"Katerina Goes to Studio City," by Thomas Perry, in The Strand Magazine, LXII, 2020 . This story puts me in an awkward position....

  "The Tennis Church," by Sophie Hannah, in The C Word, Spellbound Books, 2021. The proceeds from this book go to support Britain...

  "Boo Radley College Prep," by Karen Harrington, in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, January/February 2021. As I have said b...

"Flinders' Flit," by H.L. Fullerton, in Mystery Weekly Magazine, February 2021. The defining experience of Cassie's life ...

"A Family Matter," by Barb Goffman, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, January/February 2021.  I corrected a bad typo in my origin...

 "The Underneath," by Stephen Ross, in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, January/February 2021.  This is the second appea...

 At SleuthSayers today I provide my twelfth annual list of the best short stories.  

"Just A Little Before Winter's Set In," by Larry Tyler, in Masthead: Best New England Crime Stories, edited by Verena Rose, Ha...

"Cahoots," by C.C. Guthrie, in Cozy Villages of Death, edited by Lyn Worthen, Camden Park Press, 2020. Alan Peterson is a banker, ...

   "Camberwell Crackers," by Anthony Horowitz, in California Schemin', edited by Art Taylor, Wildside Press, 2020. This is a v...