I tell all in an interview with Joanna Penn of The Creative Penn!
Learn how I ended up partnering with Erin Brockovich, why I call my books “Thrillers with Heart”, what I think about authors marketing, what the “CJ” in CJ Lyons really stands for, and more!
Enjoy,
CJ
Check out this cool video review of SNAKE SKIN that Joanna Penn did on Mystery/Thriller TV:
Check out this review of ROCK BOTTOM from the National Examiner:
Some stories are impossible to shake. They follow after you, dogging your footsteps and tap-dancing their way through your mind. Rock Bottom, by Erin Brockovich with CJ Lyons, is an intense, emotional thriller of a debut. From the moment the first page is read, the story catapults the reader into a world of greed, subterfuge and passion.
A.J. Palladino is a feisty environmental activist, who after a string of unfortunate circumstances returns to her hometown, looking for a new beginning in the place that nearly cost her everything. She comes home, expecting to start work at her new job and repair damaged relationships, but is met with opposition and murder.
A.J. soon discovers her boss’ untimely death is more than a tragic ending. She joins forces with Elizabeth, his daughter who decides to finish the fight her father began, and AJ begins to retrace the steps through her past, reimagining her future.
New horrors unfold as the duo discover that the mountains AJ loved as a child are being desecrated via mountaintop removal mining, and their subsequent pollution is being filtered into the drinking water and school system that her special needs son now attends.
Like a renegade angel, A.J. prepares to bring down the people responsible for the environmental toxins poisoning her hometown. As hidden truths crawl their way to the surface, everything AJ knew becomes tested. She must face those who betrayed her and come to terms with the past she left behind, before it claims her future.
Brockovich has created a compassionate, endearing fire-cracker of a heroine in Rock Bottom. To elevate this massively engaging novel, the story climbs the edge of intensity with unwavering precision. Concise language, mastery of dialogue and a surprisingly authentic love story emerge as the reader becomes entranced in the pages of this killer debut.
Now available in trade paperback!!!
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When it comes to “breathtakingly fast-paced thrillers” (Publishers Weekly), CJ Lyons is a “master of the genre.” (Pittsburgh Magazine)
With SNAKE SKIN, she turns her eye on a little known area of law enforcement, one CJ was intimately associated with during her career as a pediatric ER doctor: crimes against children.
Just your average Pittsburgh soccer mom, baking brownies and carrying a loaded forty-caliber Glock…
Lucille Teresa Guardino. A woman of many identities. Lucille to her doting mother, Lulu to her devoted husband, Mom to her pre-teen daughter, Lucy to her friends, LT to her co-workers, and Supervisory Special Agent Guardino to the criminals she captures for the FBI’s Sexual Assault Felony Enforcement squad.
A loving mom and wife, dutiful daughter, consummate professional, and kick-ass federal agent, Lucy is living the perfect life.
Until the day she comes up against a predator more vicious and cunning than any she’s ever tackled before, one who forces Lucy to choose between the life of the young victim she is fighting to save and her own daughter’s….and Lucy’s dream life is shattered.
e-book:
Amazon Kindle: $4.99
Barnes and Noble Nook $5.99
Smashwords $5.99
trade paperback (410 pages): Amazon Createspace $14.99
CJ Lyons joins forces with Erin Brockovich to create a new suspense series that will leave you breathless…
Ten years ago, Angela Joy Palladino left home as a pregnant seventeen-year-old in trouble. Now, after winning and losing a career as an environmental activist, dubbed by the media as “The People’s Champion,” she hopes to start over by taking a new job with a lawyer who is fighting to stop mountain top removal mining.
As a single mom of a special needs nine-year-old boy, Angela is happy for any work she can get, even if it means returning to the West Virginia hometown she left in disgrace. But when her new boss turns up dead and his daughter’s life is threatened, Angela discovers that her own secrets aren’t the only ones her mountain hometown has kept buried.
Hitting rock bottom, Angela must face the betrayal of those once closest to her and confront the harrowing past she thought she had left behind.
“A high stakes adventure with dire consequences.” ~New York Times bestselling author Steve Berry
“A compelling new voice in thriller writing…I love how the characters come alive on every page.” ~New York Times bestselling author Jeffery Deaver
“Everything a great thriller should be—action packed, authentic, and intense.” ~#1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child
Pretty cool, isn’t it?
I love how it conveys the tension of the idyllic setting and family and the pain of losing everything you love….
Here’s more on BLIND FAITH:
When her husband and son are murdered, she thought she’d lost it all. But for Sarah Durandt the nightmare is just beginning…
Sarah has just witnessed the execution of the man who confessed to killing her husband and son, among others. She leaves with no closure as the killer has refused her repeated requests to reveal the site of her family’s graves. Sarah returns home to her small town of Hopewell in the Adirondacks Mountains and vows to search until she finds Sam and Josh.
Her hunt leads her to a trail of lies and unearths a new killer. In a race to save everything she holds dear, Sarah is forced to place her faith in the man who betrayed her…her husband.
BLIND FAITH is one of those books that pushes the boundaries of traditional romance, suspense, and thrillers.
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