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King Me

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A 2024 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award Gold Medal Winner

A 2024 IPPY Award Silver Medal Winner

"A pitch-perfect combination of action, mystery, and humor." —Anthony Award-winning author Gigi Pandian for Jove Brand Is Near Death

"Fans of both superheroes and pulp noir are sure to love Crawford's action-packed dialogue and descriptions." —Library Journal, for Heroes Ever Die

The King is Dead, and the Game is Afoot.

The hit TV show, The Lands Beyond, has become a cultural phenomenon, influencing fashion and baby name trends. Its creator, R. R. Reynard, masterminds the story each season, pitting the cast against each other in a toxic, kill or be killed, environment. But Reynard has even greater ambitions.

He's formed a feudalistic society of superfans who are willing to do anything to rise in the ranks and be officially canonized as a character on The Lands Beyond. With the show set to enter its final season, the cast, crew, and superfans attend a convention at the historic Chateau D'Loire. While holding court, Reynard is murdered, and the notebook holding all the secrets, twists, and endings disappears.

Enter Ken Allen, former D-list actor turned private eye.

As the body count rises, Ken discovers the stakes are far greater than just a television show. And the fantasy neophyte is about to learn that all is fair in love and war in The Lands Beyond.

For readers who love fun mysteries like the Spenser Series by Robert B. Parker, the Stephanie Plum Series by Janet Evanovich, and the M Murder Series by Anthony Horowitz.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      September 11, 2023
      Crawford’s wacky third adventure for movie star turned private eye Ken Allen (after 2022’s Heroes Never Die) riffs on Game of Thrones fandom. Ken’s latest client is R. R. Reynard, creator and writer of The Lands Beyond, a sword-and-sorcery television series with a huge pack of avid, cosplaying followers. Reynard asks Ken to meet him at the luxurious Chateau D’Loire, “a seven-story fairytale compilation of witch-hat towers and crenulated turrets,” during a fan convention; the showrunner turns up dressed as the king of diamonds and tells Ken he believes that someone is trying to kill him. Within minutes of this exchange, Reynard is dead, stabbed with the knife blades that adorn his crown, and a locked metal box containing all the plot points for The Lands Beyond’s final season is missing. Police put the hotel on lockdown, leaving Ken amidst sword-wielding fans and Lands Beyond cast members who harbor more than a little resentment about Reynard’s despotic reign over the show. Crawford’s gleeful skewering of obsessive fandom and gift for action sequences make this twisty, frothy whodunit whiz by. Readers will impatiently await the next installment. Agent: Lucienne Diver, Knight Agency.

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