Check out Suzanne Trauth’s newest suspense novel, The First to Die, set for release on November 18, 2025.

My poem “Two Men Discuss Murder on a Rainy Night Near Patchin Place” appears in the November/December issue of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, and my piece on poetry and mysteries can be found on the

  V. S. Kemanis’s short story “Counting Windows” appears in the November/December 2025 issue of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine.

  Linda Rawlins’s Midway, the seventh book in the Misty Point Mystery Series, was released in September: Megan Stanford never expected murder to come with beachfront property and boardwalk fun. As the owner of Misty

  Christal Roberts was named a runner-up for the 2025 Sisters in Crime Eleanor Taylor Bland Crime Fiction Writers of Color Award for her unpublished novel A Killing in Black Newport. Set in a fictional

Congrats to Delia Pitts, whose contemporary noir mystery TROUBLE IN QUEENSTOWN won the Shamus Award for Best P.I. Novel of 2024, announced at Bouchercon New Orleans in September.

Daniel Marshall Wood’s “Farfetch” is among the short stories set for publication in the September 2025 edition of the British anthology Crimeucopia – What the Butler Didn’t See from Murderous Ink Press.

Agent Under Wraps, book one (of five planned so far) in Geri’s Cascade Confidential suspense series for Harlequin, releases September 30.

All hail Pamela Meyer’s manuscript Death in Miniature. selected as a Killer Nashville Claymore Award Judges’ Top Pick for Best Suspense. Congrats, PM!

  Andrew Kass‘s Hopper Noir short story “Hotel Room” received an Honorable Mention in the 94th Writer’s Digest Annual Competition.