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TCFL Podcast Episode #28 with Claire McGowan author of What You Did

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Welcome to my podcast, The Crime Fiction Lounge.

My guest on this episode is with the author Claire McGowan. We chat about her life as a writer and her new thriller novel, What You Did.What You Did by Claire McGowan

 

What You Did by Claire McGowan

Thriller What You Did

What You Did

“A brilliant, breathless thriller that kept me guessing to the last shocking page.” —Erin Kelly, Sunday Times bestselling author of He Said/She Said

An Amazon Charts and Washington Post bestseller.

It was supposed to be the perfect reunion: six university friends together again after twenty years. Host Ali finally has the life she always wanted, a career she can be proud of and a wonderful family with her college boyfriend, now husband. But that night her best friend makes an accusation so shocking that nothing will ever be the same again.

When Karen staggers in from the garden, bleeding and traumatised, she claims that she has been assaulted—by Ali’s husband, Mike. Ali must make a split-second decision: who should she believe? Her horrified husband, or her best friend? With Mike offering a very different version of events, Ali knows one of them is lying—but which? And why?

When the ensuing chaos forces her to re-examine the golden era the group shared at university, Ali realises there are darker memories too. Memories that have lain dormant for decades. Memories someone would kill to protect.

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What You Did by Claire McGowan

OClaire McGowan - The other Wife

 

The Other Wife

She’s a total stranger. But she knows who you are…

Suzi did a bad thing. She’s paying for it now, pregnant, scared, and living in an isolated cottage with her jealous husband, Nick.

When Nora moves into the only house nearby, Suzi is delighted to have a friend. So much so that she’s almost tempted to tell Nora her terrible secret. But there’s more to Nora than meets the eye. It’s impossible—does she already know what Suzi did?

Meanwhile, Elle spends her days in her perfect home, fixated on keeping up appearances. But when her husband betrays her, it unravels a secret going all the way back to her childhood. She’ll do whatever it takes to hold on to him, even if that means murder. After all, she’s done it before…

Caught up in their own secrets and lies, these strangers will soon realise they have more in common than they could ever have imagined. When a shocking event brings them together, their lives will never be the same again.

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Claire’s Contact:

Website: www.ink-stains.co.uk 

Twitter: @inkstainsclaire 

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TCFL Podcast Episode #24 with Rea Frey, author of NOT HER DAUGHTER

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Welcome to my podcast, The Crime Fiction Lounge.

My guest on this episode is suspense author Rea Frey. Unusually, we discuss both of recent books and for very different reasons so why not tune in to find out more?

Rea Frey Author of Because You're Mine

 

Because You’re Mine by Rea Frey

Rea Frey Author of Because You're Mine

Because You’re Mine

But when her best friend Grace convinces her she needs a small break from motherhood to recharge her batteries, Lee gives in to a weekend trip. Surely a long weekend away from home won’t hurt? Noah, Mason’s handsome, bright, charismatic tutor – the first man in ages Lee’s even noticed – is more than happy to stay with him. Forty-eight hours later, someone is dead. But not all is as it seems. Noah may be more than who he claims to be. Grace has a secret – one that will destroy Lee. Lee has secrets of her own that she will do anything to keep hidden. As the dominoes begin to fall and the past comes to light, perhaps it’s no mystery someone is gone after all… Because You’re Mine is a breathtaking novel of domestic drama and suspense.

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Not Her Daughter by Rea Frey

Rea Frey author of Not Her Daughter

NOT HER DAUGHTER

Gripping, emotional, and wire-taut, Not Her Daughter raises the question of what it means to be a mother—and how far someone will go to keep a child safe.

Emma Townsend. Five years old. Gray eyes, brown hair. Missing since June.
Emma is lonely. Living with her cruel mother and clueless father, Emma retreats into her own world of quiet and solitude. 

Sarah Walker. Successful Entrepreneur. Broken-hearted. Kidnapper.
Sarah has never seen a girl so precious as the gray-eyed child in a crowded airport terminal. When a second-chance encounter with Emma presents itself, Sarah takes her—far away from home. But if it’s to rescue a little girl from her damaging mother, is kidnapping wrong?

Amy Townsend. Unhappy wife. Unfit mother. Unsure whether she wants her daughter back.
Amy’s life is a string of disappointments, but her biggest issue is her inability to connect with her daughter. And now Emma is gone without a trace.

As Sarah and Emma avoid the nationwide hunt, they form an unshakeable bond. But what about Emma’s real mother, back at home? 

