BookBub Featured Deal: The Girl Buried in the Woods

 

BookBub Featured Deal: The Girl Buried in the Woods

Thanks to BookBub for making ‘The Girl Buried in the Woods’ a Featured Deal this week in the UK, Canada and Australia, and for the next ten days (US included). What a great success for a novel inspired by a horrific true crime that has become so timely over the past six months.

On her fifteenth birthday, Sophie Ramirez takes her new skateboard for a test ride in the park across the street from her home. Days later, Detective Matt Jones finds her body buried in a shallow grave. When Jones makes the ID, he can’t believe the girl wasn’t reported missing. When he locates her parents, he learns that they were afraid to come forward because years ago they’d crossed the border without documents. Driven by the horror of their loss and the outrage of the crime, Jones follows the evidence through three shades of greed: from an infamous mob figure to three cheating Wall Street traders to a gang of dirty cops trying to do Jones in. “More thriller than mystery. An impressive amount of suspense. A swift pace. Solid entertainment.” –Kirkus Reviews

https://www.amazon.com/Girl-Buried-Woods-Detective-Jones-ebook/dp/B07TTY18QL

ROBERT ELLIS WRITERS BLOG

08/17/2025

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Robert Ellis: August 15 Book Contest Winners

 

Aug 15 Book Contest: The Girl Buried in the Woods

Congratulations to Lisa N. from Boston, MA, and David W. from Santa Cruz, CA, for winning this week’s Free Book Contest. Signed copies of The Girl Buried in the Woods, inspired by a true crime and a reader favorite in the Matt Jones thriller series, are on their way.

https://www.amazon.com/Girl-Buried-Woods-Detective-Jones-ebook/dp/B07TTY18QL/

ROBERT ELLIS WRITERS BLOG

08/15/2025

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Robert Ellis: 'Silence of the Lambs' meets 'True Romance'

 

A Serial Killer Falling in Love

Thanks to Amazon for featuring ‘The Love Killings’ this month and lowering the price until August 1.

I know this novel is sometimes called ‘Silence of the Lambs’ meets the movie ‘True Romance.’ But at its heart, ‘The Love Killings’ is all about family and an entire cast of characters exploring their pasts. That the characters are so outrageous is what tips the scale. Here’s a short excerpt as Andrew Penchant, a natural born killer in his early twenties, looks at Avery Cooper, a girl he picked up at the mall, lying on his bed at his mother’s house.

“He could see the sweat collecting on her forehead and above her full lips. He didn’t want to move. He didn’t want to leave her alone in the room. He was in love with her, he realized. He was in love with her being, her body, the idea of her, the fact of her, the sound of her voice. But it was more than that. Way more. He loved everything about her. The things she was touching. The things she was looking at.”

The Love Killings on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/Love-Killings-Detective-Matt-Jones-ebook/dp/B012W7BCVE/

ROBERT ELLIS WRITERS BLOG

07/25/2025

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