It’s been a nice week for bookmail—including two anthologies featuring stories of mine. As always I took the opportunity to toast the occasion and the books themselves!
Double Crossing Van Dine is paired with a Perfect Manhattan, made with Green River Rye. I helped organize this anthology with Donna Andrews, Greg Herren, and an uncredited-but-so-much-appreciated Jeffrey Marks, publisher of Crippen & Landru, who published both this book and its predecessor, School of Hard Knox. My story for the anthology is “Dalliances”—and it’s a long one, which was necessary for breaking my assigned rule. (For more information on those rules and my fellow rule-breakers, follow each of those embedded links.)
This year’s Best American Mystery and Suspense, edited by Don Winslow and Steph Cha, is due out on Tuesday, October 21, and features my story “Dark Thread, Loose Strands,” originally published in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. Here’s more information on both the BAMS appearance and the EQMM publication. This one is paired with a Bénédictine and Brandy.
Cheers!