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Ronald wrote: "I've lost some battles, but I'm winning the war.www.ronaldpaxton.wordpress.com"
Good news. I fancy most are in my position - keeping on fighting, without ant real idea what the end position will be.
"...a classic whodunit...the characters spring to life as the story unfolds. And how it unfolds!"http://tinyurl.com/nmty5zs
"Just when you thought the bucolic resort community in Shenandoah County has settled into normalcy, author Ronald Paxton's new novel, Silent Waltz, picks up where his Soul Man leaves off...with a new set of scheming and murderous villains."http://tinyurl.com/nmty5zs
"...The author's ability (and talent) to describe the scenery, smells, lighting and everything else about the Shenandoah Valley is remarkable...I loved the imagination and vocabulary in this book."http://lnkd.in/b7ePUVw
My short story, 'A Clue With a Double Meaning,' is in the March issue of Mystery Weekly. Set in Korea shortly after the war, a Catholic priest offers himself as bait to catch the killer of a friend. http://www.mysteryweekly.com/
Currently working on the second novel in the Johnnie King series. I have had outstanding help from the NYPD, FBI and the US Marshal Service so that I can get some details correct. I hope to have the book released by July of this year.
Do you think of rustling as a crime peculiar to the Old West? Guest again. Check out my latest blog entry for info on cattle theft in Pennsylvania in the 1800s and the notorious Joe Buzzard, last of the eastern rustlers. http://jrlindermuth.blogspot.com/
"...the clouds are building in Shenandoah County, but Salem Matthews loves a good storm!"http://tinyurl.com/nmty5zs
The Untreed Reads anniversary sale is continuing through April 30. Grab a good read for pennies: http://store.untreedreads.com/index.p...
My 2nd Detective Al Warner novel, BORN TO DIE, is going on a $0.99 promo for a week, April 1 -7. Don't miss a chance to get this 5-Star reviewed novel, where Al Warner, on medical leave after a shootout at the end of DEATH'S ANGEL, helps a beautiful nurse investigate a suspicious rash of SIDS deaths of 6-month-old boys. Become a Warner fan, just like Patterson's Alex cross.http://www.amazon.com/dp/B016V6P7EK
Authors are invited to promote their work on my FB page today through Tuesday, April 5th. All fiction genres, poetry, and non-fiction are welcome.www.facebook.com/ronald.paxton.3
Four of a Kind, an anthology featuring four stories of mystery and suspense by authors J. R. Lindermuth, Carol Culver Rzadkiewicz, Douglas Quinn and Sara Williams--Edited by Douglas Quinn, is now available in Kindle format. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01DLE0VCI
Hello, free book available...The Theo Mallier Story, part 4 The New Starter, free until Sunday morning...
here's the link...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Theo-Mallier-...
Thanks, Andy
Just a reminder, my 2nd Detective Al Warner novel, BORN TO DIE, is on a $0.99 promo for a week, April 1 -7. Don't miss a chance to get this 5-Star reviewed novel, where Al Warner, on medical leave after a shootout at the end of DEATH'S ANGEL, helps a beautiful nurse investigate a suspicious rash of SIDS deaths of 6-month-old boys. Become a Warner fan, just like Patterson's Alex cross.http://www.amazon.com/dp/B016V6P7EK Born To Die: A Detective Al Warner Suspense
"...a serial killer who likes his victims young, female, and available..."http://tinyurl.com/p5au9s3#thriller
For a limited time, download the first book in the Jake and Laura Prohibition-era mystery series, The Yankee Club for just 99 cents!
Synopsis for my book Corpalism
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Set in a dystopian future; all wealth is in the hands of the Corporations, the 1% whilst the 99% live in economic debt or poverty on sink estates in the North. Terry works for Relocations, his job is to relocate undesirables to these estates. Unfortunately for Terry he is late for work once too often and is himself relocated to a sink. But Terry is not all he seems. Why is he there and who does he really work for?
Meet Sir Phillip Blackmore, head of British Secret Intelligence, a Machiavellian character with plots more devious and unpleasant than even the Prime Minister is allowed to know about.
