Monday, October 3, 2022

SMFS Members Published in Carolina Crimes: Rock, Roll, and Ruin: A Triangle Sisters in Crime Anthology


Today is publication day for the digital version of Carolina Crimes: Rock, Roll, and Ruin: A Triangle Sisters in Crime Anthology. Published in the middle of last month by Down and Out Books in the print format, the read is now available in print and digital formats at the publisher, Amazon, and other vendors. The three SMFS list members in the book are:

 

Toni Goodyear with “The Vigil.”

 

Karen McCullough with “Rock ‘n’ Roll Never Forgets.”

 

P.M. Raymond with “The Day The Music Died.”

 

Synopsis:

In Rock, Roll, and Ruin, twenty-seven mystery writers serve up musically-themed crime stories around situations as unique as your inky fingerprints. There’s the bad-boy rock star, dumber than dirt, evading all attempts to keep him out of jail. Casino robbers undone by tribal flutes. A 1950’s jukebox that summons the dead and disappears the living. Jealousy drives girl band shenanigans, while a victim of botched plastic surgery seeks vengeance. Untimely deaths abound: at the prom, on a soap opera set, on a mountain-side hike. Several domestic “disagreements” are far from cliche: one wife is impatient and greedy; another wants her Stevie Nicks albums back; a third is desperate to get her husband to turn down the volume. Elvis fans will be tickled by the many mentions of the King himself, including an over-the-top fan club and a side-kick named after his dog. Whether trudging through snow in an Alaska forest, humming country music at a boatyard in Florida, playing sleuth at an assisted living facility, or stumbling backstage at the opera, irate, despairing, and deceived characters step into crime with barely a second thought.

Rock, Roll, and Ruin is a music-themed anthology of the Triangle, North Carolina chapter of Sisters in Crime. Some stories are cackling-out-loud funny, others are wickedly dark, but all are entertaining, original, un-putdownable. As Hank Phillippi Ryan writes in the Introduction, “Dip in to this concert of mystery, open to any story, and you’ll sing a chorus of approval.”

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