Border Town - The Song (iTunes)

BORDER TOWN

Coming May 2013

Bryson Wilde - Thriller # 4

Border Town, which is R.J. Jagger's current work-in-progress, is the first book that will have a song that goes with it, which will be available at iTunes and will also be featured in the audiobook version. The song will be entering production soon and will be completed by May when the book comes out. Here's a sneak-peek at the lyrics:

Going hard, going fast, going to border town

Maybe wrong, maybe right, give me border town

Give me a fight I can never win

Give me a night where I don’t care how much I sin

Getting lies, getting truth, going to border town

Making my first stand at border town

Give me stormy skies above

Give me a wicked girl that I could never love

(Bridge)

Going to tell you something

Right from the start

I’m going to find a treasure there

That’s off the chart

Getting trapped, getting lured down to border town

Every face is a danger in border town

So put some whiskey on your lips

Hike up your devil dress and shake your hips

The nights are darker in border town

Love's just a shadow in border town

So drink me up till I don’t care

Go ahead and dance on me until you’re everywhere

(Bridge)
Going to tell you something

Right here and now

It can make you twice alive

But you’ll never know how

A WAY WITH MURDER is coming in paperback on June 4, 2013

NY publisher Pegasus Books will release A WAY WITH MUREDER in paperback on June 4, 2013. Get it at Amazon, BN, your local library and wherever fine books are sold.

Private investigator Bryson Wilde (The Scroll Lawyers, The Shadow File, A Way With Murder) lives in an edgy 1952 world where the dames are dangerous, cigarettes dangle from ruby-red lips and the nights are hotter than whiskey-soaked jazz.

In this twisty noir thriller from acclaimed author R.J. Jagger, Wilde’s hunt for the person responsible for a string of brutal murders sends him spiraling into the seductive world of a beautiful young woman who increasingly becomes more and more dangerous to know. Jagger fans who have come to expect a fast paced thrill-ride set to an edgy beat will not be disappointed by this riveting noir thriller.

But, hey, forget the book and look at the cover! The cover illustration is by the renowned Robert A. Maguire who was one of the most talented and sought after pulp artists of the 1950s and 1960s. You got to love that cover!

AND KILL A LAWYER is available at Kindle !

AND KILL A LAWYER

In this riveting thriller from acclaimed author R.J. Jagger, a beautiful young attorney suffering from memory loss desperately tries to piece her past together only to find that the deeper she digs the more likely it is that she is the very killer that Denver homicide detective Nick Teffinger is closing in on. (410 pages)

BORDER TOWN - Jagger's Current Project

This is the thriller Jagger is currently writing.

So far it's coming along pretty good.

BORDER TOWN
Coming April or May 2013
Bryson Wilde - Thriller # 4

Private investigator Bryson Wilde lives in an edgy 1952 world where every dame is a danger, every case is a killer and every whiskey-soaked bar is a gateway to trouble. In R.J. Jagger’s riveting noir thriller, Border Town, Wilde finds himself entangled in a gritty case that sucks him across the Rio Grande into the hypnotic but deadly streets of Paso del Norte.

This book was inspired by Al Pacino's line in The Devil's Advocate, when he said to someone, "It has all the mystery of a border town." Pretty cool line. So, this is one of those books that started with nothing but a name and then got the pages filled in afterwards. Thanks, Al! I owe you one.

LOST TOMB is available at Kindle

LOST TOMB

In this edgy thriller from acclaimed author R.J. Jagger, Denver homicide detective Nick Teffinger tracks a killer to Paris expecting a dangerous but straightforward hunt. What he doesn't foresee is that he and a beautiful French detective would be pulled into a deadly game--a game that would stretch from Paris to Cairo to the Valley of the Kings; a game rooted in ancient tombs, archeological murders and lost treasures; a game that started thousands of years ago but is not over yet.

BANGKOK CONFIDENTIAL is available at Kindle !

BANGKOK CONFIDENTIAL

In this deadly whiplashed thriller set in the erotic haunts of Bangkok, Denver homicide detective Nick Teffinger frantically hunts for a friend who has gone missing, only to find his own life dangerously entangled with one of the local Soi Cowboy lovelies. (422 print pages)

NEVER TOO DEAD is now at Kindle

NEVER TOO DEAD

In this edgy erotic thriller from acclaimed author R.J. Jagger, Denver homicide detective Nick Teffinger gets warned by a beautiful young defense attorney that either she or Teffinger or both of them may be murdered within the next few hours.  

FATAL PREY is available at Kindle !

