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You did it!

Holy hanging chads! You did it! Your votes made us official nominees for the 2020 Goodreads Mystery/Thriller Award. This semifinal round only lasts 6 days, so go vote for First Girl Gone, and we’ll see if we can make it to the final round: Vote for First Girl Gone in the GoodReads Choice Awards semifinals! This is quite literally the most important election ...
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It’s happening!

Excitement! Enthusiasm! Suggestive prancing! Happy Feet! First Girl Gone is out today! Grab it while it’s $0.99: First Girl Gone on Amazon – Apple – Kobo – Google The paperback and audiobook are also live:First Girl Gone paperback – Audible US – Audible UK This little nug is the first book in our new series featuring Detective Charlie Winters. We really wanted to write a fun, exciting thriller that is jam-packed with laughs, tense sneaking-around ...
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Fire in the hole!

Hey again reading friend, Behold! Amazon is going on a Vargus/McBain deal rampage this month. Not to swear, but geez Lou-frickin’-ise! First up, Bad Blood, the 4th book in the Violet Darger series, is a Kindle Weekly Deal in the US this week. It’s $0.99, the cost of about 10% of a Starbucks coffee, through Sunday the 20th. Grip it and rip it: Bad ...
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Deal with it.

Greetings from the desert, AKA The Land of Enchantment. It’s a Labor Day miracle! Two Violet Darger books are on sale for $0.99 a piece, a ridiculous 83.5% off. Grab ’em here: Five Days Post Mortem is 99 cents on Amazon! Night on Fire is also 99 cents on Amazon! Amazon picked these to be Kindle Monthly Deals for ...
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Meanwhile…

Oh hey reading friend, There you are. I’m glad I caught you here. Usually I elbow my way in, and you’re off somewhere else. Likely reading. Possibly gallivanting. Perhaps dancing and/or prancing. We here at Vargus/McBain HQ have so much stuff to unleash very soon. New books. Screamin’ deals. A life-altering arcane ceremony. But it’s not quite ...
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Bring Out Your Dead

Hey all you cool cats and kittens, We’ve got some news. Nothing huge. It’s just that… THE SCATTERED AND THE DEAD (BOOK 3) IS UP FOR PREORDER! GRAB IT HERE: The Scattered and the Dead (Book 3) on Amazon Whoa. I guess that was pretty big after all. Sheesh. Startled me. Spilled my Dr. Pepper frickin’ everywhere. Anyway, Izzy and Erin are ...
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First Girl Gone

Holy Schnikes! The first book in our new series is up for preorder now, and it’s $0.99! Grab it here: Preorder First Girl Gone on:Amazon – Apple – Google – Kobo First Girl Gone is the first book in the Charlotte Winters series. Here’s the description: Down the beach, she can just make out the rusting hulk of the Ferris wheel through the dawn mist. The hairs prickle on her ...
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Loshak Audio! (And some recommended reads.)

The audiobook for Silent Night, Victor Loshak #3, is live on Audible now. Grab it here: Silent Night on Audible The first audiobook in the series was nominated for an Independent Audiobook Award, and our narrator, Curt Bonnem, went above and beyond once again with this new one. I laughed out loud multiple times while listening. Oh, for Pete’s ...
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Here’s the deal.

Holy crap! Amazon picked The Girl in the Sand as one of the Weekly Kindle Deals this week! Grab it now for $0.99: The Girl in the Sand on Amazon If you’re checking ’em off on your Vargus/McBain checklist, this is the third book in the Violet Darger series and my personal favorite. The deal runs through Sunday the 17th. Here’s the link again: The Girl ...
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Behind the scenes of Silent Night (Plus Audiobooks)

People are always asking me how author collaborations work, and I always tell ’em the same thing: This is private property, you son of a bitch! Get off my land. Not today. I’ve set aside my shotgun, ordered the snipers on the roof of my compound to stand down, and I mean to answer the ...
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