With only 30 days to find the real killer…
Rick and girlfriend Laura risk their lives tracking key suspects who had motives to kill…
“Move over Sam Spade, Nick and Nora; make room for a Denver who-dun-it, Colleen Collins’s The Zen Man. Brilliant and fast-paced writing. I couldn’t put it down.”
~ Donnell Ann Bell,
award-winning author of The Past Came Hunting
Until a horrific murder lands private eye Rick Levine in the slammer on first-degree charges…
Rick and girlfriend Laura risk their lives tracking key suspects who had motives to kill…
“I loved every word of The Zen Man.”
~ Delores Fossen, USA Today bestselling author
“Move over Sam Spade, Nick and Nora; make room for a Denver who-dun-it, Colleen Collins’s, The Zen Man. Brilliant and fast-paced writing. I couldn’t put it down.
~ Donnell Ann Bell, award-winning author of The Past Came Hunting
For the most part, it’s fun. We’ve been running our investigations business long enough that we understand how the other likes to work, what our strengths and weaknesses are, and we like to make each other laugh. A lot. When we first opened the investigations agency, there were a sizeable number of people who [...]
The Zen Man is available at Amazon, Nook and Smashwords
Gerald So — poet, editor, teacher and private-eye aficionado — interviews Colleen at his blog Chatterrific, where she answers questions about similarities between her private-investigator world and those depicted in private-eye fiction, [...]
Gerald So — poet, editor, instructor, and private-eye genre enthusiast — has posted a review of The Zen Man on his blogspot, excerpt below:
The Zen Man is an homage and update of Dashiell Hammett’s Nick and Nora Charles, a well-paced mix of banter, action, and New Age [...]
Continue Reading →The Zen Man is now available on Nook! As on Amazon and GoodReads, the Nook version is on sale for .99 through January 18, 2012. To read an excerpt, click here.
“I loved every single word of The Zen Man!”
~ Delores Fossen, USA Today Best-selling Author
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Continue Reading →Read It for Less Than a Buck
There was such a great response to the .99 sale through Christmas, that it’s being re-instated. As of January 4, 2012, The Zen Man will again be .99 on Kindle. No Kindle? No problem. Amazon provides an easy-to-download and free app so [...]
Continue Reading →Holiday Book Sale: The Zen Man is .99 through December 25!
The Zen Man is live at Amazon! Because its setting is during the Christmas holidays, it will be on sale for .99 through December 25. Do you like mysteries with humor, thrills and romance? Do you like private [...]
Continue Reading →Colleen’s take on private eye stories — from pet peeves to props — is posted at The Thrilling Detective. Don’t know about Thrilling Detective? Time you did. It’s the brainchild of Kevin Burton Smith who’s crafted a site dedicated to the private eye genre. Want a listing of great TV private [...]
Continue Reading →The Zen Man website is all about The Zen Man book, a medium-boiled, but not light on the humor, mystery featuring Rick and Laura, the 21st century equivalent of Hammett’s PI team Nick and Nora. Although Rick and Laura share senses of humor and noses for sniffing out trouble like their counterparts, they’re [...]
Continue Reading →December 6, 2011: Beth Groundwater's blog: "When Writing a Whodunit, Think of Dear ol’ MOM (Motive, Opportunity and Means)"
December 18, 2011: The Thrilling Detective: "Props and Peeves! Private Eye Stories from a Real-Life Private Eye"
January 14, 2012: Interview w/ Colleen at Chatterrific by Gerald So
February 3, 2012 Coffee Time Romance (link forthcoming)
February 14, 2012 Terry's Place (link forthcoming)
February 17, 2012 Savvy Author's (link forthcoming)
February 27, 2012 Book Reviews by Elizabeth A. White (link forthcoming)
March 8, 2012 Thursday 13 at Coffee Time Romance (link forthcoming)
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