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TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN!
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THE HUNT IS ON WHEN ABC PREMIERES “TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN” ON AUGUST 2
SOME OF YOU KNOW I’VE BEEN KEEPING SOME EXCITING NEWS UNDER MY HAT. HOWEVER, THE ABC NETWORK PUBLICISTS JUMPED ON THE BANDWAGON TODAY AND STARTED PUSHING THE NEW ABC REALITY SERIES, TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN – A SHOW ON WHICH I WILL BE IN FRONT OF THE CAMERA INSTEAD OF BACK IN THE WRITERS’ ROOM . . .
FILMING HAS BEEN A BLAST, AND THE FINISHED EPISODES OF THE SHOW ARE RIVETING (EVEN IF I SAY SO MYSELF). I’LL LET MORE OUT OF THE BAG AS THE AUGUST 2ND PREMIERE DATE APPROACHES, BUT FOR NOW HERE’S TODAY’S PRESS RELEASE . . .
From the producers of "The Amazing Race" and the "CSI" franchise comes an entirely new heart-stopping competition show called "Take the Money and Run." The six-episode unscripted series will premiere on TUESDAY, AUGUST 2 (9:00-10:00 p.m., ET), on the ABC Television Network.
Combining all the elements of an edge-of-your-seat spy thriller with the excitement of rooting for real people in various locales outwitting high-level investigators, "Take the Money and Run" is an exhilarating competition series that will take reality television to a whole new level. The cat and mouse format will pit investigative professionals vs. everyday people trying to win a $100,000 prize.
"Take the Money and Run" will be produced by Profiles Television LLC and Jerry Bruckheimer Television, and distributed in the U.S. by Horizon Alternative Television. Executive Producers are Jerry Bruckheimer, Bertram van Munster, Jonathan Littman, Elise Doganieri and Philip Morrow, plus KristieAnne Reed and Mark Dziak are Co-Executive Producers.
MURDER IN THE SENIOR MANOR!
KITTY BRAUND
MY 91 YEAR OLD AUNT-IN-LAW, WHO HAS NEVER SLOWED DOWN IN HER LIFE, HAS JUST PUBLISHED A NEW MYSTERY NOVEL. SHE HAS PREVIOUSLY WRITTEN A HISTORICAL ROMANCE, A THRILLER, AND NUMEROUS AWARD WINNING BOOKS AND ARTICLES ABOUT HER BELOVED PORTUGESE WATER DOGS AND DALMATIONS . . . I TIP MY FEDORA TO HER GRIT AND DETERMINATION . . .
The fun begins when Louise Knight, a Senior Manor retiree, discovers the body of a fellow resident, horrifically murdered. The Sheriff immediately labels her as a person of interest.
The murderer goes one step further.
He or she not only labels Louise as a person of interest, but also decides she and her two dogs would be good killing trophies.
That's why you are guaranteed fingernail biting time as you follow ninety-year old Louise in this bold and whimsical page turner when she becomes involved in the murder of sweet, sweet little old Maddie and tracks down the serial killer while in peril for her life.
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SURF BEAT: ROCK 'N' ROLL'S FORGOTTEN REVOLUTION!
KENT CROWLEY
Surf Beat is the first book to tell the story of the birth of surf music, and its persistent survival and reinvention in the face of decades of dismissal as a mere cultural aberration.
Conventional wisdom posits the notion that rock 'n' roll languished in the period between 1959 and 1963. Yet in that four-year stretch between Elvis joining the army and Buddy Holly's death, and the emergence of the Beatles, a musical revolution took place in Southern California that would influence all electric guitar forms that followed it.
They called it surf music, and in Surf Beat, it finally gets its day in the sun. Surf music authority and author Kent Crowley uncovers the story of the initial emergence of surf music as first a local, then a national and international phenomenon, and its subsequent waves of popularity through the ensuing decades.
$13.59
MYSTERY CORNER: MR. MONK ON THE COUCH!
LEE GOLDBERG
KINDLE EDITION ~ $10.99
THE WORD FROM AUTHOR LEE GOLDBERG . . .
My 12th original Monk novel, Mr. Monk On The Couch, is out today in hardcover . . . and as an ebook, too.
This is the second book set after the finale of the TV series and takes the characters in some new directions, none more so than Monk's assistant and the book's narrator, Natalie Teeger. Over the last few books, she's begun to realize that not only does she enjoy detective work, but she's actually is pretty good at it. But it hasn't been easy to prove herself when she's constantly paired up with a brilliant detective who often solves crimes on-the-spot. In this book, she finally gets the chance . . . and really comes into her own as a detective (which I take it to the next level in the book I'm just finishing now, Mr. Monk On Patrol).
Like all of my Monk books, there are lots of little ‘standalone’ mysteries Monk solves while investigating the major, over-arching mystery of the novel. However, this time the central mystery is less of a whodunit than it is a ‘what the hell is going on?’
