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“Several young aspiring starlets are murdered in Hollywood, California, possibly at the bidding of one of Tinsel Town’s heavy hitters. When Frank Mango is hired to find a woman’s missing sister, he fears she might fall prey to the Sunset Killer. Reading like a highly suspenseful combination of hardboiled prose and standup comedy, Kiss of the Devil’s Breath will keep you guessing and laughing. Readers will want to get to know Frank Mango, the fat, funny private eye with the fruity name.”

Debbi Mack, New York Times bestselling author of the Sam McRae mystery series

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THE BRAIN VAULT by LAWRENCE KELTER (STEPHANIE CHALICE MYSTERIES)
by frustratedyukkymummy Pro @ 2012-02-13 – 09:37:58
SUMMARY
Detective Chalice is called into action when a unconscious man is found in Central Park. Barely alive, John Doe is clad only in a torn bed sheet and has sustained a life threatening wound. His body is covered in scars, essentially a tapestry chronicling his history as a torture victim. Stranger still, a human skull lies just inches away. Chalice has just two leads in this case, a skull that has been sterilized and found to be evidence free, and an comatose witness to a murder—tough odds, even for NYPD’s best and brightest.

The opening chapter of this book plays out like the opening scenes of an episode of Bones – feisty, flirty dialogue between the two characters, skulls popping out, and a perp attack with a Taser!

I love crime thrillers, the grisly the better and as one of the baddies turns out to be reminiscent of the freak in Creep, complete with dark train tunnels and the odd rat, this book satisfied my appetite and then some. Stephanie Chalice (Cha-lee-see) is a formidable girl in blue, complete with hot body, penchant for gym sessions and an uncanny sixth sense which never lets her down. Team that with FBI Agent Ambler and her sexy partner, Lido and you have yourself a fantastic book. Realistic, gripping, gritty, this meaty story is easily one of the best books I have read for a while. My only regret is not reading the books in order. Not that this detracts from the story in any way, but I shall be checking out the other works in the series as soon as I can. Kelter is a master, pure and simple. Stephanie is right up there with James Patterson’s character, Lindsey Boxer, and we all know how strong a female she is…

Rachel Dove, The Kindle Book Review

Anyone interested in a love story written by a crime novelist?
SEASON OF FAITH will be released on Valentines Day. Here’s the teaser and I hope you’ll check it out when it’s released next week.

This is the story of Joshua and Rocky, two young teens from entirely different worlds, who collide in the heat of a New York summer. A naïve kid from California, Joshua comes to New York to visit with his Uncle Jake, a sentimental elder whose eccentricities are only exceeded by his warmth and passion for life. Rocky is the tragic and beautiful daughter of a rabbi from Brooklyn, whose one dying wish is to become a complete woman before she runs out of time. With seemingly little in common, the two young friends quickly find that they are incomplete without each other and that the span of a brief summer is all time they may ever have. It is with this realization in mind that they are able to embrace hope in the face of a tragedy few relationships could endure.

WOW! I’d love to see this, but with tickets from $150 -$1,000… Clapton, Keith Richards, Derek Trucks, Buddy Guy…
Anyone want to take an up an up and coming writer to a concert?

HOWLIN’ FOR HUBERT AT THE APOLLO THEATER
CELEBRATING THE MUSICAL LEGACY OF HUBERT SUMLIN
A Benefit for the Jazz Foundation of America
Friday, February 24 at 8 p.m.

A celebration of the musical legacy of the late Hubert Sumlin and his influence on every guitar hero of today to benefit the Jazz Foundation of America.

Scheduled to appear: Doyle Bramhall II, Eric Clapton, Gary Clark, Jr., James Cotton, Shemekia Copeland, Billy Flynn, Barrelhouse Chuck Goering, Buddy Guy, David Johansen, Steve Jordan, Danny Kortchmar, Dr. John, Keb Mo, Todd Mohr, Ivan Neville, Robert Randolph, Keith Richards, Kenny Wayne Sheperd, Larry Taylor, Susan Tedeschi, Derek Trucks, Jimmie Vaughan, Jimmie Vivino, Willie Weeks, Jody Williams, Kim Wilson and special surprise guests.

Did you see The Big Bang Theory tonight? If you’ve got an iPhone 4S ask Siri the same questions Raj asked-most of the answers are legit. One of the funniest episodes ever.

Being #2 can be tough… but not today. RANSOM BEACH has been living in the shadow of DON’T CLOSE YOUR EYES for the past several months content to be the second best seller in The Stephanie Chalice Mystery Series. RANSOM BEACH said, “Take that!” It became a TOP 100 NOOK BOOK this morning. Can’t thank you enough for all of your loyalty and support.

PS: This is the best January ever. Sunny and 57 degrees in NY today. Take a few minutes; close that book and go get some fresh air. Enjoy!

I don’t want you to think I’ve lost my sense of humor, but I plan on releasing my first love story pretty soon. The title is SEASON OF FAITH.

Don’t worry, I’m not going Woody Allen on you-quirky, wisecracking Stephanie Chalice will be back this summer.

Unbelievable as it may sound, after 50 days on Amazon’s Top 100 Seller List of Mysteries, Thrillers, and Suspense, I discovered that there was an error with Kindle’s file conversion of DON’T CLOSE YOUR EYES. As a result, there were many unnecessary hyphenated words in the text that readers may have found distracting. I’m happy to report that Kindle has corrected the file conversion error. Please let me know If you purchased DON’T CLOSE YOUR EYES and experienced this issue so that I can get the corrected ebook into your hands.

Please write to me at the following address: larry@lawrencekelter.com.

Hi Everyone: I received a nice endorsement from the great Simon Wood.
Hope you get a chance to check out Frank Mango in KISS OF THE DEVIL’S BREATH.

“This is what they mean by pulp fiction.”
–Simon Wood, author of TERMINATED