Troy Lambert Stories
Fiction That Will Move and Change You
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Story: The Jack of Spades
Troy Lambert
Troy Lambert is a prolific mystery and thriller author with a sharp eye for suspense and a love for dark, twisty storytelling. With over thirty books to his name—including the acclaimed Max Boucher Mystery Series, The Capital City Murders, and The Dog Complex—Troy has built a universe where flawed heroes chase truth through morally gray terrain and danger lurks in every chapter.
His work blends psychological depth, procedural grit, and emotional realism, earning praise from fans of authors like Dean Koontz, Michael Connelly, and Tana French. Whether exploring cold cases, supernatural conspiracies, or the twisted heart of small-town secrets, Troy delivers fiction that moves you—and might just mess with your head.
When he’s not writing thrillers, Troy enjoys teaching and mentoring other writers, speaking at conferences, and exploring the backroads and mountains of Boise, Idaho, often accompanied by his German Shepherd, McClane. He’s a firm believer that stories can change people, and his fiction reflects that mission: to entertain, to challenge, and to uncover the truths that hide in the dark.
You can find his work and latest releases at 👉 troylambertstories.com
Story: Moonlight and the Hitman
Vincent Zandri
Considered one of the most prolific writers of his generation, Vincent Zandri is the winner of the 2015 PWA Shamus Award and the 2015 ITW Thriller Award for Best Original Paperback Novel for MOONLIGHT WEEPS. He is also the NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, and AMAZON KINDLE OVERALL NO.1 bestselling author of more than 130 novels and novellas including THE REMAINS, MOONLIGHT RUNS, THE EMBALMER, THE SHROUD KEY and QUIETLY INTO THE NIGHT. His list of domestic publishers includes Delacorte, Dell, Down & Out Books, Thomas & Mercer, Polis Books, Blackstone Audio, Tantor Media, and more.
He is also the CEO of Bear Media. An MFA in Writing graduate of Vermont College, his work is translated in the Dutch, Russian, French, Italian, and Japanese. Having sold over 1 million editions of his books, Zandri has been the subject of major features by the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and Business Insider. He has also made appearances on Bloomberg TV and the FOX News network.
In December 2014, Suspense Magazine named Zandri's, THE SHROUD KEY, as one of the "Best Books of 2014." Suspense Magazine selected WHEN SHADOWS COME as one of the "Best Books of 2016". He was also a finalist for the 2019 Derringer Award for Best Novelette. For more go to WWW.VINZANDRI.COM
Story: Get Diamond
Paul D. Brazill
Paul D. Brazill lives in Hartlepool, England. His writing has been translated into Spanish, Italian, Finnish, Polish, German and Slovene. He has had writing published in various magazines and anthologies, including The Mammoth Books of Best British Crime. You can find him hanging around here. (6) Paul D. Brazill Presents... | Paul David Brazill | Substack
Story: California Scheming
Charles Salzberg
Charles Salzberg is a novelist, a journalist, and an acclaimed writing instructor.
His new novel, Devil in the Hole, a gripping work of literary crime fiction based on the notorious John List murders, is on shelves now.
He is the author of the Henry Swann detective series: Swann Dives In; Swann's Last Song, which was nominated for a Shamus Award for Best First PI Novel; and the upcoming Swann's Lake of Despair.
His non-fiction books include: On A Clear Day They Could See Seventh Place: Baseball's 10 Worst Teams of the Century; From Set Shot to Slam Dunk, An Oral History of the NBA; and co-author of My Zany Life and Times, by Soupy Sales; Catch Them Being Good; and The Mad Fisherman.
He has been a Visiting Professor at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, and has taught writing at Sarah Lawrence College, Hunter College, the Writer's Voice, and the New York Writers Workshop, where he is a Founding Member. He is a consulting editor at the webzine Ducts.org and co-host, with Jonathan Kravetz, of the reading series, Trumpet Fiction, at KGB in New York City.
His freelance work has appeared in such publications as Esquire, New York Magazine, GQ, Elle, Redbook, Ladies Home Journal, The New York Times Arts and Leisure section, The New York Times Book Review, and the Los Angeles Times Book Review.
Dean Wesley Smith
Considered one of the most prolific writers working in modern fiction, New York Times and USA Today bestselling writer, Dean Wesley Smith published over two hundred novels and over seven hundred books in forty years, and hundreds and hundreds of short stories. He has over thirty million copies of his books in print.
At the moment he produces novels in four major series, including the time travel Thunder Mountain novels set in the old west, the galaxy-spanning Seeders Universe series, the cold case mystery series, Cold Poker Gang series, and the superhero series staring Poker Boy.
During his career, Dean also wrote a couple dozen Star Trek novels, the only two original Men in Black novels, Spider-Man and X-Men novels, plus novels set in gaming and television worlds. Writing with his wife Kristine Kathryn Rusch under the name Kathryn Wesley, they wrote the novel for the NBC miniseries The Tenth Kingdom and other books for Hallmark Hall of Fame movies.
He wrote novels under dozens of pen names in the worlds of comic books and movies, including novelizations of almost a dozen films, from X-Men to The Final Fantasy to Steel to Rundown.
