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- Investigative Journalist Derek Armstrong is also well known for his true crime news stories, crime novels and thrillers, described as "an author to watch" by the American Library Association's Booklist.
Armstrong has contributed or been interviewed on the Today Show, Nancy Grace Show (HNN), Dr. Phil and on The Verdict with Geraldo on The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet on FOX TV. Armstrong has written as an independent investigative journalist and contributing reporter for 24 years, and is currently the Chief Crime Correspondent forCrime Reports USA, and a roving correspondent for various Canadian media and several magazines. He also writes book length crime news books as investigative journalist, and currently has two investigative crime news books under deadline with Kunati.
Derek Armstrong has won many writing awards Internationally and wrote The Persona Principle (Simon & Schuster), the Alban Bane Series (MADicine and The Game), the Troubadour trilogy (The Last Troubadour and The Last Quest) and the book-length news story Drew Peterson Exposed. He is also an acknowledged expert in Blog Journalism, Blog reporting and online news reporting and has a forthcoming title from Kunati Blogertize, releasing in January, 2009.
Derek Armstrong is a member of the Canadian Assoication of Journalists (CAJ).
Clips from Contributing Interviews with Derek Armstrong:
"The new book Drew Peterson Exposed, about the former Bolingbrook police officer and his dead third wife and missing fourth wife, is billed as a 300-page news story. And it does have some news." —Chicago Sun-Times
"Derek should be commended for staging [the lie detector test] under neutral circumstances. It was a fair test . . . I agree with everything." —Geraldo Rivera on The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet (FOX)
"Drew Peterson says a new book about him—due out this week—looks too much at the negative side of things." —WBBM Chicago (CBS)
"Peterson had agreed to take the examination at the request of Derek Armstrong, the author of the recently published book Drew Peterson Exposed. . . . 'I started to come to the conclusion in my own mind that he might be guilty,' Armstrong said." — Mike Celizic, contributor, TODAYShow.com
"In May, Drew Peterson took a lie detector test at the request of author Derek Armstrong. The results, published in a new book, Drew Peterson Exposed, revealed Peterson showed deception on three occasions when asked about Stacy's disappearance. Peterson was deceptive when asked about the last time he saw Stacy, if he knows her whereabouts, and about a phone call from Stacy saying she was leaving him." —The Early Show (CBS)
"Peterson [is] the subject of a tell-all book where he describes the day Stacy goes missing. Tonight, the prime-time exclusive, the author who grilled Peterson for hours and caught it all on tape." —Nancy Grace, host, The Nancy Grace Show
"An author to watch" according to Booklist, The Game (from Kunati Books, ISBN 9781601640017) launched to starred reviews and buzz from the major trades. The first print run of this "sexy and promising" thriller (Publishers Weekly) sold out. "Injects the trope with new vigor...Armstrong keeps us chuckling" wrote Booklist. "Darkly humorous thriller" wrote Library Journal.
LOGLINE The Game slays reality television. In this darkly humorous thriller, reality television becomes too real when a killer with a message preys on the contestants of America's number one TV show.
REVIEW SNIPPETS
"A series to watch...Armstrong injects the trope with new vigor."
Booklist
"Dark tongue-in-cheek thriller"
Library Journal
"...suspenseful and rich with dark humor..."
Foreword Reviews
"Hugely cinematic thriller with hilarious dark comic moments."
Films and Books Magazine
"Promising premise...gory resolution."
Publishers Weekly
"A super sleuth...a grisly gamester...a multiplicity of games..."TRAILER.gif
Kirkus
Full Reviews...
SYNOPSIS
In The Game, a killer plays a high-stakes game on the set of a live-broadcast reality television show where guests are trapped for six months in a “haunted” mansion. Thousands of miles away, a psychopath is executed by lethal injection in California–and dies with a secret that could save many lives. Only a comical detective who fears nothing--except his teenage daughters--can hope to understand what links these two seemingly unrelated crimes, without ever losing his zest for the game or his sense of humor.
The spree could be the work of a separatist group in Vermont who seek independence from the United States; or ruthless reality television producers juicing ratings on their hit show; perhaps the killers are vengeance-seeking parents; or are they underworld enforcers? In the world of The Game, the actual killer might be the least dangerous of all.
Don't miss the zany, thrilling world of The Game.
