Posts Tagged ‘Crime’

📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Little Girls Sleeping Pre-Order Blitz @JChaseNovelist #Blitz

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Jennifer Chase’s LITTLE GIRLS SLEEPING: AN ABSOLUTELY GRIPPING CRIME THRILLER (Detective Katie Scott Book 1) Pre-Order Blitz May 6 – 31! Inside the Book Title: Little Girls Sleeping: An Absolutely Gripping Crime Thriller (Detective Katie Scott Book 1) Author: Jennifer Chase Publisher: Bookouture Pages: 377 Genre: Thriller/Crime BOOK BLURB: He looked down at the little girl, sleeping peacefully, her arms wrapped around a teddy bear. He knew he was the only one who could save her. He could let her sleep forever. An eight-year-old girl, Chelsea Compton, is missing in Pine Valley, California and for Detective Katie Scott it’s a
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Desire Card Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Crime #Suspense #VBT @LeeMatthewG

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Lee Matthew Goldberg’s THE DESIRE CARD Virtual Book Tour March 4 – August 30! Inside the Book Title: THE DESIRE CARD Author: Lee Matthew Goldberg Publisher: Fahrenheit Press Pages: TBA Genre: Crime/Suspense BOOK BLURB: Any wish fulfilled for the right price. That’s the promise the Desire Card gives to its elite clients. But if the Card doesn’t feel like they’ve been justly compensated, the “price” will be more menacing than the clients could ever imagine. Harrison Stockton learns this lesson all too well. Harrison has lived an adult life of privilege and excess: a high-powered job on Wall Street
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Sugar and Spice and All Those Lies Virtual Book Publicity Tour @eholychair

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Evy Journey’s SUGAR AND SPICE AND ALL THOSE LIES Virtual Book Tour April 2 – 27! Inside the Book Title: SUGAR AND SPICE AND ALL THOSE LIES Author: Evy Journey Publisher: Sojourney Books Pages: 200 Genre: Women’s Fiction/Crime BOOK BLURB: Cooking a wonderful meal is an art. An act of love. An act of grace. A gift that affirms and gives life—not only does it nurture those who partake of the meal; it also feeds the soul of the creator. These are lessons Gina learns from her mother, daughter of an unfortunate French chef. Gina is a young woman
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Last Puffs Virtual Book Publicity Tour @fSWiver

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Harley Mazuk’s LAST PUFFS Blog Tour March 5 – 30! Inside the Book Title: LAST PUFFS Author: Harley Mazuk Publisher: New Pulp Press Pages: 293 Genre: Mystery/Crime/Private Eye BOOK BLURB: Frank Swiver and his college pal, Max Rabinowitz, both fall in love with Amanda Zingaro, courageous Republican guerilla, in the Spanish civil war. But the local fascists murder her and her father. Eleven years later in San Francisco in 1949, Frank, traumatized by the violence in Spain, has become a pacifist and makes a marginal living as a private eye. Max who lost an eye in Spain but owes his
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Her Final Watch Blog Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Marguerite Ashton’s HER FINAL WATCH Blog Tour November 1 – 30! Inside the Book Title: HER FINAL WATCH Author: Marguerite Ashton Publisher: Endeavour Press Pages: 296 Genre: Crime BOOK BLURB: Speaking second-hand truths can be deadly … Detective Lily Blanchette will stop at nothing to solve a murder. Her current case involves the killing of an undercover cop working to bring down the mob for prostitution and drugs. But Lily’s usual laser-like focus on the case has been disrupted. Two weeks earlier, she learned she was pregnant by her murderous husband whom she’d killed in self-defense. Unsure whether to keep
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Her Final Watch Book Blast – Win $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Marguerite Ashton’s HER FINAL WATCH Book Blast October 2 – 31! Inside the Book Title: HER FINAL WATCH Author: Marguerite Ashton Publisher: Endeavour Press Pages: 296 Genre: Crime BOOK BLURB: Speaking second-hand truths can be deadly … Detective Lily Blanchette will stop at nothing to solve a murder. Her current case involves the killing of an undercover cop working to bring down the mob for prostitution and drugs. But Lily’s usual laser-like focus on the case has been disrupted. Two weeks earlier, she learned she was pregnant by her murderous husband whom she’d killed in self-defense. Unsure whether to keep
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📢 {Mystery/Crime/Thriller} Dangerous Ends Review Campaign Sign Up

