THE SPACE-WESTERN PODCAST SERIES “MIDST” COMES TO COMICS!

18 April 2024

Dark Horse, Critical Role, and Third Person present a new way to dive into the cosmos of Midst!

Dark Horse Comics, in partnership with Third Person and Critical Role, can now reveal an exciting new collaboration: Midst is a new comic series spinning off from the popular space-Western podcast Midst. Midst comics will be perfect for new and continuing fans alike, as the series explores the cosmos and its characters. The first issue, Midst: Address Unknown, will be written by Colin Lorimer (Daisy, Blackout) with art by Alejandro Aragón (Death Orb, Resonant), colors by Chris O’Halloran, letters by Jim Campbell, and cover art by William Kirkby. Each oversized issue will tell a new story with a new creative team. The first issue will arrive in August 2024 and spans 56 pages.

“Midst has always aspired to be more than just a podcast, so it is incredibly exciting to announce our collaboration with Dark Horse to tell more Midst stories in new ways,” said Third Person. “This collection introduces new aspects of the Midst storyverse, spanning the past, present, and future of the show’s timeline, revealing new heights and depths throughout the cosmos. This is a dream come true for us, and we can’t wait to share these new tales.”

Caught between the Un and the Fold sits the islet of Midst…

When their ramshackle postal ship crashes on a mysterious new landmass, siblings Rowan and Ogden Shearwater have to make the best of it. Adventurous Ogden convinces reluctant Rowan to make a fresh start in the strange new islet that sits between the bright Un and the dark Fold. But Midst holds dangers that will challenge Ogden and Rowan’s family bonds as well as their will to survive.

Midst is also perfect for fans of Firefly and Critical Role.

Midst: Address Unknown (1 of 3) arrives in comic shops on August 14, 2024. It is now available to preorder at your local comic shop for $7.99.

Be sure to follow Dark Horse Comics on social media and check our website, www.darkhorse.com, for more news, announcements, and updates!

New to comics? Check out this page for some tips on when, where, and how to get the comics you want!

Praise for the Midst podcast:

“Once in a while, you come across an audio story that leaves you absolutely riveted to your chair because it’s the blend of fun and strange where you can’t stop picking it apart over and over. Midst was that audio for me.”-The Bello Collective

About Critical Role
Critical Role is one of the fastest growing independent media companies in the world, starting as a roleplaying game between friends and evolving into a new kind of organization dedicated to storytelling, community and imagination. As Critical Role continues to expand the unique universe it has created, with complex stories set in an ever-evolving world, it also continues to create more ways for fans to experience the brand, including both fiction and nonfiction books on the New York Times Best Sellers list, comic books, graphic novels, collectibles, tabletop and roleplaying games, podcasts, live events, and a critically-acclaimed animated series, The Legend of Vox Machina, airing exclusively on Amazon Prime Video. Additionally, Critical Role has launched two major initiatives: an official 501(c)(3) non-profit, the Critical Role Foundation (CRF), and a tabletop game publishing company, Darrington Press. With an original cast of award-winning veteran voice actors who are also co-founders of the company, including Matthew Mercer, Ashley Johnson, Marisha Ray, Taliesin Jaffe, Travis Willingham, Sam Riegel, Laura Bailey and Liam O’Brien, Critical Role is committed to ensuring anyone can discover its stories, characters and community. For more information on Critical Role go to www.critrole.com.

About Midst:
Midst is an immersive, semi-improvised sci-fi fantasy audio drama written, created, and narrated by the production studio Third Person and co-produced by Critical Role’s development and production company Metapigeon. In the series, a trio of playfully omniscient and unreliable narrators spin a surreal, space-western tale about complicated antiheroes making bad decisions in a world on the edge of disaster. Midst breaks the traditional rules of storytelling through fourth wall breaking interruptions and a stream-of-consciousness presentation style aimed to fully engage the audience’s imagination. Currently in its third season, new episodes are available every Wednesday on your favorite podcast app, Critical Role’s YouTube channel, and for subscribers on midst.co. Critical Role and Metapigeon are also developing new ways for fans to experience the original and unique cosmos of Midst. For more information, please visit midst.co.

