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We've banded together to bring you four of our thrilling novels (because with the heat wave we've got going on, we all could use some chilling goosebumps to cool us down, right?). Read about each book below, and pick each up at your favorite ebook retailer for $0.99. Happy reading!

All Good Deeds (Lucy Kendall #1) by Stacy Green

Lucy Kendall doesn't believe she's a serial killer. She simply eradicates the worst of society and brings justice to the innocent–the children she failed to protect during her decade in Child Protective Services.

A missing child sets off a chain of events linked to a suspect in a life-changing case in Lucy's past. Her chosen path is terrifying–but the search for the kidnapped child pulls her into web of evil and malice beyond her darkest imagination. 

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Blood Stained (Lucy Guardino FBI Thrillers Book 2) by CJ Lyons

Just your average Pittsburgh soccer mom, baking brownies and carrying a loaded forty-caliber Glock…

Until recently Supervisory Special Agent Lucy Guardino was a shining star in the FBI's roster. But after killing a man and disobeying orders, Lucy's been sidelined, chained to her desk. When a mysterious letter arrives hinting that, thanks to Lucy, the wrong man was blamed for a string of serial rapes, kidnappings, and killings four years ago, Lucy jumps at the chance to re-open the case—despite orders to leave well enough alone. What Lucy doesn't know is that what happened four years ago was all a lie, fueled by sacrifice and betrayal, designed to shield the real killer. 

With the lives of her family, a group of innocent children, and the future of one desperate boy at risk, Lucy races to stop an innocent from killing and a killer from butchering more innocents. 

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Secret Justice: A Judge Willa Carson Mystery Novel
(The Hunt For Justice Series Book 3) by Diane Capri

Tampa’s free-spirited Judge Wilhelmina Carson returns in the third installment of this well-loved series. During Tampa’s annual Gasparilla Pirate Festival, murder chases Judge Willa’s beloved secretary into a world of corruption, bank fraud, and art theft while Willa’s dad, Jim Harper, suffers hell of his own making.

Just as Willa is recovering from the shock of meeting her father’s new trophy wife, her secretary Margaret Wheaton becomes mysteriously involved with a nefarious jeweler. When both Margaret’s husband and the jeweler end up dead, Margaret is the number one suspect. Judge Willa sets out to prove Margaret innocent and takes the reader on a ride through Tampa’s month-long pirate party, with twists and turns that keep you guessing until the very end: whodunnit?

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I Have a Secret (Sloane Monroe Book 3) by Cheryl Bradshaw

No one knows the value of keeping a secret more than Doug Ward. But after washing the past twenty years down with a smooth glass of whisky, his steely resolve has started to crack. And he doesn't want to keep quiet. Not anymore.

When dried blood is found on the deck of the cruise ship where Doug was last seen, private investigator Sloane Monroe finesses her way into the surveillance room, sees Doug's bloody body heaved over the railing. 

How many more will die before Sloane uncovers the biggest secret of all?

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What’s Thriller Extravaganza? I want to help my writing friends and connect thriller and suspense readers to new, exciting authors, so I decided to go to the experts–the thriller writers who’ve been there, done that, and have hard-earned experience to back up their advice. R.J. Ellory, Margie Lawson, Kathy Bennett, Allison Brennan, and Vicki Hinze will all be visiting in August. Check out the original post for the line-up and awesome contest details.

But there are some amazingly talented authors climbing the thriller ranks, and I chose five great writers to contribute today–all in their own words. Enough of my babbling. Here are my Emerging Thriller Writers!

Diane Capri

Diane’s new Jess Kimball series kicked off with Fatal Distraction, opening as the #3 Bestselling Legal Thriller, behind John Grisham. Diane’s new Hunt for Jack Reacher series began with Don’t Know Jack, which garnered #1 Bestseller spots on Mystery, Hard-boiled Mystery, Police Procedural, Women Sleuths, and Legal Thriller lists, both in the U.S. and U.K. Don’t Know Jack was followed by two bestselling short stories in the Hunt for Jack Reacher series, Jack in a Box and Jack and Kill. Diane’s Judge Wilhelmina Carson mysteries were praised by Romantic Times and garnered the coveted “Top Pick.” Diane’s savvy, spunky character, attorney Jennifer Lane, stars in her own romantic suspense series, which kicks off with Annabelle’s Attack.

