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Win A Copy Of The Book '60 Songs That Explain the '90s' By Rob Harvilla

Nov 8, 2024 | redcarpetcrash.com | Rob Harvilla |Leila Meacham |Ausma Zehanat Khan

The book is in stores on Tuesday, Nov. 14th from Twelve. Click on the link to buy a copy. https://amzn.to/4h53OfcA companion to the #1 music podcast on Spotify, this book takes readers through the greatest hits that define a weirdly undefinable decade.
Win A Copy Of The Book 'To Die For: A 6:20 Novel' By David Baldacci

Nov 8, 2024 | redcarpetcrash.com | David Baldacci |Ausma Zehanat Khan |Rob Harvilla

The book is in stores on Tuesday, November 12th from Grand Central. Click on the link to buy a copy. https://amzn.to/46y6r44Travis Devine has become a pro at accomplishing any mission he’s given. But this time it’s not his skills that send him to Seattle to aid the FBI in escorting orphaned, twelve-year-old Betsy Odom to a meeting with her uncle, who’s under federal investigation. Instead, he’s hoping to lay low and keep off the radar of an enemy–the girl on the train.
Win A Copy Of The Book 'Clive Cussler Desolation Code: A NUMA Files Novel' By Graham Brown

Nov 8, 2024 | redcarpetcrash.com | Ausma Zehanat Khan |Rob Harvilla |David Baldacci

The book is in stores on Tuesday, November 12th from Putnam. Click on the link to buy a copy. Kurt Austin and the NUMA crew face swarms of deadly bio-hacked sea locusts, a runaway AI system, and a sinister cult in the latest novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series created by the “grand master of adventure” Clive Cussler. When Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala investigate a mass stranding of aquatic life in the Indian Ocean, they accidentally uncover a much deeper mystery.
"Blood Betrayal" sends readers on a twisting tale of race relations

Jul 21, 2024 | coloradosun.com | Ausma Zehanat Khan |Kevin Simpson

This is an excerpt from “Blood Betrayal,” the 2024 Colorado Book Award winner for Mystery. Harry loved his hometown, except on nights like these. The streets of Blackwater Falls were deep indigo, the darkness blotting out the foothills and cloaking the houses at the bottom of the hills. He couldn’t see much; he could only hear the footsteps he was chasing, young voices calling out to each other. He took a terrible moment to decide whether to call for backup or continue on by himself.
Ausma Zehanat Khan on Oppression, Rage, and Crafting a Palestinian Detective

Dec 20, 2023 | crimereads.com | Ausma Zehanat Khan

At its heart, Blood Betrayal is a novel about fathers and how they shape our sense of belonging. Two separate police shootings take place in the novel: that of Duante Young, a Black graffiti artist, and the killing of Mateo Ruiz, a gifted Latino musician who is shot during a drug raid. As my detectives, Inaya Rahman and Waqas Seif, dig into Duante’s life, they discover that his father’s early death unraveled him.
Deadly Game

Sep 26, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Ausma Zehanat Khan

Michael Caine. Mobius, $28 (230p) ISBN 978-1-399-70250-8Academy Award winner Caine adds to his résumé with this suspenseful debut. When a metal box containing weapons-grade uranium is discovered at a dump in Stepney, England, the race is on among various London gangs to get their hands on it. Afraid of the havoc a briefcase-size nuke could wreak, New Scotland Yard assigns Harry Taylor, a 45-year-old, Kipling-quoting old-school DCI, to retrieve the material.
The Bell in the Fog

Jun 26, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Lev Rosen |Ausma Zehanat Khan

Lev A.C. Rosen. Forge, $27.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-250-83425-6Rosen’s gripping second investigation for Andy Mills, San Francisco’s “only queer detective” (after 2022’s Lavender House), takes place in the city’s early 1950s underground gay scene. Andy, who was fired from the SFPD when his superiors learned he was gay, is still struggling to find clients for his private detective agency. One afternoon, James Morris, a captain in the Navy and Andy’s former lover, walks into his office.