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Sneak Peek: The Flower Sisters by Michelle Collins Anderson

Jocie McKade

18 April 2024

The Flower Sisters by Michelle Collins Anderson

Drawing on the little-known true story of one tragic night at an Ozarks dance hall in the author’s Missouri hometown, this beautifully written, endearingly nostalgic novel picks up 50 years later for a folksy, character-driven portrayal of small-town life, split second decisions, and the ways family secrets reverberate through generations.

From the new Fannie Flagg of the Ozarks, a richly-woven story of family, forgiveness, and reinvention for readers of Kristy Woodson Harvey, Donna Everhart, Sue Monk Kidd, Jeannette Walls, and Rita Mae Brown…

“Anderson weaves a rich and poignant tale of a small Ozarks town’s factual tragedy, its generational secrets and the juxtapose of searching and belonging. Vivid and evocative, this is a debut to savor.” —Kim Michele Richardson, New York Times bestselling author of The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek series

Daisy Flowers is fifteen in 1978 when her free-spirited mother dumps her in Possum Flats, Missouri. It’s a town that sounds like roadkill and, in Daisy’s eyes, is every bit as dead. Sentenced to spend the summer living with her grandmother, the wry and irreverent town mortician, Daisy draws the line at working for the family business, Flowers Funeral Home. Instead, she maneuvers her way into an internship at the local newspaper where, sorting through the basement archives, she learns of a mysterious tragedy from fifty years earlier…

On a sweltering, terrible night in 1928, an explosion at the local dance hall left dozens of young people dead, shocking and scarring a town that still doesn’t know how or why it happened. Listed among the victims is a name that’s surprisingly familiar to Daisy, revealing an irresistible family connection to this long-ago accident.

Obsessed with investigating the horrors and heroes of that night, Daisy soon discovers Possum Flats holds a multitude of secrets for a small town. And hardly anyone who remembers the tragedy is happy to have some teenaged hippie asking questions about it – not the fire-and-brimstone preacher who found his calling that tragic night; not the fed-up police chief; not the mayor’s widow or his mistress; not even Daisy’s own grandmother, a woman who’s never been afraid to raise eyebrows in the past, whether it’s for something she’s worn, sworn, or done for a living.

Some secrets are guarded by the living, while others are kept by the dead, but as buried truths gradually come into the light, they’ll force a reckoning at last.

Inspired by the true story of the Bond Dance Hall explosion, a tragedy that took place in the author’s hometown of West Plains, Missouri on April 13, 1928.

The cause of the blast has never been determined.

Sneak Peek: A New Psychological Thriller:: THE ALONE TIME by Elle Marr

Jocie McKade

18 April 2024

THE ALONE TIME by Elle Marr

or two sisters, confronting the past could come at a terrible price in a riveting novel about a family tragedy—and family secrets—by the #1 Amazon Charts bestselling author Elle Marr.

Fiona and Violet Seng were just children when their family’s Cessna crash-landed in the Washington wilderness, claiming the lives of their parents. For twelve harrowing weeks, the girls fended for themselves before being rescued.

Twenty-five years later, they’re still trying to move on from the trauma. Fiona repurposes it into controversial works of art. Violet has battled addiction and failed relationships to finally progress toward normalcy as a writer. The estranged sisters never speak about what they call their Alone Time in the wild. They wouldn’t dare—until they become the subject of a documentary that renews public fascination with the “girl survivors” and questions their version of the events.

When disturbing details about the Seng family are exposed, a strange woman claims to know the crash was deliberate. Fiona and Violet must come together to face the horrifying truth of what happened out there and what they learned about their parents and themselves. Before any other secrets emerge from the woods.

JUAN DÍAZ CANALES AND JUANJO GUARNIDO’S AWARD-WINNING SERIES CONTINUES

Jocie McKade

17 April 2024

Juan Díaz Canales and Juanjo Guardino’S Award-Winning Series Continues in Blacksad: They All Fall Down • Part Two

Blacksad is back in action!

Following Juan Díaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido’s Eisner- and Harvey Award-winning Blacksad: They All Fall Down • Part One, published in English in 2022, the story now continues in the eagerly anticipated Blacksad: They All Fall Down • Part Two. The explosive tale, written by Canales, illustrated by Guarnido, translated for English-language readers by Diana Schutz and Brandon Kander, and newly lettered by Tom Orzechowski and Lois Athena Buhalis, will arrive in a handsome hardcover edition from Dark Horse Books in November 2024.