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Rea’s Contact:

Website: www.reafrey.com 

Facebook: Rea Frey on Facebook

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ReaFrey_Author 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reafrey/

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TCFL Podcast Episode #23 with Gary Bell, author of the Legal Thriller, Beyond Reasonable Doubt

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Welcome to my podcast, The Crime Fiction Lounge.

My guest on this episode is legal thriller author Gary Bell QC. Now Gary has an interesting and unusual background, to say the least, this is one interview that you won’t want to miss! 

Beyond Reasonable Doubt by Gary Bell

 

Born into a coal mining family, Gary Bell QC left school without any qualifications and was an apprentice mechanic, forklift truck driver, production line worker, builder, fireman, and door-to-door salesman, as well as a notorious football hooligan, before being arrested for fraud aged 18. After a brief stint in prison, he set off to seek fame and fortune abroad and, after two years drifting around Europe ended up penniless and homeless. He next enrolled in an FE College to study his O and A levels, and then went on to study law as a mature student at Bristol University where he ‘became’ an Old Etonian.

 

Beyond Reasonable Doubt (Book #1 in the Elliot Graham QC Series) by Gary Bell

Beyond Reasonable Doubt by Gary Bell

Beyond Reasonable Doubt

Book 1

The start of a thrilling new legal series, perfect for fans of Robert Galbraith and The Secret Barrister, written by an acclaimed QC.


Elliot Rook QC is one of the greatest barristers of his generation. 

He is also a complete fraud.

Elliot Rook is the epitome of a highly successful, old Etonian QC. Or so everyone believes. In fact, he is an ex-petty criminal with a past that he has spent decades keeping secret. Until now.

An unidentified young woman of Middle Eastern origin has been found murdered on the outskirts of Rook’s home town. Billy Barber – a violent football hooligan and white-supremacist – is accused of her murder. Barber insists that Rook must defend him. If Rook refuses, Barber will expose him, bringing crashing to the ground the life and career that Rook has spent his life building.

The truth is there for the finding. But at what cost?

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Gary’s Contact:

Facebook: Gary Bell on Facebook

Twitter: https://twitter.com/garybellqc 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gary-bell-46837831/

Thank you so much to everyone who’s left a review for the show, it goes a long way toward helping convince someone who hasn’t heard the show whether it’s worth their time or not. If this podcast is something you’ve enjoyed, please leave a review on iTunes or Stitcher and subscribe if you haven’t done so already

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TCFL Podcast Episode #22 with J.B. Jamison, author of the Emily Graham Thriller Series

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Welcome to my podcast, The Crime Fiction Lounge.

My guest on this episode is thriller/suspense author J.B. Jamison, John Jamison. We had a great time chatting and John has certainly led an interesting life to say the least. 

John grew up in a small river town in Illinois, and describes growing up as “kind of Tom Sawyer-ish, with a blend of Wizard of Oz.” His background gives him a unique collection of stories. “I grew up in a family of storytellers and liars, and I spent most of my time trying to figure out which was which.” John now draws upon his uniquely diverse life-story as he writes his adult, suspense/thrillers as J. B. Jamison, and his books for young readers and listeners as Pops Jamison.

Disbelief, book 3 in the Emily Graham Series

 

Disbelief (Book #3 in the Emily Graham Series) by J.B. Jamison

Disbelief by J.B. Jamison

Disbelief

Book 3

Agent Emily Graham is who she is today because of her family, her friends, and colleagues, and because of her absolute belief that everyone should be treated fairly. She sees it as her role to make sure those who do unfair things pay a price. She is a woman being true to her beliefs.

But, what happens when someone decides that their beliefs are the only acceptable ones, and everyone else, including Emily Graham, must bow their heads and surrender to them? What happens when, one by one, those things Emily believes in are shaken: her belief in family, her belief in friends and colleagues, and even her belief in her role as protector of fairness?
Emily Graham has faced difficult times before, but in this third book of the series, the greatest battle is a personal one. Will she bow? Will she survive? If she survives, who will she become?

In this third battle with a powerful enemy, Emily Graham is faced with completely redefining her life, as she finds herself living in a world of…Disbelief!

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Distraction (Book #2 in the Emily Graham Series) by J.B. Jamison

Distraction, book 2 of the Emily Graham Series

Distraction

Book 2

There have always been people warning us that technology could not be trusted. “Someone might use it against us!” they said. “Someone might find a way to take the things we have created to serve us, and use them as a way to destroy us!” they said. Today, it looks like those people may have been right.

