The latest issue of Mystery Scene Magazine—No. 153—is at a
newsstand near you. As usual, it is packed, featuring interviews with Jane
Harper and John Hart, an article celebrating Mickey Spillane’s 100th
birthday, another celebrating the life and work of Sue Grafton and many others.
It also features my short
story review column, “Short & Sweet: Short Stories Considered”. In the
column I discuss:
The
Realm of the Impossible, edited by John Pugmire and Brian Skupin, is an anthology featuring
a brilliant cast of reprinted locked-room mysteries by writers from around the world.
Black
Cat Mystery Magazine, Vol. 1, Issue 1.
A welcome addition to the criminal short story market with stories by Michael
Bracken, Alan Orloff and others.
Alive
in Shape and Color, edited by Lawrence Block, is the follow up to Block’s 2016 anthology In Sunlight or in Shadow, and like its predecessor
the tales are inspired by works of art. It includes stories by David Morrell, Lee
Child, Joe R. Lansdale and many others.
The
Big Book of the Continental Op by Dashiell Hammett,
edited by Richard Layman and Julie M. Rivett,
is the first time Dashiell Hammett’s serialized Continental Op stories—the way
they appeared in Black Mask Magazine—are
together in a single volume.
This issue also includes a
single book review by yours truly.
Splintered Silence, by Susan Furlong, is the beginning of a new mystery series starring traveller—more
commonly thought of as gypsies by outsiders—and former military police
woman Brynn Callahan and her cadaver dog, Wilco, as they try to start over in
Bone Gap, Tennessee.
The reviews, except for Black Cat Mystery Magazine, 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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