We are taking review requests for DANGEROUS ENDS. This is a review campaign and not a blog tour. If requesting review copies, we ask that you post your review at Amazon no later than December 6, please. When you are ready to submit your review, come back and click below to take you directly to the book’s Amazon link. Review copies will be sent via PDF, Mobi or ePub. Thank you! Inside the Book Title: DANGEROUS ENDS Author: Alex Segura Publisher: Polis Books Pages: 320 Genre: Mystery / Crime / Thriller BOOK BLURB: Pete Fernandez has settled into an easy, if somewhat boring life as a P.I.. He takes
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents A Wanted Man Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Robert Parker’s A WANTED MAN Blog Tour July 3 – December 29! Inside the Book Title: A WANTED MAN Author: Robert Parker Publisher: Endeavour Press Pages: 307 Genre: Crime Thriller It’s down to fathers and fatherhood. Ben Bracken, ex-soldier, has just got out of Strangeways. Not by the front door. With him, he has his ‘insurance policy’ – a bag of evidence that will guarantee his freedom, provided he can keep it safe – and he has money, carefully looked after by a friend, Jack Brooker. Rejected by the army, disowned by his father, and any hopes of parenthood long
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Death In Devon Virtual Book Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Ian Sansom’s DEATH IN DEVON virtual book tour May 10 – June 2!   Inside the Book: Title: Death in Devon Author: Ian Sansom Release Date: May 10, 2016 Publisher: Witness Impulse Genre: Mystery/Crime Format: Ebook/Paperback/Hardcover   Love Miss Marple? Adore Holmes and Watson? Professor Morley’s guide to Devon is a story of bygone England; quaint villages, eccentric locals—and murder… Swanton Morely, the People’s Professor, sets off for Devon to continue his history of England, The County Guides. Morley’s daughter, Miriam, and his assistant, Stephen Sefton, pack up the Lagonda for a trip to the English Riviera. Morely has been invited to give
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Pump Up Your Book Presents York Street Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Jan Walters’s YORK STREET Book Blast January 11 – 22!     Title: York Street Author: Jan Walters Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Crime Fiction Format: Ebook “The story left me ready for more adventures with all the characters. I look forward to the next book from this author!” – Kelly Stuhr, Senior Des Moines Police Officer Brett O’Shea is a young street cop in Des Moines trying to make detective. He works by the book and doesn’t believe in hocus-pocus. When a killer begins terrorizing the streets of his city, Brett is forced to alter his view of the paranormal world when a
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Admit to Mayhem Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you D.J. Anderson’s ADMIT TO MAYHEM virtual book tour February 2 – March 27! Title: Admit to Mayhem Author: D.J. Adamson Publisher: Horatio Press Pages: 286 Genre: Mystery/Amateur Sleuth Format: Paperback/Kindle With a contrary attitude and an addiction for independence, Lillian Dove admits she has not been a success in life. In fact, she considers failing as one of her addictions. Yet, when she comes across a suspicious house fire with a history of arson and murder, she instinctively attempts to help someone trapped. Lillian becomes the only possible eyewitness to criminal arson, and her life begins to spiral out of
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Super Steve Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book Tours is pleased to bring you author Doug Cudmore’s  Super Steve  (Action / Crime / Thriller) virtual book tour March 30 – May 1, 2015.     Title: Super Steve Author: Doug Cudmore Publisher: Independent Self Publishing Publication Date: January 5, 2015 Pages: 328 ISBN: 978-0993993527 Genre: Action / Crime / Thriller Format: eBook ( ePub / .mobi – Kindle), Paperback It starts like just another in long string of Friday nights: Steve Janson again fools himself into thinking he’ll go for a stress-busting, head-clearing run, only to end up at the local Sav-N-Lo picking up a pack of Doritos. But when he ends up bleeding on the floor after a robbery
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(Action / Crime / Thriller) Super Steve by Doug Cudmore – Blog Tour Sign Up