The award-winning story begun in Blacksad: They All Fall Down • Part One comes to a breathtaking conclusion as private investigator John Blacksad finds himself in a race against time to save his best friend from the electric chair! Weekly’s been framed by Lewis Solomon, the power behind New York’s construction boom, but the king of the hill has built his empire on a mound of corpses—with help from a hired hit man now out for his own revenge! Blacksad must take down the killer before the body count climbs even higher. But with Weekly in stir and cops dogging his every move, the feline detective is not only minus an ally, but dangerously distracted by the sudden reappearance of his former fiancée Alma, whose own secrets threaten to derail our hero’s search for the truth.

“Blacksad is such an international success that it’s now published in twenty-eight different languages throughout the world,” notes Diana Schutz, who writes the English-language translation script for the book with her partner Brandon Kander. “But it’s no secret that Spanish creators Juan Díaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido are especially involved in the Dark Horse edition of their work. Juan and Juanjo have created a quintessentially American hero, letting him—and his impeccable moral compass—loose in a 1950s noirish New York City, but remember that all of this is originally conceived and written in Spanish. So, Dark Horse’s English-language edition of Blacksad allows us to take better advantage of the creators’ love of mid-century Americana by playing to the authentic linguistic rhythms and idioms of the time period. Editor Jenny Bingham-Blenk and I are very fortunate to work directly with Juan and Juanjo on the series, and their dedication to all aspects of the Dark Horse edition just flat-out makes for a better book. The incredible support of our English-language readership along with the many Eisner and Harvey Awards that Blacksad has won are, I think, a testament to that.”

Blacksad: They All Fall Down • Part Two HC (8.375” x 10.875”; 64 pages) arrives in bookstores on November 5, 2024, and in comic shops on November 6, 2024. It is now available to preorder at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and your local comic shop and bookstore for $19.99.

Be sure to follow Dark Horse Comics on social media and check our website, www.darkhorse.com, for more news, announcements, and updates!

Praise for Blacksad: They All Fall Down• Part One:

“Blacksad: They All Fall Down – Part One is a gorgeous, twisting page-turner that invites us to peek into New York’s past through a pair of shattered rose-colored glasses.”—Comic Watch

“Blacksad stands as one of the best explorations of American history and Americana in the stands, due in large part to its anthropomorphic animal noir stylings and classic Hollywood cinema flavors…Díaz Canales and Guarnido remain at the top of their game with their award-winning series.”—Comics Beat

“Every page is saturated with personality, each panel composed as a painting, yet they still combine so effectively to tell the story.”—Slings and Arrows

“Blacksad is back after almost eight years, and it’s just what we need. There’s plenty of twists and intrigue in this Part One of a new storyline to keep the pages turning. You’ll want to do that slowly, however, to give yourself plenty of time to take in the gorgeous Juanjo Guarnido artwork.”—The Comics Journal

“This is epic storytelling from the dramatic scenes with Weekly and Solomon at his construction site to the laugh-out-loud moments of theatre trials…Fantastic. A must for everyone’s collection.”—Nerdly

Sneak Peek: Taming a Heartbreaker by Brenda Jackson, Synithia Williams

Jocie McKade

17 April 2024

Taming a Heartbreaker by Brenda Jackson, Synithia Williams

HARLEQUIN 75TH ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION

Brand new, original stories from reader-favorite, bestselling authors.

Taming a Heartbreaker by New York Times bestselling author Brenda Jackson

He’s a flirt closed off to love. She’s a romantic set on taming his wild ways.

Let the sparks fly!

Redford St. James is having too much fun to settle down with just one woman. Until a Westmoreland family wedding reunites him with Carmen Golan. He can’t get Carmen–gorgeous, sweet and a hopeless romantic— out of his mind. Even though she’s outright said he’s husband material! Him! And she believes any heartbreaker can be tamed—by the right person. Well, it’s his duty to set her straight!

But an intimate conversation becomes an intimate evening and a night that makes them wonder who’s taming who. And that night could have consequences in nine short months….

