Spring Into Great Reads from the Short Mystery Fiction Society!

This month marks the thirtieth anniversary of the Short Mystery Fiction Society, and our great authors are charging into our fourth decade firing on all cylinders! From the wittiest cozies to the grittiest noir, readers can't go wrong with SMFS. Check out just a few of the recent offerings from our writers!

•  Punk Noir magazine has an assortment of dark takes on the theme "Find What You Love and Let it Kill You," including electric tales from two SMFS faithful: Sandra J. Cady's "For the Love of Writing" and Elizabeth Dearborn's "Shop Till You Drop."
  
  
  
• Black Cat Weekly continues to offer fans of thrilling genres a tremendous value, with hundreds of pages of new and classic mystery, science fiction, and pulp adventure every week. Among recent SMFS offerings are Christina Hoag's "Debt of Silence" and Josh Pachter's "Turkish Muscle." Don't miss out on the web's best reading bargain!
  
  
  
• Woman's World proves that great things come in small packages with DK Snyder's twisty whodunit "Harmonica Blues."
  
  
  
• Over at Killer Nashville, Gregory Meece brings us a nail-biter of a suspense tale in "Game Over."
  
  
  
• Robert J. Binney is having a great month, spinning a gripping tale with "This Gun's For Hire" at Thrill Ride and having his story "Flat" read on the Mysteries to Die For podcast!
  
  
  
• On the anthology front, the Tucson chapter of Sisters in Crime brings us More Trouble in Tucson, featuring "That Which Does Not . . . " from SMFS's Michael J. Ciaraldi.
  
  
  
• In The Dichotomy of Love, SMFS member Beverle Myers brings us a fiery revenge tale in "The Red Windmill, 1915."
  
  
  
• In The Savage Waves of Spring, the fourth entry in Kelp Journal's series of beach noir anthologies, Curtis Ippolito puts a pair of exes to work investigating the allegations about their family in "Not Their Son."
  
  
  
• A host of SMFS's finest grace the pages of the latest Crimeucopia collection, A Coterie of Dicks, with PI stories from Josh Pachter, M. E. Proctor, Jim Guigli, and many more!
  
  
  
• Look for SMFS authors in the most surprising places--case in point, David H. Hendrickson's "Playing for all the Marbles at the Frozen Four" in Romance for All Seasons.
  
  
  
• Last but not least, Level Best Books has published Crime Scenes, the first collection from SMFS President Joseph S. Walker. The book's twenty stories include two winners of the Al Blanchard Award, plus finalists for the Edgar, Derringer, Shamus, and Thriller Awards. Make room on your shelves!
  
  
  

Keep reading, and look for more great reads from SMFS soon!