Many thanks for downloading this book. Contrary to the beliefs of many, authors in the writing community are a generous and supportive bunch. When I decided to put this anthology together, I had many authors wanting to share their work, knowing they may receive nothing more than to maybe get their words out to more readers who would enjoy their work.
Putting together this anthology, I have to admit, has been a labor of love. It’s taken a lot of work, a lot of communications back and forth, a few thrills and a couple of spills. But I would not have missed it for the world. Some of the authors you’ll find within these pages I already knew. Others are new friends. I want to take a moment to thank them for putting their trust in me with their work. In no set order, the authors you’ll find in the following pages are:
Russell Blake: NY Times and USA Today bestselling author of dozens of action/adventure and mystery novels.
Diane Capri: New York Times, USA Today, and bestselling author of numerous series, including the Hunt for Justice and Hunt for Jack Reacher series.
J. A. Konrath: #1 bestseller on three different occasions, Joe Konrath has been in the Top 100 bestseller lists over twenty times. He's twice won the Love is Murder Award for best thriller, and has also won the Derringer Award, and the Ellery Queen Readers Choice Award, and has been nominated for many others including the Anthony, Macavity, and Gumshoe.
Austin Camacho: Austin is a past president of the Maryland Writers Association, past Vice President of the Virginia Writers Club, and is an active member of Mystery Writers of America, International Thriller Writers and Sisters in Crime. He’s also one of my new writing heroes.
Arthur Kerns: Arthur’s award-winning short stories have been published in anthologies including, Award Winning tales and the Sister-in-Crime anthology, So West: Desert Justice, selected as one of the best books of 2012 by Suspense Magazine.
Cat Connor: A member of International Thriller Writers, and Masters of Horror. Her 6th book, databyte, was longlisted for the 2015 Ngaio Marsh best crime novel Award.
J.H. Bográn: born and raised in Honduras, he is the son of a journalist. He ironically prefers to write fiction rather than fact. He is the author of thriller novels and short stories in two languages, screenwriter, college teacher, and for a couple of years, hired movie reviewer.
Mark Bastable: A brilliant British short story and thriller author and seriously nice guy. His short stories have been wowing readers and winning short story competitions for years.
Helen Hanson: Author of thrillers including hackers, CIA agents, and the occasional young waitress.
Jerry Hatchett: Jerry was born and grew up in the creatively fertile Mississippi Delta, and lives and works now in Houston, Texas. A lifelong admitted geek, he loves to create fast stories around characters you can cheer for and against.
Ken Isaacson: Ken has been a practicing attorney for almost thirty-five years. Lawyers write for a living, and many people think they write fiction for a living. Ken decided one day to abandon all pretenses and write something that he could readily admit was completely made up. So now, he writes crime fiction.
And, of course, Yours Truly – Catherine Lea: Catherine divides her time among numerous fictional worlds behind her keyboard. In past lives, she has sold international satellite capacity, worked in IT recruitment, and run her own communications store.
When Catherine isn't writing, she's dog-wrangling, wrestling with technology, or going crazy trying to maintain control of the yard.
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Again, I want to thank these authors from the bottom of my heart. And I hope you love reading these stories as much as my friends and I have enjoyed bringing them to you.
Please feel free to click on the links before and after each story to check out the author’s other works. There are a number of surprise FREE stories on many of the links so it’s definitely worth your time.
Cheers,
Catherine