"Hole-Man," by Matt Bondurant, in Dallas Noir, edited by David Hale Smith, Akashic Press, 2013. A nice, gloomy tale about the i...

"The Hotel des Muti lée s," by Jim Williams, in Knife Edge Anthology, Marble City Publishing, 2013. Earlier this week I read a...

"Acting Lessons," by Amanda Stern, in The Marijuana Chronicles, edited by Jonathan Santlofer, Akashic Press, 2013. So: what...

"The Waverley Knees," by Ray Banks, in Noir Nation 2, edited by Eddie Vega, 2013. What I like best about this story, I suppos...

"Saving Bessie's Worms," by Lynne Murphy, in Mesdames of Mayhem: Thirteen, edited by M.H. Callway, Donna Carrick, and Joan ...

"I Am Not Fluffy," by Liza Cody, in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, December 2013. There's a lot going on in this o...

"Othello Revised," by Denise Middlebrooks, in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, December 2013. One big problem with little ...

"Acknowledgments," by Christopher Coake, in Kwik Krimes, edited by Otto Penzler, Thomas and Mercer, 2013. Kwik Krimes is a co...

"The Psychic Investigator," by Janice Law, in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, December 2013. I believe in full dis...

"Benign," by Caroline J. Orvis, in Malfeasance Occasional: Girl Trouble, edited by Claire Toohey, Criminal Intent, 2013. When...