Weekly links to what’s fresh, what’s famous, and what’s fiendish in short mystery and crime fiction.
Short sample:
On the second day of her life as a criminal, Alice Wilson baked a cake. From “Rats” by Tom Savage (in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, September/October 2018, ed. Linda Landrigan, Dell Magazines).
Point of view:
Crime Review reviews Shots Fired: Stories from Joe Pickett Country by C.J. Box, collected in 2014. (And see Short walk #13 in the August archives for Kevin Tipple’s review.)
Reviewing the Evidence reviews Twisted: The Collected Stories of Jeffery Deaver (2003).
New releases, old releases:
Black Cat Mystery Magazine Issues #3, #2, #1.
Writing desk:
Hollywood vs. The Author (2018). A tell-all from authors who sold rights to movie folks. ed. Stephen Jay Schwartz. Includes Lawrence Block, Michael Connelly, T. Jefferson Parker, and more. (Backlogged at Amazon.)
Free zine:
Two freebies courtesy of Retreats from Oblivion.
“Walking Amsterdam” by Patricia Abbott.
“Requiem for Spider” by Reed Farrel Coleman.
Check my shorts, please:
My mystery story “Darkness, Darkness” appeared in the July 2017 issue of Mystery Weekly Magazine. (Read a free except at the Mystery Weekly website.)
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