  Doug Cudmore will be touring March 30 – May 1, 2015 with his Action / Crime / Thriller novel, Super Steve!   We Are looking for: Reviews: eBook (ePub / .mobi) / Paperback Author Guest Posts Author Interviews Character Interviews Book Spotlights Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 48 hours. Thank you!       It starts like just another in long string of Friday nights: Steve Janson again fools himself into thinking he’ll go for a stress-busting, head-clearing run, only to end up at the local Sav-N-Lo picking up a pack of Doritos. But when he ends
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First Chapter: Divine Sanctuary by Cheryl Kaye Tardif

Title: Divine Sanctuary Author: Cheryl Kaye Tardif Publisher: Imagin Books Pages: 210 Genre: Paranormal Mystery/Crime/Thriller/Romance Format: Kindle Purchase at AMAZON Prologue Emily emerged from the shadows of Jasi’s closet. She drifted forward, her feet barely touching the floor. Her head, with its long blonde hair, lolled at an awkward―strangled―angle. In this dream, an adult Jasi gasped in surprise. The pink skipping rope noose was gone. “You’re ready, Jasmine.” “Ready for what?” “To start looking for me.” Jasi stood still, mesmerized by the bruises around the girl’s neck. They were fading before her eyes. “The skipping rope is gone,” she said finally. “And your bruises are disappearing.” “Yours will too,”
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{Paranormal Mystery} Divine Sanctuary Blog Tour Sign Up

Cheryl Kaye Tardif will be touring August 4-29 with her paranormal mystery/crime/thriller/romance, Divine Sanctuary! We are looking for: Reviews (ebook only) Interviews Author Guest Posts Book Spotlights Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 48 hours. Thank you! There’s no place like home… In the Divine trilogy finale, the heat is tripled when CFBI Agent Jasi McLellan must rescue Emily, the ghost girl that haunts her dreams; expose her own mother’s killer; and uncover a murderer that preys on the weak at Sanctuary, a controversial cult nestled in the woods near Mission, BC. Something insidious lurks behind the
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Broken Family Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Kevin Hopson’s Broken Family virtual book tour April 7-18! Title: Broken Family Author: Kevin Hopson Publisher: MuseItUp Publishing Pages: 37 Genre: Crime/Mystery Format: Kindle Sheriff Joseph Mauro is summoned to a local lake in Stone County, having received a report of a dead woman along the water’s shore. With foul play a possibility, he utilizes the help of his two female deputies in questioning family members and friends. As the three of them search for clues and possible motives, the case takes an unexpected turn, and Sheriff Mauro must rely on his instincts if he is going to weed out
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{Crime/Mystery Novella} Broken Family Blog Tour Sign Up