FATAL PREY

In this atmospherically-charged thriller from acclaimed author R.J. Jagger, San Francisco homicide detective Nick Teffinger frantically hunts for a deep killer who is on a schedule to take his next victim by the end of the week, and soon finds himself pulled into the edgy world of a beautiful young lawyer who is too mysterious to trust and too hypnotic to resist. (395 pages). 

WITNESS CHASE is coming as an audiobook.

We're thrilled to announce that

WITNESS CHASE is coming as an audiobook.

Narrated by the acclaimed David H. Lawrence, XVII.

Watch for it in May or June 2013. 

NIGHT LAWYERS is coming as a dramatized audiobook!

We are thrilled to announce that NIGHT LAWYERS will be coming as a dramatized audiobook. It will be produced by one of the best kept secrets in audio production, namely a very cool LA production company called Pulp Radio, headed up by Roger Rittner. A dramatized narration includes sound effects, musical scores and other audio cues in the background, much like old-time radio.

The renowned Richard Epcar will do the narration, with Roger's team laying in the drama. For a sample of Richard's outstanding work, check out his "White Eyes" Doc Savage production, which is in a dramatized format.  Very exciting!

GEISHA RUN is available at Kindle !

GEISHA RUN

In a desperate chase unsanctioned by both his chief and by Japanese authorities, Denver homicide detective Nick Teffinger negotiates the dark haunts of Tokyo in a last ditch effort to stop an unstoppable killer whose wake of terror has cut through three continents and is now entering Japan. (345 pages)

Denver homicide detective Nick Teffinger "leaves for Japan on an unsanctioned pursuit. As [Teffinger] draws closer to the killer, more victims are discovered, and the pattern of a twisted murderer revealed. Drawn into the intrigue is a cast of provocative characters who move in and out of Tokyo’s gritty underworld. Verdict This fast-paced book offers fans of commercial thrillers a twisty, action-packed thrill ride." --Library Journal

NIGHT LAWYERS is available at Kindle !

NIGHT LAWYERS

In this riveting thriller from acclaimed author R.J. Jagger, Denver homicide detective Nick Teffinger frantically hunts for a vicious killer only to find himself increasingly tangled in the hypnotic web of a beautiful private investigator who is working for a high-profile attorney. (75 pages)

LAWYER TRAP and A WAY WITH MURDER are coming as audiobooks

The audiobook sub-rights to LAWYER TRAP and A WAY WITH MURDER have been sold from NY publisher Pegasus Book to Audible (an Amazon company). We anticipate that the audiobook versions of these two thrillers will be fully produced and live sometime in 2013. It is unknown at this time who the narrators will be but with a cutting-edge group like Audible at the helm, we anticipate nothing less than first-class products. Very exciting.

THE SHADOW FILE is now available as an audiobook!

THE SHADOW FILE in now available as an audiobook
at Amazon, Audible and iTunes.
Thanks to David H. Lawrence XVII for a great narration!

Bryson Wilde, investigator for hire, lives in an edgy world where the dames are dangerous, cigarettes dangle from ruby-red lips and the nights are hotter than whiskey-soaked jazz. In this riveting noir thriller from R.J. Jagger, Senn-Rae Vaughn, Esq., a beautiful young solo attorney, hires private investigator Bryson Wilde to conduct an investigation on behalf of her client that is so dangerous and against the rules that she can’t even tell her client it is being done. Almost immediately both Senn-Rae and Wilde are thrust into a staggering thriller of unimaginable consequences. (375 pages) 

The best Beatles song you never heard.

In the new Teffinger thriller, THE HAVANA FILE, a Beatles song comes on the radio. Teffinger knows it only too well but, unfortunately, most people don't. Here's the scene, followed by the song:

They pulled into traffic and pointed the front end towards Chinatown.

Del Rey turned on the radio and worked the knobs until she found a Beatles station.

    We’ve been friends for, oh, so long,

I let you share what’s mine.

When you mess with the girl I love,

It’s time to draw the line.

Keep your hands off my baby,

Ain’t a-gonna tell you, but a one more time—

So keep your hands off my baby

Boy, you get it through your head,

That girl is mine.

“I never heard that one,” she said.

“It never went onto one of their albums. We can’t sleep at the hotel tonight. That’s where our blue-car friend is picking us up from.”

“I agree.”

“We’ll find something cheap and pay cash.”

