NBtM Virtual Book Tour and Giveaway: Murder by Munchausen Trilogy by M.T. Bass

Welcome to my stop on the NBtM virtual book tour for the Murder by Munchausen trilogy by M.T. Bass. This tour was organized by Goddess Fish Promotions. On my stop, I have an excerpt for you and a highly interesting guest post regarding the Manson Family murders. There's also the tour wide giveaway for a chance to win a $50 Amazon or Barnes & Noble gift card. Check out the rest of the stops on the tour for more content. Enjoy!

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A Cyber Crime Thriller Series: Notorious serial killers digitally resurrected to live & hunt again in hacked replicants, pursued by detectives of the Artificial Crimes Unit.

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Title: Murder by Muchausen

Series: Murder by Muchausen #1

Author: M.T. Bass

Publisher: Electron Alley

Publication Date: April 2nd 2017

Print Length: 228 pages

Genres: Thriller, Police Procedural

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Bosch Meets I, Robot: A police procedural thriller ripped from future headlines!

After Jake shoots and kills a murder suspect who turns out to be the son of a powerful city councilman, he finds himself demoted to the Artificial Crimes Unit, tracking down androids hacked and programmed to be hit men.

When his case of an “extra-judicial” divorce settlement takes a nasty turn with DNA from a hundred-year-old murder in Boston and a signature that harkens back to the very first serial killer ever in London, Jake finds himself tangled up in the brutal slayings of prostitutes being investigated by his former Robbery/Homicide partner, Maddie--who is now his lover.

Artificial Intelligence? Fuhgeddaboudit!

Artificial Evil has a name…Munchausen.

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EXCERPT:

This particular Android Subject apparently went off the rails and killed a luckless pedestrian on his way to a bodega for some iced tea or bottled water to quench his thirst. A one-in-a-million occurrence, but every so often it still happens. Anyone who believes technology is infallible is a fool. The incident didn’t appear all that nefarious when first reported, but shortly thereafter the Atlas data stream went dark and patrol called our unit in. It quickly became obvious we were dealing with a malware hit, not a malfunction. The luckless pedestrian was actually not so luckless, being on what appeared to be the winning side of a particularly nasty termination suit with his ex, who we suspected had outsourced the final settlement to extra-judicial parties.

It might not make sense, but the beloved Media tags it “Murder by Munchausen.” For a price, there are hackers out there who will reprogram a synthoid to do your dirty work. The bad news: no fingerprints or DNA left at the crime scene. The good news—at least for us—is that they’re like missiles: once they hit their target, they’re usually as harmless as empty brass. The trick is to get them before they melt down their core OS data, so you can get the unit into forensics for analysis and, hopefully, an arrest.

EC’s scanner returned a hard ping. His quick double blink put his cross-hairs up on my lens and I followed his eye line to the northwest corner of the building…

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Title: The Darknet

Series: Murder by Munchausen #2

Author: M.T. Bass

Publisher: Electron Alley

Publication Date: February 2nd 2018

Print Length: 212 pages

Genres: Thriller, Police Procedural

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Hell hath no fury like a detective scorned!

It was the case of a lifetime……but then it went sideways on her. The suspect Maddie put behind bars might have been crazy but it turns out he was innocent, and now she finds herself in the Artificial Crimes Unit hunting a serial killer from two hundred years ago and a madman breathing life back into him with modern technology. Worse yet, she’s partnered up with Jake, her former lover.

When androids are hacked and reprogrammed into hit men, Maddie and Jake investigate and track down the the cyberpunk hackers. But now, an evil genius is using droids to recreate the infamous Jack the Ripper murders.

Artificial Intelligence? Fuhgeddaboudit!

Artificial Evil has a name…Munchausen.

