The latest issue of Mystery Scene Magazine—No. 152—is at a newsstand near you. As
usual, it is packed. It features interviews with James Patterson, Joe Ide and Barbara
Ross, an article about Mary Robert Rinehart and many others.
It also features my short story review column, “Short
& Sweet: Short Stories Considered”. In the column I discuss:
Down
& Out: The Magazine, edited by Rick Ollerman, is a brand
new crime fiction magazine with its eye directly on the hardboiled. This
introductory issue includes terrific stories by Reed Farrel Coleman, Eric
Beetner, and Jen Conley.
The
Obama Inheritance: Fifteen Stories of Conspiracy Noir,edited by Gary Phillips, is an entertaining, at times humorous, anthology with tales
based on the often bizarre conspiracies surrounding Barrack and Michelle Obama.
The
Big Book of Rogues and Villains, edited by Otto Penzler,
is an anthology that lives up to its name. It includes a large number of mystery
stories, from Victorian to modern and everything in-between, featuring rogues
and villains.
The
Usual Santas, is an anthology produced by Soho Crime, and featuring many of its top-selling writers. And each story has an edge of
Christmas about it.
This issue also includes four of my book reviews.
The
Prague Sonata by Bradford Morrow, is a lyrical, idea-driven
literary mystery that is longer than it should be, but is so beautiful it doesn’t
really matter.
Murder
in the Manuscript Room by Con Lehane, is a mystery loaded
with working class realities and enough mystery to keep it interesting.
Black Teeth by Zane Lovitt, is the modern (and Australian) take on the noir of
yesteryear with a plot built from disappointment, fear and human frailty.
Signal
Loss by Garry Disher, is the seventh Australian police
procedural featuring Hal Challis and Ellen Destry. And it is a winner.
The reviews are available online at Mystery Scene’s website—click the titles
above.
Mystery Scene is available at many newsstands, including Barnes & Noble, and available for
order at MS’s website.
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