Available soon, THE GREAT PRETENDER by Craig McDonald: Orson Welles, voodoo curses, Nazi occultists, the War of the Worlds Panic Broadcast of 1938, the secret history behind the noir classic, THE THIRD MAN, and a search for the Spear of Destiny. Watch the book trailer here:
Father figure: the man behind Hector Lassiter
"Con men: I love them dearly, and in an admittedly wrong-headed way. I have since I was a kid." Craig McDonald about the man who raised Hector Lassiter. Read more: http://craigmcdonaldbooks.blogspot.ie/2014/08/father-figure-man-behind-hector-lassiter.html
TOROS & TORSOS: surrealist art and murder in our time?
The Hector Lassiter series is all about secret history — a blending of fact and fiction that aims to get at something like the hidden truth. "Toros & Torsos" spins on the premise that surrealist art may have informed or inspired several bloody, unsolved crimes of the 20th Century. Life imitating art… art imitating death, … Continue reading TOROS & TORSOS: surrealist art and murder in our time?
Excerpt: Toros & Torsos
NO GOOD DEED 1 “Can I sit with you for a time, sir?” A silky voice — alto, but strained. The young woman said, “I think a man in this place may mean me harm.” Hector Lassiter looked up from his notebook. She was 23, maybe 24. Pretty, poised and flustered. Hector had seen her … Continue reading Excerpt: Toros & Torsos
Excerpt: One True Sentence
PARIS: FEBRUARY 1924 “It is the fate of every myth to creep by degrees into the narrow limits of some historical reality, and to be treated by some later generations as a unique fact with historical claims.” — Nietzsche Snow falling on the Seine. It was half-past-two and it was quiet as it gets … Continue reading Excerpt: One True Sentence
The Rap Sheet competition: Forever’s Just Pretend
"While no overt historical personages haunt the pages of Forever’s Just Pretend, the crimes that drive the plot are based on a real cycle of murders and arsons that rocked 1920s America. Now, here’s a challenge to all you Lassiter series readers: the first three people who can correctly identify the inspiration for the “Key … Continue reading The Rap Sheet competition: Forever’s Just Pretend
For Hector Lassiter’s fans: the first chapter of RHAPSODY IN BLACK
Over the years, Craig McDonald has been asked if he would write a Hector Lassiter novel in the sense of creating a novel BY Hector Lassiter. Here, for the first time, is the first chapter of Hector's OWN debut novel, RHAPSODY IN BLACK, a novel that we see Hector drafting in ONE TRUE SENTENCE: http://bit.ly/1kUhCe6
Raven Crime Reads about Kevin Stevens’ novel REACH THE SHINING RIVER
"Not only a solid murder mystery, but equally a colourful and thought-provoking study of a moment in time. With the rhythm and cadence of the prose, echoing the blues soundtrack that underscored the whole book, Stevens easily achieved that balance between crime fiction and literary fiction due to his exceptional characterisation and engaging prose." Full … Continue reading Raven Crime Reads about Kevin Stevens’ novel REACH THE SHINING RIVER
Video trailer for TOROS & TORSOS by Craig McDonald
Watch the video for third novel in the Hector Lassiter series here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMM8uas92yI
Video trailer for FOREVER’S JUST PRETEND by Craig McDonald
Watch the video for the second novel in the Hector Lassiter series here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p4j-P0wysg
Video trailer for ONE TRUE SENTENCE by Craig McDonald
Watch the video for first novel in the Hector Lassiter series here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2nbpExeK8U
Crime writer Sheila Bugler about Sam Hawken’s novel LA FRONTERA
La Frontera is a heart-breaking novel of corruption, broken dreams and the indominatable power of the human spirit. Set in the harsh, desert landscape of the borderland between Texas and Mexico, the novel is, at its heart, an exploration of the socio-economic conditions that force millions of people to enter the US illegally in search … Continue reading Crime writer Sheila Bugler about Sam Hawken’s novel LA FRONTERA
La Frontera Review – Raven Crime Reads
Following in the tradition of his first two novels, The Dead Women of Juarez and Tequilla Sunset, Hawken brings another glorious and affecting Mexico influenced novel with La Frontera. Cleverly intertwining three distinct and separate stories, Hawken manages to encompass the essential ills of South American and Mexican life, showing the desperation of those keen to … Continue reading La Frontera Review – Raven Crime Reads
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