I’m so thrilled that the Short Mystery Fiction Society has chosen “The Boy Detective & The Summer of ’74” as a finalist for this year’s Derringer Award for Best Novelette—and such a great list of writers and friends up and down the slate in all four categories!
FLASH STORY
- Outsourcing by James Blakey
- Over Before It Started by Robert Mangeot
- Memories of Fire by Joshua Pastor
- War Words by Travis Richardson
- Quitman County Ambush by Bobby Mathews
SHORT STORY
- That Which Is True by Jacqueline Freimor
- River by Stacy Woodson
- The Crossing by Kim Keeline
- The Great Bedbug Incident and the Invitation of Doom by Eleanor Cawood Jones
- The Homicidal Understudy by Elizabeth Elwood
LONG STORY
- Chasing Diamonds by Joseph S. Walker
- Lord, Spare the Bottom Feeders by Robert Mangeot
- Mary Poppins Didn’t Have Tattoos by Stacy Woodson
- Etta at the End of the World by Joseph S. Walker
- Hotelin’ by Sarah M. Chen
NOVELETTE
- A Murder at Morehead Mews by GM Malliet
- The Wretched Strangers by Matthew Wilson
- The Question of the Befuddled Judge by Jeff Cohen
- The Boy Detective & The Summer of ’74 by Art Taylor
- Suicide Blonde by Brian Thornton