Delores Grey is a successful singer and the victim of a kidnapping; she has been missing for forty days and forty nights. Before she disappeared she was a flighty superstar who thought little of the world around her, on her return she is much changed, she now cares about things to the extent that she is willing to lecture her interviewers. Why has this change come upon her? Where has she been? Has she in fact been anywhere, could it be that it is all in the mind of Stephanie White and if so, who is Stephanie White?
It's Fancy Dress Night down the Dog n Duck. A group of young friends share a table for the night; Hiawatha, the Lone Ranger, Charlie Chaplin, Pirate, Mr Spock and a transvestite. They ramble through their usual debates and discussions. During the course of the evening their real identities are revealed as well as where they fit in the story.
The Independents are a new force in politics. Free of any lobby group, party bias, or corporate interest, they are determined to avert the looming catastrophe. They are on a headlong collision course with Sir Phillip Blackmore.
Naz and the other young Muslims are hatching a plot to bring home grown terror to an iconic building, one held dear to the hearts of many British people, including some of the would-be terrorists themselves. Will they be able to bring themselves to do it or will the plot be foiled by Blackmore's intelligence network?
Looking for some mystery and suspense to spice up your spring and summer reading. Check these out.https://www.amazon.com/author/ronaldp...
COVER REVEAL ANNOUNCEMENT !!! KINGDOM'S ENDSYNOPSIS: Kingdom's End is an adventure story set in an urban landscape where the main characters are rodents. The main setting is an abandoned motion picture palace from the 1920s that has been closed for thirty years and is set for demolition. It is here where the rats in the story make their massive colony and fight to protect it. In their struggle to survive in a harsh environment, there are threats posed against them from both man and beast. It is exciting and complex and an easy read with a strong narrative that makes you feel their plight. See link below to see cover art.
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Authors are invited to promote their work on my FB page today through Thursday, May 5th. All fiction genres, poetry, and non-fiction are welcome.Readers are encouraged to use this page as your online bookstore for the next 5 days. You will see an eclectic mix of writing from a number of talented authors. You're just in time for Mothers Day!
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May is International Short Story Week. Short stories are a great introduction to the style of a writer you haven't read. Many of my short stories are available free online; all you need do is search for short stories by J. R. Lindermuth.Two of my stories are available from Untreed Reads,http://store.untreedreads.com/index.php…
Both available for less than the price of a cup of coffee.
Some family schisms can only be bridged by rainbows.... and a dog with two names. Rainbow's Edge, in print and kindle editions at www.amazon.com/dp/B01DTO5LVG/
A great review of the first of my Detective Al Warner Suspense/Thriller Series, DEATH’S ANGEL, a 5-Star reviewed novel. Death's Angel: A Detective Al Warner Suspense
The MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW (sort of the NY Times of the Midwest) said: “A masterfully crafted suspense thriller from beginning to end, "Death's Angel" is a terrifically absorbing read and very highly recommended.” Readers liken Warner to Patterson’s Alex Cross.
I can supply either the doc. file used for the Kindle upload, or a PDF. I’m also available for interviews. Here is a brief synopsis:
Crack Miami Homicide detective, Al Warner, suffering with PTSD from a deadly shootout during his last case, is thrust into the hunt for a shadowy villain who is systematically killing off many of south Florida’s most beautiful young women.
Warner, just back on The Job after recovering from his head wound, is in the best physical shape of his life, but his days are laced with headaches, and his sleep fraught with night terrors. Lack of rest clouds his usually laser-sharp mind but doesn’t slow his obsessive hunt for this new psychopath.
Warner and the FBI are baffled and frustrated as each new death provides plenty of evidence it’s the same killer, but no clues to his identity. They think they have the killer’s name, Angie Dedios, but soon realize that it’s really Angel de Dios, meaning Angel of God. The press labels him “The Angel of Death.” Tension mounts as more beauties die with no new leads to this deadly “angel’s” true identity. When Warner’s love, Sharon Clark, becomes the madman’s next target, Warner must stop him before she becomes his 8th victim.
