August 22,2025: Crime Read Recommendations and Pitches!

Aug 22, 2025

Two more terrific 2025 crime reads….

Leo by Deon Meyer

An attack on a young cyclist. A businessman’s murder. And a multi-million-dollar heist gone tragically wrong. Two South African detectives set out to discover what links them.

Girl Falling by Hayley Scrivenor

Three friends go mountain climbing. One plunges to her death.Was it suicide, a terrible accident – or something more sinister?

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So I’m juggling three pitches. Going out with that action-adventure series. Preparing to go out with that cozy murder mystery series. And finalizing a pitch for a series adaptation of that cult horror(ish) film series. Like most introverted writers, I am, of course, at my very best conveying my ideas in a structured, rehearsal public performance format.

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Tam Dixon

August 22, 2025 at 3:20 pm

Thanks for the book recommendations!

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imwebgurl

August 22, 2025 at 7:41 pm

Thanks, Joe. Putting them on my reservation list at the library. I’m currently reading The Invisible Life of Addie La Rue – a young woman bargains for immortality but is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets.

Cheers, Chev

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gforce

August 23, 2025 at 8:05 pm

The Girl Falling book reminded me of a true story that I read about a murder in Grand Canyon where a man and his wife were hiking in a fairly remote area below the rim and the wife “fell” on a particularly steep spot. Suspicion was raised as when he made his way back to the rim he went to take a shower and if I remember right get a meal before he even went to report the “accident”. Anyway, it was deemed an accident at the time for lack of evidence, but sure enough he confessed eventually. I’ve hiked by the exact spot near Page Springs off of Horseshoe Mesa and while it’s indeed extremely steep off the side of the trail, the trail itself is quite secure. You’d HAVE to be pushed.

Anyway, it was weird walking by that exact spot where a murder indeed had taken place years earlier.

https://www.nydailynews.com/2019/11/24/justice-story-a-trail-of-murder-in-the-grand-canyon/

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1. Joseph Mallozzi
  
  August 24, 2025 at 7:57 am
  
  Add this to the list of things I would never do!
  
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  1. gforce
    
    August 24, 2025 at 9:45 pm
    
    LOL! I did find a picture online of that section of trail. It’s as steep as I remember.
    
    https://www.bobspixels.com/kaibab.org/tr912/lg912111.jpg
    
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    1. Joseph Mallozzi
      
      August 25, 2025 at 5:31 pm
      
      No, thanks.
      
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gforce

August 23, 2025 at 8:39 pm

I meant to add – good luck with the pitches!

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