"The Clan," by Tony Richards, in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, March 2014. I have written once before about Tony...

"Murder Town," by David Dean, in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, February 2014. My fellow SleuthSayer David Dean has wri...

"Assets Protection," by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, January/February 2014.   Rusch is o...

"The Art of Authentification," by Christopher Welch., in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, January/February 2014. This...

I list the best fifteen mystery stories of the year today at SleuthSayers

"Blunt Instruments," by James Powell, in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, January 2014. I say this with great fondness a...

"The Confidante," by Diana Dixon Healy, in Best New England Crime Stories 2014: Stone Cold, edited by Mark Ammons, Katherine F...

"Downhill Slide," by Jeff Howe, in Moon Shot, edited by J. Alan Hartman, Untreed Books, 2013. This book is a collection of scie...

"Full Moon," by Lauren Davis, in Dallas Noir, edited by David Hale Smith, Akashic Press, 2013. For those who came late, here...

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