Tag: suspense

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Serial Killer Christmas is here!

Ho-ho-holy night. Loshak is back! Silent Night, Book 3 in the Victor Loshak series, is up on Amazon. Grab it: Silent Night on Amazon This little Christmas goose packs a lot of drama in its carcass. Good and evil. Naughty and nice. So many gifts. If you missed our earlier emails, here’s a super fast intro: When a mass shooter terrifies Chicago in the days after Christmas, Victor Loshak heads to the windy city to investigate. The manhunt gets turned on its head when Loshak becomes the hunted. …
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A Brief History of Shadows. (Let us know what you think.)

I wanted to share some relics of the Vargus & McBain past and get your opinion on something, but first, let me say this: The Casting Shadows Everywhere launch is off to an awesome start. We hit numerous #1 spots in the new release charts. Thanks so much to everyone who grabbed a copy. The link is here if you didn’t snag it yet. Get it while it’s 40% off: Casting Shadows Everywhere on Amazon Hilariously enough, the 2019 edition of Casting Shadows Everywhere sold more copies in a day than the original version …
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Thankee-Sai

I just wanted to let everyone know that, thanks to you, the new Darger novel, Five Days Post Mortem, achieved our best ever launch day ranking. Of all the 6,000,000+ books available for the Kindle, we hit #122. We also hit #1 in a bunch of subcategories, and we’re still #1 in Hard-Boiled Mysteries and Pulp Thrillers at the moment. (“Hard-Boiled” and “Pulp” makes me want some eggs and orange juice to go with my Darger, part of a complete thriller breakfast.) Here’s us sandwiched between Stephen King and …
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The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out.

Behold! The fifth book in the Violet Darger series, Five Days Post Mortem, is out now. Grab it! Five Days Post Mortem on Amazon Behind or new to the series? Fear not. The Darger books can be read in any order. We wrote these babies to stand alone. All alone. Believe me, they’d like to stand together, but we simply don’t allow it. And guess what? This thing is 33% off for the launch. Five Days Post Mortem on Amazon Holy moly guacamole! That’s what we suggest you buy with the …
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An interview with E. M. Smith

Meet the newest member of the Vargus/McBain-o-sphere, author E. M. Smith. He co-wrote Beyond Good & Evil and The Good Life Crisis with us, and we plan to launch some more stories together ASAP. But there persists an air of mystery around this guy. What do we really know about him? Is he weird? Let’s find out. Q: People keep asking me about you, and I don’t know what to say to them. So what’s your deal? Pretty much nothing. I’m just this redneck …
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