Short Fiction
“A Murder Runs Through It”
Nothing ruins a romantic riverside picnic
like a dead body floating by.
Fish Tales: The Guppy Anthology casts a wide net across the mystery genre, delivering thrills, chills, and gills. This water-themed collection features locked room puzzles, police procedurals, cozy characters and hardboiled detectives. With a pool of motivations ranging from greed and revenge to loyalty and justice, these stories will lure you in with killer hooks and fishy characters. Come on in, the water’s fine. But be careful, or you might find yourself sleeping with the fishes.
“An Assassin in the Family”
At five foot two and a hundred and seven pounds, Aunt Julie did not look like a hired assassin. Which is probably why she was so good at it. No one suspected a thing. Not her sister, my mom. Not any of her family or friends. Definitely not the group of gray-haired ladies who took her water aerobics class every Monday through Friday at the Community Center.
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In “A Signature in Blood” rural police chief Pete Adams and deputy coroner Zoe Chambers must track down the murderer of a longtime township resident by solving the mystery of a strange symbol that keeps appearing at various crime scenes and is found carved in the victim’s flesh.
“A Signature in Blood” was a 2007 Derringer Award Finalist
and is available online in the Winter 2006 issue of Mysterical-E
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In “Sanctuary” Grace”, a young homeless woman witnesses the brutal murder of Crazy Joe, a fellow street person. With the killers on her heels, Grace seeks sanctuary at a local church where she is taken in by the boyish reverend and his crotchety assistant. Grace soon learns that neither of her protectors is what they appear to be and only an act of desperate daring can save her life and bring the killers to justice.
“Sanctuary” was a finalist in Spinetingler Magazine’s
cozy-noir contest. Read it in their Winter 2006 issue.
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