Drop
Dead Crime
Genre:
Mystery, Thriller, Suspense
with
stories by
Lisa Regan, Leslie Wolfe, Colleen Helme, Amy Vansant,
Julie Smith
Five women. Five sublime authors of crime fiction. One stunning book.
Gripping
thrillers, packed with deviously executed crimes and in-depth
investigations are some of the most popular reads available on
traditional and virtual book shelves today.
Now,
you can sample some of the best female writers of crime fiction, in
Drop Dead Crime, a
collection of novellas packed with the twisted plotlines and
memorable characters that excite readers and leave them demanding
more.
Lisa
Regan, Leslie Wolfe, Colleen Helme, Amy Vansant, and
Julie
Smith are
among the most skilled and prolific writers of the genre today, and
each one knows exactly how to tease a story to maximum effect. Their
use of strong female leads, combined with delicately balanced plots,
means suspense is always kept at a fever pitch—ready to boil over
at any second.
Lisa
Regan’s Over
The Edge
is
guaranteed to keep you up at night. When P.I.
Jocelyn Rush witnesses
a young mother jump from a bridge, she is determined to solve the
mystery of why, and what she finds is a complex web of secrets and
lies so shocking it could destroy the people left behind.
Leslie
Wolfe introduces
FBI
Agent Tess Winnett in
Not
Really Dead,
a
fast-paced, intense thriller about a serial killer who makes a
terrible mistake.
Colleen
Helme stuns
with Behind
Blue Eyes.
A grisly murder along with a new client hiding a deadly secret is
just the beginning for Shelby
Nichols, mind
reader extraordinaire. Don't miss this exciting thriller!
In
Amy
Vansant’s exclusive
novella Parental
Kilt,
the stars of her "Kilty" romantic suspense series, Catriona
Phoenix and
Brochan
the Highlander, find
themselves trapped in a serial killer's maze during a movie
wrap-party gone wrong. The serial killer was supposed to be dead, but
the bodies are piling up...
Julie
Smith brings
a dazzling story of suspense, The
Big Crazy.
Detective
Skip Langdon, NOPD, while
navigating a world of chaos and betrayal after Hurricane Katrina,
takes on a gang of rogue cops who may be acting as self-appointed
executioners.
Get
a copy of Drop Dead
Crime today
and sample some of the best crime fiction writing, from some of the
best female crime writers around!
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Momma Says: 4 stars⭐⭐⭐⭐
Five quick, entertaining reads in crime fiction. The styles are as different as the premises of these tales, but each features a strong female lead, excellent suspense, and some great twists along the way. From serial killers to mind readers to a death that doesn't make sense, every single one of these stories are well-done examples of great crime solving. The beauty of an anthology is the comfort of familiar authors mixed with finding some new surprises in the unfamiliar, and this one had a good mix of both for me.
Excerpt From Over the Edge
A Jocelyn Rush Story
Lisa Regan
Molly
Five Years Ago
My feet pound along the packed-earth Wissahickon Creek trail. Sweat drips from the
nape of my neck, down the length of my spine, and into the back of my shorts. It beads on my
nose, falling as I run, and turns my hair, pulled tightly into a ponytail, slick and heavy on the
back of my neck.
I’ve been running along this path four times a week for six months, and once every few
times out, I manage to overtake him on the trail. I tried not to notice him, but all that lean muscle
called out to me. I knew he saw me too. Then one day, as I ran past him, I turned and met his
eyes. Blue fire. He smiled. I smiled back. I ran ahead. He followed.
From then on, it’s been a game we play.
This section of the creek trail is called Forbidden Drive. The irony isn’t lost on me the
day something finally happens. The morning is fresh and dewy, sunlight slipping through the
canopy of trees overhead, dappling everything around me. I see his back. Today he is shirtless,
and every muscle in his back and shoulders ripple, glistening with sweat. I run up beside him,
closer this time. When I turn to catch his eye, there is something there that wasn’t before. An
acknowledgment. I see you, those fiery blue eyes seem to say. I know what you want. I run ahead.
