June 2025
Mysti Berry – I am on a short story panel at ThrillerFest in New York City on June 20. Find details here.
Cara Black – June 22 at 2 PM I will be giving a talk at the meeting of the Friends of the Novato Libraries. Novato Library, 1720 Novato Blvd., Novato, CA
I will be at the American Library Association (ALA) Convention in Philadelphia, PA, June 28-29.
Come by the Soho Press booth if you’re there!
Claire Booth – I dusted off my journalist hat recently in order to talk about my true crime book, The False Prophet: Conspiracy, Extortion and Murder in the Name of God. I appeared on the ID Network show The Playboy Murders, in “The Centerfold and the Serial Killer” (season 3, episode 3). My book is based on a case involving a Playboy centerfold who had just broken up with a Bay Area man who went on to murder five people. This is at least the ninth true crime show on which I’ve appeared to discuss the case. It’s the first one, however, that mentions Hugh Hefner. You can watch it on Investigation Discovery here, HBO Max here, and you can get The False Prophet here.
Robert Coburn – I have a new website for my books: RobertCoburnBooks.com
Check it out.
Mark Coggins – Locations from my novels—and those of Dashiell Hammett and Ross Macdonald—will be featured in “Tenderloin Noir,” a walking tour of the Tenderloin district of San Francisco. The event takes place on Saturday, June 21 at 2 PM and is sponsored by the Tenderloin Museum. Get tickets and read more about the tour here.
Michael Cooper – My historical mystery, Wages of Empire, won the 2025 Pacific Book Award for Best Historical Fiction, and the prequel to that book, The Rabbi’s Knight, will be reissued as part of the series in early September 2025.
Jack Erickson – I’d like to share background on book 3 in the Milan Thriller Series, Vesuvius Nights.
The book is a backstory of Antonella Amoruso, senior deputy of the anti-terrorism police, DIGOS, at Milan’s Questura (police headquarters) who you would have met in Thirteen Days in Milan and No One Sleeps.
Amoruso receives a phone call Monday morning to return to her Napoli hometown for the funeral of her half-brother who was murdered in a Camorra criminal clan feud. He was murdered two years before, and his body was dumped in a secret location by his murderers.
Linda Gunther – In May, I had a short story published which might be the first chapter of my next new mystery novel. The short story is titled “Bake Me a Banyan Tree,” and was published in Synchronized Chaos Literary Journal. Date published: May 1, 2025.
Laurie R. King – I have a new Russell & Holmes adventure, Knave of Hearts, coming out on June 10—number 19! It has three different bonus awards for people who pre-order: an exclusive story related to the book and two different cards that illustrate scenes. Excerpt and order details here. For the free story (hardback, ebook, or audio purchase) register here.
June 7, 5 PM: a pre-launch launch at Scottsdale’s Poisoned Pen, live-streamed. Pre-order card bonus if you order here.
June 10, 7 PM: Bookshop Santa Cruz book launch for Knave of Diamonds, Santa Cruz, CA. Details here, and pre-order card bonus if you order from them, here.
James L’Etoile – On June 17, I will join Neil Nyren at CraftFest, part of the ThrillerFest conference in New York, where they will present First Page Critiques. This popular session offers critical review of submitted pages where James and Neil will offer thoughts on what worked well in the pages and what might have fallen flat. You only have one chance at a first impression.
On June 20, I will moderate the Crafting Thriller Plots panel with panelists, Sharon Dukett, Don Helin, Jeanne Leeds-Ackerman, Michael McLaughlin, Michael Ransom, Carla Seyler, and Janna Sherrier.
Also, on June 21, I will participate in the Avoiding Predictable Tropes Panel alongside, Jon Land, Donald Maas, Otto Penzler, and Clea Simon, moderated by Jaime Levine.
On June 25, at 1 PM, I will kick off the Summer Youth Writing Program at the Lincoln Public Library with a presentation about Writing the Short Story. Attendees will be preparing short stories for possible inclusion in the library’s anthology.
On June 26, at 6 PM (Central Time), I will moderate a virtual panel for the Mystery to Me Bookstore in Madison, WI: Crafting a Complex Main Character, featuring three of the hottest new thriller writers, Alex Kenna, Cyce Osborne, and Jason Powell. Info here.
Rob Osler – I’m pleased to share that the audiobook of The Case of the Missing Maid was just awarded an Earphones Award from Audiofile.
The award is given by AudioFile to truly exceptional titles that excel in narrative voice and style, characterizations, suitability to audio, and enhancement of the text.
Victoria Zackheim – My novel, The Curtain Falls in Paris, had a May 13 pub date. It’s the first in a 3-part series!
It’s a one-night-only performance of a glamorous play in a Paris theater, and the drama is onstage… and off. An unscripted murder stops the performance. In this suspenseful mystery, Aria Nevins, formerly a respected American journalist with her reputation ruined by a serious lapse in judgment leading to a woman’s death, has fled to a questionable job in Paris, where she’s embedded with top French homicide detective Noah Roche and his team for one week, her task to follow them and write about their work. When Roche suspects her motives, she finds herself fighting for credibility, while trying to gain access to every aspect of the murder investigation. Each member of the play’s star-filled cast and crew is a suspect in this shocking and grisly crime. When the case is marred by false leads, an attempted murder at the theater, old loyalties, and obstacles placed in their path by entitled theater luminaries, it’s a race against time to find the murderer.