Allegation of plagiarism

I don't know if this is the right place to put this, but I thought that folks might want to know...

There's a bit of a storm brewing over at kboards.com and goodreads about someone who appears to be passing off other people's books as his own on Amazon and smashwords.

More info here:

http://www.kboards.com/index.php/topic,190095.0.html

You may need to be patient - this website crashed yesterday, possibly because of the number of people reading it.

The allegation is that this person - Karl Jones - appears to be copying other people's books and just changing a few details - titles, covers and character names. There's some other nastier stuff too but that is a matter for the courts so I'll let you read that for yourself.

Authors may want to check his 40+ (some say 80+) books to see if he has copied their work.

The other worrying aspect of this saga is that at least one of his books "Murder in the first" has a five star review from someone who specialises in giving only glowing five star reviews - sometimes up to three in one day. That's either a very fast reader or something fishy is going on.

Leaves a very bad taste in the mouth...