Real-life American journalist teaches cops how to catch serial killers with a data-crunching software

Bloomberg Business Week has the story about reporter Thomas Hargrove’s efforts to get homicide detectives to take notice. Unfortunately, it seems police in Gary, Indiana ignored Hargrove’s letters and emails about a potential serial killer in their city, only to realize too late that another five women would become victims before the suspect was arrested.

#Serialkillertracking #ThomasHargrove #BloombergBusiness Week

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-02-08/serial-killers-should-fear-this-algorithm

Fifty photos posted in gallery for Deadly Fare. Take a look!

It’s common practice for Hollywood producers to release video trailers and still photographs before the opening of a new motion picture. Things work a bit differently for book authors.

When I released my serial killer thriller Deadly Fare in October it was accompanied by an attractive book cover, courtesy of my daughter’s artistic talents. Without an eye-catching cover, a book doesn’t get much attention as potential readers surf the net for new titles.

Shortly after the book’s release on Amazon in ebook and paperback, I started reminiscing about certain dramatic scenes from Deadly Fare, which includes settings in Boston, along the North Shore, in Ireland and Mexico. Good guys, bad guys, some characters a bit of both. There are cops, mobsters, journalists, and an ex-Special Forces soldier trying to find his way after returning home. The book’s fair-haired beauty cares more about bringing criminals to justice than combing her hair.

So, on January 1, I posted a photo of an altar boy, the first of what I promised would be a gallery of 100 images, each related in some way to Deadly Fare. (At least in my mind). Today is my halftime celebration. There are now 50 photos in a carousel viewer posted on my website. You can view them here. https://www.davidliscio.com/deadly-fare/

I'll continue to post a new photo every day until the gallery contains 100. If you’ve already read Deadly Fare, have some fun by viewing the images. I’d be glad to hear from you anytime by email or through my website.

Deadly Fare enters Goodreads international giveaway

OK. Big event here -- an international book giveaway!

My serial killer thriller Deadly Fare is featured as a Goodreads giveaway starting today (February 16)  in the US and UK. More on that later. Meanwhile, please go over to Goodreads and enter the drawing for chance to win.
Here's where to find the giveaway: http://bit.ly/2kNJbHY

An inspiring 5-star review for Deadly Fare

"Brilliant Plotline"

Anita Waller is the acclaimed author of the thriller Beautiful and the sequel Angel, so her review of Deadly Fare means a lot to me.

The Girl in the Ice sells 1 million copies!

Yesterday was a great day for author Robert Bryndza and for crime fiction writers. The author's publisher announced that his crime fiction novel The Girl in the Ice has sold one million copies to date, which is pretty amazing since it was released less than a year ago.

The book has been a No. 1 Kindle bestseller in the U.S, Canada, Australia and the Netherlands, as well as a top-100 bestseller in France, Spain and India. It was the second biggest selling Kindle title of 2016 on Amazon and the rights were sold in 24 countries. More than 54,000 audio books have been sold. The books has earned over 6,000 5-star customer reviews on Amazon.

Now that's a good day!

In Good Company

 

I was lucky enough this week to be featured on Criminally Good, the much-trafficked blog by Lucy V. Hay -- blogger, writer, producer, script editor.
My interview appeared a few days after those featuring UK author Steph Broadribb, aka Crime Thriller Girl, whose novel Deep Down Dead is getting lots of attention from crime fiction fans, and Icelanic best-selling author Ragnar Jonasson, known for his popular Dark Iceland series. 
It's not every day that I get to be in such good company.

Author Steph Broadribb

Author Ragnar Jonasson

Here's a link to Criminally Good: www.lucyvhayauthor.com/news

The Perils of Being Home Alone

Most writers know what it's like to work from home, alone, with nobody to talk to or share the experience. Some days are harder than others. And then, somebody expresses the feeling better than you ever thought possible. 

Here's an article posted earlier today in The New Yorker. Absolutely hilarious.

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/i-work-from-home

Feeling Criminally Good

It's so exciting when bloggers, editors, other authors and crime fiction fans take notice of what you've written. In this case, it's Deadly Fare, my Boston-based serial killer thriller. 