ATTORNEY PREY is now available in audiobook format

We're thrilled to announce that ATTORNEY PREY is now available as an audiobook at Amazon, Audible and iTunes, narrated beyond perfection by David H. Lawrence XVII. This is the 8th Jagger book to be made available in audio format. Several more are in production and will be released in 2013. 

"In this riveting novella from acclaimed author R.J. Jagger, Denver homicide detective Nick Teffinger spirals into the addictive maze of a beautiful young criminal defense attorney who has murder on her mind."

LAWYER TRAP is coming in paperback on December 14, 2012 !

LAWYER TRAP, which was released by Pegasus Books in hardcover in November 2011, is now coming in paperback on December 14, 2012. You can also get it at your local Barnes & Noble and, of course, it will start to trickle into libraries over the next several months.

Fiction Writing for Lawyers

I'm thrilled to be one of the four speakers at Fiction Writing for Lawyers, sponsored by the Colorado Bar Association, Thursday, September 20, 2012, 11:30 - 1:30, Denver, Colorado. Register or get more information here.  Hope to see you there!

Attorney's Run Trailer

Attorney's Run is available at Kindle and also as an unabridged audiobook at Audible, Amazon and iTunes.

CONFIDENTIAL PREY audiobook is now available!

The unabridged audiobook of CONFIDENTIAL PREY is available at Audible, Amazon and iTunes for only $6.95. Narrated pitch-perfect by voice-over master Basil Sands.

In this riveting novella (72 pages; 1 hour 36 minutes unabridged audiobook) from master thriller author R.J. Jagger, Denver homicide detective Nick Teffinger finds himself entangled with a beautiful TV correspondent who is chasing a deadly story that may in turn be chasing her.

Get your femme fatale on!

A WAY WITH MURDER is coming in hardcover from Pegasus Books on August 1, 2012. Are you femme fatale enough to handle it?

Join R.J. Jagger at the Thriller Roundtable on August 13-19, 2012.

Please join R.J. Jagger and several other members of the International Thriller Writers for a Thriller Roundtable on August 13-19, 2012, where we will be discussing the question: The Legal Thriller: How do you recreate the legal world?  Come join us, bring your questions and get our best answers. It's going to be a thriller!

FATAL PREY is on Kindle

FATAL PREY is on Kindle for a mere $4.95. Such a deal. San Francisco homicide detective Nick Teffinger frantically hunts for an elusive killer who is poised to take the next victim by the end of the week. (395 pages).

LAWYER KILL is now available as an audiobook!

I am thrilled to announce that LAWYER KILL is now available as an audiobook at iTunes, Audible and Amazon.com. It is always a pleasure and an honor when a talented narrator brings a book to life. The narrator in this case is comedian, TV commercial personality, and voiceover artist Kiff VandenHeuvel, who you probably know from the Denny's commercials. Kiff absolutely nailed the narration of this book. Thanks Kiff for doing such a fantastic job! 

Lawyer Kill

Narrated by Kiff VandenHeuvel

Fiction Writing for Attorneys

R.J. Jagger is thrilled to be a panelist on FICTION WRITING FOR ATTORNEYS. Sponsored by the Colorado Bar Association, this program will be held in Denver on September 20, 2012. Visit www.cobar.org for details.

A Way With Murder is coming to Mysterious Bookshop's Hardboiled Book Club

It's a thrill to announce that "the world's finest mystery specialty store," Mysterious Bookshop in New York, has chosen A Way With Murder (pub date 08/01/12) to be a selection of the Hardboiled Book Club for the month of August 2012.  Very cool.

ANCIENT PREY is now available as an audiobook.

ANCIENT PREY is now available as an unabridged audiobook at Audible, Amazon and iTunes. In this riveting thriller narrated pitch-perfect by voice master Basil Sands, Denver homicide detective Nick Teffinger follows a killer to Paris where he and a beautiful young French detective devise a brilliant but risky plan to trap their elusive target before he can take his next kill. (6 hr. 52 min.)

Attorney's Run is available in audiobook!

R.J. Jagger's thriller ATTORNEY'S RUN is now available in audiobook at Audible, iTunes and Amazon. Narrated by the incredible Ken Polk.

The audiobook version of A Twist of Sin is now available!

Listen to the first three chapters!

The audiobook version of A Twist of Sin is now available at Audible, iTunes and Amazon.

Narrated by the highly talented Barry Campbell.

R.J. Jagger's spanking new thriller, Confidential Prey (Nick Teffinger Thriller 15 - Novella), is now available!

