Dark Traces

200 review copies (100 prepub, 100 postpub) sent to reviewers, booksellers, librarians, bloggers, others. Available as an e-ARC on Edelweiss & Netgalley. 3-week, 15-blog blog tour with book giveaways. Goodreads and Library Thing giveaway. We will seek to host an author Q&A chat on Goodreads. We will seek out book clubs who are interested in the book and offer the chance to win a SKYPE visit with the author. Promotion at book fairs and trade shows. We will submit the book for relevant and applicable awards. In collaboration with the author, we will plan twitter chats, Facebook Live and Google Hangout videos, and videos to be released via YouTube. Promotion online via Catalyst's website, email lists (in development) and social media (blog, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube) with author and publisher interviews, chats, and guest posts. Advance Review Copies in American Bookseller Association’s White Box campaigns. Team up with Cinco Puntos to pair Martin Steyn with Lisa Sandlin in an interview promoted via Cinco Puntos' #pandulce series. Simultaneous e-book and print release.

Recently widowed South African Detective Magson seeks serial killer, explores different sides of murder—killing for love, killing for pleasure.A dark, intriguing, and satisfying tale with strong characters. --Kirkus (Starred Review) They find her body in the veld near Cape Town, South Africa. A teenager. She's not the first. Recently widowed Detective Jan Magson has to look mothers and fathers in the eye. Has to answer their questions. He can't. He can't even answer his estranged son's questions about how his wife died. Alone with his pistol at night, a good man faces his inner darkness. A tense and grisly debut novel of suspense from South Africa.--Kirkus, starred review After obtaining degrees in Psychology and Criminology, Martin Steyn studied serial killers and profiling. Dark Traces is his first novel in English.