FREE BONUS STORY INCLUDED IN THIS VOLUME!

A Little Bit of Love by Synithia Williams

Shri “Li’l Bit” Tomas will do anything to help revitalize the community she loves—even work with Lieutenant Deandre King, the cop who once arrested her after a stupid breakup stunt. Opening her new restaurant is a great first step. Partnering with the handsome widowed dad on an outreach event for at-risk youth and businesses is an even better one. But neither counts on the attraction simmering between them—or the potential problems with Deandre’s teen son. Is Shri’s past a bad example for him, indicative of drama to come? Or is she the mom—and wife—they never knew they needed?

Passion Struck From John R. Miles

Jocie McKade

17 April 2024

Passion Struck

Twelve Powerful Principles to Unlock Your Purpose and Ignite Your Most Intentional LifeWritten by the leading authority on intentional behavior change, Author, Speaker, and Podcaster John R. Miles

Inside of you resides an intentional life without limits.

The time has come to awaken it.

Are you living intentionally, with purpose and passion? Are you embracing the flame that ignites within you, or are you evading it? Will your future self be proud of your story, or do you yearn for something more?

We all have personal limits that apply to different areas of our lives, such as creating abundance, making changes to our health or body, overcoming recurring patterns of self-sabotage, or simply believing in ourselves. However, we can tap into our unlimited potential when we push ourselves beyond these limitations. Once we let go of our doubts, we can begin to have faith in our new life. By intentionally acting as if it’s attainable, we can gradually transform into the embodiment of that belief.

Winner of the Best Business Minds Book Award for 2024

Passion Struck: Twelve Powerful Principles to Unlock Your Purpose and Ignite Your Most Intentional Life

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

John R. Miles—entrepreneur, award-winning podcast host, former U.S. Navy officer, and Fortune 50 senior executive—reveals his groundbreaking discoveries that allow you to reshape your past and create an empowered and limitless future through authentic and candid personal stories. Alongside these narratives are twelve science-based principles on mindset and behavior that Miles discovered by examining and interviewing successful professionals such as Marc Benioff, David Rubenstein, Katy Milkman, Bernie Marcus, Uri Levine, Marshall Goldsmith, Robin Sharma, Susan Cain, Shawn Springs, Thaddeus Bullard, Elon Musk, Susan Wojcicki, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Navy SEALs, astronaut Chris Cassidy, and General Stanley McChrystal.

Passion Struck: Twelve Powerful Principles to Unlock Your Purpose and Ignite Your Most Intentional Life: Miles, John R., Higgins, Matt: 9798888451403: Amazon.com: Books

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

John Miles is a master at guiding individuals on a transformative journey to unlock their ultimate potential and embrace their authentic selves. As the visionary CEO of Passion Struck®, bestselling author, keynote speaker, and host of the #1 Alternative Health Podcast, John merges deep insights from peak performance and behavioral science with an innate understanding of the human psyche. His mission is to inspire and empower a global community to live intentionally, moving beyond conventional success to lead lives of profound meaning, passion, and authenticity.

John R. Miles brings to the table a distinguished 30-year career that spans across military leadership, entrepreneurship, global business and technology operations, life coaching, and strategic innovation. His leadership foundation was laid at the United States Naval Academy, marked by distinction as a Division 1 athlete, class secretary, and brigade honor staff member during a significant chapter of the academy’s history.

His approach embodies the rigor of his naval training, enriched with a deep understanding of business dynamics and personal growth, guiding both individuals and corporations towards unparalleled success.

Sleuths Unleashed: Detectives with Crime Fighting Canine Companions

Jocie McKade

16 April 2024

Is man’s best friend also the best mystery solving partner? These sleuths certainly seem to think so…

The Wild Side by Fern Michaels

School guidance counselor Melanie Drake trades playground scuffles and long walks with her retired service dogs for high-stakes undercover work as an escort, infiltrating a dangerous network of powerful men. Melanie navigates the treacherous world of international billionaires’ gatherings, risking everything to gather vital intelligence for national security. But as the stakes rise and danger looms, Melanie must rely on her wits and her loyal canine companions to survive.