In this riveting novella (72 pages) from master thriller author R.J. Jagger, Denver homicide detective Nick Teffinger finds himself entangled in the world of a beautiful TV correspondent who is chasing a deadly story that may in turn be chasing her.

At Kindle Here
Coming soon as an audiobook.

BookBitch weighs in on A Way With Murder

Pegasus Books will release A Way With Murder in hardcover on August 1, 2012 followed by a trade paperback or mass-market re-print in 2013. Many thanks to Jack Quick over at BookBitch for weighing in with the following pre-publication book review:

A WAY WITH MURDER by R.J. Jagger:  
Set in the early 1950’s, Denver PI Bryson Wilde is first cousin to LA’s Philip Marlowe and New York’s Mike Hammer. So when a curvy young thing brings him an envelope of money and asks for his help in finding a killer, he flicks the butt of his Camel out the open window and starts earning the dough. How could he know just how complicated a maze he was entering.  There’s lots of lovely ladies, action, adventure, treasure – all interwoven to produce a heck of a tale that will keep you up reading all night – at least it did me.  At the end I was totally exhausted by the twists and turns, but highly satisfied with the read. --BookBitch

R.J. Jagger's thriller Attorney Prey (Nick Teffinger Thriller 14 - Novella) is now available!

In this riveting novella (60 pages) from acclaimed author R.J. Jagger, Denver homicide detective Nick Teffinger spirals into the addictive maze of a beautiful young criminal defense attorney who has murder on her mind.

At Kindle Here.

Attorney Prey is also coming soon as an audiobook.
Narrated by David H. Lawrence XVII.

Cover Art by Harry Bennett

The Shadow File - New Cover

Bryson Wilde, investigator for hire, lives in an edgy world where the dames are dangerous, cigarettes dangle from ruby-red lips and the nights are hotter than whiskey-soaked jazz. In this riveting noir thriller from R.J. Jagger, The Shadow File (402 p.), Senn-Rae Vaughn, Esq., a beautiful young solo attorney, hires Wilde to conduct an investigation on behalf of her client that is so dangerous and against the rules that she can’t even tell her client it is being done. Almost immediately both Senn-Rae and Wilde are thrust into a staggering thriller of unimaginable consequences.

Thanks, John!

Many thanks to John from Sydney, Australia, who sent me an email pointing out a mistake in the text of Bad Client. Thanks, mate!

Witness Chase - New Cover

Pretty Little Lawyer (Nick Teffinger Thriller 4) - New Cover

Law student Paige Deverex gets her perfect life jolted to a stop by a chilling telephone call from a stranger. He gives her the option to either attempt to save the life of his next victim or hang up and never be bothered again. What follows is a deadly thriller set in the throes of lust, power and greed.

Available at Kindle here.

Dead in Hong Kong

Buckle up and hold on tight for the exotic dangers of Dead in Hong Kongl, one of the most riveting pulse-pounding thrillers yet to come from the pen of acclaimed author R.J. Jagger. In this sinfully-charged thrill-ride, homicide detective Nick Teffinger finds himself negotiating the dark undercurrents of Hong Kong in a frantic effort to prevent the impending murder of a beautiful china doll who he knows only from a few brief hours of anonymous lust.

Available exclusively at Kindle here.

Attorney's Run - New Cover

Fresh out of law school, London Vaughn discovers there's no room in Denver's prominent law firms for a middle-of-the-class graduate. While barely making ends meet as a waitress, she encounters a beautiful woman who engages her services irrespective that she has no experience, no office and no reputation. Almost immediately, London and her client are thrust into the deadly throes of a high-stakes international thriller of unimaginable scope.

Available exclusively on Kindle here.

R.J. Jagger's "The Scroll Lawyers" Audiobook is Available

We are excited to announce that the audiobook version of R.J. Jagger's noir thriller, The Scroll Lawyers, is available for purchase at amazon.com, audible.com and iTunes. Check out one of the links for a free sample of this noir thriller narrated by the extraordinarily talented voice over artist, David H. Lawrence XVII.

R.J. Jagger's Thrillers are Coming as Audiobooks

There has been a tremendous amount of demand for Jagger's thrillers in audiobook format. So, we are pleased to announce that they will be made available as downloadable audiobooks at Audible, amazon.com and iTunes, with the first one (The Scroll Lawyers) arriving in early December 2011 and the rest following in the first half of 2012.

