Weekly links to what’s fresh, what’s famous, and what’s fiendish in short mystery and crime fiction.
Short sample:
There is nothing more annoying than the repetitive sound of frozen iguanas hitting the roof of your trailer, with the possible exception of a man hammering at your neighbor’s door. From “Frozen Iguana” by Debra Lattanzi Shutika (in Florida Happens: Bouchercon 2018 Anthology, ed. Greg Herren. Three Rooms Press/Diversion Books, 2018. Out of Print. Limited Availability).
Point of view:
Review: Ben Boulden is on the scene with At Home in the Dark, ed. Lawrence Block (2019).
Reviews: Robert Lopresti’s Little Big Crimes: The best mystery story I read this week covers one, two, three, stories from the latest issue of AHMM.
New releases, old releases:
Invisible Blood, eds. Lee Child and Jeffery Deaver (July 23, 2019. Includes a new Jack Reacher story).
Crime & Mystery Short Stories (2016).
Tricks of the Trade:
Almost everything you wanted to know about cops’ concealment holsters.
Free Reads:
“The Bear Trap” (A Mike Bowditch Short Story) by Paul Doiron.
“Backtrack” by Paul Doiron.
Check my shorts, please:
My supernatural voodoo mystery “Most Evil” appeared in the anthology Busted! Arresting Stories from the Beat.