Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Book Giveaway - Where The Dead Lay (ARC)

Where the Dead Lay by David Levien ~After the sudden disappearance of two high-priced detectives, former Indianapolis cop Frank Behr—the brooding private investigator introduced in David Levien’s nationally acclaimed novel City of the Sun—is pulled into a case that is harrowing, relentless, and, ultimately, personal.Early in the dark, Indianapolis morning, Frank Behr’s friend and mentor is murdered—with no motive and no trace of evidence left behind. Behr, a quiet, mountainous former cop, thirsts for answers and retaliation. But before he can make headway in the dead-end investigation, an exclusive private firm approaches him with a delicate proposition: two of its detectives have gone missing, and the firm wants Behr to find out what happened to them. Prodded to take the case by his old boss—the Indianapolis chief of police who holds the strings to Frank’s possible return to the force—Behr accepts.The search for the missing detectives takes Behr into the recesses of Indianapolis’s underworld, a place rife with brutality and vice—and a stark contrast to the city’s gentle public image. As Behr calls on old street contacts and his hard-boiled investigative skills, he is led deeper into a twisted society of organized crime and an unknown landscape of “pea-shake” houses—low-rent, transient gambling rings staged in condemned buildings around the city. Unexpectedly, Behr uncovers a shocking thread connecting the missing detectives to his friend’s brutal murder, and, in the process, Behr is forced to confront an ominous, deadly new breed of crime family (From Amazon)

Now on to the RULES ~~

  1. Open to residents of the US only.
  2. Post a comment here. You MUST LEAVE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS OR ACTIVE BLOG ADDRESS IN YOUR COMMENT. Any comment that DOES NOT INCLUDE this information WILL BE DELETED. I have to have a way to contact you if you win!!!!
  3. If you blog this contest and leave a link in your comment so I can check it out, you will receive an extra entry to the contest.

Contest open until May 19th. The winner will be announced on May 20th.

96 comments:

  1. This book sounds intense. Sign me up!

    jess
    barney's book blog
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  2. Exciting! Please count me in. Thank you!

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  3. Please include me in this drawind. Not only would I enjoy this book, I have a friend I know who would as well and can pass the book on afterwards. Nothing like sharing a reading pleasure. Thanks! Indigo

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  4. I'd love to read this :) *Thanks* for the giveaway!
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  5. I blogged about the giveaway :
    http://theluckyladybug.org/2009/05/519-where-the-dead-lay-giveaway/
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  7. This looks great - thanks for sharing!

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  8. This one sounds like a "I better have everything else done before I start or I won't want to put it down" book.

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  9. I am always looking for something to read, this sounds like a good one. Thanks for the review.

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  10. This book sounds really good, I think I'll start by picking up City of the Sun (to get a headstart on the character!). Thanks so much for the giveaway.

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  11. Please include me! tWarner419@aol.com

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  12. This sounds really great. Thanks for entering me.

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  13. I would love to win this book - especially after reading your teaser. Please enter me in the giveaway.

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  14. This book sounds great! I really enjoy these types of reads.

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  15. This looks like a great book that I'd lie to read. Please enter me in your giveaway.

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  16. I love a good mystery!
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  18. would love to add this to my reading list
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  19. This book looks like a great read, please enter me in the giveaway. Thank you.

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  20. Sounds like a great book! My email is in my blogger profile. Thanks!

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  21. would love to read this one - thanks for the giveaway

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  22. I'd like to read this
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  23. Sweet contest! I would love to win. Thanks so much

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  24. I love a good mystery.

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  25. I'd love a chance to win...

    And I blogged: http://www.morbid-romantic.net/2009/05/11/book-giveaways-0511-0517/

    Valorie
    morbidromantic@gmail.com

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  26. Looks good.

    Thanks for the giveaway >^..^<

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  27. forgot my email. that's what i get for entering & voting for AI

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  28. This sounds like a book I'd love!
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  29. I love a great murder mystery....thanks for the giveaway!

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  30. Sounds like a great book.
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  31. This is the type of book that both my husband and I enjoy. We have fun reading and discussing books.

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  32. Always interested in adding another book to my TBR pile.

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  33. I love suspence books and this sounds really good. Would love to read this one. Thanks

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  34. This sounds really good! Count me in! Thanks!

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  35. looks good
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  36. sounds like a awesome book. Thanks for the chance

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  37. ohh seems like my kind of book! would love to read it thanks.

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  38. I'm always up for a good read!

    Tarah
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  39. I would very much like to win-I could use this!

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  40. I love supense novels. This sounds great.

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  41. Looks like a great book.
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  42. I'd like to read this, sounds like something I would enjoy.

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  43. Suspense novels are my favorite....would love to read this one!

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  44. love to add this to my summer reading list
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  45. This looks great. Would love to read a copy.
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  46. Mysteries are the only thing I read ,and this sounds like a good one. jelly15301@gmail.com

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  47. Thank you for a great giveaway! thank you!
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  49. Wooo Hooo Make me a winner!

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  50. I love books that keep my interest. This books looks awesome.

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  51. I enjoy reading mystery books.

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  52. ooh, I love to read and this book sounds great!

    Thanks for the giveaway!

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  53. This book sounds great. I love reading a great book. Thanks.
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  54. I live in a suburb of Indianapolis. This would be a fun book to read. Thanks.

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  55. I blogged it:

    http://cerebralgirl.blogspot.com/2009/05/book-giveaways-in-blogworld-05-15-09.html

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  56. that sounds like an interesting book, one I would enjoy.

    May Schultz
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  57. I would love to read this book!thanks! jacquecurl1@gmail.com

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  58. Sound like a good read - please enter me.

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  59. always looking for something new to read - regnod(at)yahoo(d0t)com

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  60. sign me up
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  61. I need a new book to read!
    Thanks
    Sarah
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  62. Living in a suburb of Indianapolis makes me especially interested in this book. Sounds scary!
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  63. Sounds like a good read!
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  64. I would love the chance to win, thanks.
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  65. thanks for the giveaway, looks ike a great book

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  67. This sounds like a great book, I'd love to read it!

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  68. This book looks awesome! I love books that are crime related. I live in a town right by Indianapolis!
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  69. sounds like a good read

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  70. I would love to read this!
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  71. Happy Spring!

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  72. I love thrillers! Thanks for the chance!

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  73. wonderful, I love to read
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  74. This book sounds dark and interesting!
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  75. Sounds like a really good book! Thank you!!

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  76. please enter me in the book giveaway con5459(at)gmail(dot)com

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  78. Sounds like an interesting book.
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  79. This book sounds great. I would love to read it. garrettsambo@aol.com

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  80. I'm always up for a good mystery.

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  81. This sounds like a great summer read! Thanks for the great giveaway! I'm an avid reader and book contests make me really happy!

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  82. Does this ever sound good!
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  83. Ooh - I don't know this author but the book sure sounds good. I was going to reserve it at our library, but they haven't ordered it :-( But he has another book and that one sounds good, too, so I reserved that one :-)

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  84. This sounds like a great read and I love to try new authors. Thanks for the contest!

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  85. I'm always looking for a good book.

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  86. I would love to read this book.

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  87. Looks like a good book - thanks for the chance

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  88. Please enter me into the contest. Thanks!

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  90. I'm always looking for good detective stories and this sounds like a good one so I hope I win!

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