Crackle and Fire Book Tour

Angela Hardwicke isn’t just any private eye.
She’s a PI from Eternity, the cosmic realm responsible for the design, creation, and maintenance of the Universe.
When accountant Gil Haberseau hires her to find an intern with stolen corporate files, Hardwicke soon finds herself embroiled in a deadly case of lies, intrigue, and murder, clashing with vengeful gangsters, MinderNot rallies, and a madman who’s come a long way to get what he wants.
Angela Hardwicke learns once and for all that when it comes to being an intergalactic private eye, there’s no telling what threats she may face on-realm and off… including the demons that lurk deep within her soul.
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Crackle and Fire is a Sci-Fi Mystery/ Fantasy novel by Russ Colchamiro and book One in the Angela Hardwicke Sci-Fi Mystery series.
The amount of brilliance put into structuring this entire story is phenomenal. When you think things can’t get any more twisted,cthe author pulls out a thread of new theories to add it to the evergrowing pile of this complicated Universe.
The way the story is written is engaging and there’s never a dull moment but the ‘drama’ is not overdone. It’s like that perfect Margherita that keeps you coming back for more.
It does gets little confusing at the beginning because of the introduction of new terminology and there’s quite a few characters, but unlike most book, this one solely focuses on the main character.
Speaking of which, can we take a moment to admire imperfect Angela who with her flaws still manages to be a badass investigator. She’s literally got a multitude of demons in her life, but the way she snaps pieces of the puzzle together makes a mystrey lover’s heart like mine flutter with joy.
Throughout the story we see snippets of her struggling to deal with certain ‘things’ (spoiler?) in her life and how that affects her mental and physical state, but she also tries so hard to go what’s right.
The ending was a little less extravagant than what I was expecting but it was still pretty good. Overall, I absolutely loved this book and would highly recommend it.
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Rated 9.5/10
Melina L.

About the Author:

Russ Colchamiro is the author of the rollicking space adventure, Crossline, the zany SF/F backpacking comedy series Finders Keepers: The Definitive Edition, Genius de Milo, and Astropalooza, and is editor of the SF anthology Love, Murder & Mayhem, all with Crazy 8 Press.

Russ lives in New Jersey with his wife, two ninjas, and crazy dog Simon, who may in fact be an alien himself. Russ has also contributed to several other anthologies, including Tales of the Crimson Keep, Pangaea, Altered States of the Union, Camelot 13, TV Gods 2, They Keep Killing Glenn, Thrilling Adventure Yarns, Camelot 13, and Brave New Girls.

He is now working on the first novel in a new series featuring his hardboiled private eye Angela Hardwicke, and the first of three collaborative novella projects.
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Guest Post by the Author!

Angela Hardwicke, Intergalactic Private Eye
By Russ Colchamiro

I love private eyes. Always have. Part detective, part crime stopper, part secret agent. And lots of mystery.
And yet Angela Hardwicke, my hard-boiled PI who has now appeared in eight of my books, seemingly came out of nowhere. Then again, doesn’t that sound like a private eye?
An amalgam of Doctor Who, Blade Runner, and Philip Marlowe, Angela Hardwicke first appeared in Genius de Milo, the second in my Finders Keepers sci-fi comedy backpacking trilogy, which might seem an odd place for a private eye to show up in the first place.
Loosely based on a series of backpacking trips I took through Europe and New Zealand with a buddy of mine, Finders Keepers is a Bill and Ted-style about two loveable knuckleheads running around the globe having zany adventures, while simultaneously mixed up in a quest for a jar containing the Universe’s DNA.
Finders Keepers was supposed to be one and done, but I left it open-ended, and ultimately followed up with the sequels Genius de Milo and Astropalooza, with the scope of the three-book narrative far exceeding my expectations.
When Hardwicke first shows up in Genius de Milo, it’s a blink-and-you-miss-it appearance, but I knew even then I was onto something, so Hardwicke played a much larger and significant role in Astropalooza. After that I was utterly hooked, and knew I’d be writing Hardwicke stories again.
Before I gave her a stand-alone novel, however, much less her own series, I put together an anthology called Love, Murder & Mayhem—I served as editor—collecting 15 stories from as many authors contributing a range of sci-fi mysteries. It was in this collection I wrote my first Hardwicke short story, “The Case of My Old New Life and the One I Never Knew,” about arson in a rock club in the galactic realm of Eternity.
Since then I’ve written a half dozen Hardwicke short stories, taking her from one end of the Cosmos to the other, with cases about a massive helix of the Universe’s DNA, rerouting Halley’s Comet, a whodunnit in a daycare center, and a case about an AI on death row, “The Case of Jarlo’s Buried Treasure,” which appears as a bonus story at the end of my first Hardwicke novel, Crackle and Fire, on sale officially September 1.
On the surface, Crackle and Fire has Hardwicke tracking down an intern from a galactic accounting firm who has disappeared with sensitive corporate files.
Yet the mystery, as these things do, becomes much larger than Hardwicke ever envisioned—
she soon finds herself embroiled in a deadly case of lies, intrigue, and murder, clashing with vengeful gangsters, MinderNot rallies, and a madman who’s come a long way to get what he wants.
Dig even deeper, though, and you’ll find that Crackle and Fire is as much about Hardwicke having to make a critical decision—can she be an intergalactic private and all that comes with it and be a mother to her young son who, for reasons I won’t share now, is not in her care?
It’s a critical question for Hardwicke, and the answers don’t come easy.
As you can see, Hardwicke and I have been getting to know each other. It’s been a great relationship so far, but we’re just getting started. Hopefully you’ll come to know her, too.
Crackle and Fire is Hardwicke’s first novel, with many more deadly cases yet to come. I’m working on the sequel now, and it’s a doozy.
The only question for you is: are you ready for the ride?
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Giveaway Link: (International) digital copy of Crackle and Fire & a $5 Amazon
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Author Links:

Website: https://russcolchamiro.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RussColchamiroAuthor

Twitter: https://twitter.com/AuthorDudeRuss

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4450877.Russ_Colchamiro

Melina L. 🦄