m/uxehaw/ma
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Ahead of Wednesday's #Edinburgh gig for Sir Ian Rankin, with @TheEdinburghBookshop , here's a blast from the past: my invite to the launch of The Falls at the National Museum of Scotland.
I recall I had to leave early as BBC Scotland wanted me on a live show discussing Dracula, Stoker & Slaines Castle. I was obviously a busy literary butterfly back then
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#Edimbourg #books #livres #bookstodon #IanRankin #ScottishLiterature #CrimeFiction #RomanPolicier
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“[TV detective Columbo is] a socialist figure,” Rankin says. “He comes into these very rich people’s lives and tears them apart, and they don’t know he’s doing it until he’s already done it. I just thought that was extraordinary.”
—“The crime fiction I’m interested in is political”: Ian Rankin on his new novel about the super-rich
#Scottish #literature #crimefiction #detectivefiction #novel #IanRankin
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“Ah, his computer – it’s had its screen and hard drive replaced, and there are grooves in the keys.
It sits on top of a plain, compact trestle-table desk he bought on London’s Charing Cross Road in 1987 and lugged back to his Tottenham flat on the tube; both have accompanied him from London to rural Dordogne, in southwest France, where he lived for a few years with his wife, Miranda, in the 1990s, and back to Edinburgh, where the couple and their two sons have been ever since.”
#IanRankin / #Rebus / #CrimeFiction / #TheOxford / #TheOx / #TheHeights < https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/oct/11/the-fiction-im-interested-in-is-political-ian-rankin-on-his-new-novel-about-the-super-rich>
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DOWN & OUT BOOKS is Down. And. Back! Read the exciting news about their new ownership and their pipeline of releases for 2026 and 2027: https://www.amberunmasked.com/down-out-is-back/ #crimefiction #indie #publishing
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Michael Robotham's latest novel sat in his bottom drawer for 35 years
By Nicola HeathWhen the internationally bestselling crime novelist first dreamt up Tell Me Something True, he saw it as a coming-of-age story rather than a crime yarn.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10-09/michael-robotham-new-book-tell-me-something-true/107239572
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It's already a second spin-off series, first being The Reed Files heist crime series. All series can be read as stand-alone, but if you want to start from the beginning, that would be Tracy Hayes, Apprentice P.I.
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ICYM: Announcing A Game of Poisons, Thorne & Hayes 1. It's a buddy cop police procedural and P.I. Tracy Hayes spin-off. Preorder links and an unedited sample chapter are up. Out December 6.
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Announcing A Game of Poisons, Thorne & Hayes 1! It's a buddy cop police procedural and a P.I. Tracy Hayes spin-off. Murders and lots of drama. Out on December 6th! Some preorder links are up and there's an unedited sample chapter too.
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Scots Whay Hae! – Bloody Scotland Prizewinners Special
The latest Scots Whay Hae! podcast is a Bloody Scotland prizewinners special, with the first joint winner of the Debut novel prize & the McIlvanney Prize for Best Crime Book of the Year, Frances Crawford, & the winner of this year’s Pitch Perfect, Caroline Grebbell.
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Josephine Tey & the problem of time
20 Oct, Melrose. £6According to Val McDermid, Josephine Tey is the bridge between Golden Age & contemporary crime fiction. Tey’s books were unconventional in their portrayal of sexuality & in their playful challenges to the norms of the genre, & also took unusual approaches to questions of time & space. Prof Timothy Baker investigates.
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #crimefiction #womenwriters #crimewriting #detectivefiction
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Today is my share date for this CRIME STORIES promo at Book Funnel. I love these genre-specific promos. You can browse cool book covers, peek behind each one, and see if your next read is right there in front of you. My Appalachian fiction GOOSE CREEK HOLLER is featured, so if you stop by the link, take a peek inside GOOSE CREEK HOLLER by clicking on my cover.
https://books.bookfunnel.com/crimestoriesfictionandnonfiction/zl8x3fx5up
#Books #Bookstodon #Booksky #BookReview #Novel #selfPromo #indieAuthor #indieAuthors #indie #GooseCreekHoller #ruralnoir #crimeFiction #crimeReads #crime #stories #storytelling #fiction #scribesAndMakers #Mastodon #fediverse #writingCommunity #writing #writer #writersOfMastodon #writersCoffeeClub #writers #Southern #Southernfiction #Appalachia #Appalachian
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In the mood for Cozy Mysteries?
