If you love my Roland March series and wish you could introduce more people to the dogged and depressed Houston homicide cop, here's a perfect opportunity. Since Friday, the first book in the series, Back on Murder, has been available as a free e-book on a variety of platforms -- Kindle, Nook, and more. The goal in sharing the book this way is to hook more readers on the series. Over the weekend, Back on Murder became the #1 free title in Amazon's Kindle Store. Those numbers fluctate all the time, but it's good to know more readers are discovering Roland March for the first time.
Publishers Weekly called the world of Roland March "gritty and chilling," and Books & Culture editor John Wilson declared this "a series worth getting attached to." The three novels in the Roland March series are, in order of publication:
Back on Murder (2010)
Pattern of Wounds (2011)
Nothing to Hide (2012)
The stories focus on March's life and career as he investigates a gang-related murder somehow connected to a missing teenage girl, a knife-wielding serial killer stalking Houston's affluent West University neighborhood, and a deadly conspiracy involving the FBI and the Mexican cartels. The novels have been praised for their realism, for their writing, and for engaging thoughtfully with serious themes.
If you haven't read Back on Murder yet, download the free e-book and give it a try. If you like it, both of the follow-up volumes are available as specially priced e-books, too. If you're already a fan, share the news with your friends. You'll make this crime novelist very happy indeed.
I just finished the third one. Love them all! Got husband hooked on them as well.
Posted by: Renee | February 04, 2013 at 02:15 PM
That's great, Renee. I'm glad you loved 'em and passed them along!
Posted by: J. Mark Bertrand | February 04, 2013 at 02:19 PM
I really liked all three in the Roland March series! I couldn't put them down, as soon as I finished one I started the next. Is there going to be a "fourth" in the series?
Posted by: Rachel | March 14, 2013 at 07:42 PM
Thanks, Rachel! I have more books planned for the series. The next step is to find March a new publishing home. I'll keep you posted. :)
Posted by: J. Mark Bertrand | March 15, 2013 at 09:01 AM
Your Roland March series are among the best police procedurals I have ever read. Your excellence and skill take Christian fiction to a new level, and inspire me, as a writer, to dig deeper and strive harder. Thank you.
Posted by: Jayne E. Self | May 05, 2013 at 11:39 AM
Thanks, Jayne. That's good to hear! Best wishes on your work.
Posted by: J. Mark Bertrand | May 06, 2013 at 09:12 AM
Mark, I am Director of Write! Canada, Canada's largest Christian writers conference and I'd like to talk to you about the possibility of you coming and teaching. Would you please contact me at the email supplied here. Thank you.
Posted by: Jayne E. Self | May 07, 2013 at 11:41 AM