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Brash News & $2.99 Supersale

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We're pleased to announce that we'll be republishing Geoffrey Miller's Edgar-award nominated THE BLACK GLOVE... which the Houston Post hailed as equally the best of Hammett and Chandler. Hardboiled detective lovers have been looking for this rare books for years... but now you'll be able to find it in ebook and paperback editions from Brash in May. And don't forget to enter our contest for a free Kindle Voyage loaded with ALL of our Brash Books. All you have to do is review any Brash crime novel on Amazon, your blog, Facebook or Google+ page and send us the link at brashbooks@gmail.com. Winners will be announced Dec. 15th. For a limited time, we're offering the first four of... more

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Michael Stone on Writing The STREETER Novels

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Low End Of Nowhere by author Michael Stone

I’ve always loved the write. I was a newspaper reporter for twelve years before I started my private investigations business. I also took a whack at writing a mystery/crime fiction novel back in the mid 1980s. I really liked noir crime movies so I tried to write a novel along those lines. I got some interest from a fairly well-known New York agent. She liked my writing but not the book I wrote. Go figure. She asked me what crime fiction authors I read. I thought about and realized I never actually read any crime fiction or mystery novels. The agent was surprised. She made two suggestions. One, keep writing and, two, start reading novels in the genre. Get the feel for what makes a good... more

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Robert B. Parker’s Spenser Series And Others That Ended Too Soon

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Low End Of Nowhere by author Michael Stone

For fans of crime fiction, it’s both satisfying and slightly surreal to see a new book in Robert B. Parker’s Spenser series on the New York Times Bestseller List. More than four years after Parker’s death, his private eye lives on through the talents of Ace Atkins. Seeing the latest Spenser thriller, Cheap Shot, on the bestseller list made us think of how lucky readers are to get a little more of Spenser– and think of some of the other fantastic thriller series’ that ended too soon.... more

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