A busy month is underway and I welcome it. Focusing on writing and promotion helps with my recovery from the sixteen chemo/immunotherapy cancer treatments. And now that phase is finally over! Yay! But a mastectomy and lymph node removal are only two weeks away. My family is happy to cook the Easter dinner for me this year. I’ve also been getting out for walks and appreciating the camelia buds that started to bloom at the beginning of March. The buds appeared earlier than usual, but we’ve enjoyed a mild winter here in Metro Vancouver, until the temperatures dropped this week and it snowed!

This month, I’m offering a $.99 sale for Casey Holland mystery #6, The Blade Man. Please note that these books can be read in any order. Below is a short blurb:

Who is the Blade Man and why has this mysterious loner been attacking Mainland Public Transport bus drivers? And who is trying to burn MPT down? The company’s president orders security officer Casey Holland to launch an internal investigation or face termination. Convinced she’s being set up to fail and with her wedding only weeks away, Casey desperately needs answers. Forced to take deeper risks, how far can Casey go before someone dies?

This book was inspired by the growing number of assaults on bus drivers in our area before and after Covid. I interviewed one young man who’d been assaulted three times and has since quit his job. The Blade Man and other ebooks in a variety of genres can be found at:

.https://books.bookfunnel.com/anyunderdollarfive/4u7sz0b64j

Or you can go directly to Amazon, Kobo, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Google Play

I’m also taking part in a BookFunnel newsletter signup featuring mystery, suspense, thriller, and horror books, sample chapters and excerpts which you can find at: https://books.bookfunnel.com/anyfreethrillerhorror/2knojy317k

WHAT I’VE BEEN WATCHING

Did any of you watch The Copenhagen Test starring Simu Liu? It was an excellent spy thriller with a unique twist. Alexander Hale is a first-generation Chinese American who discovers that someone’s implanted tech in his brain that allows the villain to see and hear everything he does. Not an enviable position, given that he works for a secretive government agency. I’m hoping there’ll be a second season. It’s quite compelling.

I’m also enjoying the fourth season of Dark Winds, which is a superb police procedural/thriller based on the excellent crime novels by Tony Hillerman. This season, Navajo Tribal Police officers Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee are searching for a sixteen-year-old runaway who is inadvertently leading them into a deep and complex situation. Chee and Leaphorn find themselves in Los Angeles, where both are facing personal struggles. If you haven’t seen this series, give it a try.

That’s it for now. I hope to be back in mid-April, but we’ll see how surgery goes. Meanwhile, happy reading and viewing!

Debra Purdy Kong

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