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12/01/2025

David Wagoner’s Beloved Coming-of-Age Novel THE ESCAPE ARTIST is Back!

Danny Masters is a teenage magician, pick-pocket and escape artist who learned it all from his late father. All he wants to do is make it in the big city. But along the way he picks the wrong pocket, stealing a wallet full of stolen cash, and finds himself having to use all of his skills just to stay alive… while still chasing his dreams.

This book became a 1982 movie starring Griffin O’Neal and Raúl Juliá, produced by Francis Ford Coppola and co-written by Melissa Mathison, who later wrote "E.T."
https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/B0CSFJVWRP/brash-facebook-20

10/01/2025

THE COMPLETE D.C. MAN: All 4 novels in the legendary DC Man series of breathtaking thrillers, back in print for the first time in 50 years!

Brian Petersen is an ex-military intelligence officer-turned-D.C. lobbyist recovering from his family’s tragic death in a car accident. With his lobbying business in the toilet, he’s become a political fixer who uses his sharp intellect, his vast political connections, and his lethal, combat skills to solve sensitive problems.

"Man, this is a damned good book. I have zero-to-little interest in politics… but it’s so much better than 90% of paperback fiction that I couldn’t help but fall for it." —Bloody Spicy Books

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09/01/2025

Here's a wonderful post from Robin Burcell - Author about her career ups-and-downs and the future...

Once Upon a Time....Or, as I like to tell it, 30 years and 30 pounds ago , and long before I lost a lung, I became a fledgling published aut...

08/01/2025

"Admirers of S.A. Cosby and Ace Atkins will appreciate Thompson’s combination of hardboiled crime tropes and psychological depth." —Publishers Weekly

The third novel in the acclaimed Sheriff C**t Harper Series by Phillip Thompson is available now at https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/B0CDX44TFK/brash-facebook-20

06/01/2025

Brash Books co-founder, crime novelist & recovering attorney Joel Goldman shares his experiences & insights this week on the MURDER WE WRITE podcast. Now available wherever you get your podcasts or at these links:

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3uwRZTpSLU6Y2W7BQh7Bpv

Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/murder-we-write/id1635664204

ListenNotes: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/murder-we-write-carol-goodman-kaufman-dk82N7f4OHu/

iHeart: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-murder-we-write-99664463

The podcast about crime and crime writing

05/01/2025

Thriller fans are raving about SLATEWIPER! "The writing in this book is superb and the tension and action make it a top action thriller"... "suspenseful and well written"... "Once you start, you are hooked."

Lara Blackwood, genetic engineering entrepreneur and presidential advisor, gets an urgent call to help solve a horrific epidemic in Tokyo. She soon realizes, to her horror, that terrorists have diabolically twisted her research to create a slatewiper — a genetic weapon that uses a person’s own DNA to kill them. It’s the perfect way to annihilate an entire race…or all of humanity…and she’s the only one who can stop it.
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03/01/2025

When ROCK was first published in 1958, future Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Larry McMurtry wrote “this novel deserves a wider reading than it will likely get,” and he was right. Now this searing, hard-boiled classic is finally back in print.

“Wagoner makes an ambitious attempt to deal with the children of our present rock-and-roll generation and, in some respects, he is depressingly successful. The book is a testament of lovelessness, the compassionate record of a warping that has touched a whole generation. It is strong, serious writing about a serious subject.” —Larry McMurtry

https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/B0CSFK4324/brash-facebook-20

01/01/2025

Readers love MURDER ON THE DODDER, the eagerly awaited sequel to THE LEMON MAN, winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Best International Novel and a Deadly Pleasures Magazine Top 10 Paperback of the Year.

"This novel steeps readers nicely in the atmosphere and history of Dublin" ... "More cycling, more violent adventures" ... "A great continuation of the misadventures of my favorite Irish hit man"... "A fast-moving thriller" ... "Fans of Roddy Doyle's humour mixed with the violence and characters from movies like 'The Gentlemen' and John Wick series will enjoy MURDER ON THE DODDER."

