Do you want to know a secret?

Okay...it's not really a secret.

We were planning to post something else today..an interview that will happen, we promise, sometime next month, but we can't let another day go by without a big shout out here to Hank. Her Agatha Award-winning debut novel, Prime Time is finally FINALLY available again - and everywhere - from Mira Books.

PRIME TIME introduces forty-something investigative reporter Charlotte (Charlie) McNally. Charlie's smart, savvy and successful—but she's worried her news director is about to replace her with a younger model. Now—she's on the hunt for the story that will save her job. Is it hiding in her email? Charlie begins to suspect some of that annoying Spam clogging her computer is more than cyber junk. She discovers it actually carries big-money secret messages to the big-shot insiders who know how to decode it. Problem is, the last outsider who deciphered the system now resides in the local morgue. It's either the biggest story of Charlie's career—or the one that may end her life. Charlie's also facing another dilemma: what happens when a top-notch TV reporter is married to her job—but the camera doesn't love her anymore?

It's an action-filled page-turner, with humor, romance and a scheme so timely and innovative you'll wonder why someone hasn't tried it. A twist of an ending will have readers going back to the beginning to check for all the clues they missed.

I was lucky enough to have read it when it was first available (that's the old cover below but check out the slick new look on the right)and I'll join the chorus of raves.

New York Times bestselling author Mary Jane Clark's kudos: "Current, clever, and chock full of cliffhangers. Readers are in for a treat."

Award winning author Harley Jane Kozak says it's "a great read" written with "quick wit, crackling pace and been-there-done-that credentials."

Page Traynor of RT Book Reviews gave Prime Time the highest possible rating—four and a half stars, awarding it the coveted TOP PICK. She says: "This book has humor, snappy language, danger and a wonderful mystery that will keep you guessing. Prime Time has the perfect combination of mystery and romance."

Way to go, Hank!!

BSP WITHOUT FEAR

Has it been almost a whole year? I remember, so vividly it almost brings tears to my eyes, the moment this photo was taken. And before that, the moment my name (and Prime Time) was called as winner of the Agatha for Best First. I can tell you my life has not been the same sine. And there’s not a moment I’m not grateful.

So, as my Agatha year ticks away, here’s a photo of me and Best Novel winner Louise Penny. There were not two happier people on the planet at that moment.

Now you’re asking: why why why are you posting a photo of yourself? Well, I say, it’s to give you all license to talk about your own Agatha stuff.

Are you a nominee? And want to shout it to everyone? Please, go ahead.

Tell us about your book. Or about yourself. A short paragraph? Your elevator pitch? How you felt when you got the call? This is your day.

Of course we’re thrilled and delighted about the nominations for our own Rosemary Harris for Pushing Up Daisies,

and Rhys Bowen for A Royal Pain, but more about that another day.

Today, we say, go for it.

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Have a web link you’d like people to check out?

It’s BSP without Fear Day on Jungle Red.

Congratulations Hank!

We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to announce...

Hank Phillippi Ryan's Prime Time has been nominated for an Agatha Award for Best First Novel.

All of us at Jungle Red are thrilled to have royalty in our midst. Huzzzah Huzzah, and Very Big Whoop! Raise a glass of bubbly with us to toast this well deserved honor.

Love ya, Hank!

Hip, hip, hooray!

Three cheers for our Jungle Red colleague Hank whose first novel, PRIME TIME, has been nominated for an Agatha award for best first mystery. Congratulations from all of us! Roberta

Hip, hip, hooray!

Three cheers for our Jungle Red colleague Hank whose first novel, PRIME TIME, has been nominated for an Agatha award for best first mystery. Congratulations from all of us! Roberta