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News...News...News

 

August 1, 2010

 

   Greg McKenzie Mystery No. 5, A Sporting Murder, is scheduled for release in September. A book launch party is planned for the Mysteries & More bookstore in Nashville from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. on September 25. Full details will be available shortly.

   The book will be available soon in e-book format. Like all of Campbell's other mysteries, it will be priced at $1.99 at Amazon for the Kindle and at Smashwords.com for various electronic readers.

 

April 15, 2010

 

   A Sporting Murder, the fifth book in Chester D. Campbell's  Greg McKenzie Mystery Series, is in the pipeline at Night Shadows Press, with publication scheduled for fall 2010. Featuring senior PI's Greg and Jill McKenzie, the story takes place entirely in Nashville.

 

   The plot involves a conflict between supporters of the Nashville Predators NHL hockey team and a group of businessmen who seek to bring an NBA basketball team to the city. When McKenzie investigations is hired to look into a rumor that something isn't kosher with the potential NBA deal, Greg arranges to meet an informant but finds him shot dead. As the story unfolds, questions arise over efforts to take the McKenzies out of the picture. Are they related to the sports controversy or revenge sought by a just-released convict sent to prison years ago when Greg was an Air Force Office of Special Investigations agent?

 

April 10, 2009

 

   The Surest Poison, first book in the Sid Chance Mystery Series by Chester D. Campbell, was released today and is available for order at any bookstore, at Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com. Published by Night Shadows Press, the book is available in paperback for $15.95 and hardcover for $26.95.

   A private investigator in Nashville, Chance is hired to investigate the case of an old chemical dump that has contaminated the water supply in a small community near Nashville. Also a former National Parks ranger, Sid doggedly pursues the polluter, but somebody is out to halt his investigation. People related to the case turn up murdered, and someone blows up the guest house behind the mansion of his part-time associate, Jaz LeMieux. The people responsible for fouling Chance's reputation appear to be involved in this troubling case.

 

June 10, 2008:

 

Today I was elected president of the Middle Tennessee Chapter of Sisters in Crime, a chapter of the international organization devoted to promoting women mystery writers. For further info, check out website at www.sinc-midtn.org.

I am also serving a second term as West Area Representative for the Southeast Chapter of Mystery Writers of America (SEMWA). My area includes Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi. I'm liaison for members in my area and am responsible for conducting Skill Builds (one-day educational programs) in the three states. For photos of previous Skill Builds, click on the Gallery link. You'll find more information about SEMWA at semwa.com.

 

 

News Release Oct. 30, 2007:

 

A retired Air Force OSI agent never imagined a 90-year-old car could cause such destruction until he takes on a case involving Nashville’s long-defunct Marathon Motor Works in the fourth Greg McKenzie mystery, The Marathon Murders, by Chester D. Campbell.

When Greg and his wife, Jill, Nashville PI’s, agree to look into a potential murder case so cold it’s frigid, they face a present-day conspiracy filled with chicanery in circles of power and chaos created by a frenzied killer. It starts with a stash of yellowed records found during restoration of the abandoned Marathon buildings, where the once-popular touring car was built. The documents vanish as the construction foreman who had them is murdered.

The McKenzies’ clients, Col. Warren Jarvis and his girlfriend, Kelli Kane, believe the records would shed light on the fate of her great-great-grandfather. A Marathon officer who disappeared in 1914, he was accused of embezzlement and later found dead. More murders occur, appearing aimed at suppressing the secret behind the missing records. It’s a tale of greed, misplaced pride, family loyalty, and the unpredictable violence of an irrational mind.

Campbell is a former Nashville journalist, speechwriter, advertising copywriter, public relations consultant, and trade association executive. Earlier Greg McKenzie mysteries include Secret of the Scroll, Designed to Kill, and Deadly Illusions. The first book, Secret of the Scroll, was a finalist for ForeWord Magazine’s 2003 Mystery Book of the Year.

The Marathon Murders will be released February 11, 2008 in both hardback ($26.95) and trade paperback ($14.95) by Night Shadows Press, a new mystery imprint.

For further information, contact PJ Nunn at BreakThrough Promotions, 469-245-6202, or Chester Campbell at 615-868-3011.

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