A small group of men with the power to do anything they desire has chosen to use that power to make their empires even larger. After ten years of preparation, the attacks begin. But, something goes wrong. 

Once again, Agent Emily Graham finds herself in the role of having to uncover the truth of what is happening, who is behind it, and how to stop it.

And once again, she discovers that, sometimes, what you see and hear is not reality. It is just…Distraction!

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Disruption (Book #1 in the Emily Graham Series) by J.B. Jamison

Disruption, book 1 in the Emily Graham Series

Disruption

Book 1

In the midnight darkness north of New Orleans, the towboat’s routine trip up the Mississippi River becomes something far more deadly. Captain Charlie Graff is suddenly thrust into the middle of one of the most twisted domestic terrorist plots ever conceived. He has to use his skill as Captain to protect his crew, his boat, his river, and his country. But he is not alone.

On land, already overwhelmed FBI agent Emily Graham finds herself thrust into the role of leading the pursuit of the terrorists. Her journey leads to dead ends and dead witnesses. She discovers her trust in her team-members is wrong, the terrorists are not who they say they are, and that the people who actually initiated the attack don’t even exist.

This tense, fast-paced thriller is a thousand-mile journey with more twists and turns than the river that carries it. A story that begins and ends with betrayal. Betrayal that has but one goal: Disruption.

Get Your Copy of Disruption here:

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John’s Contact:

Website: https://jamisonbooks.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jamisonbooks/

Amazon Author Page: J.B. Jamison

Thank you so much to everyone who’s left a review for the show, it goes a long way toward helping convince someone who hasn’t heard the show whether it’s worth their time or not. If this podcast is something you’ve enjoyed, please leave a review on iTunes or Stitcher and subscribe if you haven’t done so already

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Special thanks to John for joining me in this episode of The Crime Fiction Lounge.

Bye, until next time!

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TCFL Podcast Episode #21 with Adriana Gavazzoni, author of the Hidden Motives Thriller Trilogy

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Welcome to my podcast, The Crime Fiction Lounge.

I have pleasure in bringing you this fascinating interview with Adriana Gavazzoni, author of the Hidden Motives Trilogy, a collection of psychological and erotic thrillers within a legal theme.

Adriana Gavazzoni is a Brazilian author and has been a lawyer for twenty-seven years. Not only is Adriana is a lawyer, but she is also a former professor of law and a writer of novels and legal books. And she is a voracious reader.

Adriana speaks four languages: English, French, Portuguese and Spanish, and is learning Chinese. When she is not practicing law or writing, she’s an active person who enjoys many interests, for example, she loves to dance the Tango and workout. She also loves to travel, cook and paint. And she loves nothing more than good wine and company at her dinner parties. She has been studying astrology for fifteen years.

She has two poodles -Gaia and Juno -and loves all animals.

She won for her first book Behind The Door: The Golden Book Award 2017- Readers Choice; Book Excellence Award 2017; Brag Medallion 2019; Bronze Medal on Independent Publisher Books Award 2018; Honorable mention at Paris Book Festival 2017; Honorable Mention at Reader’s Favorite Award 2017 and was a finalist to the Independent Author.

Authot of The Brilliant Game

 

 

 

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The Brilliant Game (Book #3 in the Hidden Motive Trilogy) by Adriana Gavazzoni

The Brilliant Game by Adriana Gavazzoni

The Brilliant Game

Book 3

Psychiatrist Simone Bennet feels like a pawn on a chessboard—as if some invisible, master chess player is toying with her life and the lives of the people she loves and cares for.

A series of horrific events—several murders and Simone being tortured at the hands of a serial killer—culminate in the kidnapping of her daughter and have turned Simone’s life upside down.

Struggling to stay afloat in the middle of a sea of chaos, Simone continues to receive her psychiatric patients and do more work for the New York attorney, Carl, while local police, the FBI, and Edward—Simone’s boyfriend, best friend, and business partner—are working hard to locate her child.
Simone is analyzing another set of Lara’s journals, and she becomes dragged into a vortex of sex addiction, suffering, and Lara’s struggle for some kind of balance in her life, while Simone battles an inner fight against her mixed feelings for the enigmatic lawyer.


Filled with twists and turns, this final book in the Hidden Motives trilogy reveals a deranged, steamy, and disturbingly brilliant game of sex, murder, and mystery and chronicles a woman’s conflict between love and reason.