#1 Amazon Bestselling Author Diane Capri’s work is what the #1 worldwide publishing phenomenon Lee Child calls “full of thrills and tension, but smart and human, too.” Margaret Maron, Edgar, Anthony, Agatha and Macavity Award-winning MWA Past President, says: “Expertise shines on every page.” And Library Journal raves: “….offers tense legal drama with courtroom overtones, twisty plot, and loads of Florida atmosphere. Recommended.”

Diane writes mystery and suspense for the same reason she reads: to find out what happens, why people do what they do, and how to bring justice to an unjust world. Her books are translated in twenty territories. Diane loves to hear from readers. Contact her at http://dianecapri.com/contact/ to receive notice of new releases, subscribe to Diane’s blog, or simply connect with her.

Fatal Distraction

Jess Kimball’s Impossible Mission: Protect Crime Victims.

Relentless victims’ rights advocate Jess Kimball and Jack Reacher both deliver justice when the legal system fails. Reacher waits until trouble finds him and then he does whatever it takes. But Jess pursues legal justice and draws lines she will not cross. How can she win against killers who refuse to follow the rules?

Three years ago, beloved Florida Governor Helen Sullivan’s world shattered when her only son died in a senseless car crash, killing his best friend, too. Helen quickly discovered Eric’s crash was no accident and lured the killer to her son’s funeral to be caught. When the shooting ceased in the small country church, Helen believed her nightmare was over. Instead, she’d unwittingly escalated her duel with a cunning and patient assassin.

Now, investigative journalist Jess Kimball is driven to find the horrifying truth. Is the Central Florida Child Killer guilty? Or is the real killer still out there?

Helen and Jess together face the determined killer in a pitched battle of wit and nerve. Who will survive?

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Cyrus Keith

Hi, all, and thanks for having me. Cyrus Keith here. Wow, what a ride. But I can say that my thriller series The NADIA Project is now complete. Almost. All three novels are on the market or established, and the final installment, a novella, is on the way.

I’m really a science fiction freak, but for some reason I can’t quite explain, I have more thriller projects on the burners than sci-fi. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that I love to get my blood pumping with a good action scene. There’s just something about bullets flying, bodies dropping, and people running around in flames that excites the senses. Okay, let’s qualify that before the police show up on my doorstep: ON PAPER (or on my eReader display). When I started my series, I was originally intending more of a futuristic feel, but it just didn’t fit. Next thing I know, I’m swept up in this awesome adventure story about a nightmare of self-discovery, and I’m hooked. I might write something more hard-sci-fi in the future (fortuitous pun there), but for now, I’m along for an exciting ride with original thrillers. I have two more in the works, to be started after I finish one last task for Nadia’s story, a novella called Lies and Paine.

Becoming Nadia, my publishing debut, won Best Thriller honors at EPICon 2012 as well as a Top Ten Finisher in the Preditors and Editor’s Readers’ Poll (#6 Thriller). Book Two, Unalive, is available now, and this coming February, the series finale hits the digital shelves with Critical Mass:

Jenna Paine is a super spy, genetically enhanced to be more than human. Nadia Velasquez is a living weapon of mass destruction. When the secret organization who built them both decides they are no longer useful, two enemies are thrown together for the only purposes they could have in common: survival and revenge.

There’s only one way out of The Pinnacle, and that’s on a coroner’s slab. Jenna lives through a treacherous attack vowing to exact her vengeance on the people who trained her to be the most deadly agent on the planet. Wounded and on the run, she turns to the man who’s sworn to making her face charges for her involvement in the Pinnacle’s nefarious schemes.