Woke up this morning to see posted online the interview I did with Criminally Good, a popular site for crime fiction fans hosted by blogger/author/script editor Lucy V. Hay. For anyone who's interesed, here's the link: www.lucyvhayauthor.com/news 

La La Land won't lift you up

Saw La La Land tonight in a comfortable theater. Lots of color, music and dancing, but the message in the movie was a bummer: you can't pursue your dream and your love life simultaneously and expect them both to work out. #bummermovie

Authors depend on reader reviews

If you recently read a book and liked it, tell the author. But if you really want to help, post a review on Amazon and Goodreads, because doing so boosts an author's ranking and makes them more visible online. 

The review can be just a few words: Liked it. Enjoyed it. The book entertained me. I could relate to the story or the characters. 

How many languages do you speak?

Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language. -- H. Jackson Brown Jr. 

When Liberty Sleeps

I took this photo a few years ago in a small town north of Boston, Massachusetts, while on a magazine assignment. It sums up how I feel these days with all the bullshit that's happening in Washington. 

There are lots of fights going on across the aisle, Democrats versus Republicans, and all the other categories that divide our country. But nobody seems to be paying attention to the fact that Liberty has gone to sleep. Maybe she, too, is just exhausted. #WhenLibertySleeps #StatueofLiberty #DavidLiscioPhotography

The Wild World of Self-Publishing

Three months ago, after a year of writing and editing, I published my novel Deadly Fare on Amazon. With the cover design in place, I pushed the button and waited, not really knowing what would happen next. I had spread news of the event by word-of-mouth among friends and acquainances. Luckily, enough of them were listening and bought the book, which pushed its rankings into Amazon's Top-100 List of books in the organized crime category. 

Hannah Summers -- Deadly Fare Image No. 8

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then what I'm about to tell you is worth 100,000 words.

In October, I published Deadly Fare, my Boston-based serial killer thriller. Readers have been giving it five-star reviews on Amazon and Goodreads, which is certainly welcome news. But I decided readers might like more than just the words, so I have begun creating a gallery of images related directly to the book.

The first image was posted on this website on January 1 and I will continue to post a new image every day for 100 days. Today marks the eighth day, so the photograph of Massachusetts State Police Detective Lt. Hannah Summers takes center stage here as Deadly Fare Image No. 8.

I hope you enjoy matching the places and faces to the story as much as I did selecting them.

#Hannah Summers #HannahandDecker #DeadlyFare #Bostonauthor #Bostoncrime #MassachusettsStatePolice #serialkiller #DeadlyFarephotos

One sailor's obsession with a little boat

The January issue of SAILING Magazine contains my feature story and photographs on Chip Ahoy, the 22-foot Catalina sailboat that has been lovingly (some say obsessively) restored by Chip Ford of Marblehead, Massachusetts. #SAILINGMagazine #ChipFord #ChipAhoy #refit #Marblehead http://bit.ly/2iAiath

A thought on writing about serial killers

Art must sometimes be brutal in order to expose evil.  For a crime fiction writer, that can mean certain readers will look away, unwilling or unable to accept the pain and unease that occasionally accompanies harsh reality.

But if we are to understand these monsters, we must not gloss over the details of their misdeeds.

Maybe I’ll put a warning label on the cover of Deadly Fare.

Boston + Crime = Deadly Fare

Boston crime books are hot these days, which is why I really appreciated the latest 5-star review for Deadly Fare that a reader posted over Christmas. The serial killer thriller is all BOSTON BOSTON BOSTON. Here's what the reader had to say: "The book is hard to put down and very exciting." You can read the other 5-star reviews on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/Deadly-Fare-Serial-Kill…/…/B01M08IB7V

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Beguiled & Besmitten: Sailing Magazine feature

Read my story about sailing in Croatia that appears in the October issue of SAILING Magazine. Click the link below to start reading: http://www.sailingmagazine.net/news/features/1449-the-iod-whisperer.html.

Wet Assignment

When specialists from the New England Aquarium in Boston released a seal on Short Beach in Nahant, I waded into the surf to capture the action. I wanted a close-up that would show the transmitter with antenna attached to the seal to track its route. Boston Herald photographer Mark Garfinkel was also on the scene and clicked this photo  of me doing the job I love.

Meet the IOD Whisperer

Bruce Dyson of Marblehead, Massachusetts restores International One-Design Yachts. His passion for breathing new life into old boats has earned him the title, The IOD Whisperer. You can read my stories and my photos published in the February issue of SAILING Magazine, or view online at http://www.sailingmagazine.net/news/features/1449-the-iod-whisperer.html.