Event: April 2023 Book Club

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You are cordially invited to attend Sisters in Crime-Colorado Book Club. We meet once a month via Zoom. Come ready to chat with the author and other readers! If you don’t have a chance to read the book, that’s quite all right. We discuss craft, publishing and other subjects too. Everyone is welcome! Book club is free and open to the public. For specific dates please see the schedule at sistersincrimecolorado.org/book-club

PLEASE NOTE:  Sisters in Crime-Colorado members can get the link to the Zoom meeting on the chapter groups.io listserv. Non-members may request the meeting link by emailing  

sistersincrimecolorado(at)gmail(dot)com

April 19th, 10 am

April’s selection is Standing Dead by Margaret Mizushima

In this episode, the case for Deputy Mattie Cobb and her K-9 partner Robo becomes personal when Mattie’s mother vanishes without a trace. After a dead man is found tied to a standing dead pine in the beetle-killed forest near Timber Creek, Mattie is forced to play cat and mouse with a killer. In a last-ditch gambit, she goes undercover into the killer’s lair to try to save her mother—or die trying. STANDING DEAD can be found wherever books are sold.

www.margaretmizushima.com

Upcoming Release: Rat Race by Becky Clark

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Sisters in Crime – CO member, Becky Clark is happy to announce the upcoming release of Rat Race, a Sugar Mill Marketplace Novella. Rat Race releases March 23rd and is available for preorder.

A stolen gift. A shocking truth. Dena smells a rat.

Dena Russo has it all: a satisfying life in Santa Fe with her best friend Georgia by her side, no shortage of fun, and even a speed dating escapade under their belt. But at Thanksgiving dinner with friends and Dena’s adult daughter Charlee, Dena agrees to design a scavenger hunt for Georgia’s 72nd birthday the next day. When Georgia’s birthday gift is revealed, everyone is shocked, even Dena and Charlee who hid it.

As Dena and Charlee dig deeper, they uncover friends with ulterior motives, a passel of middle-aged mean girls, and a laboratory full of rats.

With her reputation and everything she loves about her life in Santa Fe at stake, Dena must figure out what really happened with Georgia’s gift. Will Dena sniff out the truth before she is shunned completely?

If you like the funny, cozy Mystery Writer Mysteries starring Charlee Russo, then you’ll love the Sugar Mill Marketplace Mysteries starring her mother, Dena Russo. RAT RACE is the novella that bridges both series.

If you like characters you’d like to hang out with, amateur sleuths solving crimes, and light-hearted cozy mysteries, get your paws on Becky Clark’s 99c RAT RACE, the short read that kicks off the Sugar Mill Mystery series … today! 

Rat Race on Amazon www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BYBXXXR8

To continue the fun, preorder the first three books in the Sugar Mill Mystery Series on Amazon (www.amazon.com/dp/B0BYC88CCM)

Upcoming Release: Defcon by Michele Packard

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Sisters in Crime-CO member Michele Packard is pleased to announce the upcoming release of her latest book Defcon in her AESOP thriller series. Defcon releases April 7th.

America’s top operative, Matti Baker, is launching an all out war in this fast-paced, psychological, political thriller.

There is one quality that is unique to the human species…GREED.

Baker is enlisting the help of the President and her team in this fight against individual and corporate conspiracies and greed as they target her for the destruction of a virus that could solve the world’s health concerns. Baker is sacrificing all and doing what others are unwilling to do. The target is on her back. No more cancer, no more diabetes…if she can stay alive long enough to reproduce her genesis. She’s serving justice.

Freedom comes at a cost and the payment is Matti Baker as she launches her own version of DEFCON.

The countdown has started.

DEFCON is a multi-layered, heart-pounding, realistic thriller in the ongoing AESOP series.