Dean also worked as a fiction editor off and on, starting at Pulphouse Publishing, then at VB Tech Journal, then Pocket Books, and now at WMG Publishing where he and Kristine Kathryn Rusch serve as executive editors for the acclaimed Fiction River anthology series. He took over the editorship of the acclaimed Pulphouse Magazine in 2018.
For more information about Dean’s books and ongoing projects, please visit his website at www.deanwesleysmith.com
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
New York Times and international bestseller Kristine Kathryn Rusch writes in many genres, from mystery to science fiction, from western to romance. She has written under a pile of pen names, but most of her work appears as Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
Her Kris Nelscott pen name is highly acclaimed in mystery, and her Kristine Grayson pen name became a bestseller in romance. Her science fiction novels set in the bestselling Diving Universe have won dozens of awards and are in development for a major TV show. She also writes the Retrieval Artist sf series and several major series that mostly appear as short fiction.
Her novels have made bestseller lists around the world and her short fiction has appeared in twenty-seven best-of-the-year collections.
She has won more than thirty awards for her fiction, including the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Readers Award, the Hugo, Le Prix Imaginales, and the Asimov’s Readers’ Award. Publications from The Chicago Tribune to Booklist have included her Kris Nelscott mystery novels in their top ten best mystery novels of the year.
The Nelscott books have received nominations for almost every award in the mystery field, including the best novel Edgar Award and the Shamus Award.
Find out more about her work at kriswrites.com.
Story: No Way Alive
Harvey Stanbrough
Harvey Stanbrough is a retired Marine and a prolific professional writer in Southeast Arizona. For a time, he wrote under a few personas and several pseudonyms, but he takes a pill for that now and writes only under his own name. To see Harvey's fiction and nonfiction, please visit his discount store at https://payhip.com/StoneThreadPublishing.
Story: Outside Woman Blues
Lawrence Keltner
Lawrence Kelter hails from New York but now calls North Carolina his home. He is the bestselling author of more than thirty novels including the Stephanie Chalice Mystery Series that has topped bestseller lists in the US, UK, and Australia. In 2017 he penned BACK TO BROOKLYN, the studio-authorized sequel to the cult comedy classic “My Cousin Vinny.”
Early in his writing career he received direction from literary icon, Nelson DeMille, who edited portions of his early work. Well before he said, "Lawrence Kelter is an exciting new novelist, who reminds me of an early Robert Ludlum," he said, "Kid, your work needs editing, but that's a hell of a lot better than not having talent. Keep it up!"
His novels are quickly paced and crammed full of twists, turns, and laughs.
Frank Saverio
Frank Saverio has written more than 50 novels across multiple genres, including science fiction, humor (as Frank Scalise), and gritty crime fiction (as Frank Zafiro). His love of science fiction and fantasy dates back to his childhood. In addition to writing, Frank hosts the podcast Wrong Place, Write Crime. He is a martial artist, an avid hockey fan, and a tortured guitarist. He lives in Redmond, Oregon.
Story: The Duffy Vinci Code
Tom Schreck
Tom Schrek is the author of Amazon’s #1 hard-boiled mystery, The Vegas Knockout. He counts Robert B. Parker, John D. MacDonald, JA Konrath, Reed Farrel Coleman, Ken Bruen and Michael Connelly among his favorite crime fiction authors and his Duffy Dombrowski series has been referred to as “As good or better as the early Spenser.” He is a columnist with Westchester Magazine and a frequent contributor to Crimespree Magazine, Boxingscene.com, and other publications.
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Daniel Weizmann
Daniel Weizmann is the author of the Pacific Coast Highway Mystery series. The first book in the series, The Last Songbird, was described by T. Jefferson Parker as “rock noir at its best—half Warren Zevon and half Raymond Chandler.” Valerie J. Brooks of Mystery & Suspense Magazine called the follow-up, Cinnamon Girl, “Haunting and fast-paced...vivid, seductive, dangerous, cool. You can’t ask for more..”
Story: Echeverría's Orders
John Hemmingway
John Hemingway was born in Miami in 1960. He is the grandson of the Ernest Hemingway.
Like his grandfather he is also a writer and is now working on his fifth book.
His first book was a memoir, Strange Tribe. It was for the most part about his father Gregory Hemingway, who in his sixties decided to become a transsexual and changed his name from Greg to Gloria.
John's second book, a novel, Bacchanalia published in 2019 was John's take on the Fiesta de San Fermin.
After Bacchanalia he began the first book in what has become a trilogy, “Murder on the Florida Straits. A true noir, with guns, booze, rum and mojitos, leggy dames, the everglades, and boiling days under the Florida sun. The last two were “Ron Echeverría” and “Nelson's Revenge.” In the last two book the gangbangers of El Tren de Aragua, the notorious that even President Trump wants to expel, assuming the judges will let him.
After this book Hemingway is considering another noir or a love story or a mash-up of the two.
Story: Killer
J.E. Fishman
J.E. Fishman is the Amazon-bestselling author of three nonfiction books and eight novels, including the Bomb Squad NYC series of police thrillers, the animal rights thriller Primacy, the financial thriller The Dark Pool, the wisecracking mystery Cadaver Blues, and, under the pen name Dana I. Wolff, the horror tale The Prisoner of Hell Gate. His latest book is the speculative novel We Once Were Giants. He also writes a Substack newsletter called Backyard Stewardship.