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Title: The Invisible Mind

Series: Murder by Muchausen #3

Author: M.T. Bass

Publisher: Electron Alley

Publication Date: August 25th 2018

Print Length: 212 pages

Genres: Thriller, Police Procedural

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When androids dream of murder…

Now unleashed, the “Baron” is resurrecting history’s notorious serial killers, giving them a second life in the bodies of hacked and reprogrammed Personal Assistant Androids, then turning them loose to terrorize the city. While detectives Jake and Maddie of the police department’s Artificial Crimes Unit scramble to stop the carnage with the Baron’s arrest, the cyberpunk head of the Counter IT Section, Q, struggles to de-encrypt his mad scheme to infect world data centers with a virus that represents a collective cyber unconsciousness of evil.

Artificial Intelligence? Fuhgeddaboudit!

Artificial Evil has a name…Munchausen.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

M.T. Bass is a scribbler of fiction who holds fast to the notion that while victors may get to write history, novelists get to write/right reality. He lives, writes, flies and makes music in Mudcat Falls, USA.

Born in Athens, Ohio, M.T. Bass grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. He graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University, majoring in English and Philosophy, then worked in the private sector (where they expect “results”) mainly in the Aerospace & Defense manufacturing market. During those years, Bass continued to write fiction. He is the author of eight novels: My Brother’s Keeper, Crossroads, In the Black, Somethin’ for Nothin’, Murder by Munchausen, The Darknet (Murder by Munchausen Mystery #2), The Invisible Mind (Murder by Munchausen Mystery #3) and Article 15. His writing spans various genres, including Mystery, Adventure, Romance, Black Comedy and Techno Thrillers. A Commercial Pilot and Certified Flight Instructor, airplanes and pilots are featured in many of his stories. Bass currently lives on the shores of Lake Erie near Lorain, Ohio.

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GUEST POST:

- Which true life crime story has you the most intrigued?

Well…intriguing. That’s an interesting word.

I’m not sure that’s how I’d describe it, but certainly the Manson Family murders are at once inconceivable and mesmerizing. A pregnant Sharon Tate and six others were brutally butchered in August of 1969:

Before these crimes, Manson had spent more than half of his life in correctional institutions. An unemployed ex-convict and aspiring songwriter, he somehow became involved with Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys and the group recorded one of his songs, "Cease to Exist," as a B-side to "Bluebirds over the Mountain.” He was obsessed with the Beatles and laid claim to “Helter Skelter” as an image for a coming apocalyptic race war. But look at the man:

And, yet, he recruited a “family” of middle class teenagers—homecoming queen Leslie Van Houten, athlete and honor student Charles “Tex” Watson, glee club and the local church choir member Susan Atkins and middle class Patricia Krenwinkel—and convinced them to savagely shoot and stab to death Sharon Tate, Jay Sebring, Wojciech Frykowski, Abigail Folger, Steven Parent, and Leno & Rosemary LaBianca:

The State of California tried Manson for the Tate and LaBianca murders with co-defendants, Leslie Van Houten, Susan Atkins, and Patricia Krenwinkel, in a circus of a trial that included Manson trying to kill the judge, who then came to court wearing a .38 revolver. Not even President Nixon could stay out of it at the time. Tex Watson was later convicted in a separate trial. They were all sentenced to be executed, but were spared when the death penalty was declared unconstitutional in 1972. The Manson trial was the longest murder trial in American history when it occurred, lasting nine and a half months. Manson died in prison on November 19, 2017, at the age of 83.

The Sixties were no doubt a crazy enough time. But the Manson story—with the Beach Boys, the Beatles, the “Family,” Helter Skelter, and those brutal murders in 1969—certainly killed the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.

Manson and Watson appear for a brief bit in my novel, In the Black. If you want information on the crime, I’d recommend reading Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi, who was the prosecutor in the case:

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GIVEAWAY:

M.T. Bass will be awarding a $50 Amazon or Barnes & Noble gift card to a randomly drawn winner via Rafflecopter after the tour. To increase your chance of winning, leave a comment at a different stop on the tour each day. Good luck!

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