110+ authors are giving away their books for FREE* on BookFunnel!
https://bf.sophiemaddon.com/spooky-sleuths-and-cozy-crimes/vn8azg93ge
#Books #bookstodon #freebooks #ebooks #IndieAuthor #cozyMysteries #CozyBooks #NoSpiceBooks #BookFunnel #MysteryBooks #whodunnit #Whodunit #mysteries #crimeFiction #CozyMysteryBooks #CrimeReads
*with newsletter sign-up
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FARRAH WETHERS MYSTERIES: Can Farrah hold her life together as she begins a new massage therapy career when a wealthy client dies on her table? https://amzn.to/2NI4Dy9 #mystery #amateursleuth #crimefiction #authors #writers #fallvibes
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So, it's s a busy month for promos for my various books at Book Funnel. This linked promo is for my Appalachian Rural Noir: GOOSE CREEK HOLLER. CLICK ON GOOSE CREEK HOLLER! But, first, here's a little taste of the story.
Sheriff Dillard Buchnell is a decorated Marine, family man, and arguably the most dangerous man in the county he oversees. Bobby Mercer, a sleazy local attorney has spent years aiding and profitting from Dillard's corruption, but when a protected individual's safety and testimony threatens to crack Dillard's facade, Bobby's loyalties begin to fray. Maisy Stanwick is determined to bring Dillard and Bobby down, but exposing their crimes means taking on the town of GOOSE CREEK HOLLER, a town that would rather revere its sheriff than believe the worst about him. As she navigates stonewalling, threats ,and a deeply rooted culture of sience, Maisy must decide how far she is willing to blur the lines between right and wrong to see justice done. https://books.bookfunnel.com/crimestoriesfictionandnonfiction/zl8x3fx5up
#book #novel #books #novels #crime #crimeReads #crimeFiction #legal #thriller #suspense #mastodon #bookstodon #booksky #synopsis #booktok #fediverse #reading #readers #read #readingCommunity #author #indieAuthor #authors #writing #writersCoffeeClub #writers #writer #booksky #bookstodon #bookstagram -
But For The Grace (D.C. Smith #2), by Peter Grainger
#Book #Crime #DCSmith #Meh #Mystery #PoliceProcedural #Review #bookstodon #CrimeFiction #BookReview
https://turing.mailstation.de/but-for-the-grace-d-c-smith-2-by-peter-grainger/?fsp_sid=2736 -
In the mood for Cozy Mysteries?
100+ authors are giving away their books for FREE* on BookFunnel!
https://bf.sophiemaddon.com/bfneelasnow/eyz7u2v0pq
#Books #bookstodon #freebooks #ebooks #IndieAuthor #cozyMysteries #CozyBooks #NoSpiceBooks #BookFunnel #MysteryBooks #whodunnit #Whodunit #mysteries #crimeFiction #CozyMysteryBooks #CrimeReads
*with newsletter sign-up
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Contributions by me include articles about:
*Penelope Wallace's novels and short stories (from what I can tell the first time anyone ever did this)
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In the mood for Cozy Mysteries?
280 authors (!!!) are giving away their books for FREE* on BookFunnel!
https://bf.sophiemaddon.com/thot-atgg-promo/a3xg5usjst
#Books #bookstodon #freebooks #ebooks #IndieAuthor #cozyMysteries #CozyBooks #NoSpiceBooks #BookFunnel #MysteryBooks #whodunnit #Whodunit #mysteries #crimeFiction #CozyMysteryBooks #CrimeReads
*with newsletter sign-up
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Murder Before Evensong review – the Rev Richard Coles’s village mystery squeezes into cosy theatre
By Mark LawsonWatermill theatre, NewburyIan Hallard impresses as the detecting rector in a thoughtful adaptation that sometimes strains under a villageful of suspects, victims and doubling actors
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/oct/02/before-evensong-review-watermill-theatre
#Theatre #Crimefiction #Watermilltheatre #Books #Culture #Stage #Fiction #TheGuardian #MarkLawson
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Book Promotion: MONSTERS: The story of a teenage girl who's turning into a monster - literally. "Excellent! A gripping dystopian future world." "Action-packed and well-plotted, this is a real page turner." #epic #apocalypse #readers #mutants #kindle #ebook #military #fedibookfair #inprint #audiobook #manchesteruk #genetics #audio #bookworms #police #ku #legendary #corporations #crimefiction #amreading #monsters #goodbooks #detective #writing #mustread #dystopian… https://taupress.com/monsters-s1?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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It not only takes place where I currently live, its backstory occurs in my old neighbourhood in Tokyo... and even at the exact soup kitchen I volunteered at! 😅
My brief review of A Midsummer's Equation by Keigo Higashino
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/602a8fae-7957-4ae6-80cd-745504e2deef