Amazon: DEFCON

Stories on Stage – Denver Noir Featuring Sinc-CO Members

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An upcoming Stories on Stage performance will feature stories from Denver Noir read by professional actors. Four stories from the 14-story collection will be read, including our own Sisters in Crime-CO members Cynthia Swanson and Francelia Belton! Other Denver Noir contributors featured are Manuel Ramos and Mathangi Subramanian.

The performance is on Sunday, April 2 at 2:00 pm at Su Teatro theater in Denver. It will be recorded and can also be viewed online. 

Francelia and Cynthia will be there. The Bookies will be on hand to sell copies of Denver Noir and other books by the contributors. 

More info and tix are at www.storiesonstage.org

New Release and Book Launch: A Cold Case of Conscience by Helen Starbuck

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Sisters in Crime-CO member Helen Starbuck’s new book A Cold Case of Conscience releases this month. It’s Book Four in the Annie Collins Mysteries. Join her for a Zoom launch party on March 8th at 6:30 pm MST. RVSP by DM on Facebook: Helensstarbuck or Instagram: Helenstarbuck_author or email her at helens.pashley@gmail.com.

What happens when a conscience goes cold?

Annie Collins wants to unofficially review cold cases for Denver Homicide Detective Alex
Frost. But solving them isn’t easy, like the arson death of a man known for his predatory
behavior toward women. There are no suspects, no witnesses, and no one who is sorry that he’s
gone.

Annie can’t resist the pull of a recent murder that may be connected to an old cold case. Annie
and Frost aren’t sure if the two cases are connected, and the person who knows the answer isn’t
talking.

Angel Cisneros, Annie’s husband, is struggling to recover after their brush with death, and his
ability to tolerate the repercussions of her involvement with Frost is at an end. Annie may be
forced to choose between helping Frost or concealing what she’s doing from Angel—something
she’s never done.

Book Signing: Kathleen Donnelly

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Colorado authors, Kathleen Donnelly and Scott Graham, are excited to team up for a fun event at the Boulder Bookstore, Wednesday March 15th at 6:30 p.m.

Donnelly will discuss the first book in the National Forest K-9 series, Chasing Justice, and give a sneak peek into her next National Forest K-9 book, Hunting The Truth, releasing September 26, 2023. In Chasing Justice, former marine Maya Thompson swears she’ll never work with dogs again. But when she returns home to Colorado and accepts a job with the U.S. Forest Service, fate brings K-9 Juniper into her life just as another tragedy unfolds.

Graham will talk about his latest release, Saguaro Sanction, Book 8 in his National Park Mystery Series releasing March 7, 2023. When Janelle Ortega’s cousin from Mexico is found brutally murdered at a remote petroglyph site in Saguaro National Park, Janelle and her husband, archaeologist Chuck Bender, are drawn deep into a threatening web of hostility and deceit stretching south across the US-Mexico border and back in time a thousand years, to when the Hohokam people thrived in the Sonoran Desert.

For tickets go to: GrahamDonnellyBBS.eventbrite.com

Event: March 2023 Book Club

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You are cordially invited to attend Sisters in Crime-Colorado Book Club. We meet once a month via Zoom. Come ready to chat with the author and other readers! If you don’t have a chance to read the book, that’s quite all right. We discuss craft, publishing and other subjects too. Everyone is welcome! Book club is free and open to the public. For specific dates please see the schedule at sistersincrimecolorado.org/book-club

PLEASE NOTE:  Sisters in Crime-Colorado members can get the link to the Zoom meeting on the chapter groups.io listserv. Non-members may request the meeting link by emailing  

sistersincrimecolorado(at)gmail(dot)com

March 8th, 10 am

March’s selection is Robbers and Cops by George Cramer.

