HER DARK LIES Media Roundup and End of the Year Sale

What a wondeful way to wrap up the release year! Only for this week, HER DARK LIES is $2.99.

Fast-paced and brilliantly unpredictable, HER DARK LIES invites you to a wedding none will forget—and some won’t survive.

Pick up the ebook before the deal ends. And read on for the media round up. It was a wonderful year for this little book, and I can’t thank you enough for all your support!

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Recognition

•   PW Picks: Books of the Week, March 8, 2021

•   New York Post: The best new books to read, week of March 6: Top releases, updated weekly

•   Apple Books March Must Listen

•   The Big Thrill feature

•   Mystery Scene feature

•   Goodreads: 36 of the Most Anticipated Mysteries and Thrillers of 2021

•   CNN: 20 of the most anticipated new books to read this March

•   Crime Reads: The Best New Books Out in Paperback This March

•   The Real Book Spy’s March 2021 Reading Guide

•   Smart Bitches, Trashy Books: March 2021 New Releases, Part One

•   Frolic: Ten Hot Reads for March 2021

Featured Reviews

•   Publishers Weekly, starred review

•   Shelf Awareness

•   Bookreporter

•   Criminal Element

•   Booktrib

•   Providence Journal

•   Nashville Scene/Chapter 16

Featured Essays

•   Rogue Women Writers: J.T. Ellison Goes Rogue

•   Crime Reads: Eight Dark Novels of Love and Obsession, Against A Mediterranean Backdrop

Interviews to Watch

•   Parnassus Books: In Conversation with Allison Brennan

•   Writer’s Block Bookstore: In Conversation with Lisa Gardner

•   Murder By The Book: In Conversation with Helen Ellis

•   Mysterious Galaxy: In Conversation with Lisa Unger

•   Page 158 Books: In Conversation with store owner Sue Lucey

•   Woolfer Author Series: In Conversation with Carmen Tanner Slaughter

•   First Chapter Fun with Hannah & Hank

•   ScaredStraightReads Instagram Live

•   Write for Success with Leslie Zemeckis

•   Murder By The Book: Adele Parks and Lisa Jewell In Conversation with J.T. Ellison

Podcasts and Interviews

•   Crime By The Book

•   Author Stories with Hank Garner

•   Thoughts From A Page Podcast 

•   Howe's Things

•   Thriller Talk with K.J. Howe and Ryan Steck

•   Vox Vomitus

•   Book Brag with Lynne Constantine and Wendy Walker

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It’s gonna be a KILLER YEAR!

I am thrilled to share that Killer Year is back! This amazing collection of stories from the debut authors of 2007 and their International Thriller Writers (ITW) mentors is worth reading for itself, but here we are, lucky thirteen years later, and the careers of the authors inside this collection have blossomed. Some have even gone stratospheric.

There have been movies and television shows, multiple New York Times bestsellers, publishing houses established, ghostwriting and cowriting gigs secured, flourishing indie careers—the works. Some of us have published only a few books in the intervening years, some have published many. But what we all have in common is an abiding love for the crime fiction genre, which is on showcase in this collection. From supernatural suspense to mob stories, literary to private investigators, police procedural to true crime, plus stories, essays, and observations from the ITW mentors, KILLER YEAR truly has something for everyone. So sit back, relax, and let the finest voices in crime fiction take you away! I hope that you'll find some new to you authors in these gems, and seek out their work as well.

Meet the Killer Year debut authors of 2007

Brett Battles
J.T. Ellison
Jason Pinter
Bill Cameron
Dave White
Derek Nikitas
Gregg Olsen
Marcus Sakey
Robert Gregory Browne
Toni McGee Causey
Marc Lecard
Patry Francis
Sean Chercover

(with honorable mentions to original members who weren't in the anthology way back when, Sandra Ruttan, C.J. Lyons, and Phil Hawley.)

What’s this all about, you might ask? Here’s a little history on Killer Year, the organization and the anthology:

Debuts novelists didn't used to get a lot of attention, and in crime fiction particularly, many of us started in mass market paperback, which, at the time, had little to no chance of being reviewed in the trades. Concerned we might get lost in the shuffle of big name authors debuting, a few of us banded together to start a crime-fiction-specific marketing organization to raise the profile of ALL the debut authors in the genre. We of course missed a few, folks like Laura Benedict and Karna Bodman, among others, but a small knot of writers got involved, and we went into the very first Thrillerfest armed with T-shirts, postcards, riding a wave of media and our own enthusiasm so high that we drew the attention of the leadership of ITW. M.J. Rose, Steve Berry, and Lee Child in particular thought what we were doing was smart, and sat down with us to offer a deal—let ITW adopt the Killer Year program. Each of us got a mentor, an established ITW bestseller who helped us navigate our release year, read our books, offered personal advice and public support. It was a staggering cool situation, made all the better by actually working—our debut novels all got press. We got reviews. We got blurbs from bestsellers. We got media attention. We made a splash. (The Debutante Ball was the literary/women's fiction equivalent of our program, definitely check them out, too.)