Fate thrusts Warner, Sharon, and this lethal “angel” into one final deadly dance of terror.
In Kindle & Print at: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00P2V63X0
My Victorian thriller, 'Murder and Enlightenment' is free on Kindle until 15th May athttps://www.amazon.com/MURDER-ENLIGHT...
"...a feel good and thriller all in one book...it made me happy, mad, sad, cry..."http://tiny.cc/odmn7x
As an Amazon Top 100 author, my second novel, A 3rd TIME TO DIE is a unique paranormal Romantic Suspense, different from the glut of vampires, werewolves, angels and demons. It centers on Past Life experiences, more in the vein of Nora Robert’s Midnight Bayou and the Lifetime movie, Dead Again. A 3rd TIME TO DIE has garnered mostly 5-Star reviews, with the most common comment, "I coudn't put it down!" Readers have likned it to the best of the non-spookier works of Dean Koontz and Stephen King.
Two souls struggle to fulfill their destinies together. Twice, in the 17th and 19th Centuries, just as they discover the magic of their love, their lives are snuffed out by brutal murder. Reborn for the third time in the 21st Century, they rediscover each other, their love of jumping horses bringing them together again… and their killer is once again stalking them!
Will this be a 3rd time to die?
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0989468100 A 3rd Time to Die
"A truly memorable work of fiction." That's what the latest five-star review of Something So Divine said. Read the review here: https://www.amazon.com/review/RB29S7B...
"A masterfully crafted suspense thriller from beginning to end, "Death's Angel" is a terrifically absorbing read and very highly recommended " was the critique from MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW, of my first Detective Al Warner Suspense, DEATH'S ANGEL. They are sort of the New York Times of the Midwest.Crack Miami Homicide detective, Al Warner, suffering with PTSD from a deadly shootout during his last case, is thrust into the hunt for a shadowy villain who is systematically killing off many of south Florida’s most beautiful young women.
Warner, just back on The Job after recovering from his head wound, is in the best physical shape of his life, but his days are laced with headaches, and his sleep fraught with night terrors. Lack of rest clouds his usually laser-sharp mind but doesn’t slow his obsessive hunt for this new psychopath.
Warner and the FBI are baffled and frustrated as each new death provides plenty of evidence it’s the same killer, but no clues to his identity. They think they have the killer’s name, Angie Dedios, but soon realize that it’s really "Angel de Dios," meaning Angel of God. The press labels him “The Angel of Death.”
Tension mounts as more beauties die with no new leads to this deadly “angel’s” true identity. When Warner’s love, Sharon Clark, becomes the madman’s next target, Warner must stop him before she becomes his 8th victim.
Fate thrusts Warner, Sharon, and this lethal “angel” into one final deadly dance of terror.
In Kindle now @ $2.99, & Print at: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00P2V63X0
Death's Angel: A Detective Al Warner Suspense
Love paranormal mysteries? Then my Porter Biggleswade series is for you! www.porterbiggleswade.com
Shadows in the Mist Dr Porter Biggleswade, a paranormal investigator, finds herself tangling with supernatural shadows and more human quirks. The mysterious occupants of the Bronte Parsonage, a woman haunted by her living mother, and a farmer plagued by spectral ewes show Porter that the living are as troubled as the shadows she investigates. Shadows in the Mist is the first book in Amy Flint’s Porter Biggleswade series.
The Haunting of Delavere HallParanormal investigator Porter Biggleswade agrees to investigate ghostly sightings at Delavere Hall, a crumbling estate on the Yorkshire coast. Porter discovers that rumours are rife, with monks and a murder at the heart of them. The Haunting of Delavere Hall is the second book in Amy Flint’s Porter Biggleswade series.
Check out Porter on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Porter-Biggl... and Amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B00MRAZJK...
My 2nd Detective Al Warner suspense, BORN TO DIE, is beginning a Virtual Book Tour on May 20. The tour is hosted by http://Myaddictionisreading..com, and I've reduiced the Kindle price from $4.99 to $2.99. It's also available free for Kindle Unlimited members, and is in print as well, published by small indie publisher, GnD Publishing LLC. So far all 5-Star reviews. Here's a short synopsis:Infant boys of Palm Beach gentry are dying of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). Only obstetrics nurse, Casey Jansson, is suspicious.
