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Boisjoly Back in Buccaneering Baffler!

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Mystery and Malice aboard RMS Ballast, the eighth Anty Boisjoly Mystery, embarks for the open seas on March 1st and, finally, we have a pirate number.

Anty, Vickers, Inspector Wittersham, and a passenger list of howling eccentrics find themselves prey to the sway and spray of the Scilly Seas when what at first seems a simple, unexplainable, locked-stateroom murder twists into a tale of buried treasure, perilous weather and dangerous endeavours at sea.

When we first embark, romance is in the ocean air as Anty conspires to win the heart of Frederica Hannibal-Pool aboard her uncle’s yacht, but when dashing Dare Flashburn joins the journey telling tales of pirate gold, the moonlight crossing becomes a stormy odyssey of mutiny and murder and mal de mer.

Mystery and Malice aboard RMS Ballast is available on pre-order as of here and now.

There’s a cryptic clue to one of many mysteries aboard RMS Ballast in this month’s newsletter which also features two new Anty cartoons. Get your February newsletter now while supplies last:  http://indefensiblepublishing.com/newsletters/

A Twisty Misty Listeny Mystery

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Production is sufficiently advanced to lay claim to a publication date for the audiobook of The Case of the Case of Kilcladdich, Anty’s twisty misty whisky mystery.

Tim Bruce returns this time as Anty and Vickers and two entire Scottish villages, sheep included, and manages to keep everyone distinct and distilled and delightful, even after the whisky kicks in during a golf match which is frankly hilarious on paper but which Tim raises to a pro tour de force.

In The Case of the Case of Kilcladdich, Anty travels to the timeless source waters of Glen Glennegie to help decide the fate of his family’s favourite ferment, but an impossible locked room murder is only one of a multitude of mysteries that try Anty’s wits and witticisms to their northern limit.

Time trickles down on the traditional tipple as Anty unravels family feuds, ruptured romance, shepherdless sheep, and a series of suspiciously surfacing secrets to sort out who killed whom and how and why and who might be next to die.

We know from experience that the universe laughs at those who announce specific publication dates for their audiobooks, so let’s say that The Case of the Case of Kilcladdich will be available on audio from around March 1st. In practice, it should start appearing in your favourite storefronts from February 21st and then gently age in a barrel of Audible until some special moment in early March.

Foreboding Foretelling at Ficklehouse Felling is Finally Finished and Finessed

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Anty Boisjoly is back with his reddest-of-herringed, twistiest-of-turned, locked-roomiest manor house mystery yet.

It’s a classic, manor house, mystery-within-a-locked-room-mystery for Anty Boisjoly, when a death is foretold by a mystic that Anty’s sure is a charlatan. But when an impossible murder follows the foretelling, Anty and his old ally and nemesis Inspector Wittersham must sift the connivance, contrivance, misguidance, and reliance on pseudoscience of the mad manor and its oddball inhabitants before the killer strikes again.

Foreboding Foretelling at Ficklehouse Felling is available from November 9th because that was the earliest pre-order date available. In fact I’ve never fully understood the perceived value of pre-orders, but I’m told that it’s is the only way to acquire this ‘hype’ that’s got everyone talking. It’s also the only way to have this link: https://mybook.to/ficklehouse

Release of the Riviera Royale

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UPDATE to the UPDATE: Reckoning at the Riviera Royale is now live on Audible at https://www.amazon.com/Reckoning-Riviera-Royale-Boisjoly-Mysteries/dp/B0CLMPPZS5

UPDATE: It turns out that new titles can take as much as thirty days to reach the shelves of various platforms. I’m sorry that I didn’t know that when I announced the 13th as the launch date, but I’ll leave it as it is because a) the real date is now ‘sometime in the next thirty days’ and b) it’s my mistake and I should own up to it.

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Production is now complete on the audiobook of Reckoning at the Riviera Royale and it’s due to make itself heard on the 13th of October (that’s Friday the 13th, quite deliberately — the gods of gaffes and scheduling have been so kind to us we felt it just had to be some sort of sign).

The talented Tim Bruce returns, again and again, as a wide cast of accents and eccentrics, to narrate Anty’s fifth impossible poser in which his mother features among the accused when what appears to be a simple matter of a clown dressed as a mouse trampled by a kind-hearted elephant turns out to be a case of locked-room murder.

This milestone also represents a return to regular releases of Anty Boisjoly in audiobook. Next will be The Case of the Case of Kilcladdich in time for Christmas. This also means a closer collaboration between author and actor, including a new tradition of quick and quirky bonus features (keep listening after the conclusion of Reckoning for The Curious Encounter at a London Counter).

Production on Reckoning at the Riviera Royale was done by Raconteurs LLC (​​https://raconteurs.co.uk/) and their calm, confident competence is why we’re meeting the release schedule without a single hiccup or hitch.

Foreboding Foretelling at Ficklehouse Felling Cover Reveal

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In the absence of a concrete release date, which was last seen consorting with some unruly delays and dubious planning around the end of the month, here’s the all-but-guaranteed-final-draft of the cover of Foreboding Foretelling at Ficklehouse Felling.

It’s a classic, manor house, mystery-within-a-locked-room-mystery when a death is foretold by a mystic that Anty Boisjoly is sure is a charlatan. But when an impossible murder follows the foretelling, Anty and his old ally and nemesis Inspector Wittersham must sift the connivance, contrivance, misguidance,  and reliance on pseudoscience of the household and its haunted history before the killer strikes again.