Kevin Hopson will be touring April 7-18 with his crime/mystery novella, Broken Family. We are looking for: Reviews (ebook only) Interviews Guest Posts Book Spotlights (HTML provided for both blogger and wordpress blogs) Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 48 hours. Thank you! Sheriff Joseph Mauro is summoned to a local lake in Stone County, having received a report of a dead woman along the water’s shore. With foul play a possibility, he utilizes the help of his two female deputies in questioning family members and friends. As the three of them search for clues and possible
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{Virtual Book Tour} Pump Up Your Book Presents The Cured Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is proud to be representing David Wind and Terese Ramin, authors of the suspense/thriller novel, The Cured, as they tour the blogosphere November 18 – January 17! ABOUT THE CURED   Title: The Cured Author: David Wind & Terese Ramin Genre: Suspense/Thriller Publisher: Smashwords Pages: 274 Language: English ISBN-13: 978-1-48178-874-8 When over 4000 people world-wide died after taking a cure for cancer, the drug was recalled. But the questions kept coming. Was it contamination? Was it sabotage? Or,was it outright murder by an insane research scientist in retaliation against the pharmaceutical giant he worked for and to avenge the death of his wife? And everyone wanted Doctor Donald
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{Virtual Book Tour} Pump Up Your Book Presents Wrage Virtual Book Publicity Tour + Win $25 Starbucks Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is proud to be representing Joseph Spencer, author of the occult crime thriller, Wrage, as he tours the blogosphere September 2 – October 31! ABOUT WRAGE Title: Wrage Author: Joseph Spencer Publisher: Damnation Books LLC (June 1, 2013) Genre: Occult Crime Thriller Pages: 214 Language: English ISBN-10: 161572978X ISBN-13: 978-1615729784 Sometimes the toughest fight lies within yourself. As more dark secrets come to light, the battle for souls pushes Prairieville to the brink of war in the living and supernatural realms. Jeff Wrage swears a blood oath to Abaddon, the supernatural avenger of murder victims, to hunt the crooked cop who butchered his wife. Jeff
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Mistrial: An Inside Look at How the Criminal Justice System Works…and Sometimes Doesn’t Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Mark Geragos and Pat Harris, authors of the non-fiction crime book, Mistrial: An Inside Look at How the Criminal Justice System Works…and Sometimes Doesn’t, as they tour the blogosphere May 6 – May 31, 2013 on their first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT MISTRIAL Mistrial is a searing manifesto on the ills of the criminal justice system from two of America’s most prominent defense attorneys: Mark Geragos and Pat Harris. Mistrial features a cast of celebrity clients such as Michael Jackson, Scott Peterson, Winona Ryder and Chris Brown, as well as priests, arms dealers, corrupt politicians, crooked prosecutors, biased judges and a 24/7 media
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Julie Flanders Polar Night Book Blast – Win $25 Amazon Gift Card/Paypal Cash!

Join Julie Flanders, author of the suspense/urban fantasy book, Polar Night, as she tours the blogosphere May 6 through May 10 on her first Book Blast with Pump Up Your Book! Julie will be giving away a $25 Amazon GC/Paypal Cash to one lucky reader! To enter, fill out the Rafflecopter form on the participating blogs below anytime during the tour and good luck! ————————————————– ABOUT POLAR NIGHT When Detective Danny Fitzpatrick leaves his hometown of Chicago and moves to Fairbanks, Alaska he wants nothing more than to escape the violence and heartbreak that left his life in pieces. Numbed by alcohol and the frozen temperatures of an Alaskan
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Rembrandt Sings Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Michael Johnston, author of the crime/mystery novel, Rembrandt Sings, as he tours the blogosphere February 18 – March 15,2013 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ——————————————————————– ABOUT MICHAEL JOHNSTON Michael Johnston was born in Leith in 1936 and grew up in the Scottish Borders. At school he was bookish and not keen on rugby. In 1950, he auditioned for the BBC and read a story on Children’s Hour. Leaving school he studied Textile Design but, in 1953, he also auditioned for the BBC Younger Generation programmes and for the next five years worked as an occasional freelance interviewer, presenter and question panel member.
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Pump Up Your Book Chats with Marc Cortez, author of A Gangster’s Garden

ABOUT MARC CORTEZ Marc Cortez began his storytelling career in the third grade, when he entered a school writing contest and won with his story THE ANT WHO STOLE EASTER. Since then he has become a marketing writer and frequent blogger, leveraging his writing skills into success as a business executive and entrepreneur. With A GANGSTER’S GARDEN, he has turned his lifelong passion for storytelling into a full-length novel. Mr. Cortez studied creative writing at the University of California, Los Angeles, and lives in California with his wife and two children. A GANGSTER’S GARDEN is his first novel. To purchase A Gangster’s Garden, click here. To find out more,
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  • January 13, 2013
  • Authors on Tour, Featured
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Orchestra Murders Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Rena Fruchter, author of the crime fiction novel, The Orchestra Murders, as she tours the blogosphere February 4 – February 28,2013 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ——————————————————————– ABOUT RENA FRUCHTER Rena Fruchter is the author of three books—two critically acclaimed books in the biographical genre—Dudley Moore—An Intimate Portrait, and I’m Chevy Chase…and you’re not. And now, her exciting and soon to be released book: The Orchestra Murders—A Cynthia Masters Mystery Ms. Fruchter is a renowned pianist, writer and educator, and director of an arts organization. Her performances have taken her throughout the United States, Europe, Australia and the Far East in both
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  • November 9, 2012
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Pump Up Your Book Presents A Gangster’s Garden Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Marc Cortez, author of the crime drama A Gangster’s Garden, as he tours the blogosphere December 3 through March 15, 2013 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT MARC CORTEZ Marc Cortez began his storytelling career in the third grade, when he entered a school writing contest and won with his story THE ANT WHO STOLE EASTER. Since then he has become a marketing writer and frequent blogger, leveraging his writing skills into success as a business executive and entrepreneur. With A GANGSTER’S GARDEN, he has turned his lifelong passion for storytelling into a full-length novel. Mr. Cortez studied creative writing at the
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Join ‘The Sons of Jude’ Brandt Dodson at Pump Up Your Book! – Win a Kindle Fire HD!

