SMFS Members Published in Peace, Love, and Crime: Crime Stories Inspired by the Songs of the '60s

Numerous SMFS list members have short stories in the new anthology, Peace, Love, and Crime: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of the '60s. Edited by SMFS list member Sandra Murphy,  and published by Untreed Reads, the book is currently exclusively available in various eBook formats at Drive Thru Fiction. It is also available for preorder at the publisher, Amazon, and other vendors where it becomes available on November 10^th. The SMFS list members with short stories in the anthology are:

 

Jack Bates with “The Preacher's Daughter.”

 

Michael Bracken with "Jimmy's Jukebox."

 

Maddi Davidson with "Little Old Ladies From Pasadena.”

 

Jeanne DuBois with “Wooden Ships.”

 

John M. Floyd with “Suspicious Minds.”

 

Linda Kay Hardie with “Cooking with Butter.”

 

Wendy Harrison with "Nights in White Satin."

 

James A. Hearn with "I'll Be Seeing You."

 

Heidi Hunter with “Aliens in MacArthur Park.”

 

Karen Keeley with “Lovely, Just Bloody Lovely.”

 

Mary Keliikoa with "Breaking Up is Hard To Do."

 

Paul D. Marks with “Can't Find My Way Home.”

 

Terrie Farley Moran   "It Ain't Me, Babe."

 

Claire A. Murray with "Spirit in the Sky."

 

Josh Pachter with  “Won’t You Come Out Tonight?”

 

Merrilee Robson with "You Better Not Tell."

 

Earl Staggs with “Aunt Laverne and Elvis.”

 

Joseph S. Walker with "Mercy."

 

Synopsis:

Rebellion, revolution, and rock and roll defined the ‘60s. As music moved from country to folk protest songs, rock became the voice of the “turn on, tune in, drop out,” generation. Peace, love, and harmony were the goals. Meditation, mysticism, and psychedelic drugs were the way to enlightenment. Peace, love, and crime were often the result, sometimes humorous, sometimes deadly.

And the music played on. As Harold says in The Big Chill, “There is no other music, not in my house.”

Spinning their chosen tunes and the tale of its matching crime are: Earl Staggs, Jack Bates, Linda Kay Hardie, Jeanne DuBois, Terrie Farley Moran, Heidi Hunter, Merrilee Robson, Claire A. Murray, Michael Bracken, Maddi Davidson, Joseph S. Walker, Dawn Dixon, Karen Keely, Paul D. Marks, Wendy Harrison, Mary Keliikoa, Maxim Jakubowski, James A. Hearn, C. A, Fehmel, Catina Williams, Josh Pachter, and John Floyd, talented writers all.