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BookBub Promotes Deadly Lullaby!

BookBub is featuring Deadly Lullaby: A Thriller during its June promotion of select eBooks.  Deadly Lullaby was selected as an International  Thriller Writers 2016 Award Finalist for Best eBook Original Novel (see the complete list of winners and nominees here). Download Deadly Lullaby today from any of the major eBook sellers at the limited time discounted […]

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Deadly Lullaby: by Robert McClure — “a relentless thrill ride”

On October 1, 2015, the book blog, Mythical Books, featured excerpts from Deadly Lullaby by Robert McClure, published by Penguin-Random House. This tour stop was appropriately titled “a relentless thrill ride”.  Click here to visit the Mythical Books web welcome for Deadly Lullaby.  Thanks for hosting us yesterday!   Previous book blog tour stops: ♥  BooksChatter […]

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Father-son crime thriller, Deadly Lullaby, leaves folks choked up, breathless!

In Deadly Lullaby: a thriller crime fiction novel, career hitman, Babe Crucci, looks forward to reconciling with his son, a rising LAPD detective, and putting a life of crime behind him, but can he?

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French translation of crime novel, Deadly Lullaby by Robert McClure

Today I firmed up plans to meet with my French publisher of Deadly Lullaby, esteemed editor Robert Pepin of Calmann-Levy, the oldest publisher in France. Robert is also a renowned translator of American crime fiction authors, and though he is a very busy senior editor at Calmann-Levy, he has paid me the distinct honor of […]

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19 days and counting!

My first published novel, Deadly Lullaby: A Thriller, will be released by Random House and its imprint, Alibi, on September 29, 2015.  Here’s another good review by Debbie Krenzer on Book Likes who notes that “there are several hold your breath moments” and concludes that the entertainment offered by Deadly Lullaby “is well worth the […]

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20 Days and Counting!

My first novel, Deadly Lullaby: A Thriller, goes live for the public to download on September 29, 2015 on all major e-book websites (Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Google Play Books, etc.).  Reviews from advance releases are starting to trickle in.  Andrew Eichner gives it a thumbs up on netgalley.com, stating: “I just found another author […]

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Los Angeles, the setting for Deadly Lullaby

Recently returned from L.A. and, whew, the jet lag from the Pacific to the Eastern time zones is a killer.  I took the scenic drive from LAX up Route 1 to beautiful Carpinteria, CA where I attended my nephew’s wedding.  I look forward to going back to visit them and do a little on-site research […]

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Czech and Slovak rights to Deadly Lullaby!

Yesterday my agents informed me that they accepted generous offers for Slovakian and Czech language rights for my first novel Deadly Lullaby from, respectively, Ikar and Euromedia. Publication is two years away due to the translation process but it’s worth the wait; these publishers are the very best in that region. I’m looking forward to […]

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Copy Editing Done!

I recently finished reviewing the final edits made by the copy editor assigned to Deadly Lullaby at Random House, Ted Allen.  A thoroughly professional job, making all the punctuation consistent, correcting a typo here and there, generally paying attention to the little things a fiction writer overlooks when swimming in the creative soup. I pushed […]

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Deadly Lullaby: A Thriller

Robert McClure’s new novel, Deadly Lullaby: A Thriller, is to be released by Random House Publishing Group and its imprint, Alibi, on September 29, 2015. For readers of Harlan Coben and Robert Crais, Robert McClure’s rollicking crime novel of family and felony takes readers on a relentless thrill ride through the L.A. underworld.   Fresh off a […]

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