Brandt Dodson, author of The Sons of Jude, is stopping off today at Pump Up Your Book, as part of his colossal 3 month virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book where he will be giving away a new Kindle Fire HD! Visit today’s stop at http://www.pumpupyourbook.com/2012/11/05/pump-up-your-books-book-trailer-of-the-week-the-sons-of-jude-by-brandt-dodson/. Enter every day at a different blog for more entries! This contest begins November 5 and ends on February 15 2013. If you’d like to visit the author’s official tour page to gain more entries and find out where else she will be appearing so you won’t miss out on a great opportunity to win the Kindle Fire HD and/or the
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New Crime Detective Novel for Review: Fit to Kill

Donnie Ray Whetstone will be touring August 6 – August 24,2012 with his thriller novel, Fit to Kill. How do you stop a personal trainer, who fantasizes about killing his clients, then carries out his gruesome desire on someone else? Making matters worse, how do you stop desires for your own trainer, jeopardizing your marriage? More troubling, do you want to? That’s what Detective Tara Tanner must solve in this crime thriller. La Flore is renowned for its elite personal trainers. This model city however, faces a crisis. Someone is on a killing binge. The killer is vicious and cunning. He harbors a profound irony for one of the
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Fit to Kill Virtual Book Publicity Tour 2012

Join Donnie Ray Whetstone, author of the crime/detective thriller novel, Fit to Kill, as he tours the blogosphere August 6 – August 24, 2012 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT DONNIE RAY WHETSTONE Donnie Whetstone resides in Rochester, Washington with his wife Diane. He is a full time personal trainer with over twenty years of experience and more than 70,000 training hours in homes, gyms and his own private training studio. Donnie is currently the co-owner of Fit Stop 24 Fitness Centers located in both Olympia and Yelm, Washington. Though Fit to Kill is his first novel, he is no stranger to writing,
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Featured Guest Author B.A. Chepaitis on ‘Digging For Souls’

After devouring the first two books of the Fear series, I invited the author – B.A. Chepaitis – to talk about the research involved in writing the series. Research for the Jaguar Addams’ novels primarily involves using my claws to dig through flesh toward the heart and soul of human fear, human love, human joy and pain. That’s what Jaguar does for a living, and to tell her stories I have to be constantly learning about the art and disaster of being human.  That learning has three layers – psychology, mythology, and experience. For the psychology, I read articles and books about the functioning of the mind, the vagaries
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New Mystery Novel for Review: Heaven’s Rage by Tiffany Craig Brown

Tiffany Craig Brown, will be touring April 2-20, 2012 with her mystery novel, Heaven’s Rage (Outskirts Press)! Homicide Detective Ian Buchanan is assigned to the murder investigation of Richard Tate, a retired military helicopter pilot. Buchanan quickly determines the victim’s three former wives and college girlfriend all had motive and opportunity to commit the crime. As each of these women takes him through her volatile relationship with Tate, the detective finds himself sympathizing with his suspects rather than with the victim. GINA RODRIGUEZ is a career naval officer determined to break through the invisible barriers of a male-dominated military. It’s 1989 and along comes Dick Tate to charm her
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