There were other positive downstream effect of Killer Year that continue to this day. ITW was able to design a debut author program that brought up each new "class" of writers, year after year. Publishing in general paid attention as well, and lo these many years later, being a debut is a special, incredible, managed "event" rather than a spaghetti against the wall attempt to start a career.

Pretty heady stuff.

The anthology was a natural extension of this endeavor. My own mentor, the indomitable Lee Child, stepped in as editor. M.J. wrote us an introduction that perfectly explained the adage we all now know to be true: a rising tide lifts all boats. Laura Lippman gave us a coda. Mentors Allison Brennan, Ken Bruen, and Duane Swierczynski wrote original stories. And all the Killer Year members wrote a tale, which is introduced by their individual mentors. St. Martins did us proud with the release, and now, Two Tales is trying to do the same.

This is a special, special collection, in too many ways to count. I hope you love it—especially this stunning new cover! It's gonna be a Killer Year, again!

What are you reading this weekend?

GOOD GIRLS LIE is on sale!

Happy day after Thanksgiving! I have great news: GOOD GIRLS LIE is on sale for $2.99. Treat yourself or gift a copy to your loved one!

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About the book:

Goode girls don’t lie…

Perched atop a hill in the tiny town of Marchburg, Virginia, The Goode School is a prestigious prep school known as a Silent Ivy. The boarding school of choice for daughters of the rich and influential, it accepts only the best and the brightest. Its elite status, long-held traditions and honor code are ideal for preparing exceptional young women for brilliant futures at Ivy League universities and beyond. But a stranger has come to Goode, and this ivy has turned poisonous.

In a world where appearances are everything, as long as students pretend to follow the rules, no one questions the cruelties of the secret societies or the dubious behavior of the privileged young women who expect to get away with murder. But when a popular student is found dead, the truth cannot be ignored. Rumors suggest she was struggling with a secret that drove her to suicide.

But look closely…because there are truths and there are lies, and then there is everything that really happened.

J.T. Ellison’s pulse-pounding new novel examines the tenuous bonds of friendship, the power of lies and the desperate lengths people will go to to protect their secrets.

LIE TO ME is today's Audible Daily Deal!

If you’re itching to try a new audiobook, may I humbly suggest you give LIE TO ME a try? Not only is it the Audible Daily Deal today (yay!), it’s the first book of mine I could ever listen to all the way through, because the actors did such an outstanding job of embodying the characters I forgot they were reading my words! I can’t give higher praise.

Sutton and Ethan Montclair are supposed to be living out their dream. Both writers, they’ve just bought a beautiful house to restore in quaint Franklin, Tennessee, have an adorable baby boy named Dashiell, and have settled in for a wonderful life together. But their happiness is at an end. Faced with challenges no parent should have to go through, they break under the pressure. When Sutton goes missing, leaving behind a note that says don’t look for me, and a body is found, Ethan is immediately the primary suspect.

But what has really happened behind the closed doors of the Montclair’s lovely new home?

With deepest thanks to Matthew Waterson, Saskia Maarleveld, Sarah Naughton, and Julia Whelan for bringing Sutton’s and Ethan’s world to life.

LIE TO ME is on sale!

LIE TO ME is on sale for $2.99! For anyone looking for their next page-turning read, NYT bestselling author Mary Kubica said LIE TO ME is "a wickedly good thriller about a picture-perfect marriage that is anything but."

Grief, jealousy, betrayal and murder destroy the facade of the perfect literary couple. What really happened to Sutton Montclair?

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Domestic noir at its best. Readers will devour this stunning page-turner about the disintegration of a marriage as grief, jealousy, betrayal and murder destroy the facade of the perfect literary couple. New York Times bestselling author J.T. Ellison takes her exceptional writing to a new level with this breakout novel. 

They built a life on lies.

Sutton and Ethan Montclair's idyllic life is not as it appears. They seem made for each other, but the truth is ugly. Consumed by professional and personal betrayals and financial woes, the two both love and hate each other. As tensions mount, Sutton disappears, leaving behind a note saying not to look for her. 

Ethan finds himself the target of vicious gossip as friends, family and the media speculate on what really happened to Sutton Montclair. As the police investigate, the lies the couple have been spinning for years quickly unravel. Is Ethan a killer? Is he being set up? Did Sutton hate him enough to kill the child she never wanted and then herself? The path to the answers is full of twists that will leave the reader breathless.