That's right, our good friend Mark Coggins (see CW 7-8) is Back Again to bring us the first chapter of his new novel The Big Wake-Up! Yes! This book is just out, hot and follows the dead-body story of one Eva Perrone, Argentinian Bombshell and Opera Muse. Mark pulls no punches and takes no prisoners.

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We sincerely hope you'll head right over to your nearest bookstore or online retailer and pick up a copy of the complete novel as soon as you're done listening.

Bleak House Books published this book. If you'd like to hear more about this great independent publisher, and its sequel, Tyrus Books, come over here to check out my interviews with founder and publisher Ben LeRoy.

Mark Coggins is the award-winning author of the August Riordan series, featuring jazz bass-playing private eye Riordan. The San Francisco Chronicle has labeled his work, "smart, stylish, sexy" and Riordan "enjoyably jaded ... delicious." His website is: www.markcoggins.com

THE BIG WAKE-UP received a starred review from Publishers Weekly and Queen of Noir Megan Abbott (see CW-12) called the book "superb," declaring it what "you hope every PI novel will be." Mark lives in San Francisco with his wife Linda.

This week I'm also happy to include a promo for Diana Orgain's new novel Motherhood is Murder from Berkeley Prime Crime. Give her a look/listen at http://dianaorgain.com/.

Motherhood Is Murder comes out March 2nd and is available here.

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This is part two of Mark Coggins' "Ride a Red Dragon." Check Mark's page on this site for direct links to buy his books on Amazon.com. We're updating all the author pages with this capability, so when you find a writer you like, support them! Buy a book! Part of your payment to Amazon will support CrimeWAV as well.

Podiobooks.com is a great place to find more free podcast fiction. Check them out and give a listen.

We also have a new email address! info@crimewav.com 

Sorry folks, we found a few problems with the original posting of "Ride a Red Dragon" Pt. 1, so I've had to remix and re-post the file HERE.

Mark CogginsThis week's story
comes to us from the friendly streets of San Francisco circa 1920s and
is written by Mark Coggins. He gives us the first part of "Ride A Red
Dragon."

You can get more info about Mark at his site immortalgame.com and at his superb personal and crime blog Riordan's Desk. His most recent novel is RUNOFF from Bleak House Books. It's the fourth in his series of August Riordan novels.

He was also recently interviewed on the superlative podcast interview series Behind the Black Mask.

Promo this week is for Variant Frequencies, Podiobooks.com and The Failed Cities Monologues.