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Matthew Iden
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The Winter Over
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2017
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Birthday Girl
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2018
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A Reason to Live (Marty Singer, #1)
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2012
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The Wicked Flee (Marty Singer #5)
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2014
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Blueblood (Marty Singer, #2)
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2012
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Once Was Lost (Marty Singer, #6)
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One Right Thing (Marty Singer, #3)
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2013
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The Spike (Marty Singer, #4)
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2013
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The Kindness of Neighbors
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2014
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The B-Team
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2015
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A Voice from the Bottom of the World – Interview with Karen Peakes
(This post is the second in a series that I’ll be doing interviewing the people who helped me research and produce my latest novel, The Winter Over, a psychological suspense thriller set at the South Pole) When I was told Brilliance Audio was handling the audiobook narration for The Winter Over, I was thrilled: Brilliance ... [Read more...]
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Blueblood
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updated May 13, 2015 06:35PM
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Four unrelated murders. Nothing special in Washington DC. Not even good enough to make the evening news. But then a concerned police lieutenant approaches retired homicide detective Marty Singer with a simple fact that changes everything.
They were all cops.
In a race to stop the killings, Marty tackles the case from the outside, chasing the killer from deadly Southeast DC to the heart of the Virginia gangland, on a mission to stop the spilling of yet more <i><b>Blueblood</b></i>.
<i><b>Blueblood</b></i>...coming soon.
A Reason to Live
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updated May 13, 2015 06:34PM
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In the late nineties, a bad cop killed a good woman and DC Homicide detective Marty Singer got to watch as the murderer walked out of the courtroom a free man.
Twelve years later, the victim's daughter comes to Marty begging for help: the killer is stalking her now.
There's just one problem: Marty's retired...and he's retired because he's battling cancer. But with a second shot at the killer--and a first chance at redemption--Marty's just found <i><b>A Reason to Live</b></i>.
<i><b>[book:A Reason to Live|14121045]</b></i> is a full-length crime fiction novel of about 350 pages. Marty's story continues in <i><b>Blueblood</b></I> (August 2012) and <i><b>Signs</b></I> (October 2012).
Look for more titles at [author:Matthew Iden|5313211].
Up A Rung
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updated Jul 24, 2012 10:00AM
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Five Mafia wiseguys sweat it out as they wait for the phone call that will tell them who's been snitching on the gang for years. Is it Bonesy Carmiglia, the cassanova? Mike the Shark? Squeaky DeAngelo? Only one guy knows for sure, and he's not talking.
When the call finally comes, the results are explosive, violent, and fatal...but did they nail the right guy?
"Up a Rung" is the first short story in the crime fiction micro anthology [book:Three Shorts|13006238], and the master collection [book:One Bad Twelve|13571737]. The story is about 3,200 words long, or about 13 paperback pages.
Learn more at my author page, [author:Matthew Iden|5313211].
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“Like, Well, there you go. Or, It is what it is. And, Well, what can you do? I suppose these one-offs are less idiotic than they seem on the surface. They're all a way of saying the same thing, that shit happens and you have to deal with it. You can try to ignore it, wait for it to go away. Maybe that works, but sometimes the knot won't untie itself and your attention is required. A thing you never expected, could not have predicted, suddenly becomes the foremost event in your life and no amount of wishing it away will work. In some cases, the event is small and the ramifications manageable. In my case, it affected everything. Forever.”
― A Reason to Live
― A Reason to Live
“my life had been turned. But the rain can do that to you. The clean smell of water on pavement, the haze that tints everything in view; it makes everything seem dramatic. But I stood on the sidewalk anyway, the drops hitting me in the face, until long after her car’s taillights winked and were gone.”
― A Reason to Live
― A Reason to Live
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“More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.”
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“You can't believe that AIDS is a curse from God against Gays without accepting that Lyme Disease is a curse from the same God against Deer Hunters...”
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“Democracy in America was never the same as Liberty in Europe. In Europe Liberty was a great life-throb. But in America Democracy was always something anti-life. The greatest democrats, like Abraham Lincoln, had always a sacrificial, self-murdering note in their voices. American Democracy was a form of self-murder, always. Or of murdering somebody else... The love, the democracy, the floundering into lust, is a sort of by-play. The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.”