After years spent hiding from the Pinnacle, Nadia runs into the one thing she never counted on: Shelf life. As her body breaks down, she realizes it’s only a matter of the short time she has left to redeem her existence and give her daughter a chance to live free.

In the final showdown, the two transhumans join forces against a common enemy, and the Pinnacle come to know the deadly significance of…Critical Mass

Rochelle Weber says, “His writing is as gripping, as complex, and reads as true as the masters of science fiction and Clancy’s early work.”

Zellakate Solomon adds, “…a fast-paced plot, great complex characters, and deep themes about identity…immensely readable.”

Rachel DiMaggio says, ” Nadia may be missing her memory, but this is one story you will never forget!”

Buy Cyrus’s books here, and don’t forget to check him out on Facebook.

Jenny Hilborne

Jenny Hilborne is a mystery/thriller writer and a native Brit in love with San Francisco, which is the setting for her first two thrillers: Madness and Murder and No Alibi. Her background in real estate and finance provides much of the inspiration for her stories, as does her love of travel and ex-pat status.

Jenny has practiced martial arts in the form of Shotokan Karate and holds six belts. She currently lives in Southern California, with frequent travel to England.

Her third thriller, Hide and Seek, also set in San Francisco, released in June.

Jenny is currently working on her fourth thriller, which is a break from tradition and set in Abingdon, Oxfordshire.

Hide and Seek

Diane, thanks so much for stopping by today. Your novel, FATAL DISTRACTION, is getting some amazing reviews and climbing the charts. It’s the first in your new Jess Kimball series–can you tell us what inspired the novel?

Let me say first, Stacy, thank you for having me here. I enjoy chatting with authors and readers, so this is fun for me.

FATAL DISTRACTION introduces Jess Kimball and I hope she’ll become a series if enough readers are interested in her. So far, as you were kind enough to mention, the reaction has been overwhelmingly positive. Fingers crossed on the series thing!

Inspiration for FATAL DISTRACTION came from several sources. But to start, I knew I wanted a very strong female protagonist and I knew the best way to make sure Jess Kimball was strong enough was to give her a supremely evil villain to overcome. I don’t write graphic violence because I don’t want to live in that world. It gives me nightmares! Evil villains must have realistic traits in my books. So I began by asking myself to describe the basic character of the most despicable person. We don’t normally ask ourselves questions like this, so the answers can be surprising.  Ultimately, to me, the most evil person is one who preys on those weaker than himself simply for personal satisfaction. In short, a true psychopath who is without conscience and victimizes the defenseless who cannot fight back.

Once that idea jelled, lots of inspiration followed. I love how that happens!

Who is your favorite character in FATAL DISTRACTION, and why?

Oh, boy. That’s sort of like asking a parent which of his children are his favorite, isn’t it? *laughs* Obviously, I like all the good ones, but the bad ones are harder to love. *laughs*

Is there a message in FATAL DISTRACTION you’d like your readers to grasp?

Yes. My books have themes and this one is no exception. In a very quick, shorthand way, the message here is “Grow or Die.” Sounds overly ominous, doesn’t it? *laughs*

How does your background as a lawyer play into your writing?

Someone said once that after you go to law school and learn to think like a lawyer, you can never think like anything else. I’m not sure whether that’s a good thing, but I am sure it’s true. I use what I’ve learned as a lawyer in everything I write. All of my books have some sort of connection to the law. I’m not sure how I’d write crime fiction without it. *laughs*

My Judge Willa Carson series always contains a subplot about what’s going on in her courtroom. My Hunt for Reacher series features two FBI Special Agents and the lead agent is Kim Otto, who has a joint law degree and accounting background. Annabelle’s Attack features a stolen cure for a fatal disease and the legal wrangling Jenny Lane must do to retrieve it. And Fatal Distraction is set in the world of Florida’s Governor Helen Sullivan, a lawyer, and Jess Kimball’s fight against the legal system to protect victim’s rights.

The main goal I have when I write about the legal system and the lawyers who work within it is to be authentic. So many stories about lawyers are simply wrong, and it bugs me! (Okay, so maybe I’m a little defensive about all those lawyer jokes after all. Sue me.)

