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The Girl Goes Home Wins Silver Medal for Legal Thrillers

Happy to get the news that The Girl Goes Home (Emily Calby Book 4) won the silver medal for Legal Thrillers in the 2025 Readers’ Favorite International Book Awards! Here’s some info about the book and the Emily Calby Series: The last time Emily Calby was in Dilfer County, Georgia, she was twelve years old, […]

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Dorian Box Tops Six Million Kindle Unlimited Page Reads

In addition to book sales, Amazon pays authors royalties by the page-read for readers who subscribe to Kindle Unlimited. Just topped six million pages! Is that good? I honestly don’t know, but it sounds like a lot.

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The Girl Goes Home Gets Shout-Out from BookLife

The Publishers Weekly BookLife magazine says The Girl Goes Home (Emily Calby Book 4) is on its radar. Hopefully, that portends of good things in the final judging for the coveted BookLife Prize:

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Dorian Box’s “The Girl Goes Home” Book Gets Five-Star Seal of Approval from IndieReader

Happy to receive a five-star advance review and official seal of approval from IndieReader for my new book, The Girl Goes Home (Emily Calby Book 4). Here’s an excerpt: “[S]trikes the perfect balance between dark humor, vigorous and suspenseful action, heartwarming found family, and the theme of long-overdue justice. … [A] fiercely energetic story, full of […]

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Midwest Book Review Loves The Girl Goes Home (Emily Calby Book 4)

Diane Donovan, Senior Reviewer for the Midwest Book Review, wrote a sizzling good review for my forthcoming “The Girl Goes Home (Emily Calby Book 4)”, available in paperback and Kindle on January 1, 2025. You can preorder the Kindle on Amazon. Below is the full review. Here’s her bottom line: “Fierce, attention-grabbing, and thought-provoking, The […]

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More 5-Star Advance Reviews for The Girl Goes Home

The Girl Goes Home, the standalone fourth book in the multi-award-winning Emily Calby Series, is available for preorder on Amazon. Meanwhile, more 5-Star advance reviews are coming in. Here are excerpts from three Readers’ Favorite reviews: “The novel’s suspense, legal intrigue, and emotional depth make it a page-turner that’s hard to put down … [A] […]

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First Advance Review for “The Girl Goes Home” Is A Five-Star Winner

Always a bit daunting sending out a new title for advance, pre-publication reviews. So nice to receive this 5-Star review from Carol Thompson at Readers’ Favorite for The Girl Goes Home (Emily Calby Book 4). Reviews don’t get much better than this. Pretty humbling to read this sentence: “Box has penned a thrilling and heartfelt […]

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Coming Jan. 1st – Book 4 in the Emily Calby Series

Excited that The Girl Goes Home, book 4 in the multi-award-winning Emily Calby Series will be published on January 1, 2025. The Girl Goes Home is another standalone mystery-thriller in the series, titles of which have won eight indie book awards and at one time or another have been the No. 1 Amazon Bestseller in […]

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Funeral Daze Named Semifinalist for 2023 Publishers Weekly BookLife Prize

My most recent novel, Funeral Daze (a standalone book 2 in the Danny Teakwell Series) was named as a semifinalist for the 2023 Publishers Weekly BookLife Prize and one of five finalists in the category of Mysteries/Thrillers. When people ask me to describe it, I call it a “Carl Hiaasen-esque mystery with a dark side”. […]

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Funeral Daze Advances to Publishers Weekly BookLife Prize Quarterfinals

Just learned my new book, Funeral Daze, has advanced to the quarterfinals of the Publishers Weekly Booklife Prize for Mystery/Thrillers. It’s a darkly humorous mystery in the realm of Carl Hiaasen and other “wacky Florida fiction” authors. Here’s the judge’s report (on a 10-point scale):

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