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Courte biographie: Don Bruns is a musician, songwriter, advertising executive and award-winning novelist.

Bruns is the author of Jamaica Blue, Barbados Heat, South Beach Shakedown, St. Barts Breakdown and the forthcoming Bahama Burnout, a mystery series featuring rock and roll journalist Mick Sever. Bruns is also the author of Stuff to Die For and Stuff Dreams Are Made Of.

Bruns has also authored several short stories and served as editor of the anthology, A Merry Band of Murderers, which reached #5 on the Independent Mystery Bestsellers List in 2006. He is also a frequent contributor to The Little Blog of Murder.

A former road musician who traveled and performed throughout the US with major entertainment acts, Don Bruns recently released a CD of original songs called Last Flight Out, and performed two original songs at the 2004 Edgar Awards ceremonies.

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Thriller: An Anthology of New Mystery Short Stories… par Don Bruns

Thriller: An Anthology of New Mystery Short Stories, edited by Don Bruns, is the second in The Music and Murder Mystery Series following Hotel California, and is every bit as fun.

A collection is always going to be uneven, different writers, different voices, but this one holds together quite well with each story being solid. You'll have your favorites just as I did, but I think you will enjoy them all. The two writers with whom I was most familiar were Heather Graham and Jeffery Deaver, but I am now interested in looking up some of the other writers' works.

I tend to read a collection one story at a time, by which I mean I don't immediately start the next story, even if I plan to keep reading at the time. I will pick up one of the other books I am reading. I like to give the story a chance to sit with me before jumping into another story that might be thematically related and thus weaken the impact of both. That method works well here, these stories offer some things you might want to think about after reading.

Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via NetGalley.… (plus d'informations)

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pomo58 | Apr 26, 2023 |

The Great Filling Station Holdup: Crime Fiction… par Josh Pachter

Great idea for a book title each short story from a Jimmy Buffett song title.
Some of the stories are better than others Truck stop salvation, and Smart Woman in a Really Short Skirt, were both great. And some stories also stick to the storyline or loosely to what the song is about
Pascagoula Run and Who’s the Blonde Stranger.
Anyway a fun easy read.

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zmagic69 | Mar 31, 2023 |

Hotel California (The Music and Murder Mystery Series) par Don Bruns

Hotel California: An Anthology of New Mystery Short Stories
A collection of eight short stories. No introduction or summary, just the stories and a brief synopsis of authors. No apparent theme although murder is prevalent. The name is adopted from one of the stories.

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MM_Jones | Sep 6, 2022 |

A merry band of murderers : an original mystery… par Claudia Bishop

A collection of mystery stories, each one related to a song or a piece of music. Although the opening story is by one of my favourite music/mystery writers, [[Bill Moody]], there was little in this bland collection that was memorable.

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VivienneR | Oct 20, 2020 |

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