You discussed psychopaths in a recent interview. How do you approach writing villainous characters? Do you draw from experience or rely heavily on research? Do you have a favorite bad guy?

All of the above. *laughs* I write realistic fiction rather than, for example, the fantasy genre, so my villains are usually loosely based on the evil that men actually do. I am also a big researcher and do my very best to get the facts right — and readers let me know about it when I miss the mark.

Favorite bad guy? Um, no. Bad guys are bad. I try to kill them off. Makes the world a better place, as far as I’m concerned.

On the topic of publishing, what’s one thing you wish you’d known before you published your first book?

That someday I’d have thousands of readers and to focus on writing stories my readers would want to read. When I was learning story craft, teachers focused on how to write the best book I can every time. But it was much later that I figured out the secret: always create a great reader experience, too. Believe me, the two things are not at all the same. Some of the most beautiful prose in the world is darn dull. Who knew?

Why did you choose to write series as opposed to stand alones? 

Because as a reader, if I love the characters, I never want to let them go at “the end.” As a writer, once I’ve made friends of my story people and become involved in their lives, it’s so much worse if I lose one!

When did you realize you first wanted to be a writer?

Maybe about the age of 10. That’s when I really fell in love with reading and thought I’d like to be able to write fiction some day.

Do you hear from readers much? Is there a particular comment from a reader that really resonated with you?

Yes, I do get reader mail every day. And I love it. There’s nothing better than hearing that someone enjoyed one of my stories. It always feels good when readers “get me.” (When they don’t like something, they rarely write to me — they post it on the internet!) What we see and how we see it is a recurring theme in my work. Recently, a woman wrote to me about my short story, Darla’s Deceit. She said my story had come to her in a very roundabout way and she wanted to let me know how much it touched her. Her daughter had recently been diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, which is the condition Darla has in the story. This reader said my story helped her and her family because it made them realize how vision and eyesight are not the same thing, and how lucky her daughter truly is to have hope.

Like most of us, I assume your characters are always talking to you. What do you do to escape their voices and relax?

I love to read, everything, all the time. I love to write, which is what I do whenever I’m not doing something else. I’m a huge film fan. Travel and cooking are relaxing for me — when they go well. I really enjoy gourmet food in great restaurants with amazing red wine!

Dream vacation?

There are many places in the world I’ve yet to visit, but my dream vacation usually includes relaxation and quiet in gorgeous surroundings with exceptional service and a few spa treatments thrown in. I’d love to live in Judge Willa Carson’s home above George’s gourmet restaurant. But since I don’t, and gourmet dinner in my house is usually red wine and microwave popcorn, I guess visiting the Carsons would be my dream vacation!

One food you can’t live without?

Red wine and chocolate. Yes, I know that’s two.

FATAL DISTRACTION just released, and you’re busy with promo, but what’s your next project?

I’m working hard on the next book in the Hunt for Reacher series. The title is Get Jack Back. Lots of fun!

Thanks so much for taking the time to talk with me, Diane!

Truly, the pleasure was entirely mine!

FATAL DISTRACTION: Relentless victims’ rights advocate Jess Kimball and Jack Reacher both deliver justice when the legal system fails. Reacher waits until trouble finds him and then he does whatever it takes. But Jess pursues legal justice and draws lines she will not cross. How can she win against killers who refuse to follow the rules?

Three years ago, beloved Florida Governor Helen Sullivan’s world shattered when her only son died in a senseless car crash, killing his best friend, too. Helen quickly discovered Eric’s crash was no accident and lured the killer to her son’s funeral to be caught. When the shooting ceased in the small country church, Helen believed her nightmare was over. Instead, she’d unwittingly escalated her duel with a cunning and patient assassin.

Now, investigative journalist Jess Kimball is driven to find the horrifying truth. Is the Central Florida Child Killer guilty? Or is the real killer still out there?

Helen and Jess together face the determined killer in a pitched battle of wit and nerve. Who will survive?

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