"Fast Bang Booze," by Lawrence Maddox, Shotgun Honey, 2018. Lot of housekeeping to get through today, so bear with me. 1. My...

"10,432 Serial Killers (in Hell)," by Emily Devenport, in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, May/June 2018. Let me star...

"The Last Siege of Bothwell Castle," by Chris Brookmyre, in Bloody Scotland, edited by James Crawford, Pegasus, 2018. Each of...

"The Icing on the Cake," by Russell  Day,  in  Noirville,  Fahrenheit Press, 2018 . This is a tasty piece of work and I can...

"The Canary Islands Crime Boss," by Glenda Young, in Noirville, Fahrenheit Press, 2018. Poor Jimmy.  An accountant isn't su...

"The Curse," by Mark Edwards, in Night of the Flood,  edited by E.A. Aymar, and Sarah M. Chen.  Down and Out Books, 2018. This...

"Kindness," by Tom Hallman, Jr., in Mystery Weekly Magazine, April 2018. I like surprises.  Not in real life, I hasten to add...

"The Gunfighters," by Michael Cebula, in Mystery Weekly Magazine,  April 2018. I don't go looking for western stories, bec...

"The Wedding Ring," by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March/April 2018. This is Rusch's ...

"The Submarine of Walker Lake," by Brendan DuBois, in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March/April 2018. Correction made,...