Robbers and Cops is the story of two downtrodden Steinbeckian characters, their descent into criminality, and the determined efforts of law enforcement to bring them to justice. – As reviewed by Love To Read

A fascinating odyssey of complex characters-robbers and cops that spans five decades in its telling. Imagine if Elmore Leonard had written The Grapes of Wrath, tossed in a dash of The Naked and the Dead, and finished up morphing into a pure Joseph Wambaugh police procedural. Do yourself a favor and pick up Robbers and Cops by George Cramer. It’s a sure-fire, can’t-put-it-down winner. – Michael A. Black, Amazon bestselling author as A.W. Hart, and the Trackdown series under his own name Devil’s Vendetta, Devil’s Breed, Devil’s Reckoning, Chimes at Midnight, and Blood Trails.

Outstanding! An intriguing game of cat and mouse between a pair of bank robbers and multiple law enforcement agencies over the course of decades. Deftly plotted and effortlessly shifting between decades, Robbers and Cops is a page-turning suspense novel and a nuanced character study. Al Smith is a competent, tenacious, and flawed police detective who is worth rooting for. The police work is authentic, and the Bay Area setting is as perfectly drawn as a sunset over the Golden Gate. George Cramer is at the top of his game. Highly recommended. – Sheldon Siegel. NY Times Best Selling Author of the Mike Daley/Rosie Fernandez novels.

A brilliant police procedural covering four decades of criminal behavior and the cops that ended it. The story follows the Tucker brothers, who had a penchant for robbing banks. The Tuckers hone their criminal skills and sibling love, whether in the chain gangs of Georgia during the depression or in military service in WWII. The reader will find the brothers almost likable and know their crime spree will eventually end. – Alec Peche – Author of the popular Jill Quint, MD, Forensic Pathologist Series

Available at Amazon and Barnes and Noble

www. gdcramer.com

Upcoming Release: Till Death Do Us Port by Kate Lansing

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Sisters in Crime – CO member, Kate Lansing is thrilled to announce the publication of the fourth book in her Colorado Wine Mystery series, Till Death Do Us Port.

When a wedding turns into a crime scene, young vintner Parker Valentine investigates the full-bodied problem in this captivating Colorado-set cozy mystery.
 
It’s June in Boulder, Colorado, and wedding season is in full swing. Parker Valentine is excited to attend the wedding of her cousin, Emma, where in addition to celebrating the happy couple, she’ll also be providing wine for the reception. But when the fussy wedding planner is found dead midway through the ceremony, Parker knows that to get the weekend back on track, she’ll need to unveil a murderer.
 
Unfortunately, there’s no shortage of high tension and hot tempers during a wedding, so Parker has a long list of potential suspects. Even worse, her entire family has fixated on the state of Parker’s relationship with her boyfriend, Reid. If Parker can manage to impress her relatives with her wine skills and dodge unwanted pointed personal questions, solving a murder will be the icing on the cake. The book will be released March 7th, and there will be an in-person launch event at the Westminster Tattered Cover at 6pm that day to celebrate. 

katelansing.com

New Release: Trifecta (Book #6 in Tin Star K-9 Series by Jodi Burnett

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Happy Book Birthday to Trifecta, Sisters in Crime – CO member Jodi Burnett’s sixth book in her Tin Star K-9 Series.

The fast-paced, action-packed career of the US Marshal’s rising star K9 team—Deputy Marshal Caitlyn Reed and her dog, Renegade—turns toward the tranquil rolling hills of Tennessee, when Caitlyn is assigned to oversee a racehorse barn recently seized by the Marshals Service. The job seems like vacation duty until several high-dollar horses go missing, shots are fired, and Renegade’s life hangs in the balance.

Caitlyn’s new husband, Sheriff Colt Branson, is back at home in Wyoming assimilating to his new role as a father and tending to the seemingly mundane duties of a small-town sheriff. But things heat up when local cattle mysteriously die, and a simple traffic stop turns deadly.

When Caitlyn chases the horse thieves into the seedy underbelly of the racing world, she tracks the roots of corruption all the way to the streets of New York City. In Moose Creek, Colt uncovers a surprising connection to Caitlyn’s case. The question remains, will they all survive the unravelling of this twisted conspiracy, or will darkness ultimately prevail?

jodi-burnett.com

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