Jeff–Saturday
I’m quick to do favors for people, but not very good at requesting the same for myself. I suspect it’s some sort of inborn thing. Yet, I believe the moment has arrived for me to test whether the relatively small favor I’m about to ask of a large group of people gathers momentum, or sits alone like a stone, ignored and unloved.
Cue the violins and tearful community sobs.
Fourteen years ago, Poisoned Pen Press published Murder in Mykonos, the first novel in my Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis series. Over the years Poisoned Pen published eleven more in the series, all but the last under the inimitable editorial guidance of the legendary Barbara Peters. But with Barbara gone from PPP, and it under new ownership, I sensed the time had come to move on.
And I have.
I’m pleased beyond words to announce that Kaldis #13, AT ANY COST, will be published on February 6, 2024, by SEVERN HOUSE, an imprint of Canongate Books. They’re a terrific team of people who’ve made me feel right at home from the very first words we exchanged. But on February 6th the rubber hits the road, and it comes down to selling books. I want to do my new publisher proud by doing just that.
Since no time is more important for selling books than the Preorder Period, at the bottom of this post are links to where you can purchase AT ANY COST online today, and be doing me a very large, much appreciated favor in the process.
For those of you who’d like to know a bit more about AT ANY COST, and my declaring it to be my best Kaldis book yet might not suffice, here’s what the jacket copy has to say:
Greece is burning and Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis is determined to save his country from disaster.
Chief Inspector Kaldis is initially dismayed to be asked to investigate a series of suspicious forest fires that took place last summer. In Greece, forest fires are an inevitability, and he fears he and his team are being set up to take the political blame for this year’s blazes.
He quickly becomes suspicious, though, that the forests were torched for profit – and for a project on a far grander scale than the usual low-level business corruption. There are whispers on the wind that shadowy foreign powers intend to establish a surreptitious mega-internet presence on the island of Syros, with the intent to weaponize the digital world to their own dark ends.
Can Kaldis and his team stop the hostile foreign takeover of the idyllic island – or will the rise of the metaverse set not just Greece, but the whole world, on fire?
AT ANY COST is available for preorder purchase at these locations:
Thanks,
–Jeff
