Twenty years ago, in EQMM’s February 1986 Department of First Stories, Brendan DuBois began his career as a published fiction writer. In the years since, he’s twice won the Shamus Award, been nominated three times for the Edgar, and had a story...
Greedy Vera Miller plots her husband’s murder right under the nose of her mute, paralyzed mother-in-law. After all, the old lady won’t be able to tell anyone about the crime. Or will...
The Rosemary and Thyme series, to which this new Peter Lovesey story belongs, has been adapted for TV in the U.K., with Felicity Kendal and Pam Ferris in the starring roles. In its first successful season, the show drew in seven million viewers...
CRY WOLF is a fun, fast-paced mystery with a victim who is such a pathological liar that his murder is tough to solve. Entertaining! - - L.J. Sellers, author of the Detective Jackson series
Laura Cardinal: Packs a SIG Sauer P226 9mm. Investigates...
Nikki Sands, manager of the Malveaux Estates in Napa Valley – and girlfriend of the owner – is blissfully happy. Until a guru's devotee is killed on the famous Napa Valley Wine train and ruins her peace of...
Arly (aka Ariel) Hanks, Chief of Police of Maggody, Arkansas (pop. 755), has been known to break out in hives just thinking about Manhattan. Her idea of a good time is running a speed trap at the edge of town, stomping around the ridge looking...
The men who bossed the city were running scared. Elections were coming up and the voters were rallying behind Richardson Caldwell, an idealistic reformer with the old-fashioned notion that criminals belonged in jails instead of public offices.
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When Annie leaves the safety of her old bank job to become the full-time manager of her boyfriend's restaurant, what's meant to be the first day of the rest of her life might be the last day of someone...