Fasten your seat belts before you embark on this roller coaster, and prepare for the most unpredictable end.

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Lara’s Journal (Book #2 in the Hidden Motive Trilogy) by Adriana Gavazzoni

Lara's Journal

Lara’s Journal

Book 2

Simone Bennet is on a long vacation, trying to heal from the trauma she suffered at the hands of a serial-killer kidnapper. After looking death in the face, she tries to develop a new outlook on life—live in the moment!

Carl, the charming lawyer, is back, asking once more for Simone’s help, this time in analyzing Lara’s journals, which were discovered by her siblings after her death. In her own words, Lara divulges all her secrets, and reveals a dramatic world of betrayal, passion, and the most unusual sexual behaviors, exposing the beautiful architect’s troubled life.

As Simone tries to deal with the contents of Lara’s haunting diaries, one of her patients gets himself into a bit of legal trouble, forcing Simone to return early from her vacation. Although she’s happy to be back on her home turf, she finds herself surrounded by a whole new set of problems.

A killer is out there, and this time, he seems to be after the people Simone cares about most. Suddenly, people around her are dying, a stalker/admirer keeps showing up at all the wrong times, and Simone’s dear friend Edward has a new girlfriend—forcing Simone to analyze her feelings for him and her attraction to Carl.

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Behind The Door (Book #1 in the Hidden Motive Trilogy) by Adriana Gavazzoni

Behind The Door

Behind The Door

Book 1

When Lara dies at the hands of a Manhattan lawyer during a sex game, his defense attorney, Carl, hires Simone, a psychiatrist, professor, and author of books on sexual behavior to help him buttress his argument that Lara’s death was accidental. To help his defense, Carl’s client has written a detailed account of his steamy, year-long relationship with Lara. Carl gives the text to Simone for analysis. While evaluating the presumed killer’s writing, Simone continues to receive psychiatric patients with sexual disorders and unusual fantasies and to research strange sexual behavior for her next book. Meanwhile, Simone’s clinical partner, friend and research colleague, Edward, is working with the police to capture a serial killer who is torturing and killing women. From hot and unusual sex and interesting psychiatric patients to the swing houses of New York and Paris, this fast-paced page-turner is a blend of mystery, suspense, humor, romance, and erotica.

Get Your Copy of Behind The Door here:

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Adriana’s Contact:

Website: www.agavazzoni.com

Twitter: @a_gavazzoni 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/authoragavazzoni

Instagram: adri_gavazzoni 

Amazon Author Page: Adriana Gavazzoni

Thank you so much to everyone who’s left a review for the show, it goes a long way toward helping convince someone who hasn’t heard the show whether it’s worth their time or not. If this podcast is something you’ve enjoyed, please leave a review on iTunes or Stitcher and subscribe if you haven’t done so already

Thanks for Listening!

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  • Leave an honest review on iTunes. Your ratings and reviews really help and I read each one.
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Special thanks to Adriana for joining me in this episode of The Crime Fiction Lounge.

Bye, until next time!

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Cover Reveal of Lethal Promise (Book #3 in The Jack Jago Series)

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Cover Reveal of Lethal Promise (Book #3 in The Jack Jago Series)

I have great pleasure in revealing the cover for LETHAL PROMISE, the next installment in the Jack Jago Thriller Series. And I have added the blurb for the book below.

Please let me know what you think?

Lethal Promise Cover

 

Lethal Promise – A Jack Jago Thriller (Book #3)

A deadly cocktail of business and ideology, where revenge is the only option.

Disaster strikes while Jago is enjoying a holiday in Australia with his friend Hunter and their respective partners. A well-orchestrated and merciless attack on innocent civilians results in multiple casualties, some of whom are close to Jago. Now he wants to know: who did it, and why?

Jago’s immediate pursuit of the culprits is the tip of the iceberg, and the authorities enlist him to track down the ruthless attackers. Governments often hire Jago to undertake risky contracts, but this time it’s personal. And for Jago, revenge is the only option: he’s made a ‘lethal promise’ to bring the perpetrators to justice – his justice – and he intends to keep it.

The hunt is on, and it tests Jago’s investigative and military expertise to the limit as he travels along the wild coast of Australia, to the exotic Maldives, and to the paradise island of Mauritius.

The question is, can Jago fulfill his promise before the attackers strike again?

Launch Date: End of May 2019