Murder on Tour by V.M. Burns

Michigan bookshop owner Samantha Washington’s whirlwind success on her book tour takes a deadly turn at Michigan’s prestigious literary festival. As she juggles the launch of her new mystery novel and investigates a murder that mimics her own plot, Sam relies on her quick wit and two loyal canine companions to unravel the sinister secrets hidden within the festival’s glittering façade. With the help of her feisty Nana Jo and the resourceful residents of Shady Acres Retirement Village, Sam races to unmask the killer before the final page turns on another tragic chapter.

Murder at the Blarney Bash by Darci Hannah

Amateur sleuth Lindsey Bakewell is busy preparing for the St. Patrick’s Day festivities at the Beacon Bakeshop, with her loyal Newfoundland, Wellington, at her side. The excitement builds as Lindsey helps her boyfriend’s uncle, Finnigan O’Connor, open the Irish import gift shop, the Blarney Stone. However, Uncle Finn’s jovial claims of stealing gold from a leprechaun turn sour when he’s accused of bludgeoning a man dressed as one. With her canine companion by her side, Lindsey must unravel the truth and catch the real culprit behind the murder at the Blarney Bash.

That Others May Live by Sara Driscoll

FBI handler Meg Jennings and her K-9 partner, Hawk, are thrust into a heart-pounding race against time after a devastating building collapse in Washington, D.C. As they join the search-and-rescue efforts, Meg’s concern for her firefighter fiancé trapped inside intensifies. With every moment crucial, Meg and Hawk must navigate the treacherous rubble to find survivors while unraveling evidence of a sinister plot lurking beneath the tragedy. Sara Driscoll’s gripping tale is a riveting blend of suspense, action, and the unbreakable bond between a handler and her K-9 companion.

Show me the Bunny by Laurien Berenson

Melanie Travis reluctantly steps into the role of the Easter Bunny amidst the budding spring in Connecticut. As she organizes festivities at Gallagher House, a women’s shelter, the discovery of the respected benefactor Beatrice Gallagher’s untimely death plunges Melanie into a rabbit hole of secrets and suspicion. With her award-winning poodles and Aunt Rose by her side, Melanie must hop to it and uncover the truth behind Beatrice’s demise before the holiday joy turns into a chilling nightmare.

Reprinted with permission from Kensington Books.

THINGS GET A BIT BIZARRE IN GERARD WAY, SHAUN SIMON, AND CHRIS WESTON’S “PARANOID GARDENS”

Jocie McKade

16 April 2024

Derek meets Doctor Who…in six psychotic episodes!

This summer, Gerard Way and Shaun Simon, the writing team behind Tales from The Umbrella Academy: You Look Like Death and The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys: National Anthem, are back and bringing eerie vibes to a brand-new, surreal comic series, Paranoid Gardens. This six-issue comic will be written by Way and Simon with art by Chris Weston (Judge Dredd, Ministry of Space), colors by Dave Stewart (Hellboy, Shaolin Cowboy: Cruel to Be Kin), and letters by Nate Piekos (Stranger Things: The Voyage, Black Hammer: Reborn). Issue #1 will feature a die-cut cover with art by Weston and a variant cover by renowned illustrator Motohiro Hayakawa. Successive issue variants will feature artwork by Glenn Fabry, James Stokoe, Tradd Moore, Alice Darrow, and David Mack.

“I’m excited to be back with my incredibly handsome and talented brother-from-another-basement Shaun Simon penning a story that’s really special to us, and honored the masterful Chris Weston joined us to create a visually powerful and emotionally tangible physical object that is this comic,” said Way. “I’m now more complete getting to share something we’ve wanted to for a very long time, and working with this fantastic group of individuals in the process.”

“Most people dream of rubbing shoulders with someone who is cool, talented, mega-successful and who enjoys a wild rock’n’roll lifestyle. Luckily for Gerard Way the dream came true when he got to work with me on Paranoid Gardens,” added Weston. “It must have been quite daunting for him at first, but once he could see past my notoriety and discover I’m just an ordinary joe who shares his love for the 60’s TV show ‘The Prisoner’ we were able to form a joyous union.

