My website was in a state of renovation and renewal over a period of several months, and while I’ve been back in business for a while (check it out!), I’m only slowly catching up on updating information about recent publications. Here’s three new stories, published over the last three months—excited about them all! Click the covers to find on Amazon.
Co-written with Tara Laskowski (my wife!), “After Their Convictions, Six Murderers Reflect on How Killing Mr. Boddy Changed Their Lives” is our first-ever foray into fan fiction—offering six linked flash fiction stories inspired by one of our favorite board games. Any clue which game that might be?
Issue 15 of Black Cat Mystery Magazine, released in September,
also features stories by John Floyd, R.T. Lawton, Stacy Woodson, and more—including a classic tale by Jack Ritchie.
On his annual summer solstice hike, an aging man is haunted by memories of his best friend’s death on the same summit decades before…
My story “The Gained Ground” is one of 19 in a new anthology from the Crime Writers Association and Flame Tree Press. Edited by Martin Edwards, the collection also features stories by the following authors: SJ Bennett, J.C. Bernthal, Chris Curran, Judith Cutler, Luke Deckard, Victoria Dowd, Martin Edwards, Kate Ellis, Helen Fields, Paula Lennon, G.M. Malliet, William Burton McCormick, Tom Mead, Christine Poulson, Jacquie Rogers, Meeti Shroff-Shah, Chris Simms, and L.C. Tyler.
Late night at a a neighborhood bookstore, an advice columnist tasks her friends and the bookstore’s owner with solving what may be a murder—reading between the lines of a letter she received.
My story “Tuesday Night Teas” joins a dozen other “creative and cunning cozy stories” in Agatha and Derringer Get Cozy: Thirteen Tales of Murder, Mystery, and Master Detection, featuring new fiction by winners of the Agatha and Derringer Awards.
Other contributors include John Floyd, Barb Goffman, Tara Laskowski, BV Lawson, Robert Lopresti, Kris Neri, Alan Orloff, Josh Pachter, Stephen D. Rogers, Shawn Reilly Simmons, Marcia Talley, and Stacy Woodson.