Inmate 1577 Reading Group Guide

Inmate 1577 Reading Group Guide

Welcome to the Reading Group Guide for Inmate 1577. If you haven’t read it, save this until you have. There’s spoiler info below. Below are questions designed to provide a stimulating discussion. 1- Having read about Alcatraz, including some of its...
The 7th Victim (Karen Vail #1)

The 7th Victim (Karen Vail #1)

The 7th Victim (Karen Vail novel #1) One of Library Journal’s Top 5 Best Books of the Year Vanguard Press (2008): Hardcover, paperback, eBook Open Road (reissue, 2014): eBook In FBI Profiler Karen Vail’s debut novel, Vail battles the Dead Eyes killer—and...
Velocity (Karen Vail #3)

Velocity (Karen Vail #3)

Reviews Starred Review: “Jacobson’s third thriller featuring FBI profiler Karen Vail (after Crush) sizzles with nonstop action and startling details. Refreshingly real, Karen doesn’t let her tough ‘take no prisoners’ attitude stand in the way of following her heart....
Velocity Reading Group Guide

Velocity Reading Group Guide

Welcome! I hope you enjoyed Velocity. If you haven’t read it yet, bookmark this page and return to it after you finish the novel because there is information below that will spoil your read. Following are questions designed to provide a stimulating...
Crush-Velocity bundle (Vail #2, 3)

Crush-Velocity bundle (Vail #2, 3)

Crush-Velocity discounted bundle (Karen Vail #2 and #3) Open Road (eBook) Crush and Velocity, two books originally intended to be one (800 page) novel, are now reunited, as national bestselling author Alan Jacobson originally intended when he conceived of the...
Velocity excerpt (Karen Vail #3)

Velocity excerpt (Karen Vail #3)

VELOCITY A Karen Vail Novel (#3) Copyright (c) 2010 Alan Jacobson. All Rights Reserved.   PART 1 NOXIOUS FUMES Old Tannery District 99 S. Coombs Street Napa, California He was not going to kill her immediately. No—if there was one thing he had learned, it was to...
Crush Reading Group Guide

Crush Reading Group Guide

Welcome! You’ve read Crush. (If you haven’t, save this until you have. There’s spoiler info below.) You’ve laughed, and cried, along with Karen Vail. You’ve maybe even uttered a curse word under your breath directed at yours truly. If...
Crush (Karen Vail #2)

Crush (Karen Vail #2)

Reviews   “Plenty of bark and bite, sizzle and emotion…a tangled tale of delightful intrigue. Well done.” –Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author   “Crush rocks from the opening page to the jarring conclusion.” –Steve Martini,...

Promoting Crush…and: what else have you been doing?

You’re now caught you up on what happened after I handed in my copyedits for Crush. But what else have I been doing? Well, LOTS. To borrow from a cliché (because I can’t use them in my novels, and sometimes they’re fun to throw around), it’s been pedal to the metal....

The 7th Victim is now in Paperback

The mass market paperback for The 7th Victim is now available. I’ve made a few minor corrections to the text and helped with tweaks to the interior layout design. Mostly, however, this is a process that’s handled by the publisher, particularly my project editor, who...