99c Sale: Murder on the Orient (SS) + The Real Steamship Behind the Mystery

Image: bogstown.com

From Murder on the Orient (SS): Author's Note

"When I started conjuring up the second adventure for the Agatha Christie Book Club, I wanted to take them on an exotic journey à la the infamous Orient Express—one of my favourite Hercule Poirot settings—and began looking around for ideas.

Boy, did I get lucky.

In the late 1800s/early 1900s, there really was a classic steamship called the SS Orient that sailed between London and Sydney, via the Cape and the Suez. According to my research, it was a sparkling ship, brimming with luxurious fittings and eclectic characters, and host to several rather suspicious deaths.

What a brilliant backdrop for my book club friends!

While I have tweaked some minor details for the sake of this contemporary plot (including the original itinerary), much of the information about the ship is authentic and my sources are listed in the bibliography at the back— with thanks.

This is fiction, however, folks. So I’m sad to say the   SS Orient has not been recommissioned nor is there a real-life replica floating about as I have imagined here, but an author can dream can’t she?

And a book club can jump aboard for the ride… 

Bon voyage!"

FOR MORE ON THE ORIGINAL SS ORIENT:

• The SS Orient Story by Roy Clifford and Dave Knight

• bogstown.com

• Museum Victoria

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Happy (cruisy) reading everyone.

xo Christina

Love Agatha Christie and Cozies? Love My Discounted Series!

Join My Book Club as They Channel Miss Marple in Their 1st Cozy Mystery — Book 1: Just 99c (one week only!)

Agatha Christie isn't just the Queen of Crime, she practically invented the Cozy Mystery genre, which is now one of the most popular crime genres in the world, and certainly my favourite (in case you hadn't worked that out).

In an effort to pay homage to the great Dame Agatha, and to provide my readers with fun cozy mysteries, I wrote my first Agatha Christie Book Club back in 2012—and it has gone on to be my best-selling book, out-selling my Ghostwriter Mystery Series two books to one!

Now Let me Make This Clear...

NO ONE can replace the Great Agatha Christie, certainly not author Sophie Hannah (who tried several times) and certainly not me.

And that was never my intention with this series.

Instead, my books take a fresh and contemporary approach; 'fanzines' if you like. In this series I've gathered a group of Agatha Christie devotees together, thrown a baffling mystery at them, then sat back and watched as the book club friends consider what Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple would do to sift through the clues, recognise the red herrings, and work out whodunnit. 

It's been a lot of fun to write and I hope you find it a fun read. I've since released a second adventure in the series: Murder on the Orient (SS) and have a third book due out for Christmas. 

If you haven't had a chance to read one, get in fast. Thanks to BookBub and Amazon, I'm discounting the first in the series—down from $3.99 to just 99c.

The offer starts on October 19 and runs until October 26. To grab your discounted copy, go straight to your fave e-store, to Amazon, or for BookBub subscribers in the UK, Australia, Canada or India, click here. 

Happy (cozy) reading everyone.

xo Christina (C.A.) Larmer

Killer Kindle sale

I'm about to make all my books, including the Ghostwriter Mystery series and The Agatha Christie Book Club, available in paperback, thanks to the wonders of CreateSpace. Before I do, however, I want to offer my readers the chance to purchase the ebooks at a greatly discounted rate.

Less than a buck!

For one week only ALL my ebooks will be available for just 99 cents on Kindle. This includes my very latest ghostwriter mystery, WORDS CAN KILL in which Roxy Parker packs her designer luggage and heads to Europe in a quest to find her missing boyfriend, Max. He's vanished from the face of the earth and his flatmate has shown up murdered. The cops suspect Max, but Roxy knows better ...

Now you can enjoy your copy of Words Can Kill for just 99 cents on Kindle. But you do need to be quick! This sale only lasts for seven days and then the book will revert to its original price of $3.69 on Amazon.

I do hope you log in, download and enjoy. And listen out for the upcoming launch of three new paperbacks!

Happy reading everyone.

xo Christina