Coming Soon!
"Bearcat Blues" will be in
Prohibition Peepers:
Private Eyes During the Noble Experiment
Edited by Michael Bracken
Monday, September 25, 2023!!!
"Bearcat Blues" will be in
Prohibition Peepers:
Private Eyes During the Noble Experiment
Edited by Michael Bracken
Monday, September 25, 2023!!!
My first short story, "The Trial of Madame Pelletier" was published in Malice Domestic's MYSTERY MOST HISTORICAL (Wayside Press, 2017) and features a poisoning case in 19th century France. This one came from a real case I read about when I was still a grad student, although I've changed it completely. "A Postcard for the Dead" is my second short historical mystery and appeared in FLORIDA HAPPENS: Bouchercon 2018 Anthology (Three Rooms Press). This one features the death of an Assistant Post Master in Florida 1921.
Edited by award-winning author/editor Greg Herren and featuring an introduction by New York Times bestselling author Tim Dorsey, Florida Happens is a riveting anthology featuring some of the brightest stars of mystery writing. Published in conjunction with Bouchercon, the World Mystery Convention―the biggest mystery/suspense convention of the year―this new anthology features stories from from the legendary John D. MacDonald and Lawrence Block. In addition, it includes original new fiction from Susanna Calkins, Alex Segura, Brendan DuBois, Hilary Davidson, Reed Farrel Coleman, Craig Pittman, and many others. Florida Happens promises to surprise and thrill lovers of mystery and suspense. |
NOMINATED for a 2018 Anthony!!!
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I'm excited that my third story--"You Thought"--appeared in MURDER-A-GO-GO's, a collection of crime fiction short stories based on the music of the Go-Gos, edited by Holly West, and with an introduction from Jane Wiedlin (March 2019) Totally fun.
This short story, about a young couple in over their head when buying their first home, represents my first piece of published contemporary fiction. Read more about it! |
So excited to say that Murder-A-Go-Go's was nominated for an Anthony for Best Anthology
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Welcome to the world of Cockney rhyming slang, where what is said means something completely different than how it sounds. Originally, it was a coded language created by criminals for deceiving undercover police officers during Victorian times. Common phrases like septic tank, holy water, brown bread, tomfoolery and mince pies don’t mean what you think they mean. Others, like Barnaby Rudge, gypsy’s kiss, smash and grab, butcher’s hook, kick and prance and bubble and squeak paint a picture.
My fourth short story, Tea Leaf, appears in Trouble and Strife, edited by Simon Wood. All of the short stories are inspired by Cockney slang. My story, Tea Leaf, is inspired by the Cockney slang for thief. This story, my second contemporary, focuses on a young woman working at a jewelry story when a thief walks in the door. Other contributors include Steve Brewer, Susanna Calkins, Colin Campbell, Angel Luis Colón, Robert Dugoni, Paul Finch, Catriona McPherson, Travis Richardson, Johnny Shaw, Jay Stringer, Sam Wiebe. Check it out!
My fourth short story, Tea Leaf, appears in Trouble and Strife, edited by Simon Wood. All of the short stories are inspired by Cockney slang. My story, Tea Leaf, is inspired by the Cockney slang for thief. This story, my second contemporary, focuses on a young woman working at a jewelry story when a thief walks in the door. Other contributors include Steve Brewer, Susanna Calkins, Colin Campbell, Angel Luis Colón, Robert Dugoni, Paul Finch, Catriona McPherson, Travis Richardson, Johnny Shaw, Jay Stringer, Sam Wiebe. Check it out!
Two Women and a Tarp in the Bouchercon 2022 Anthology, Land of 10,000 Thrills, edited by Greg Herren
“But will it play in Peoria?”
For years, the Midwest has been used as a stand-in for “average America”. The sweeping great plains, the heavy snows of winter, ice fishing and mighty rivers and frozen lakes. Midwesterners have a reputation for being the salt of the earth, friendly and kind and helpful and nice. But is “Midwestern nice” merely a cover for what really goes on in this part of the country? John Wayne Gacy, the bloody Benders, and Jeffrey Dahmer were all Midwesterners—but that doesn’t mean every Midwesterner has bodies buried in their basements…or does it?
To celebrate Bouchercon, the world’s largest mystery fan convention, coming to Minneapolis in 2022, editor Greg Herren is proud to present a series of tales that will shock and surprise you—and maybe make you think twice about that ice-fishing trip, or before taking a snowmobile out after the sun goes down. Featuring authors from all over the Midwest who know just how dark and lonesome it can get out there in the country at night, these crime stories will entertain you with their trip down the dark side of the “real America”—where the twilight’s last gleaming has an entirely different meaning and feel.
Featuring some of the top, award-winning authors in the field today—from Mindy Mejia to Marcie R. Rendon to Michael Wiley, Susanna Calkins and Erica Ruth Neubauer, and Bryon Quertermous, Tessa Wegert, Raquel V. Reyes, and Richie Narvaez—doing some of their finest work to date. Collected and curated by award-winning editor Greg Herren, with stories ranging from light to darkly funny to just out-and-out macabre, Land of 10,000 Thrills is one of the strongest anthologies put together by the Bouchercon conference to date.
These stories may not “play in Peoria”…but mystery fans everywhere will enjoy them.
“But will it play in Peoria?”
For years, the Midwest has been used as a stand-in for “average America”. The sweeping great plains, the heavy snows of winter, ice fishing and mighty rivers and frozen lakes. Midwesterners have a reputation for being the salt of the earth, friendly and kind and helpful and nice. But is “Midwestern nice” merely a cover for what really goes on in this part of the country? John Wayne Gacy, the bloody Benders, and Jeffrey Dahmer were all Midwesterners—but that doesn’t mean every Midwesterner has bodies buried in their basements…or does it?
To celebrate Bouchercon, the world’s largest mystery fan convention, coming to Minneapolis in 2022, editor Greg Herren is proud to present a series of tales that will shock and surprise you—and maybe make you think twice about that ice-fishing trip, or before taking a snowmobile out after the sun goes down. Featuring authors from all over the Midwest who know just how dark and lonesome it can get out there in the country at night, these crime stories will entertain you with their trip down the dark side of the “real America”—where the twilight’s last gleaming has an entirely different meaning and feel.
Featuring some of the top, award-winning authors in the field today—from Mindy Mejia to Marcie R. Rendon to Michael Wiley, Susanna Calkins and Erica Ruth Neubauer, and Bryon Quertermous, Tessa Wegert, Raquel V. Reyes, and Richie Narvaez—doing some of their finest work to date. Collected and curated by award-winning editor Greg Herren, with stories ranging from light to darkly funny to just out-and-out macabre, Land of 10,000 Thrills is one of the strongest anthologies put together by the Bouchercon conference to date.
These stories may not “play in Peoria”…but mystery fans everywhere will enjoy them.