US$ 24.95
FIC031000 FICTION/Thriller
Pages 352
ISBN-13: 978-1-60164-001-7
ISBN-10: 1601640013
EAN: 9781601640017
LCCN 2006930183
Spring 2007
Kunati Cloth Hardcover
Distributed by Independent Publishers Group (IPG)
My third book, THE LAST TROUBADOUR, releases Fall 07 to strong advance reviews and quotes from two best selling authors.
LOGLINE
Against the flames of a rising medieval Inquisition—a heretic, an atheist and a pagan are the last hope to save the Holiest Christian relic from a sainted King and crusading pope—based on true events.
SYNOPSIS
Armstrong brings his "genre-bending" skills to the thirteenth century, quilling a laugh-out-loud historical thriller that is at once genuine, amusing, tragic and exciting. The last living troubadour, condemned by the church as a heretic, must rescue the Holiest Christian relic from a crusading Sainted King and "flaming" Pope Innocence. With him are a disgraced Templar and a luscious Temptress. Together, the Troubadour, the Templar and the Temptress—a heretic, athiest and pagan—are the last hope to save the Holy of Holies from powerful men who would exploit it to provoke a new crusade to Jerusalem.
Armstrong somehow retains his trademark "prose style that keeps us chuckling" (Booklist) while pointing his satirical wit at a Church that believes the answer to faith is to burn any who do not believe. With larger-than-life characters that manage not to become caricatures, Armstrong sets his heroes against the Diableteur, a witch hunter who resembles the archetypal "Death and his sickle", a lecherous archbishop who believes the relic can make him the next Pope, and a Pope who knows the true nature of the relic will destroy the Church. With Ramon Troubadour and his Templar/Temptress duo are an eclectic cast of characters—the one-eyed "black" knight who falls in love with the virgin Holy Lady, a Novgorodian wandering sorceress, and famous rebels, Doré the Dandy and Osric the Hammer. Oh, not to forget little Mauri, a "rat-like" mongrel of a dog who often "saves the day", and Izzy and Wizi, two "nearly human" horses.
If you enjoy your thrills and history—crusading knights, romantic-but-funny troubadours, fighting damsels, evil archbishops and roasting "heretics" on the pyre—mixed with a generous dollop of humor, large dashes of historical tragedy, and a big splash of satire, you'll adore The Last Troubadour, a genre-bend if there ever was one.
ISBN-13: 978-1-60164-010-9
ISBN-10: 1-60164-010-2
Fall 2007
384 pages
US$ 24.95
Kunati Cloth Hardcover
Distributed by Independent Publishers Group (IPG)
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Review Snips, The Last Troubadour—
• "Brilliance...genuinely innovative... an author of abundant talent." Booklist
• "Recommended for all." Library Journal
• "A work of art." Aeclectic
• "The tarot-themed characters are inspired. An author to watch." F&B
Read excepts and reviews at the official website.
Or for a real thrill... "darkly humorous thriller." Library Journal
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From Booklist: Nuclear Winter Wonderland. By Joshua Corin. 2008. Kunati,… Continue
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Drew Peterson Exposed Author Derek Armstrong breaks News Story on Drew Peterson's Gun Trial
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Posted on November 20, 2008 at 9:21pm —
Drew Peterson Exposed Author Breaks Story on Pending Peterson Divorce Action
Crime Report USA Breaking News—Drew Peterson Intends to Sell Marital Home and Move Out of Illinois.
Crime Report USA Correspondent Derek Armstrong, Staff Reporter
Chicago — Crime Report USA learned that Drew Peterson, suspected in the disappearance of his fourth wife
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Drew Peterson Exposed — A Book-Length Investigation and New Evidence
NEWS RELEASE—Drew Peterson Exposed (Kunati Books, Oct 1, 2008, 140 photos) is a breaking-news book length investigation that presents compelling new evidence — and a stinging indictment — for one of the most provocative and high profile criminal investigations in the country. The new evidence and contents of the book remain
… ContinuePosted on September 21, 2008 at 12:07pm —
My Latest Publisher Insider on ForeWord Magazine: Statistics Can be a Book Horror Story
Author MADicine, An Alban Bane Thriller, The Game, The Last Troubadour, The Last Quest, Blogertize: A Leading Expert Shows How Your Blog Can Be a Money-Making Machine… Continue
Posted on February 18, 2008 at 9:00am —
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