The Open Road Blog

Camilla Läckberg was working in Stockholm, Sweden as an economist when a creative writing class inspired to write her first crime novel.  Six bestselling thrillers later, Läckberg’s books are quickly finding an international audience that has fallen in love with Scandinavian fiction. Läckberg’s third novel The Stonecutter, released in the US for the first time on Tuesday, is a suspenseful tale of shattered innocence that begins with the horrifying discovery of a child’s body in a local fisherman’s net.

You can read a sample of Läckberg’s The Stonecutter here on the blog. You can also grab a longer sample ...

May is National Short Story Month and to celebrate, Open Road Integrated Media is sharing short stories by famous authors all month long on our blog. Be sure to share what you think on Twitter using the National Short Story Month Hashtag: #storymonth12.

Check out all of our short stories here.

“At 40 Edward Bunker was a hardened criminal with a substantial prison record. Twenty-five years later, he was hailed by his peers as America’s greatest living crime writer.” The Independent

Not every crime thriller comes directly from the heart of one of America’s most notorious prisons. Edward Bunker, ...

John Harvey recently read alongside a small jazz group at The Green Door Store in Undercroft at Brighton Station, England.  We caught up with John, author of the celebrated Charlie Resnick detective novels, and asked him about his love of jazz, his passion for music and how it inspires much of his writing, particularly the character of Charlie Resnick.

It was my decision to make him a lover of jazz. A long-term listener to jazz myself [and, for a short period, a less than moderate practitioner], I wanted the opportunity to write about the music I knew, to try and ...

Open Road Media has just published all seven titles in Loren D. Estleman's Detroit Crime Series—now available for the first time as ebooks. What started as a trilogy including Whiskey River, Motown, and King of the Corner became seven novels, each touching on a decade in Detroit. 

According to Estleman in an interview with January magazine, the series went to seven books when he "realized how much good material there was.... They're standalones, but you'll notice some of the same characters keep appearing, as young men and sometimes infants in the books set earlier and as ...

In honor of this month's Women's History Month, we've put together a new documentary style mash-up video celebrating Women's Mystery Month.  Bestselling authors including Anne Perry, Susan Isaacs, Ruth Rendell and more share their thoughts on writing mystery and suspense from a woman's point of view.   Enjoy!

The Sensational History of a Wild West Outlaw

American outlaw John Wesley Hardin was one of the most legendary gunmen in the Wild West. Descendent of Revolutionary War hero Colonel Joseph Hardin, John Wesley became notorious as a teenager, killing dozens of men while on the lam. Born and raised in Texas, Hardin first shot and killed a man when he was just fifteen. He eluded the law and through the 1870s, he remained a fugitive, leaving a trail of bodies behind him. He was eventually captured by the Texas Rangers and served seventeen years in in prison. Upon his ...

If you're reading this, it stands to reason you love a good mystery.  In fact, you may even be a mystery writer. . . in which case, you'll surely want to read more about the field trip we took earlier this week to the newly founded Crime Fiction Academy situated in the Center for Fiction in New York City's Mercantile Library.

[What's that?  Oh. You were looking for the Links We Like segment?  Right.  Well, that posts on Fridays—come back tomorrow.  But, wait. . . ! Now that you're here, why not stick around, have a read, and share ...

When it comes to true crime fiction, no one does it quite like M. William Phelps. Now he is bringing his investigative instincts and sharp storytelling style to a new TV series, Dark Minds, which premiered this week on Investigation Discovery. Phelps teamed up with criminal profiler John Kelly to revisit unsolved homicides believed to be the work of serial killers. Joining them in the hunt for answers is an unlikely and anonymous source: a convict serving multiplelife sentences for a series of murders. Known to audiences only as "13," this unique source offers his “expert” opinion about potential ...

Great news fellow mystery lovers!  Open Road Media and MysteriousPress.com continue to up the ante on mystery and crime fiction titles available through their publishing partnership.  By month's end, novels from two dozen authors totaling more than 150 titles will be available as ebooks for immediate download across all reading devices. 

Already, this one-of-a-kind publishing adventure has introduced works from such masters as Ken Bruen, Thomas Cook, James Ellroy, T.J. English, Stuart Kaminsky, Andrew Klavan, Charles McCarry, Jack O'Connell, Ross Thomas, Christianna Brand, Joseph Wambaugh, Donald E. Westlake and ...

It's December 22nd. . . and whether you're feeling festive, frazzled—or a bit of both—there's no better time of year to curl up with a cozy and a "cuppa tea"—or maybe some cocoa.   

Herewith, a few of our seasonal favorites: 

Treat yourself to four unforgettable tales of holiday romance filled with sugar and spice and everything nice.  This festive collection includes short stories from bestselling authors Beverly Barton (The Ghost of Christmas Past), Joanne Fluke (The Twelve Desserts of Christmas), Fern Michaels (The Christmas Stocking), and Shirley Jump (Twelve Days)....