About Alibi by John McCarty
Meet Martin Koll, the young CEO of a rising tech company that has just landed a multi-million dollar client. Life is good. Until it isn’t. When Koll falls under suspicion of murder, all the evidence seems against him. Fortunately, he has an airtight alibi – until he doesn’t. As the police gather even more evidence to arrest him, it falls on Koll to clear himself before that occurs – to find who is setting him up, and why? His time is running out.
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John McCarty is a full time author and filmmaker. His book Bullets over Hollywood: The American Gangster Picture from the Silents to “The Sopranos” (Da Capo Press, 2004), was produced as a major documentary by the late Hugh M. Hefner’s Alta Loma Entertainment, for the Starz/Encore cable network; it aired in 2005 and 2006 and has been released on DVD by Image-Entertainment.
Additionally, he is the co-producer, co-writer, and co-director of The Fearmakers: Masters of Screen Suspense and Terror, a documentary series (and video companion piece to his book of the same name) of profiles of some of the world’s most influential makers of classic suspense and terror films, among them Tod Browning, Jack Arnold, Terence Fisher, Roman Polanski, Roger Corman, and Tobe Hooper. It was re-released as a two-volume set on DVD by Alpha Video in 2014.
The author of more than twenty non-fiction books of his own on film and entertainment subjects, John has appeared in conjunction with his work on such cable network programs as Fox News Saturday, CNN.fn’s midday news, A&E’s Biography, the Bravo network series Backspin, the ICONS Radio Hour hosted by Stephen Bogart (son of screen icon Humphrey Bogart) Neal Conan’s “Talk of the Town” on National Public Radio, and many other major market radio stations across the country.
John has also has collaborated on many high-profile books with leading experts in their fields, among them: Julie Morgenstern on her New York Times best-selling Organizing From the Inside Out, and IRA expert Ed Slott on his top-selling The Retirement Savings Time Bomb…and How to Defuse It (Viking, 2003), (1998) — both of them Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.com “Hot 100” sellers.
John McCarty is a full time author and filmmaker. His non-fiction book Bullets over Hollywood: The American Gangster Picture from the Silents to “The Sopranos” (Da Capo Press, 2004), was produced as a major documentary by the late Hugh M. Hefner’s Alta Loma Entertainment, for the Starz/Encore cable network; it aired in 2005 and 2006 and has been released on DVD. Additionally, he is the co-producer, co-writer, and co-director of The Fearmakers: Masters of Classic Screen Terror and Suspense, a 13-episode documentary series profiling of some of the world’s most influential makers of classic “fear films,” among them Tod Browning, Jack Arnold, Terence Fisher, Roman Polanski, Roger Corman, and Tobe Hooper. The series is based on his 1994 book of the same title published by St. Martin’s Press, and now available as an e-book from Crossroad Press. The companion DVD is in release by Alpha Video (www.oldies.com). His 2009 film, Confinement, a modern re-telling of the classic feminist short story The Yellow Wallpaper, is currently in distribution by Films Media Group. His film The Man Who Pursued Rosebud, a documentary about the life of actor-producer-director William Alland, is available as a special feature on the exclusive Alpha Video DVD release of Mr. Alland’s controversial (and long unseen) 1960s classic Look in Any Window, starring Paul Anka.
Born in Albany, New York, in 1944, John attended Boston University, where he graduated with a degree in communications (broadcasting & film) in 1966. A former Peace Corps volunteer, he later wrote several un-produced scripts for the hit TV series Family Affair and Death Valley Days during a sojourn in Hollywood (1968-1970). He then worked in broadcasting and as a copywriter for General Electric Company. He published his first book in 1978 and became a full-time author in 1983. Some of his other books about the world of movies, all available from Crossroad Press, include: Hammer Films (2002), The Official Splatter Movie Guide Vols I & II; The Sleaze Merchants; A Little Mad Sometimes: Films Psychopaths from Jekyll and Hyde to HannibaL Lecter; The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of: The Cinema Of John Huston; and the horror novel Deadly Resurrection.
The author of more than 20 non-fiction books on film and entertainment subjects, John has appeared in conjunction with his book writing and film work on such national media as the Wall St. Journal, the Sundance Film Festival’s online “Film Talks”, Fox News Saturday, CNN.fn’s mid-day news, A&E’s Biography, the Bravo network series “Backspin,” the ICONS Radio Hour hosted by Stephen Bogart (son of screen icon Humphrey Bogart), Neal Conan’s “Talk of the Town” on National Public Radio, Turner Classic Movies, and many other major market radio and cable TV stations across the country. His 2013 action-drama Thirst: A Civil War Story, an official selection of the 2016 New York State International Short Film Festival, may currently be viewed on Amazon Instant Video and Amazon Prime.
The suspense thriller Alibi (Gordion Knot Books) is his second novel.