“Along with his equally radical writing partner, Shaun Simon, we’ve created a wild and psychedelic tale that combines Kafkaesque nightmares with sweet Silver Age reveries. Within the pages of Paranoid Gardens you’ll find a curious care-home peopled with aliens, ghosts and caped heroes recovering from psychotic episodes. The very ground it’s built on is febrile and fertile; and lusted after by the minions of Mammon.

“It’s the perfect remedy for all those stricken with super-hero fatigue and needing a fix of something a bit more mind-bending and unpredictable.”

Loo is a nurse at the most bizarre care center around. The staff are not entirely human, and the cases downright unearthly. Aliens, ghosts, superheroes, and more creatures plague its hallways as both doctors and patients and the hospital itself seems to be somewhat self-aware. Loo believes that despite a recent failure at her job she’s been given some sort of higher calling in this mysterious place, and decides to rise to the challenge. Along the way, she must fight her way through corrupt staff members, powerful theme park cults, and her own personal demons and trauma to meet this challenge and discover what secrets the gardens hold.

Paranoid Gardens #1 (of 6) arrives in comic shops on July 17, 2024. It is now available to pre-order at local comic shop for $4.99.

Be sure to follow Dark Horse Comics on social media and check our website, www.darkhorse.com, for more news, announcements, and updates!

Praise for The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys: National Anthem and Tales From The Umbrella Academy: You Look Like Death:

“The entire vibe feels like Daniel Clowes illustrating The Dark Knight Returns—and it’s perfect.”—Alternative Press on The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys: National Anthem

“It’s [The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys: National Anthem] strong writing in classic Way-Simon form–creating smart, but damaged protagonists, slotting them into a wild world full of bizarre characters like pornodrones and fly-men dealing ray guns, and sprinkling clues like breadcrumbs throughout the panels.”—Screen Rant

“True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys: National Anthem #1 is a drama-filled pastiche of the last 60 years of counterculture, wrapped in a nostalgia-inducing package.”—Newsarama

“When Gerard Way is on point, he manages to balance chaos with story, bouncing around from one thing to the next … yet somehow finding a path to a genuinely raucous good time with an emotional center. Here, he’s working with Shaun Simon, and they seem to make a pretty good team because the luster of The Umbrella Academy world is shinier than ever.”—Fanbase Press

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Behind The Words: LOST TO DUNE ROAD By KARA THOMAS 

Jocie McKade

16 April 2024

LOST TO DUNE ROAD By KARA THOMAS 

Welcome Kara, we’re excited to have you on Reader’s Entertainment, and talking about your latest release Lost To Dune Road. Let’s begin with where you’re from, where you live, and is writing your full-time job?

I was born and raised on Long Island, and currently I still live here on the south shore with my husband and kindergartener. I have been writing full-time for the past eleven years, but recently I started working as a librarian part-time at a public library.

How long have you been writing?

I have been writing since I knew how to read, pretty much. Some of my earliest memories involve getting in trouble during math lessons in third grade for writing Nancy Drew knock-off mysteries.

What does your typical writing day look like?

I start writing as soon as I drop my son off at school and generally keep at it for about 5-6 hours, including breaks. Now that I have another job outside the house, I have to do more with less writing time, and can’t slack off as much on my writing days.

Tell us about Lost To Dune Road. Where did the idea came from? Perhaps some fun moments, or not so fun moments?

One of the main characters of LOST TO DUNE ROAD actually came to me in a dream. I took a nap and had a very vivid dream about a woman being in a coma, unable to communicate with her family and tell them how she had gotten there. The idea snowballed into the idea of a disgraced journalist turned private investigator trying to unlock the mystery of the woman in the coma– in the book, Lee, the main character, must find out how a pregnant college woman wound up in a coma, and how the young woman is connected to an unsolved homicide in Lee’s past.

Could you share one detail from your current release with readers that they might not find in the book?

The original title of the book was called THE CALL, since Lee gets a phone call from a missing woman’s killer five years before the events of the novel.

Who has been the most difficult character for you to write? Why?

The villain in this book was a bit difficult to write, simply because they are so devoid of any human empathy. Getting into their head required me to go to a dark and uncomfortable place.

If you could be one of your characters for a day which character would it be?

I don’t know if I would want to be any of them! Everyone in this book is not really having a good time.

If you could spend the day with your character, what would you do? What would that day look like?

