🍾Happy publication day to JJ Green! 🇮🇪
Someone to Blame is out today, and it’s an indie crime novel that takes us to the heart of a tight-knit Irish village. Following a tragedy, main character Shay Dunne decides to put a little pressure on those she deems were to blame with poison pen letter.
Tactics like that rarely go to plan, especially when the gossip wheel starts turning and soon the temperature rises in Shay’s community, with sinister secrets coming to the fore. Perhaps Shay has got a lot more than she bargained for.
This is JJ Green’s second thriller after The Last Good Summer, and was inspired by a story told by the author’s grandmother about a woman who sent anonymous letters to the people in her village years ago. Try it:
https://www.bookguild.co.uk/bookshop/someone-to-blame/
Today on the site, we take a look at Storiaverse, a new app for iOS and Android.
With dozens of authors involved, the app brings you short stories that bring in animated segments (with music, character voices and sound effects) along with segments of text. It's a new way of enjoying short stories on your smartphone. You can zone out for 15 minutes on your commute or on your break and let your imagination take over.
The app covers all genres but already several crime fiction authors are involved, including award winners such as Josh Pachter, Michael Bracken and John M Floyd.
Best of all - it's free. You can download it here: https://www.storiaverse.com
Read our feature on how it all works and discover five of the best crime short stories on Storiaverse here: https://crimefictionlover.com/2024/06/discover-crime-stories-on-storiaverse/
Below is a trailer for one of the tales written by Michael Bracken.
🇮🇸Today we're saying happy publication day to Stella Blomqvist, the Icelandic mystery author whose novel Murder Under the Midnight Sun is out today from Corylus Books.
This is the second novel by this author to appear in English. The author's name is also that of the main character and, in fact, we don't really know who the author is. But in the book, Stella is a fearless lawyer who tends to help people who are on the margins or who are fighting the establishment. And, she has a great propensity to get herself into trouble.
It's a sizzling summer in Reykjavik then, as Stella tackles a raft of cases including that of a Scottish woman who went missing a decade ago, a woman whose husband is accused of butchering her father and best friend, and a hand with a ruby ring on it that has emerged from a glacier. Like the first book in the series, Murder Under the Midnight Sun packs in plenty of mysteries and you'll love the way Stella leaves you satisfied in how she takes the fight to the system, yet angry at how that system often works against ordinary folk.
Enjoy the trailer, and grab yourself a copy here: https://amzn.to/4biIDT6