Mr. Monk On The Couch is also grittier than any of my previous Monk books . . . but nothing too extreme. It’s still very much a Monk book, with lots of laughs, but also with a lot more going on and a slightly harder edge. Plus there’s even a subplot involving Monk’s brother Ambrose, picking up where his story left off in Mr. Monk On The Road.
All in all, there's a lot going on in Mr. Monk On The Couch and I hope you enjoy it.
ROMANTIC SUSPENSE CORNER: BEST MAN FOR THE JOB!
MEREDITH FLETCHER
I’M INCLUDING THIS ON THE BLOG BECAUSE OF THE VEGAS CONNECTION AND THE FACT MEREDITH IS NOT ONLY A FRIEND, BUT SHE IS ALSO AN EXCELLENT WRITER WHOSE WORK I ALWAYS ENJOY. . .
Trust can get you killed in Sin City . . .
They took the wrong groom. Callan is fresh off the black ops battlefield and in Vegas to see his kid sister married. When the groom goes missing, when the police can't get the job done right, Callan dives in. And his partner is a sexy security expert who just popped out of the bachelor's party cake at the wrong time.
Time to roll the dice
WESTERN PULP: NEMESIS!
L. J. MARTIN
KINDLE EDITION ~ $2.99
The fools killed his family . . . then made him a lawman.
This wild and wooly western, in the Louis L'amore tradition, comes from renowned author L. J. Martin, whose over 20 novels have brought compelling reading to so many.
McBain, broken and beaten from the Civil war, is reluctant to return to his family, as a snake dwells in his belly and he can't get the images out of his mind . . . until he learns his sister and her family have been murdered.
Then it's retribution time.
PULP NOW:PULP ECHOES!
TOM JOHNSON
Seven new stories in the pulp tradition, both new and original characters:
The Bat returns in “Blind As A Bat,”
The Crimson Clown returns in “The Crimson Clown – Killer”
Nibs Holloway battles Dr. Death in “Till Death Do Us Part”
The Black Ghost is back in “Carnival of Death”
Captain Anthony Adventure in “Terror In The North Country”
The Black Cat in “A Cat Among Dogs”
Senora Scorpion in “Senora Scorpion”
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NOIR NOW: NEEDLE MAGAZINE ~ SPRING 2011!
Needle ~ Magazine of Noir is a thrice-yearly publication featuring tales of murder and mayhem. New fiction by Patti Abbott, Cam Ashley, Ray Banks, Mel Clayton, David Cranmer, Steve De Jarnatt, Jason Duke, Matthew C. Funk, Amy Grech, Don Lafferty, Scott Morse, Tom Piccirilli, and Todd Robinson.
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TAKE A CHANCE E-BOOKS ~ NO SHELTER!
AN ONGOING SERIES HIGHLIGHTING POSSIBLY DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH E-BOOKS BY RELATIVELY UNKNOWN AUTHORS, FOUND WHILE CRUISING THE E-BOOK SHELVES ON AMAZON WITH PRICES MAKING THEM WORTH TAKING A CHANCE ON . . . SOME MAY BE CRAP, SOME COULD SHOW POTENTIAL, OTHERS (I SUSPECT VERY, VERY, FEW) MIGHT BE GREAT – TAKE A CHANCE . . .
TODAY’S FIND . . . THRILLER!
NO SHELTER
HOLLY LIN #1
CONSTANCE FROST ~ $2.99
Holly Lin is living two lives. To her friends and family, she's a pleasant, hardworking nanny. To her boss and colleagues, she's one of the best non-sanctioned government assassins in the world.
But when a recent mission goes wrong causing one of her team members to die, she realizes she might no longer be cut out for the work – except the mission, as it turns out, is only half over, and to complete it will take her halfway across the world and bring her face to face with a ghost from her past.
Things are about to get personal. And as Holly Lin's enemies are about to find out, she is not a nanny they want to piss off.
NO SHELTER is a 65,000-word thriller perfect for fans of LA FEMME NIKITA.
HARDBOILED CORNER: SAND'S GAME ~ ENNIS WILLIE!
I'M CURRENTLY IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS TERRIFIC COLLECTION OF HARDBOILDED TALES ABOUT A MOB KILLER TRYING TO GET OUT. THE COLLECTION HAS INTRODUCTIONS BY GUYS WHOSE TASTES RUN MUCH THE SAME AS MINE -- MAX ALLAN COLLINS, BILL CRIDER, STEVEN MERTZ, JAMES REASONER, WAYNE DUNDEE -- AND THEY ARE RIGHT ON THE MONEY: THIS IS GREAT, RAW, STUFF . . .
WILLIE'S SAND CHARACTER IS VERY MUCH HIS OWN MAN, BUT HE'D FIND KINDRED SPIRITS IN STARK'S PARKER, MAX ALLAN COLLINS' NOLAN, DON PENDELTON'S ORIGINAL MACK BOLAN, AND ANDRE VACHSS' BURKE . . .
