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Are you a crime fiction writer? Are you a crime fiction reader?

If your answer to either question is yes, you’ve got to have Writing Crime Fiction, the latest book from the award winning authors of the Top Suspense Group!

From Joel Goldman’s advice and tips on “going indie” to Vicki Hendricks secrets to sizzling sex scenes, Writing Crime Fiction is the must-have how-to for crime fiction writers and readers.

Dreaming of turning your crime thriller into a TV series or movie? Let Hollywood veterans Lee Goldberg and Paul Levine show you the way.

Wondering what it takes to start and finish that first novel? Stephen Gallagher and Ed Gorman tell you how to get it done.

Dying to ratchet up your book’s suspense, whether set in today’s world or in years gone by? Libby Hellmann and Max Allan Collins will tell you how to make it happen.

Ever wonder what the heck “noir” means? Dave Zeltserman has the answer.

Wish you could create the perfect amateur sleuth? Naomi Hirahara gives you all the clues you need.

Like your thrillers with a dose of zombies? Harry Shannon will show you how to bring them to life.

Want to know the secrets to writing more than a hundred thrillers? Bill Crider spills the answers.

Writing Crime Fiction has it all!

Get it now and get started on your next bestseller!

And don’t forget the Top Suspense Group’s red-hot anthologies, Top Suspense and Favorite Kills and their knockout short story, Die Lover Die!

Kevin Dangler is a once-famous author desperate to regain his lost glory while traveling the back-roads of middle America, selling remaindered, fifth-editions of his first book out of the trunk of his car. Along the way he meets his ultimate fan…who might be his salvation…or perhaps a novel way to die.

This story was an Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Readers Choice Award finalist and has previously appeared in the anthologies Three Ways to Die and Top Suspense.

BONUS FEATURE: The story contains a link to a free, streaming video of the acclaimed movie version of  Remaindered, written & directed by Lee Goldberg.

Lauren Blaine is on the run…fleeing across the country, pursued by a pack of ruthless, skilled, and psychopathic killers.

That’s because she’s dumped her husband and he hasn’t taken it well.

Of course, he might have taken it better if he wasn’t a major drug dealer with a gale-force temper… and if she hadn’t run off with all of his cash.

Now she’s marked-for-death, a moving target for every mercenary, hitman, and sadist in the midwest.

What they don’t know is that Lauren is nobody’s victim… she’s a resourceful, brave, and cunning woman who won’t go down without a fight.

This is 10,000 words of non-stop action, violence and sex…a wild ride like nothing else you’ve read before…from twelve masters of suspense, who teamed up to write this rollicking story 250 rapid-fire words at a time, tag-team style, without an outline, without knowing what was coming next. The result is a pure, literary adrenaline rush.

(Part 1 of Die, Lover, Die! was previously published in Top Suspense: 13 Classic Stories by 12 Masters of the Genre).

About the Top Suspense Group:

Whether you’re looking for mystery, horror, thriller, western or crime fiction, you can always count on the award-winning authors at TOP SUSPENSE to deliver a great e-reading experience with their dozens of highly-acclaimed books. The Top Suspense authors are established professionals whose books have been published world-wide, graced national & international bestseller lists, and sparked the imaginations of Hollywood’s top filmmakers (the Oscar winning Road to Perdition) and television producers (the Emmy-winning Monk). Top Suspense authors: Max Allan Collins, Bill Crider, Stephen Gallagher, Lee Goldberg, Joel Goldman, Ed Gorman, Libby Fischer Hellmann, Vicki Hendricks, Naomi Hirahara, Paul Levine, Harry Shannon and Dave Zeltserman.

Hold on tight for a literary thrill-ride into the wickedly clever, frightening, and exhilarating world of Top Suspense, a sizzling collaboration of twelve master storytellers at the peak of their powers in thirteen unforgettable tales.

This pulse-pounding anthology – packed full of cold-blooded killers, erotic tension, shady private eyes, craven drug dealers, vicious betrayals, crafty thieves, and shocking twists – is only a taste of the thrills you will find in the breathtakingly original ebooks by these authors at www.topsuspensegroup.com.

So sit back, bite down on a piece of strong leather, and prepare to get hit by some gale-force suspense and writing so sharp it will draw blood.

The final, pulse-pounding book in the bloody, action-packed Jury Series. Brett Macklin faces his greatest adversary yet—a ruthless, professional hit woman, seductress and master of disguise who launches a campaign of terror and bloodshed against him, pushing the vigilante to the emotional and physical breaking point, unleashing a bloody killstorm on the L.A. streets.