The Scroll Lawyers

Narrated by David H. Lawrence XVII

Pub Date: December 2011

Attorney's Run

Narrated by Ken S. Polk

Pub date: Early 2012

The Shadow File

Narrated by David H. Lawrence XVII

Pub date: Early 2012

Lawyer Kill

Narrated by Kiff VandenHeuvel

Pub date: April 2012

A Twist of Sin

Narrated by Barry L. Campbell

Pub Date: January 2012

Pretty Little Lawyer

Narrated by Katherine Joan Taylor

Pub Date: Feb. 2012

Ancient Prey

Narrated by Basil Sands

Pub Date: May 2012

Witness Chase

Narrated by Tim Lundeen

Pub Date: August 2012

R.J. Jagger's Thrillers Are Now Available at Apple's iBookstore

We are thrilled to announce that the entire collection of R.J. Jagger's thrillers has been added to Apple's iBookstore. Get them at iTunes for a mere $4.99 each. Such a deal.

UPDATE 12/19/11: Most of these books were pulled from iBookstore so they could participate in Amazon's KDP Select program. They will likely be restored in iBookstore in March 2012.

R.J. Jagger Finally Gives an Interview

R.J. Jagger finally gives an interview. It's for the International Thriller Writers and can be found here. Many thanks to author Gary Kriss who conducted the interview and wove all of Jagger's incoherent ramblings into a seamless article that actually makes sense. Thanks Gary!

R.J. Jagger's "A Way With Murder" (Hardcover) is Coming from Pegasus on August 1, 2012

In a deal brokered by Lukeman Literary Agency, R.J. Jagger's A WAY WITH MURDER has been picked up by NY publisher Pegasus Books and will be released in hardcover on August 1, 2012 followed by a trade paperback or mass-market re-print in 2013. The HC is available for pre-order at Amazon.

Private investigator Bryson Wilde (The Scroll Lawyers, The Shadow File, A Way With Murder) lives in an edgy 1952 world where the dames are dangerous, cigarettes dangle from ruby-red lips and the nights are hotter than whiskey-soaked jazz.

In this twisty noir thriller from acclaimed author R.J. Jagger, Wilde’s hunt for the person responsible for a string of brutal murders sends him spiraling into the seductive world of a beautiful young woman who increasingly becomes more and more dangerous to know. Jagger fans who have come to expect a fast paced thrill-ride set to an edgy beat will not be disappointed by this riveting noir thriller.

But, hey, forget the book and look at the cover! The cover illustration is by the renowned Robert A. Maguire who was one of the most talented and sought after pulp artists of the 1950s and 1960s. You got to love that cover!

Lawyer Trap (Hardcover) is coming from Pegasus on November 16, 2011

"VERDICT The pacing is relentless in this debut, a hard-boiled sexual slasher novel with a shocking ending--" Library Journal

"[T]he well-crafted story line makes this a worthwhile read. Stuffed with gratuitous sex and over-the-top violence, this novel has a riveting plot--" Kirkus Reviews

"Lawyer Trap is a terrifying, gripping cross between James Patterson and John Grisham. Jagger has created a truly killer thriller." -- J.A. Konrath

Lawyer Trap will be released by Pegasus Books in hardcover on November 16, 2011. Information on the film rights can be found at the Lukeman Literary Agency. The book is in stock at Amazon. Watch for it in stores and libraries both in hardcover and digital format. The trade paperback or mass-market edition will be released in 2012.

Synopsis: Newly-licensed attorney Aspen Wilde joins Denver’s largest law firm to discover that an attractive, up-and-coming associate mysteriously vanished several months earlier and is presumed dead. She secretly embarks upon a brilliant but dangerous plan to trap the killer only to find herself increasingly intertwined in a complex web of murders involving several different women killed in very different ways. As she frantically searches for answers, not only to trap the killer but also to keep herself from getting trapped, her hunt collides with the ongoing investigation of Denver homicide detective Nick Teffinger, a man who has strayed into the edgy world of a beautiful suspect to find out if she is a murderer, a target, or something else altogether.With the stakes suddenly higher than they could have imagined, Aspen and Teffinger find themselves spiraling deeper and deeper into a deadly vortex where nothing is as it seems and time is running out.

Client Trap - New Kindle Cover

This is the new Kindle cover for Client Trap.

Lawyer Kill

The newest Nick Teffinger thriller, LAWYER KILL, is available on Kindle here.

When a young associate attorney at a prominent law firm is brutally murdered, Denver homicide detective Nick Teffinger finds himself swept into the exotic world of Pantage Phair, a beautiful young attorney suffering from memory loss who is desperately trying to piece her past together only to find that the deeper she digs the more she may be the very killer that Teffinger is closing in on.