Avoiding spoilage, FF at FF splices the classic locked room manor house mystery with a bit of Clue to a singular spin that’s rather by definition a bit more populous, stagey, and subtextual than previous Boisjoly puzzlers. It’s also a bit longer, if that goes any distance in excusing the delay in getting this book to the fixtures and finishings stage.

Reveal of the Riviera Royale

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This headline is so wildly inaccurate that it amounts to a bait-and-switch. This isn’t a reveal of the cover of Reckoning at the Riviera Royale, which came out six months ago. It’s not even a reveal of the cover of the audio version of Reckoning at the Riviera Royale, unless a square version of the existing cover counts as something deserving of a reveal.
It is, however, the official announcement of the rebooted audiobook release schedule, starting with Reckoning at the Riviera Royale in, we hope, October.
The long pause in audiobook publication has been due to the original publisher’s frankly baffling decision to concentrate their limited resources on titles and series which actually make money. Their contribution will be missed, but only so much because the talented Tim Bruce has agreed to remain the voice of Anty Boisjoly.
As long as this has taken, it’s only come this far this fast because of the encouraging words of readers and listeners. I’d very much like to express my appreciation for the patience and, for that matter, the impatience, and delightful messages of support.

Mystery Mystery Launch Solved!

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Today is launch day for The Case of the Case of Kilcladdich, and the link is live at https://mybook.to/kilcladdich

Anty Boisjoly travels to the timeless source waters of Glen Glennegie to help decide the fate of his favourite whisky, but an impossible locked room murder is only one of a multitude of mysteries that try Anty’s wits and witticisms to their northern limit.

Time trickles down on the traditional tipple as Anty unravels family feuds, ruptured romance, shepherdless sheep, and a series of suspiciously surfacing secrets to sort out who killed whom and how and why and who might be next to die.

Mystery Mystery Launch

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UPDATE: And here we are — https://mybook.to/kilcladdich

The precise release date of The Case of The Case of Kilcladdich, Anty Boisjoly’s sixth locked-room, laugh-out-loud stumper, is itself a mystery.

At some point this weekend I’m clicking the ‘tally-ho’ button and waiting some unknowable period of time. Then I’ll probably go to the park with a book.

So, there’s no hype-and-suspense-building pre-order period. It’ll definitely be available by Monday. If you’d like an early warning, you can sign up for the Reliably Infrequent Anty Boisjoly Newsletter: https://indefensiblepublishing.com/books/anty-boisjoly-mysteries/#signup

Anty Boisjoly Special Reserve

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kilcladdic-600In Anty Boisjoly’s sixth mystery, he travels to the timeless source waters of Glen Glennegie to help decide the fate of his favourite tipple, a diplomatically delicate deed at the best of times, further complicated by not one but two impossible locked room murders.

All Anty Boisjoly Mysteries are stand-alone stumpers, but there’s usually a subtle surprise or two for those familiar with the series. In the case of the Case of the Case of Kilcladdich, we take a cheeky peeky at the tortured origins of Glen Glennegie, the primer of preference for generations of Boisjolys that makes an appearance in every book. Indeed, Anty finds himself in the northern reaches of Scotland filling his late father’s role on a jury of Glen Glennegie connoisseurs, a duty which positions him between two feuding families and rival distilleries when animosities literally explode.

The Case of the Case of Kilcladdich is scheduled for release early in the second week of May. This page will be updated the moment we have a specific day, and if you’d like to be alerted before the media gets hold of it, why not sign up for the very rare and always relevant Anty Boisjoly newsletter?

Dateline… London

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Certain books — say, for example, all of them — don’t adapt well to book trailers. This includes, with brass knobs on, Anty Boisjoly Mysteries.

The conflicting concepts are the obvious problem but the greater obstacle to a compelling book trailer is probably budget, by which I mean production quality can only get so high before your book trailer looks like a movie trailer and inevitably leads to disappointment all ‘round. And up until that point pull quotes and the Adobe Premiere mist effect over a public domain image of a graveyard are going to lean so heavily on the excerpts that you have what amounts to a PowerPoint presentation with elevator music, and while PowerPoint is a great medium for quarterly reports and psychological warfare, it’s not much of an improvement over no book trailer at all.

I write books. Not movies. If I wanted to write movies I’d already be waiting tables in Santa Monica. So, this is not a book trailer. In fact, it’s the anti-book trailer, in that it’s meant to be a silly little diversion done and intended to be enjoyed in isolation from the book by which it’s inspired.

You can see it by clicking on the image, which leads to a Facebook video — there are subtitles because Facebook videos tend to auto-play in mute, so you’ll want to turn on sound for the full silliness.

Having said all that, it was tremendous fun to do and it does capture a certain Boisjolyness that just wouldn’t be there with a traditional book trailer, if traditional is a word that can be applied to a medium that began, peaked, and became out-dated in the last 18 months.

This one is for The Tale of the Tenpenny Tontine. I’m not sure why I chose that one — probably no better reason than that by which I justified this blog post — but I like it and I liked doing it. So, if you think we should (or most emphatically should not) do newsreels for the other books in the series, I hope you’ll leave a quick comment or send me a message with your vote.

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