― Studies in Classic American Literature
― Studies in Classic American Literature
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***JC***a.k.a. here.comes.trouble..aka.cricket.. wrote: "Hiya my new GR friend!... I look forward to checking out your works... and chatting!..."Hi JC - Thanks! Same here. Happy reading!
matt i.
Hiya my new GR friend!... I look forward to checking out your works... and chatting!...
Michele wrote: "I posted a review of Blueblood here on Goodreads and Amazon. Thanks again! I enjoyed every second of the story!"Michele, thank you so much. You've been such a great supporter of my work since we met here on GR. I can't thank you enough!
And I'm so glad you enjoyed Blueblood...the story came really easily to me (maybe too easy. The third book, Signs, has been more of a struggle). Here's hoping the others in the series keep flowing!
Happy holidays and I'll tak to you soon!
Matt
I posted a review of Blueblood here on Goodreads and Amazon. Thanks again! I enjoyed every second of the story!
Thanks for your friendship Matthew. Hope you have a great Thanksgiving week!
Melissa wrote: "Hi Matt, Sorry I'm just now seeing your reply..."Hi Melissa - No problem. I'm getting almost overwhelmed by my GR notifications and messages...time to start "digesting" and paring down some lists. :)
Thanks for your well-wishes and thanks also for picking up A Reason to Live. I hope you enjoy it (and Blueblood).
cheers,
matt
Melissa wrote: "Hi Matthew or do you prefer Matt?,Thank you very much for the friend invite! I've had "A Reason To Live" in my sites. Looking forward to checking it and your others all out! Have an awesome night..."
Hi Melissa - Thanks so much for the kind words! I'm somewhat new to Goodreads (joined in 2007, but almost totally inactive until a few months ago) and have met a ton of great people and readers here. It's been wonderful encouragement to this indie writer. :)
I'll see you around GR!
matt
p.s. I'll be holding more Giveaways and contests soon, as I hope to release Blueblood , the sequel to A Reason to Live , in early-mid August. I'll let all my GR friends know first!
Matthew wrote: "Jessica wrote: "Hi, thanks for the friend request, your books look they are exactly what I love, so I can't wait for the chance to read one :)"Hi Jessica - Thanks so much! I hope you enjoy them w..."
I enjoyed Stephen King's On Writing, it was a book I read quite some time ago, that was leant to me by my cousin. I really enjoyed reading about the process he goes through when writing, and all that he went through in order to get noticed in the world of writers. Definitely one I should read again!
Jessica wrote: "Hi, thanks for the friend request, your books look they are exactly what I love, so I can't wait for the chance to read one :)"Hi Jessica - Thanks so much! I hope you enjoy them when you get a chance to read them. I should be holding another giveaway for A Reason to Live soon...I'll be pulling for you to win!
BTW, what did you think of Stephen King's On Writing?
Best,
Matt
A Reason to Live
Hi, thanks for the friend request, your books look they are exactly what I love, so I can't wait for the chance to read one :)
Robert wrote: "Thanks for the friend request, Matthew."Thanks as well, Robert. Best of luck with your writing!
~ matt
Christine wrote: "thanks for being my friend"You're welcome, and thank you, as well! Hope to bump into you around GR!
~ matt
Catie wrote: "Thanks for the friend request! I really love The Stars My Destination - one of my favorites!"Hey Catie! Thanks for friending me back. You're the first person in a *while* I've met that's read 'Stars...how cool! I wish Bester had written more...two good novels and that's about it.
And you live in Woodbridge! Hope traffic on 95/495 isn't getting you down...I live in Alexandria and it can be a pain. Thank god for books :)
ciao, matt
Thanks for the friend request! I really love The Stars My Destination - one of my favorites!
Dear Matthew,I would like to thank you so much for your very unexpected friendship that i am most overwhelmed to have recieved. Goodreads is a fantastic site where one is able to converse with so many likeminded readers both authors and general readers, and as an aspiring author myself it is most useful & inspirational. Thank you also so much for the code of your book so that i can read it online; i am exceedingly obliged and i would like to thank you for hosting a book giveaway here on Goodreads, even one which this time i was unlucky not to win.
I look forward however to reading your work and wish you much sucsess, thank you once again.
Lucinda Xx
Thanks for the friend invite! Look forward to reading the story!
