Cinemax has announced that Logan Marshall-Green (Dark Blue, Traveler, The O.C., As I Lay Dying, Across the Universe) will star in Quarry. Here’s the scoop over at The Hollywood Reporter!
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Cinemax has announced that Logan Marshall-Green (Dark Blue, Traveler, The O.C., As I Lay Dying, Across the Universe) will star in Quarry. Here’s the scoop over at The Hollywood Reporter!
The location is perfect until Bruce Spring, the show’s producer, meets a fatal axe-ident, mortally mauled just like the home’s previous owner. The first suspect on the chopping block seems typecast for the role of killer—he was found at the scene of the attack, clutching a stained axe. But as Brandy and Vivian chop around for clues, plenty of other suspects stick out their necks…
It seems the show’s cameraman clashed with Bruce—could he be the culprit? What about the acrimony between Andrew, the harried homeowner, and Bruce, whose dirt-digging documentary all but accused Andrew of the original unsolved crime? And who’s driving that blood-red Toyota that keeps making unscripted cameo appearances? If Brandy and Vivian are going to get to the bottom of this mystery, they’ll have to be extra careful not to wind up on the cutting room floor—in pieces!
Antiques Chop, the latest Trash ‘n’ Treasures mystery from Barbara Allan, hits shelves real and virtual today. Chop has been quick to earn critical praise, with Publishers Weekly saying, “The characters, both primary and secondary, shine with brassy humor, and series fans will applaud Vivian’s reach toward TV fame,” and Bill Crider calling it “a cozy with an edge” and suggesting you should “read the book. You’ll have a great time, and you can thank me later.”
Buy Antiques Chop at your local bookstore or online today!
Antiques Chop
Hardcover 
| E-Book 
And if you need to catch up on Brandy and Vivian’s adventures, Antiques Disposal is now available in paperback and reduced price e-book.
Antiques Disposal
Paperback | E-Book
Max’s regularly scheduled update continues below. And next week, we’ve got something a little different coming out as Mike Hammer slugs his way to shelves near you with Complex 90. Hey, there’s nothing wrong with liking both!
With Complex 90 and Antiques Chop two whole weeks away, what’s a reader to do?
Amazon apparently has a few ideas, with a ton of great M.A.C. deals appearing on the Kindle Storefront today. How many great deals are there? So many that I’m only going to recap the ones $3.99 or less. I have the scoop below, but you may want to just load the Max Allan Collins listing and browse what’s there.
TODAY ONLY:
Today’s Daily Kindle Deal features 40 suspense and mystery novels for $1.99 each, and Max is bringing 11 of them. (A trick to keep in mind with these: Audible offers the excellent, excellent readings of these Amazon-published books for only $1.99 if you own the Kindle versions, so if you listen to audiobooks on mp3, you can get both the e-book and the audiobook for less than four dollars.)
NATHAN HELLER SALE:
Each Nathan Heller below is an incredible $1.99, today only. This Shamus-winning, fictional-detective-meets-true-crime series was not written in a chronological order, so there’s no reason to wait–grab ’em now!
Neon Mirage | Carnal Hours | Blood and Thunder | Majic Man | Chicago Confidential | Chicago Lightning
DISASTER SERIES SALE:
The entire Disaster series, aside from The Lusitania Murders, is $1.99 today only. As you might be able to guess from the subject matter, continuity really isn’t an issue here. Read any and all, in any order.
The Titanic Murders | The Hindenburg Murders | The Pearl Harbor Murders | The London Blitz Murders | The War of the Worlds Murder
THROUGH APRIL 30TH:
The Baby Blue Rip-Off (Mallory), $2.00
THROUGH MAY 14TH:
Midnight Haul, $3.00. A stand-alone eco-thriller perfect for Earth Day.
DURATION UNKNOWN:
QUARRY SALE:
With Quarry tapped for a Cinemax pilot, Perfect Crime books is having a sale on the original Quarry hitman series. Each book is only $3.99 for a limited time.
Quarry | Quarry’s List | Quarry’s Deal | Quarry’s Cut | Quarry’s Vote
NOLAN SALE:
Also on sale from Perfect Crime Books are six adventures of heist artist Nolan. Fly Paper is only $2.99, and the rest $3.99.
Fly Paper | Hush Money | Hard Cash | Scratch Fever | Spree | Mourn the Living
AND ONE MORE:
The Dark City, an Eliot Ness mystery, $2.99
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The Lusitania Murders on Amazon
For the month of March, Amazon is featuring The Lusitania Murders for $2.99 on the Kindle storefront. Lusitania was nominated for the 2003 Shamus Award for Best Paperback Original P.I. Novel, and Publishers Weekly wrote of the novel: “[Collins] ably weaves a well-paced, closed-environment mystery reminiscent of Agatha Christie.” Here’s the scoop:
The Lusitania’s final voyage is a newsman’s dream. First come the torpedo warnings. Then come the murders…
Journalist and mystery writer Willard Huntington Wright boards the Lusitania in pursuit of a hot story. Under the guise of conducting interviews with prominent passengers, his real assignment is to investigate rumors that the luxury liner is carrying illicit cargo for the British war effort against Germany.
But Wright, traveling under the pseudonym S.S. Van Dine, isn’t the only passenger with an ulterior motive. Hours after the ship receives torpedo threats, three German stowaways are found murdered. And Wright suspects the deaths are part of a larger conspiracy. Comparing clues and matching wits with Detective Philomina Vance, the pair must solve the murders before the killer can sabotage the entire ship. Recreating the days up to the ship’s fatal encounter with a German U-boat, The Lusitania Murders is historical fiction at its entertaining best.
If you haven’t read any of the Disaster series, this is a great place to start. The Disaster books are a series in theme rather than continuity, and each book stands alone. For more information on the series, I recommend this December Kindle Post interview: Max Allan Collins on The Disaster Series.
Don’t forget that Lusitania and the rest of the Disaster novels are also available in handsome physical editions at all major online retailers as well as your local bookseller through indiebound.org.