Sneak Peak

Jim Mullaney is working on his next Crag Banyon mystery.  He's posted the blurb on his forum and Facebook:

Bum Luck (A Crag Banyon Mystery) cover blurb:

BANYON INVESTIGATIONS, INC. CASES CRACKED. REASONABLE RATES.

When a desperate leprechaun needs to locate his lost pot of gold, there's only one P.I. in town dogged and sober enough to take the case. Unfortunately, his first choice is in Bimini dodging an IRS audit, so he calls on Crag Banyon instead.

That's just the start of a string of increasingly lousy luck that hounds Banyon from one emerald end of his latest crummy job to the other, where it turns out that a trip over the rainbow isn't the fun-and-booze-filled romp that all the brochures claim. Banyon finds that the whole leprechaun world is upside-down, while at the same time our own world is suffering through a mealtime catastrophe that's threatening side dishes from here to Thanksgiving and beyond.

Toss in a femme fatale more fatale than usual, along with a sexy dame reporter who's so untrustworthy even her curves are crooked, and Banyon finds that he's up to his pretty little eyeballs in more trouble than one plucky, partially plastered P.I can handle. Not without doubling his rates and/or tripling his booze consumption.

UNLUCKIEST P.I. IN THE GREATER METROPOLITAN YELLOW PAGES.

Congratulations, James Mullaney

I've been a fan of Jim's writing every since he took over ghosting The Destroyer series.  After twenty six Destroyers, and contributions to The Assassins Handbook 2, Jim began writing and self publishing not one but two series: The Red Menace and The Crag Banyon Mysteries.

The Private Eye Writers of America have just announced the nominees for their 2013 Shamus Awards and Jim's second Banyon, Devil May Care, has been nominated in the Best Indie P.I. Novel category.  It's an honor just to be nominated (but here's hoping Jim wins).

Red and Buried (the Red Menace #1)

The paperback of James Mullaney's first Red Menace book, Red and Buried, is now available for purchase at Amazon.  Jim also has a new interview up at Ralph's Rants.

Sea No Evil

Available Soon on Kindle and Smashwords

Available now:

James Mullaney's latest book,  The Red Menace #4: A Red Letter Day is now on Smashwords. Which means it's available for download for Apple iPad/iBooks, Nook, Sony Reader, Kobo, and most e-reading apps.  And it's on Kindle also.

A Red Letter Day (the Red Menace #4)

James Mullaney's latest Red Menace book, A Red Letter Day, is now available on Kindle and will be at Smashwords and other venues shortly.

Royal Flush (the Crag Banyon Mysteries #3)

Available on Amazon Kindle

New Interview with Warren Murphy and Jim Mullaney

The Trades has followed up their review of The New Destroyer: Guardian Angel with an interview of the authors.

An excerpt:

The-Trades: We're starting with a renumbering of the books, so let's fill in the new readers: Who is Remo Williams -- or, more to the point, why is Remo Williams?

WARREN MURPHY: Dick Sapir and I decided we wanted to do an adventure series starring an American hero. But we were just getting our feet wet for the first time -- neither of us had tried a book before -- and, believe it or not, Remo started out as a guy named Bernie, who was a crime-fighting psychiatrist in New York City. It didn't take us long to figure out that that this was just el stinko, so we splashed around and finally decided to do blue collar and cop, and the pieces came together and it turned out to be Remo.

Check out The Trades for much more about the past and, more important, the future of The Destroyer.

The New Destroyer: Guardian Angel Review

We're getting down to the one month mark to Guardian Angel publication. This first review, by The Trades website, should be joined by others soon.


Lee Goldberg has also linked there. The more sites and exposure, the better.