East Texas author releases next book in crime series<\/p>\n
Published 5:20 am Monday, September 22, 2025<\/p>\n
M.E. Proctor\u2019s \u201cCatch Me on a Blue Day,\u201d the new installment in the Declan Shaw detective series, is now available in print and eBook. Published by Shotgun Honey Books, like last year\u2019s positively reviewed \u201cLove You Till Tuesday,\u201d the novel takes its main character from Houston to New England for a story that links a 30-year-old cold case with the dramatic events of the Salvadoran civil war in the 1980s.<\/p>\n
Carlton Marsh, retired war correspondent, asks Declan to help him with research for his new book. When Declan shows up in Old Mapleton, Connecticut, a surprise awaits. Marsh committed suicide. The local chief of police suspects foul play but there is no evidence. What\u2019s behind Marsh\u2019s death? What did the reporter dig out? The first three chapters of the book and the dedication provide clues: \u201cFor Ella and all the innocents slain by soulless men.\u201d Ella\u2019s murder, still unsolved, haunts the town.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s what authors are saying about \u201cCatch Me on a Blue Day\u201d:<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been reading mystery novels for 60 years. I\u2019ve read noir mysteries and police procedurals and historical mysteries and cozy mysteries and you name it. In all that time, I\u2019ve read few mystery writers as good as M.E. Proctor. In Catch Me on a Blue Day, she combines the strengths of the best of the best mystery writers, writers like Raymond Chandler, Agatha Christie, and Janet Evanovich, to create a mystery novel that will have you saying, where has this terrific mystery writer been all my life?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014John Guzlowski, author of Suitcase Charlie, a Hank and Marvin mystery<\/p>\n
\u201cCatch Me on a Blue Day is a speedboat of a detective yarn, sleek and sexy and fast as hell. You\u2019ll love it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Nick Kolakowski, author of Where the Bones Lie<\/p>\n
\u201cA small town murder mystery in New England that somehow twists and turns its way into the bloody politics of Central America. Sexy and funny, with a whole lot of action. A fresh take on the PI genre. Declan Shaw is back, baby!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Thomas Trang, author of Dark Neon & Dirt<\/p>\n
Catch Me on a Blue Day by M.E. Proctor was published by Shotgun Honey Books on Sept. 16. It is available in paperback (ISBN 13: 978-1-956957-87-7) for $17.99 or on eBook for $6.99.<\/p>\n
Proctor is a Shamus and Derringer Award nominee whose work has appeared in various anthologies and magazines: Vautrin, Reckon Review, Mystery Tribune, and Black Cat Weekly among others. She\u2019s the author of the Declan Shaw mystery series (Love You Till Tuesday and Catch Me on a Blue Day), the co-author of the retro-noir novella, Bop City Swing, and the author of the short story collection, Family and Other Ailments.<\/p>\n
Born in Brussels, Proctor now lives in Livingston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"East Texas author releases next book in crime series Published 5:20 am Monday, September 22, 2025 By Special…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[288,93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-36204","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}