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30/12/2024

Today, Brash Books remembers Ralph Dennis, born on Dec. 30, 1931. Read this appreciation of Dennis by Brash co-founder Lee Goldberg at CrimeReads, and pick up one of Dennis' groundbreaking novels, such as ATLANTA DEATHWATCH, #1 in the Hardman series: https://crimereads.com/ralph-dennis-the-lost-hardman-classics/
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My expensive, life-changing addiction began six years ago when a man approached me in a nameless hotel in a city I don’t remember. “You’re really going love this,” Bill Crider said, almost in a whi…

27/12/2024

All FOUR Streeter novels in one ebook collection. Bounty hunter Streeter is a string of exes… ex-linebacker, ex-accountant, ex-bouncer, and four-time ex-husband … who excels at exacting his own brand of justice… with explosive results.

“Michael Stone works the hard-boiled genre conventions with the insouciance of an old pro. Streeter is an eye-catcher.” —New York Times

https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/B086PL3V55/brash-facebook-20

24/12/2024

A stunning anthology of Philadelphia-set crime stories by Tony Knighton. In "Happy Hour," the title story, a small-time grifter steals an overcoat on Christmas Eve and finds a pair of gloves, a pack of gum, and forty thousand dollars in the pocket. But his unexpected score soon becomes an icy nightmare.
https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/B092SWFZXW/brash-facebook-20

22/12/2024

SIX action-packed vigilante novels in ONE specially-priced ebook!
Ben Martin is a married, Vietnam vet who opens a produce wholesale business in New York City. Life is good until he’s threatened by mobsters, who demand protection money from him to continue doing business. But they soon discover that they are the ones who need protection…from him.
https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/B09T35RB3V/brash-website-20

19/12/2024

Five highly-acclaimed spy novels by two masters of the genre in one action-packed volume!
TOUCHFEATHER, TOUCHFEATHER TOO, THE SPY KILLER and FOREIGN EXCHANGE by Jimmy Sangster
THE WINDCHIME LEGACY by A.W. Mykel
https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/B085DK6T9W/brash-facebook-20

"Bubbly, irrepressible... drawn by her breezy, chatty first-person narrative, readers will cheer Katy on as she skates around with flamboyant grace." —Publishers Weekly on TOUCHFEATHER

"A fun rollercoaster ride. The book splices the styles of Ian Fleming and Robert Ludlum and adds a dash of Michael Crichton." —Writers Bone on THE WINDCHIME LEGACY

17/12/2024

Four Incredible, Wildly Acclaimed Contemporary Western Crime Novels in One Ebook Collection!
DOUBLE WIDE by Leo W. Banks
OUTSIDE THE LAW by Phillip Thompson
DEAD MAN’S BADGE by Robert E. Dunn
EL CAMINO DEL RIO by Jim Sanderson
https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/B0851WM2BX/brash-facebook-20

15/12/2024

Today we remember Parnell Hall, the New York Times bestselling author who died Dec. 15, 2020. Brash Books was honored to publish his final book, CHASING JACK, which received rave reviews from Lee Child, Lawrence Block and Harlan Coben. https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/B087P18NG3/brash-facebook-20

10/12/2024

All five novels in David Brierley's classic, widely-acclaimed CODY series of espionage thrillers in one massive, low-priced ebook edition: THE COMPLETE CODY.

"If you want espionage in the John le Carré class, this is it.” —The Observer

COLD WAR - BLOOD GROUP O - SKORPION’S DEATH - SNOWLINE - DEATH & CO.

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04/12/2024

MONEY MONEY MONEY by David Wagoner
Big, generous Willie Grier is swimming in Lake Michigan one summer night in 1955 when he finds the dead body of a man. The horrifying experience leads him into bed with a ruthlessly seductive woman, pits him against vicious gangsters, and hurls him into a whirlwind of cold cash, hot s*x, and bloody violence.
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03/12/2024

Thanks to Paperback Warrior for celebrating the work of our author Jimmy Sangster today.

Author and screenwriter Jimmy Sangster was born in Wales on this day in 1927. Sangster wrote screenplays for Hammer Horror films like Horror of Dracula and The Mummy. As an accomplished author, Sangster wrote the Touchfeather spy series and other espionage thrillers like Foreign Exchange and Your Friendly Neighborhood Death Peddler.