Anthologies

Contains the Edgar® nominated Best Short Story, "A Good Safe Place" by Judith Green. Contains the Agatha nominated Best Short Story, "Size Matters" by Sheila Connolly. Contains the Derringer nominated Best Flash Story, "The Book Signing," by Kathy Chencharik.

Contains the Agatha and Anthony-nominated Best Short Story "Kept in the Dark" by Sheila Connolly, the Derringer-nominated stories "A Regular Story" by Peggy McFarland and "Double Wedding" by Mo Walsh and the Al Blanchard award-winning story "Out to Sea" by VR Barkowski. Level Best Books' tenth anthology presents thirty-one tales from New England's dark side written by the region's most acclaimed, award-winning crime and mystery authors, plus several exciting new voices. Noir and nuanced Hideous and hilarious Happy, sad, and barking mad-- Anything can happen under a Blood Moon.

COMPASSION, CONNECTION, AND INSPIRATION... The path of a writing career can be rocky and twisty and full of dead ends. But it's also well-traveled-and in Writes of Passage, fifty-nine mystery authors offer the secrets that helped them navigate their success. When you're in need of an author's roadmap, "pick up this book," as Hank Phillippi Ryan says in the introduction. "Open it to any page. The sisters of SinC have shared their personal journeys-and they have many tales to tell." These tales reveal the "Writes of Passage" every author encounters, and Sisters in Crime hopes these beautifully told experiences will guide you along your way. Praise for WRITES OF PASSAGE: "Every writer-beginner or bestseller-gets lost sometimes. Some days words don't flow and the path is hidden. Writes of Passage is a magic-box of wise words for those cloudy days. Like a lunch-date with all your funniest, kindest friends, this book will remind you of the joy of writing, inspire you to stick at it and remind you that you're not alone." - Catriona McPherson, Agatha, Macavity and Bruce-Winning Author of the Dandy Gilver Series and the Anthony-Nominated As She Left It "Writes of Passage is that centering book every author needs, whether multi-published or still striving, the one that captures our collective experience as writers with compassion, connection, and inspiration. Its insightful essays will surprise you and renew you every time you open it, for as long as your writer's journey continues." - Laura DiSilverio, 2014 President, Sisters in Crime; Author of the Lefty-Nominated Swift Investigations Series, the Mall Cop Series, and The Reckoning Stones (2015) Books in the Sisters in Crime The Writing Life Collection: WRITES OF PASSAGE: Adventures on the Writer's Journey BREAKING AND ENTERING: The Road to Success SHAMLESS PROMOTION FOR BRAZEN HUSSIES Part of the Henery Press Non-Fiction Collection, if you like one, you'll probably like them all...

When cozy mystery writers meet Edgar Allan Poe, the result is Edgar Allan Cozy. Each story in this suspenseful new anthology is inspired by the work of Poe. "The Raven," "The Lighthouse," "MS. Found in a Bottle," "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Cask of Amontillado," and "Annabel Lee" have been updated and set in the fictional town of Raven Harbor, Maine. Edited by Sadie Hartwell.

Looking for a new cozy series? In this new edition of Cozy Case Files , Minotaur Books compiles the beginnings of eight charming cozy mysteries coming in Spring 2019 for free for easy sampling. Jump into the latest cozies by the following authors: Donna Andrews, Shelia Connolly, Cate Conte, Leonard Goldberg, Carolyn Haines, Ellen Hart, Kylie Logan, and Allison Montclair. With the charm of a southern belle and none of the rules, private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney is back in Games of Bones . In Terns of Endearment , Meg Langslow races to solve a mystery while aboard a broken down cruise ship. Or follow PI Jane Lawless in Twisted at the Root as she works to attain justice for a widower wrongfully convicted of his husband’s murder. If you’re an animal lover, return to cat café JJ’s House of Purrs in The Tell Tail Heart or check out The Scent of Murder , starring cadaver dog trainer Jazz Ramsey. For history fans, there's The Right Sort of Man , and the proprietresses of the Right Sort of Marriage Bureau, in 1946 London, who find their livelihood in danger when a client is arrested for the murder of another. In The Disappearance of Alistair Ainsworth , the daughter of Sherlock Holmes confronts a threat to the crown. Or revisit the modern-day town that’s about to be turned into a working Victorian village in Killer in the Carriage House.

Looking for a new cozy series? In the free edition of Cozy Case Files , Minotaur Books compiles the beginnings of fourteen charming cozy mysteries for easy sampling. The twelfth edition of Cozy Case Files features the latest cozies by the following authors: Ellie Alexander, Meri Allen, Donna Andrews, Eve Calder, Sheila Connolly, Cate Conte, Hannah Dennison, Jess Dylan, Leonard Goldberg, Carolyn Haines, Kylie Logan, Allison Montclair, S. C. Perkins, and Ashley Weaver. Have a sweet tooth? Get your fix in A Tale of Two Cookies , The Rocky Road to Ruin , and Mocha, She Wrote . Pick up some flowers and read Death in Bloom , then travel to your favorite cat café in Claws for Alarm . You can join in for preparations for a production of Macbeth in Murder Most Fowl , and stay the night at a hotel in Danger at the Cove . And in the morning, train cadaver dogs in A Trail of Lies , then help clear a professor’s name in Independent Bones . Perhaps you prefer to travel in time. A Sherlockian mystery awaits you in The Abduction of Pretty Penny . Visit England in WWII with a safe cracker in A Peculiar Combination . In post-WWII England, play matchmaker in A Rogue’s Company . Or you can stay in the present, with crimes tied to the past, in Fatal Family Ties and The Secret Staircase .