Have you marked your calendars? The next total solar eclipse is coming up rapidly: August 21, 2017. Where will you be? (And why does Michael Flint care?) Of course, what’s getting a lot of attention right now in astronomy circles is the upcoming total solar eclipse. When I was researching my next book in the […]
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Crime Fiction Giveaway! #BookSweeps
Crime Fiction lovers, listen up! From now until August 14, 2017, you have a chance to win 40 crime fiction novels! I’ve teamed up with fantastic crime fiction authors to give away a huge collection of novels to two lucky winners… PLUS a Kindle Fire to the Grand Prize winner! You can enter to win […]
Blood Trails Starring Michael Flint Nominated For Best Thriller
This is a lovely announcement I received recently — the fine folks at Killer Nashville notified me that my novel, Blood Trails, starring Michael Flint and published by the amazing team at Thomas & Mercer, is a finalist in the Thriller category for the Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Awards! The purpose of the Killer Nashville Silver […]
Enter to Win 100 Free eBooks On Goodreads
Mark your calendars for August 22, 2017: That’s when a new Heir Hunter Series book starring Michael Flint, will be available! But starting now, you can enter to win a copy of Trace Evidence. Now through August 21, 2017, my publisher is running a Goodreads giveaway of 100 ebook copies for U.S. customers. Enter for a […]
New Technology Could Help Solve Kidnappings
Did you hear about the new technological development in fingerprints? This one specifically involves infants. Fingerprints are extremely helpful for solving crimes, and that’s often the reason I research and write about them — both in my books and here on my blog. For example, in my novel Due Justice, investigators dust a doorknob for fingerprints […]
And The Next Hunt for Jack Reacher Book Is….
If you are a member of my Reader Group, and subscribed to my twice-a-month NewsFlash, then you already know this. (Because my Reader Group Members get all the news first! So join now and never miss out!) For the rest of you …. I’m thrilled to announce that my next new novel in my Hunt for Jack […]
Can Siblings Have Different Ancestries?
Trace Evidence releases August 22, 2017. The date is coming up quickly! You’ll remember from Blood Trails (the first in the Heir Hunter thriller series) that Michael Flint is a genealogist… sort of. As an heir hunter, he’s much more than a genealogist, often taking his life and the lives of others into his own […]
‘Don’t Know Jack’ Takes the Spotlight in Paperback
New Paperback of Don’t Know Jack: Coming to a Bookstore Near You! I published Don’t Know Jack in 2012, the first of the Hunt for Jack Reacher series. It was slow out of the gate, but rapidly picked up steam as readers began to find it, and the books in the series that followed. (Novel #5, […]
Are You a SuperReader? (Lee Child is!)
I’ve always been a reader, of course. Since I was a child. Mom was a reader, and she passed that love of books on to me. I’ve never actually counted. But I probably consume more than 100,000 words a day, between keeping up on my email, social media, news sources, researching the book I’m currently […]
7 Benefits of Reading Short Stories
I’ve been on a short-story-writing streak this year. You’ll know this if you’ve been following my New Book Rollout page. First I added three exciting short reads to my Hunt for Justice Series (False Justice, Fair Justice, and True Justice, all featuring Willa Carson), then I published Fatal Edge, a short read in the Jess Kimball […]
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