Far ahead but not so far that he loses sight of me. I veer off the trail at a break in the trees, my
feet crushing the brush beneath them. I hear a snapping twig behind me, and I know he’s there.
I stop when I reach a kind of clearing. It’s big enough, private enough. I put my hands
against a tree trunk, leaning over, my breath coming fast and hard from the slightly uphill run
through uneven terrain. He doesn’t talk. Hands grip my hips, digging into the flesh. Hot breath
slides down the nape of my neck. It doesn’t take long. We’re not wearing much to begin with,
and our bodies are already shiny and wet with sweat. Once we’ve both shuddered with
satisfaction, we part ways, wordless.
It happens a few more times after that. No words. No names. Then the winter sets in, and
I turn to the treadmill for my daily jog. Sometimes at night, lying in bed, I close my eyes and
remember how he felt, the way his blue eyes caught me in their snare. I remember the way my
body reacted to the things he did. The risks I took.
I’m glad it’s over. It was only a dream. A kinky fantasy. Fleeting. Gone forever.
I think I won’t ever see him again.
Lisa
Regan is the USA Today & Wall
Street Journal bestselling author of the Detective Josie Quinn series
as well as several other crime fiction titles. She has a Bachelor's
degree in English and a Master of Education degree from Bloomsburg
University. She is a member of Sisters in Crime, International
Thriller Writers, and Mystery Writers of America. She lives in
Philadelphia with her husband, daughter, and Boston Terrier named Mr.
Phillip.
Colleen
Helme is the author of the
bestselling Shelby Nichols Adventure Series, a wildly entertaining
and highly humorous series about Shelby Nichols, a woman with the
ability to read minds. When asked if reading minds is something
Colleen wishes she could do she says, “No way! It gets Shelby into
so much trouble that I would never want that ability.” Known for
her laugh since she was a kid, Colleen has always tried to find the
humor in every situation and continues to enjoy writing about
Shelby’s adventures. Besides writing, she loves reading, biking,
hiking, and playing board and card games with family and friends. She
loves to connect with readers and admits that fans of the series keep
her writing.
Amy
Vansant is a Wall Street Journal and USA Today
bestselling author, specializing in fun, comedic reads about
accident-prone, easily distracted women with questionable tastes in
men.
So,
autobiographies, mostly. Ha! But seriously… She writes happy,
occasionally slightly twisted, thrilling, romantic comedies,
mysteries, and urban fantasies.
Edgar-winner
Julie Smith is the author of more than twenty mysteries, most
set in New Orleans and starring one or the other of her detective
heroes, a cop named Skip Langdon, and a PI named Talba Wallis. (Both
female, both tough and wily.) She also has two series set in San
Francisco.
Her
novel, NEW ORLEANS MOURNING, won the Edgar Allan Poe award for best
novel.
She
changed direction in 2010, with her start-up digital publishing
company, booksBnimble (www.booksBnimble.com),
beginning with four books by friends. She later added other authors
and got the rights back to her own books, Then in 2015 booksBnimble
spun off bbnmarketing (www.bbnmarketing.com),
with the aim of helping self-published authors find their audience
and backlist print authors find their way back into the game.
Twelve
years after Hurricane Katrina; Skip Langdon returned last year in
MURDER ON MAGAZINE. But so many readers have asked--what did she do
when Katrina struck? That story's THE BIG CRAZY.
Leslie
Wolfe's novels break the mold of traditional thrillers.
Fascinated by technology and psychology, Leslie brings extensive
background and research in these fields that empower and add texture
to a signature, multi-dimensional, engaging writing style.
Leslie
released the first novel, Executive,
in October 2011. It was very well received, including inquiries from
Hollywood. Since then, Leslie published numerous novels and enjoyed
growing success and recognition in the marketplace. Among Leslie’s
most notable works, The Watson Girl
(2017) was recognized for offering a unique insight into the mind of
a serial killer and a rarely seen first person account of his
actions, in a dramatic and intense procedural thriller.
A
complete list of Leslie’s titles is available at
http://wolfenovels.com/titles.
Leslie
enjoys engaging with readers every day and would love to hear from
you.
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