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Every year, Mystery Writers of America grants Edgar Awards to the best new fiction and nonfiction of the year. In celebration of the Edgars, we’ve created a new short film featuring previous winners and nominees: T. J. English, Joseph Wambaugh, Brian Freemantle, Don Winslow, James Ellroy, Anne Perry, Loren D. Estleman, Thomas Cook, and James Grady. These writers speak about their writing process and about the significance of winning an Edgar.

Every year, one author receives a Grand Master award for outstanding achievement in the genre. To salute these winners, Open Road Integrated Media is sharing excerpts from eight Grand ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 probably safe to say more than 10 million ereaders were gifted this holiday season [and, of course, that includes "gifting" oneself!].  For many, now, the big question looming is: Where to begin?  

There's a lot of advice to be had on the subject—I'm particularly partial to Open Road Media's StarterPack Flowchart System—but let's say you already know what you want to read, right now. . . a spinetingling mystery.  The only question is: Which one?  

Check out Open Road's Ultimate Perfect Crime Sampler Pack over at Scribd.com for excerpts from more than two dozen beloved and ...

This photo shows bestselling writer, Josephine Hart in her younger years. Born and raised in Ireland, Hart attended a Mullingar Catholic School, where she was taught about the transformative power of poetry and writing. In 1964, she moved to London and eventually became the director of Haymarket Publishing.  She went on to be a revered producer of West End plays and was also a founder of Gallery Poets and West End Poetry Hour. One of her most notable feats with poetry was her ability to recruit some of the most respected actors of the time and persuade them to perform ...

The psychological thriller that terrified a generation is now available as an ebook! Sample the first chapter of John Lutz's classic Single White Female below.

Single White Female by John Lutz (Excerpt)

This week on Mystery Thursday we're excited to share the full first chapter Tropical Heat, the first in John Lutz's addictive Fred Carver series. Rough-and-tumble investigator Fred Carver must search for a man who mysteriously disappeared in the middle of breakfast. The missing man also happens to be the lover of beautiful real estate maven Edwina Talbot and Carver finds himself tempted by more than just than just this deepening mystery. Full of all the sun, sand and steam you'd expect from Florida noir, you'll need to apply sunscreen just to read it.

 

A CANE WAS ...

In this week's installment of Mystery Thursday, the Danish crime writer Sara Blædel explains how she came to write her novel Call me Princess.

My new book, Call me Princess, is about women hoping to find their one and only loves through net-dating. I find it fascinating how a dating profile allows people to reinvent themselves and create the personalities they really want others to recognize in them.

Many women are so anxious to meet Mr. Right that they willingly invent flirtatious and mystifying characteristics in order to make themselves appear more attractive. This makes it very hard to know ...

Open Road Media announces the publication of Afterthoughts by Lawrence Block, now on sale at the very special ebook-only price of 99¢.

Internationally renowned, bestselling author Lawrence Block, whose prolific career spans over one hundred books, including four hit series and dozens of short stories, articles, and books on writing, has been pressed for years by his fans to write a memoir. Block says that all his attempts ended with failure and emotional exhaustion. He simply couldn’t sustain the pace without ripping his mind apart. Then, in 2010, as he was writing a bevy of afterwords for the ...

This week Open Road is proud to debut Mystery Thursdays, a new blog feature that will focus on our growing corpus of amazing mystery, suspense, and thriller authors. For our first installment we've put together a sampling of some of our most electrifying thriller and mystery titles to help you discover your next suspenseful summer read. Test drive the first few pages of these chilling ebooks to find the right one for you! The Summer Suspense Sampler includes excerpts from John Lutz's Fear the Night and Night Victims, Beverly Barton's After Dark, Mary Burton's Senseless, Kevin O'Brien's ...

Loren D. Estleman, four-time Shamus Award winner, National Book Award nominee, and Edgar Award nominee, will finally be releasing the first twelve books in his captivating and timeless Amos Walker series in digital format. The author of over forty books in a career spanning four decades, Estleman is widely regarded as one of America’s greatest living mystery writers. Introduced in 1980s Motor City Blue, Walker, a cynical Vietnam vet with a background in boxing and sociology, is a politically incorrect, no-holds-barred, throwback antihero, a PI who lets nothing stand in the way of his uncovering the truth—no matter ...

Open Road Media announces the publication of ten Thomas and Charlotte Pitt historical detective mysteries from Anne Perry, now available for the first time as ebooks.

“Writing is enormously satisfying.” says Anne Perry, author of more than sixty books. “It gives you a sharpened sense of the power of words — the beauty of life, altogether.”  Perry’s THE CATER STREET HANGMAN, in which Inspector Thomas Pitt and Charlotte Ellison first meet, launched her bestselling Pitt series as well as her career as an internationally bestselling author. The availability of this title and nine others, from the early days of ...