"Grace, Period," by Graham Powell, in Bad Men. Graham Powell was kind enough to send me a copy of this e-collection of short st...

"Out There," by Zoe Beck, in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, February 2012. Among the other changes that e-mail has wroug...

"Shikari," by James Lincoln Warren, in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, February 2012. My friend James goes from strength ...

"Dog Days of Summer," by John Kenyon, in All Due Respect, January 2012. Great photo there...  I wonder why I have never seen it...

I just listed what I consider to be the best 15 stories of the year, over at SleuthSayers.

"The Hedgehog" by Ferdinand von Schirach, in Crime: Stories, Alfred A. Knopf. Something very different this week.  Von Schirach...

"Don't Feed The Bums," by Lisa Brackmann, in San Diego Noir, Akashic Press, 2011. Some stories grab you from the git-go.  I...

"Gold Shield Blues," by Jeffrey J. Mariotte, in San Diego Noir, Akashic Books, 2011. The noir city books by Akashic Books are ...

"Pansy Place," by Dan Warthman, in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, January-February 2012. This is just a neat littl...

"The Satan League," by James Lincoln Warren, in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, January/February 2011.  You may well a...