"The Grown-Ups Table," by Steve Hockensmith, in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, January/February 2023. This is my  fir...

  My selection of the best stories of 2022 is up now for your inspection at SleuthSayers.

"Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Wednesday," by Sean McCluskey,   in  Mickey Finn, Volume 3,  edited by Michael Bracken, Down and Out B...

"The Delivery," by Andrew Welsh-Huggins, in  Mickey Finn, Volume 3, edited by Michael Bracken, Down and Out Books, 2022. This is ...

"Burying Oliver," by John M. Floyd, in Mickey Finn, Volume 3, edited by Michael Bracken, Down and Out Books, 2022.  This is the t...

 "The Sounds of Silence," by Gabriel Valjan, in Paranoia Blues: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Paul Simon, edited by Josh...

"This Night in Question," by Tod Goldberg,in  Witnesses for the Dead,  edited by Gary Phillips and Gar Anthony Haywood, Soho Press...

  "Spiders and Fly," by Gary Phillips, in Witnesses for the Dead, edited by Gary Phillips and Gar Anthony Haywood, Soho Press, 20...

  "Street Versus the Stalker," by Pam Barnsley, in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, November/December 2022. A modest little st...

"More Than Suspicion," by Joseph S. Walker, in A Hint of Hitchcock, edited by Cameron Trost, Black Beacon Books, 2022. First of a...