Cameron Trost's Blog

June 17, 2025

Audiobooks!

My books are now being made available as audiobooks for those of you who love to listen to a good book. Flicker is already out as an audiobook: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FCRZ3RZT

Enjoy the post-apocalypse!
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Published on June 17, 2025 12:03 Tags: flicker, post-apocalyptic

May 4, 2024

FREE for Kindle: Murder and Machinery

Don't say we're not good to you here at Black Beacon Books! "Murder and Machinery, Tales of Technological Terror and Mechanical Madness" is FREE to download for Amazon Kindle this weekend. Read, rate, review!

"This is an awesome and eclectic collection of tales by authors drawn from all over the globe. I was blown away by the quality of the writing and how well every story utilized the theme... Hints of Crash (by J.G. Ballard)..."
- Anthony Ferguson, 4-star Goodreads review

Murder and Machinery
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January 16, 2024

Letterbox - FREE mystery!

Letterbox, my novel of mystery and mayhem in the English countryside, is FREE for Kindle today only to celebrate 7,700 wonderful followers on my Facebook page, and 620 here on Goodreads! Download, enjoy, and please leave a review on Amazon and Goodreads. https://mybook.to/letterbox
Letterbox
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Published on January 16, 2024 03:55 Tags: mystery, suspense

Letterbox - FREE mystery!

Letterbox, my novel of mystery and mayhem in the English countryside, is FREE for Kindle today only to celebrate 7,700 wonderful followers on my Facebook page, and 620 here on Goodreads! Download, enjoy, and please leave a review on Amazon and Goodreads. https://mybook.to/letterbox
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Published on January 16, 2024 03:54 Tags: mystery, suspense

December 31, 2023

Best Wishes for 2024

Thank you all for reading, reviewing, and simply sharing your passion for books. Best wishes to you all for 2024. Let's make it the most bookish year yet. :)
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Published on December 31, 2023 09:03

December 11, 2023

Traditional Mysteries on Kindle Unlimited

I've just signed up for Kindle Unlimited and I'm looking for mystery novels, novellas, collections, and anthologies to read and review here on Goodreads. Mystery writers and fans, give me your suggestions! But before you do, please make sure you only send suggestions that fit the following criteria:

1) Kindle Unlimited books only.
2) Fairplay / traditional mysteries. This means the reader is given all the tools to solve the mystery before the detective reveals all.
3) For novels, no longer than 70,000 words. That's more than enough words to tell a ripping mystery without diluting it. 50,000 to 65,000 is the sweet spot for me.

I prefer private investigators and puzzles inspired by the mysteries of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. I particularly like clever locked-room and closed-circle mysteries with evocative settings. Think Doyle, Christie, and Carr, for example.
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Published on December 11, 2023 02:06 Tags: detective, locked-room-mystery, mystery

December 3, 2023

FREE for Kindle: Oscar Tremont

To celebrate 7,600 wonderful Facebook followers (https://www.facebook.com/CameronTrost...) with impeccable taste in books, I've made "Oscar Tremont, Investigator of the Strange and Inexplicable" FREE to download for Kindle today (Sunday the 3rd) only! This collection features Oscar's first four cases, which took place in Australia before he moved to his wife's homeland of Brittany. Three novellas and a short story perfect for all the armchair detectives out there. Oscar Tremont, Investigator of the Strange and Inexplicable

* The Hunt for the Stayne Fortune
* The Ghosts of Walhalla
* The Witch at the Window
* The Secret of the Severed Hand

Download, share this post, and leave a review on Amazon, Goodreads, and wherever else once you've solved the puzzles.

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09Q91YZZQ/
Amazon AU: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B09Q91YZZQ/
Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09Q91YZZQ/
Amazon CA: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B09Q91YZZQ/
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...
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Published on December 03, 2023 01:15 Tags: black-beacon-books, cameron-trost, detective, mystery, oscar-tremont, private-investigator

November 10, 2023

Flicker

Flicker
In a broken world, lighting a match is an act of rebellion...
The match has been struck! Flicker is out now in paperback and it's your last chance to place a Kindle preorder at just $1.99 instead of the RRP of $3.99! Could you survive in a post-apocalyptic wilderness?
Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CHR3893G/
Print: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0645247146/
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
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Published on November 10, 2023 03:26 Tags: black-beacon-books, cameron-trost, flicker, post-apocalyptic

May 1, 2023

Cover Art Competition

The cover I whipped up for "Oscar Tremont, Investigator of the Strange and Inexplicable" has been selected for this month's AllAuthor cover contest. Please follow the link and vote for it! Thanks.
https://allauthor.com/cover-of-the-mo...

Oscar Tremont, Investigator of the Strange and Inexplicable
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Free for Kindle

The Tunnel Runner is FREE for #Kindle today only. Download, enjoy, and please leave a review on Amazon and #goodreads.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01KRWDKMA https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
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Published on May 01, 2023 01:38 Tags: free-ebook, the-tunnel-runner