The new May/June 2019 issue of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine is out with sunny shores that contain dark secrets, including Edgar Award winner Art Taylor’s “Better Days”; the edge-of-your-seat ride “Hurricane Jonah” by T.J. MacGregor; Pat Black’s policemen on a bittersweet day, “The First Day of the School Holidays”; a private investigator in Mark Stevens’s “A Bitter Thing,” a story taking place in the world of hit rock musicians; the latest take from EQMM's Black Mask department, Dave Zeltserman's "Brother's Keeper" and much more.
Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine's May/June issue takes a look at the divide in mystery fiction between the professional investigator and the amateur sleuth and how the interplay between vocation and avocation can unfold in any number of interesting ways. Whether it’s the duly anointed law enforcement officers whose personal passions inform their work, or the accidental sleuth whose professional expertise sheds light on a knotty problem, this month’s stories reveal the complex feedback between the things people do for pay and for love. The cover story is “A Deadly Game of Flamingo Bingo” by Terrie Farley Moran, with other tales by Chris Muessig, Gigi Vernon, Elizabeth Zelvin, Melissa Fall, and more.
Soon after its founding in 2011, Noir Nation: International Crime Fiction became a globally recognized home of international crime fiction and, with this issue, it also includes noir poetry. Noir Nation #7 features fiction by Deborah Pintonelli, Nahary Hernandez, JJ Toner, Barbie Wilde, David James Keaton, Ava Black, Simon Rowe, D.V. Bennett, Frauke Schuster, Gerald Heys, and BV Lawson; poetry by Bianca Bellová, Adam Ward, Juleigh Howard-Hobson, Bonny Finberg, and Shawn Stibbards; nonfiction by Michael Gonzales; a staff interview with police detective and writer George Beck; plus the winners of the First Golden Fedora Poetry Prize: George Perreault, Michael Zimecki, Timothy Ryan, J.D. Smith, Craig Kenworthy, Frank De Blasé, James Gardner, Joe Cortinas, Barry Nathan, and Timothy Tarkelly.
Mystery Weekly Magazine's April issue features “The Persistence Of Illusion” by Bond Elam, in which Detective Harry Sturgis finds himself stuck with a twenty-five-year-old case and the last thing he expects is to get himself killed; “One Night At The Pine Lake Motel” by Blu Gilliand finds two pro wrestlers and one disbelieving spectator on a collision course with trouble on a hot summer night at a seedy Alabama motel; in “Tangerines And Wild Garlic” by Steve Toase, Sarah travels to Ben's hometown to meet his family, but then she finds herself in the midst of a town tradition where everything is not what it seems; PTSD is the focus of “Paper Soldier” by Al Onia; in “Andromeda Smiled” by C.W. Blackwell, retired detective Charlie Kane is lured from his solitude to reprise his role as a famous gumshoe; “Honey's Turn” by Michael Cahlin and Beth Slick is a twisted his-and-her love story and what happens when a good love goes really, really bad.
The spring Mystery Scene magazine features a profile of thriller author Steve Barry; there's also a look at the “Ten Commandments of Mystery Fiction" as laid out by author Father Ronald A. Knox; Oline Cogdill has rounded up a pack of canine sleuths; Jon L. Breen has a roundup of the latest legal thrillers; author Robert Dugoni tells how studying law taught him to think linearly and problem-solve; there's the always interesting “The Hook: Intriguing First Lines” feature, showcasing interesting openings from mystery novels, and much more.
Strand Magazine: Issue 57 includes an exclusive Walter Mosley short story about a bank teller’s impact on a huge corporation with “An Unlikely Serious of Conversations.” Noted author James Ziskin pens a story about a meek husband’s wonderful escape plan with “A Bed of Roses.” David Marcum has Holmes and Watson on the case with a “A Simple Solution.” Elizabeth Creith pens a story set during two times dealing with spells and the Spanish Armada with “The Spanish Entanglement.” And Jeffrey Alan Lockwood has a most unusual PI solve a murder case in “With a Little Help from my Friends.” There's also an exclusive interview with bestselling author Don Winslow who spoke about drug cartels, writing, and his latest novel, The Border, plus you'll find oodles of book reviews.
Mystery Tribune's second anniversary issue features a curated collection of short fiction including stories by Hester Young, Edgar Award Winner SJ Rozan, Hilary Davidson, Ryan David Jahn, Edgar Award Winner Gary Earl Ross, Jonathan Ferrini, Kevin R. Roller, and William R. Soldan; interviews and reviews by Charlaine Harris, Charles Perry and Nick Kolakowski; art and photography by Brittany Markert, Anka Zhuravleva and more. This issue also features a preview of the new Wrath Of Fantomas graphic novel by Olivier Bocquet and Julie Rocheleau.
Volume 31, no. 1 of Clues: A Journal of Detection includes articles on dementia in detective fiction; trauma and contemporary crime fiction; a Percy Bysshe Shelley poem viewed as a detective story; a look at “The Sign of Four" and the detective (Sherlock Holmes) as a disrupter of order; two new takes on the Nancy Drew series; and more.
The latest edition of Switchblade Magazine is out, with new noir fiction focusing on “the darkness and complexity of the human psyche” by Paul D. Marks, Jack Bates, Mark Slade, Richard Risemberg, J. Rohr, Willie Smith, A.F. Knott, John Kojak, Fred Rock, and Stefen Styrsky. Managing Editor Scotch Rutherford promises a heaping helping of vice including prostitution, racketeering, a new take on good old-fashioned mob fiction, and a little unorthodox religious intervention.
The new Flash Bang Mysteries offers up the Featured Cover Story, “Getting Ideas” by Amy Samin; The Editors' Choice story, “Conversation with the Murderer” by Heidi Hunter; and other new crime stories from Herschel Cozine (“Dead End”); Karen Cantwell (“Stupid is as Stupid Does”), John M. Floyd (“Grandpa's Watch”), and Stay Woodson (“The Final Course”).
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