BREAKING NEWS!! All five of my full-length mystery/thrillers are now available in unabridged audio form. ZERO TOLERANCE and KILL THE STORY led the way in early 2013 from Audible.com. My newest mystery, LAST CASE, was brought to life next in a can't-miss sound-recording treatment. An equally fine performance of FATAL DEAD LINES is finished and is now available. Finally, SECRETS OF THE DEAD has just been released in audiobook -- completing my full mystery library in unabridged audio. The voice performances by an array of talented actors will knock your socks off, adding so much to the white-knuckle narrative of my ripped-from-the-headlines thrillers. I really hope you will check them out!
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Now, a little more about me and my books:
Journalist John Luciew is the author of numerous ripped-from-the-headlines fictional thrillers that mix politics, corporate power and pulse-pounding suspense, including: KILL THE STORY, ZERO TOLERANCE, SECRETS OF THE DEAD, FATAL DEAD LINES, CORPORATE CUNNING, and now, LAST CASE. His non-fiction titles include the true-crime account, SUSPECT/VICTIM, and the real-life medical thriller, "CATASTROPHIC."
RAVES FOR AUTHOR JOHN LUCIEW AND HIS RIPPED-FROM-THE-HEADLINES THRILLERS:
“Luciew’s writing is assured.” – Publishers Weekly
“A great newspaper tale.” – Associated Press
“Highly recommended. While you read this book I bet you will be thinking what I thought: This would be a great movie!” – Amazon Reviews
“Luciew holds your interest and keeps you turning the pages.” – Mystery Forum
“What a great story. The author kept me riveted to the book. I couldn't wait to see what would happen next.” – Amazon Review
“Engaging and fierce, penetrating and shocking.” -- Mystery Forum
FROM THE AUTHOR:
If Hollywood was ever going to make a movie of one of my books, KILL THE STORY would be the one. It has everything -- a high concept, a deepening mystery rooted in actual events and more off-beat but convincingly real characters than you can count. This is journalism as I saw it -- both from the outside looking in and the inside out. It says nearly everything I have to say about the state of media today -- all without slowing the non-stop action one little bit. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I loved writing it.
Lenny Holcomb, my first literary character, spoke to me in much the same way the dead people of his obituaries speak to him. But after my first book, FATAL DEAD LINES, I found out Lenny and the dead people from his obits had more to say. Much more.
SECRETS OF THE DEAD, a specially updated sequel, completes Lenny Holcomb's intriguing saga, finally presenting his incredible story in full. I hope you enjoy it, discovering the many narrative arcs that bridge both books and come to a full and satisfying resolution by the final page.
ZERO TOLERANCE Is probably my most unique and unconventional book -- a thriller set in the cloaked, cloistered world of juvenile justice. Namely, a youth reform camp set in the outskirts of Pittsburgh, Pa. It also stands as my most researched novel to date. As a journalist, I spent years covering the Pennsylvania juvenile justice system at a time when the penalties and punishments for young offenders were being ratcheted up. All that authenticity is here -- along with a highly original plot that will have you guessing until the very last page.
LAST CASE, my newest thriller, is set in 1978, just as acclaimed horror director George A. Romero is gearing up to shoot his zombie cult classic "Dawn of the Dead" in the Monroeville Mall, just outside Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I was a bit too young back in 1978 to offer my able body as one of Romero's delightfully desiccated corpses in "Dawn of the Dead." But I will never, ever forget watching the Monroeville Mall - a place where I shopped for school clothes and cruised for girls - turned into a splatter-filled shopping fest for the undead.
I guess you could say it's haunted me all these years.
--jcl, Feb./2013
