mystery

Sydney Rye Kindle World Week: The Catalyst, by DelSheree Gladden

Day 3 of Sydney Rye Kindle World Week The new Sydney Rye Kindle World launches on Thursday, March 17. As an extended St. Paddy’s Day present from me to you, valued readers, Written Words presents excerpts from each of the seven novellas in the project. Today’s installment is from DelSheree Gladden’s The Catalyst, where the Syndey Rye and Blue world […]

Sydney Rye Kindle World Week: Walk Softly, Danger by Renée Pawlish

Day 2 of Sydney Rye Kindle World Week The new Sydney Rye Kindle World launches on Thursday, March 17. As an extended St. Paddy’s Day present from me to you, valued readers, Written Words presents excerpts from each of the seven novellas in the project. Today’s installment is from Walk Softly, Danger, where Sydney’s and Blue’s path […]

Sydney Rye Kindle World Week: Nemesis, by Jennifer Harlow

The new Sydney Rye Kindle World launches on Thursday, March 17. As an extended St. Paddy’s Day present from me to you, valued readers, Written Words presents excerpts from each of the seven novellas in the project. Today’s installment is from Nemesis, which brings Sydney and Blue into a very dark setting. Origin Story What’s in […]

You can read this free sample of my first Sydney Rye Kindle World novella, The Wife Line, right here, or you can download it as a PDF to read at your own leisure. Your choice! The Sydney Rye Kindle World, based on the bestselling novels by Emily Kimelman, launched on March 17, 2016. Nine authors added our own takes to […]

Raymond Chandler, author of hardboiled detective fiction.

I’ve been re-reading Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe novels in a probably vain attempt to capture the mood and inspiration to write my own crime fiction, and when I compare Chandler’s prose to 21st-century mystery, thriller and crime fiction, it seems that Chandler’s challenge was less than today’s writers’—or at least, very different. The Big Sleep […]

New #LeiCrimeKW title for Christmas: Esther's Gift

By Bette Lee Crosby A new crop of Lei Crime Kindle World (#LeiCrimeKW) novellas and stories hit the Amazon e-shelves last week. Here’s a sample of one by bestselling author Bette Lee Crosby. The dream wakes her two hours before dawn. She feels the chill of an evil wind whistle through the open window and […]

New #LeiCrimeKW titles for the season: Christmas Makes It Chaos

By Julie C. Gilbert A new crop of Lei Crime Kindle World (#LeiCrimeKW) novellas and stories hit the Amazon e-shelves last week. Here’s a sample of one by bestselling author Julie C. Gilbert. A premonition made her pause. Something wasn’t right. Every light in the room had been turned on, and her clothes had been […]