This is the fourth and final book in the series, never before published in print, caught up in the bankruptcy of Pinnacle Books, the original publisher. For decades, it was considered “lost” and coveted by fans of the men’s action adventure genre…before it was finally found and, at long last, published as an ebook.

The third, red-hot book in the action-packed Jury Series saga. A sadist with a hunger for victims is stalking the streets of Los Angeles—leaving a trail of destruction which threatens to engulf the city in racial violence. And he’s calling himself…Mr. Jury.

Now vigilante Brett Macklin, the real Mr. Jury, is hitting the killing ground with just seventy hours to hunt down the deadly impostor and clear his name.

All he has to do is take on an army of fanatical white supremacists, stop a news-hungry reporter from digging too deep into his past, and save a tough black cop from being buried alive. Time and luck are running out.

The second, action-packed book in The Jury Series saga. After a family tragedy, Brett Macklin has sworn to take the law into his own hands and make the guilty pay. This time, Macklin’s target is Wesley Saputo, porn kingpin and murderer, who has slipped through the courts time after time, only to kidnap, rape and kill again…and again. Macklin’s mission: locate and destroy Saputo before he finds another innocent life to destroy.

“Top-shelf 80’s adventure fiction. The Mr. Jury books are probably about the most fun you can have doing so vicarious vigilanting. There’s a reason Goldberg is still a successful author. There’s plenty of smooth and fast action that builds to a nice high-energy “action-movie” finale, colorful characters, some Hollywood in-jokes, different ways to use ice cream and a lot of fun banter.” Bloody Spicy Books Blog 

Judgment is the classic action/adventure novel that was a runaway paperback sensation in the 1980s…and that skyrocketed the career of Lee Goldberg…

Brett Macklin was a freewheeling son of sunny California, a collector of vintage cars and a connoisseur of beautiful women. But when his father is murdered by a street gang, Macklin becomes something else—a deadly weapon against crime, a relentless vigilante who won’t stop until he’s wiped out the killers who have turned Los Angeles into a war zone.

Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg have teamed up for a dynamic new series featuring an FBI agent who’s on the hunt—and a master con artist who’s enjoying the chase. The con is on in this eBook original short story that’s a triumphant prequel to The Heist.

FBI special agent Kate O’Hare has made it her mission to nail international con artist Nicolas Fox. When she discovers his plot to plunder a venture capitalist’s twentieth-story Chicago penthouse of all its cash and treasures at the same time that the self-proclaimed King of Hostile Takeovers is getting married, Kate is 85 percent—okay maybe 92 percent—sure that she’s finally going to bag Nick Fox.

Problem is, first Kate has to convince her boss, building security, and maybe even herself, that wedding planner Merrill Stubing is actually Nicolas Fox. Second, she has to figure out how to corner and capture him without disrupting the event of the year. And third, what’s going to happen once O’Hare finally gets her hands on Fox? It’s going take a pro to catch a con before the fireworks over Lake Michigan go off.

Includes a sneak peek of The Heist, the first novel in the highly anticipated new series from Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg!

From Janet Evanovich, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Stephanie Plum novels, and Lee Goldberg, bestselling author and television writer for Monk, comes the first adventure in an electrifying new series featuring an FBI agent who always gets her man, and a fearless con artist who lives for the chase.

FBI Special Agent Kate O’Hare is known for her fierce dedication and discipline on the job, chasing down the world’s most wanted criminals and putting them behind bars. Her boss thinks she is tenacious and ambitious; her friends think she is tough, stubborn, and maybe even a bit obsessed. And while Kate has made quite a name for herself for the past five years the only name she’s cared about is that of Nicolas Fox—an international crook she wants in more ways than one.

Audacious, handsome, and dangerously charming, Nicolas Fox is a natural con man, notorious for running elaborate scams on very high-profile people. At first he did it for the money. Now he does it for the thrill. He knows that the FBI has been hot on his trail—particularly Kate O’Hare, who has been watching his every move. For Nick, there’s no greater rush than being pursued by a beautiful woman . . . even one who aims to lock him up. But just when it seems that Nicolas Fox has been captured for good, he pulls off his greatest con of all: He convinces the FBI to offer him a job, working side by side with Special Agent Kate O’Hare.

Problem is, teaming up to stop a corrupt investment banker who’s hiding on a private island in Indonesia is going to test O’Hare’s patience and Fox’s skill. Not to mention the skills of their ragtag team made up of flamboyant actors, wanted wheelmen, and Kate’s dad. High-speed chases, pirates, and Toblerone bars are all in a day’s work . . . if O’Hare and Fox don’t kill each other first.