Andy Straka

Word Hunter/Bestselling Crime & Thriller Author of A Witness Above and other novels/Shamus Award Winner

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Split City: A Jesus Spares Mystery
Audible Audiobook – Unabridged
Andrew Tell (Narrator)

https://t.co/CzlHPCVtdM

Split City Lanes is home to "Jesus Spares", a church service, bowling, and social gathering where almost anything can happen.

#SplitCity
#AudioBooks
#MysteryBooks

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“Behind every great fortune there is a crime.”

That is the epigraph to The Godfather, by Mario Puzo.

-Slarskey

#GreatFortune #crime #crimes #TheGodfather

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“I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

#library #libraries #readingcommunity #readingforpleasure

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The show originally aired on NBC from 1971 to 1978. It was hugely popular back in the day. And the popularity of the show was not just in the United States, but worldwide. In Romania, people loved Columbo.

-No Film School

#columbo #PeterFalk #detectivefiction

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“I don’t like people. I don’t like any kind of people. When you get them together in a big lump they all get nasty and dirty and full of trouble. So I don’t like people including you. That’s what a misanthropist is.”
—Mickey Spillane, The Big Kill

#MickeySpillane #MikeHammer

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When a fingerprint is found at a crime scene it is known as a 'finger mark' or 'latent print'. Cross-checking these against other prints in police databases has the potential to link a series of crimes together.
-Interpol

#fingerprint #latentfingerprints #clues #AuthorResearch

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"True character is revealed in the choices a human being makes under pressure, the greater the pressure, the deeper the revelation, the truer the choice to the character's essential nature."
- Robert McKee
#CharacterBuilding #UnderPressure #revelation #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

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Gaslighting is a colloquialism, loosely defined as making someone question their own reality. The term derives from the title of the 1944 film Gaslight.
-Wikipedia

#gaslight #gaslighting #reality

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To keep score in bowling, add up the total number of pins you knocked down each turn. If you get a spare at any point, add 10 to the number of pins knocked down on the next roll.

Wikihow

#bowling #bowlingfun #bowlingisfun #bowlingalley #bowlingleague

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Your librarian or book seller can help you find exactly what you are looking for. Sometimes they can help you find something you didn't know you were looking for. It's the best, isn't it?

#librarian #bookseller #indiebookseller #bookrecs #bookrecommendations

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Crime scenes contain physical evidence that is pertinent to a criminal investigation.

#crimescene #crimes #authorresearch #writingcommunity

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EBook, audio book, paperback or hardcover...Whatever your preference is to enjoy books, it's available.

Audio is great for being on the go. EBooks are great for travel. At home I prefer either paperback or hardcover.

#bookrecs #bookformat #ebook #audiobook #paperback

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Supporting your favorite authors raises their visibility. Support may be shown in various ways. Your author will appreciate any effort you make.

#bookreviews #preorders #bookrecommendations #readingcommunity #visibility

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Alfred Hitchcock Trivia

One of his first films is lost to history.

“The Mountain Eagle” has disappeared, and today all that remains of the film is a handful of production photos and a lobby card that was found at a flea market.
-History.com

#MasterOfSuspense #Alf…

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Alfred Hitchcock Trivia

Hitchcock created more than 50 films, including the classics Rear Window, The 39 Steps and Psycho.
-Biography

#MasterOfSuspense #AlfredHitchcock #trivia #suspense #AuthorInfluences

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Alfred Hitchcock Trivia

He was not a fan of eggs.

"I'm frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me," he once said in an interview.
-Mental Floss

#MasterOfSuspense #AlfredHitchcock #trivia #suspense #AuthorInfluences

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Alfred Hitchcock Trivia

His wife was his closest collaborator.

Hitchcock worked w/many of the top talents in Hollywood, but his most trusted advisor was almost certainly his wife, Alma Reville.
-History.com

#MasterOfSuspense #AlfredHitchcock #trivia #suspense #Aut…

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Alfred Hitchcock Trivia

Nicknamed the "Master of Suspense," Hitchcock received the AFI's Life Achievement Award in 1979.
-Biography

#MasterOfSuspense #AlfredHitchcock #trivia #suspense #AuthorInfluences

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#AlfredHitchcock was afraid of law enforcement.

His lifelong fear of police stemmed from an incident in his childhood when his strict father punished him by sending him to the local Leytonstone police station.
-Mental Floss

#MasterOfSuspense #trivia #suspense #AuthorInfluences

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"Writing is hard work, and if anything's true about the process, it's that fact that a good story is hard to find and even trickier to get on paper. What's less romantic than staring alone at a blank screen?"
— Adam Johnson

#writing #writingcommunity #writinglife #writingthought

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Pavlicek’s investigation unearths long-buried secrets that someone would like to keep six feet under…along with the PI’s corpse.

- A Killing Sky
https://t.co/zAqSLr9yUw

#FrankPavlichek #falconer #MysteryBooks #MysteryNovel #MysteryAuthor #ReadingCommunity