Crack Miami detective, Al Warner, is on medical leave from a deadly shootout with the Angel of Death. He’s gotten into top condition but can’t convince the Department’s shrink he is not suffering from PTSD.
Warner meets Casey at a local pub and learns of the SIDS deaths. He concedes it sounds more than coincidental, agreeing to help investigate.
In the end, Casey has a clue but can’t find Warner, so she chases it on her own. Warner get her voice message and races after her, but Casey’s obsession tangles her in mortal danger. Only Warner can save her, if he can figure out where she went, and get there in time.
In Kindle & print at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B016V6P7EK
Born To Die: A Detective Al Warner Suspense
I'm guesting on Evelyn Cullet's blog. Come on over and read an excerpt from Something So Divine: http://evelyncullet.com/something-so-...
"...The clouds are building in Shenandoah County, but Salem Matthews loves a good storm!"http://tinyurl.com/nmty5zs
"Choosing one Moment - A Time Travel Mystery" by Marja McGraw was released a couple of days ago. If you're looking for a little fun, this might be the book for you."If you ever receive an inheritance, you may want to think it over carefully before you begin sorting through antiques and mementos. They aren’t always as they seem.
Carrie McFerrin learned this the hard way when she traveled back to 1909."
Choosing One Moment: A Time Travel Mystery
Ever wonder how an idea becomes a story? That's the topic of my latest blog. Comment invited. http://jrlindermuth.blogspot.com/2016...
Do you phone your parents often enough? As people get busier, elderly folk are sometimes pushed aside in the rush to 'have everything'. My contemporary novella 'The Last Hurrah' is about an elderly couple who are both diagnosed with terminal illnesses. They try to connect with their adult children but they are all too busy being busy to take the time to interact with them. They decide to take one last cruise while they are able - and not return. It is only later that their family members realise they could have done more to help them. Most of the action is set on board a cruise ship and at the ports they visit. https://www.amazon.com/LAST-HURRAH-el...
Regan and Tom are awakened by gunshots outside their country home. The shots come closer and finally they are able to hear voices in a heated exchange not far from their bedroom. There is a sudden ghastly cry and a single gunshot which leaves their neighbor dead. The only thing is, the coroner rules his death a suicide. http://www.amazon.com/Neighborly-Kill...
Today's post on my Detective Al Warner suspense, BORN TO DIE, is an excerpt from the novel. Several stops on the Tour are posting excerpts, mostly Ch. 3 or 4. There's a larger excerpt available on the Amazon book site in "Look Inside." The novel is on Kindle special now, and FREE for Amazon Unlimited members. Here's the lionk to today's post,. Enjoyhttp://cancersuckscouk.ipage.com/book...
Born To Die: A Detective Al Warner Suspense
Limited time offer ends June 5, 2016 – For 99 cents, you can download your Kindle copy of BAHALA NA (Come What May) - A WWII story of love, faith, determination, courage and survival based on real life events about a young man trying to meet the elusive girl of his dream and his struggle to come home from a faraway place when WWII starts in the Pacific and no transportation is available and the Japanese are everywhere. Read about the horrors of war in the Philippines not written in history books. "Bahala na" meaning "leave it to God" is a dictum Filipinos adhere to in times of trouble. http://www.amazon.com/author/rosalind...
A feeble-minded young man is accused of murdering a girl he loves in 1897 Pennsylvania. The only people who believe him innocent are his step-sister and a widowed shopkeeper. Influenced by them, the detective on the case puts his job and reputation in jeopardy to assure a fair trial for the accused.An historical mystery that's getting some great reviews: https://www.amazon.com/Something-So-D...?
J.R. wrote: "A feeble-minded young man is accused of murdering a girl he loves in 1897 Pennsylvania. The only people who believe him innocent are his step-sister and a widowed shopkeeper. Influenced by them, th..."I just finished reading this book and it was great! You had me hooked right up to the ending.
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