Thanks to Bouchercon for posting links to each of this year’s Anthony Award finalists for Best Short Story—PDF versions of each story online, free reading for all!
You can find the list of stories with those links and all of the finalists at the Bouchercon website, and I’m pasting below as well. Pleased to have two of my stories on this slate!
- “Turistas,” by Hector Acosta (appearing in ¡Pa’que Tu Lo Sepas!: Stories to Benefit the People of Puerto Rico)
- “Unforgiven,” by Hilary Davidson (appearing in Murder a-Go-Gos: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Music of the Go-Gos)
- “Red Zone,” by Alex Segura (appearing in ¡Pa’que Tu Lo Sepas!: Stories to Benefit the People of Puerto Rico)
- “Better Days,” by Art Taylor (appearing in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, May/June 2019)
- “Hard Return,” by Art Taylor (appearing in Crime Travel)
The photo above also shows this year’s Anthony Award finalists for Best Anthology—congrats again to those collections and their editors as well, and not surprisingly, some overlap between the short story category and the anthology one too!
- The Eyes of Texas: Private Eyes from the Panhandle to the Piney Woods, edited by Michael Bracken (Down & Out Books)
- ¡Pa’que Tu Lo Sepas!: Stories to Benefit the People of Puerto Rico, edited by Angel Luis Colón (Down & Out Books)
- Crime Travel, edited by Barb Goffman (Wildside Press)
- Malice Domestic 14: Mystery Most Edible, edited by Verena Rose, Rita Owen, and Shawn Reilly Simmons (Wildside Press)
- Murder A-Go-Go’s: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Music of the Go-Gos, edited by Holly West (Down & Out Books)