I would probably pick Lee’s brain about investigative journalism, or maybe just talk about cold cases for hours.

What’s your take on research and how do you do it?

Getting details right requires research– I read up on things like police procedure, law, crime scenes, etc, to make sure I’m getting the specifics right.

Are there any particular authors that have influenced how you write?

Dennis Lehane is a big influence of mine, as well as Gillian Flynn and Megan Abbott.

Do you have a secret talent readers would be surprised by?

I’m actually very crafty! I run a small side business making bath bombs and soaps.

Your favorite go to drink or food when the world goes crazy!

Buffalo wings and pizza. Together, of course.

What is your writing kryptonite?

Caffeine.

What is the one question you never get ask at interviews, but wish you did?

Who is my writing sidekick? My rescue cat, Felix, is always there for an emergency snuggle when I get stuck in a plot hole.

Kara, thank you so much for joining us today. Readers, here’s a look at Kara’s Lost To Dune Road — which releases today!!

Here’s a look at LOST TO DUNE ROAD

For a disgraced reporter, unraveling a conspiracy of murder could mean redemption in a powerful novel of suspense by the bestselling author of Out of the Ashes.

Reporter Lee Ellerin’s investigation into a young woman’s unsolved murder gained national attention―only for her to lose everything due to a tragic mistake. After being publicly ridiculed for causing a suspect’s death, Lee is forced to leave her career behind.

Five years later, pregnant college student Amanda Hartley lies in a coma. The police say she attempted suicide, but the details don’t add up. Where is the father? Who was paying for Amanda’s Manhattan penthouse? Why did Amanda have a note with Lee’s name in her backpack? There’s also one alarming coincidence: Amanda was last seen on Dune Road in the Hamptons―where the murder victim in Lee’s previous investigation disappeared.

As she’s pulled back into the still-unsolved case that destroyed her career, Lee sees the chance to amend the mistakes of her past. But finding a killer and unearthing Amanda’s secrets sends her down a darker path than she has ever walked before.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Kara Thomas is a true crime addict who writes twisty and compulsive thrillers. She’s the author of Out of the Ashes, which was her adult thriller debut, as well as the YA novels The Darkest Corners, Little Monsters, The Cheerleaders, and That Weekend, which was Barnes and Noble’s YA Book Club Pick for July 2021. Her books have been sold in multiple languages and have been nominated for the International Thriller Writers Award.

Her latest novel, LOST TO DUNE ROAD, will be published by Thomas & Mercer on April 16, 2024.

Kara Thomas lives on Long Island with her husband, son, and rescue cat, where she spends way too much time on Reddit Unresolved Mysteries trying to solve cold cases.

Website: kara-thomas.com

Instagram: @karathomaswrites

Sneak Peek: Under The Paper Moon by Shaina Steinberg

Jocie McKade

15 April 2024

Under The Paper Moon by Shaina Steinberg

Kate Quinn’s The Rose Code meets Mr. and Mrs. Smith in this intrigue-filled debut, as two former spies who shared more than just missions during WWII reunite in 1948 Los Angeles. Can they let go of heartbreak long enough to team up for one last operation in this tightly-plotted, emotionally rich postwar mystery?

It’s 1942, and as far as her father knows, Evelyn Bishop, heiress to an aeronautics fortune, is working as a translator in London. In truth, Evelyn—daring, beautiful, and as adept with a rifle as she is in five languages—has joined the Office of Strategic Services as a spy. Her goal is personal: to find her brother, who is being held as a POW in a Nazi labor camp. Through one high-risk mission after another she is paired with the reckless and rebellious Nick Gallagher, growing ever close to him until the war’s end brings with it an act of deep betrayal.

Six years later, Evelyn is back home in Los Angeles, working as a private investigator. The war was supposed to change everything, yet Evelyn, contemplating marriage to her childhood sweetheart, feels stifled by convention. Then the suspected cheating husband she’s tailing is murdered, and suddenly Evelyn is back in Nick’s orbit again.

Teaming up for a final mission, Evelyn and Nick begin to uncover the true nature of her case— and realize that the war has followed them home. For beyond the public horrors waged by nations there are countless secret, desperate acts that still reverberate on both continents, and threaten everything Evelyn holds dear…

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