John O'Dowd--Pale Blue Jesus now out

“Jesus H. Christ, Walker, the answer is Levon Helm and it's the start of another perfect day...”

With that, Geoff Walker started a day he would never forget. There was never much trouble in Paloma, New Mexico. Geoff Walker, retired and bored, had to choose between being the small town’s marshal and chairman of the local school board and its three-room school. With a background in law and a dusty law degree packed in his attic, he chose marshal. Until the day that he found the body of Juan Valdez it had seemed like a good choice.

The old man had been crucified; complete with a crown of barbed-wire thorns and a message in blood above his head. Juan had not struggled before or during his crucifixion. All evidence seemed to point to the possibility that he had cooperated with his killer. Juan Valdez was involved with the Penitentes, a small, secret sect of a Catholic church that had moved into a modern age and left them behind. The Penitentes practiced a fundamentalist form of Christianity.

The Penitente recognized the value of pain. Only through suffering as Christ did would they be absolved of sin. No one but Geoff wants to know how and why Juan Valdez died. Through museums, art galleries in chic Santa Fe and state police stations in the cold desert, Geoff continues his search and discovers that the killer may not be a murderer and the crucifixion may not be a crime.

A mystery novel from the author of Mahko's Knife. Buy it at Amazon. Learn more about John O'Dowd at mahkosknife.blogspot.com

Creative Spirit & Troubled for UK Kindle

In the spirit of creativity and the belief that no book should be left for dead, Creative Spirit (published in the US as The Manor in 2005) and Troubled (published in the US as The Home in 2006) are now alive in the UK and for English in multiple other territories (though currently NOT the US and Canada).

Coming soon; John O'Dowd's mystery Pale Blue Jesus.

news updates and ad opportunities

Author John O'Dowd is working on the next book in the Mahko series--support him with a purchase and review from Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Mahkos-Knife-ebook/dp/B003980V5O

We're also working on print editions of Stephen James Price's Pages of Promises and putting together a debut novel from an exciting new author! Details soon.

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Mahko's Knife

Here's the cover of our upcoming March release, MAHKO'S KNIFE, the debut of a cool new voice in the action/thriller genre. We're in final formatting now. Author John O'Dowd has a dry wit and plenty of "field experience,' so look for this novel at Kindle, Smashwords, and wherever better ebooks are sold. We will probably get to a print version of this eventually. He fancies himself a modern-day Zane Grey but I'm pitching him as the "Tom Clancy of the desert," or something like that. You know, someone that sells! Say hello to John at the Mahko's Knife blog.