Beat the Heat with these Cool Reads

Summer is heating up, so it's a great time to find a patch of shade, put a chilled beverage at your elbow, and settle into some of these cool new reads from the acclaimed authors of the Short Mystery Fiction Society!

• The award-winning O'Neil De Noux returns to the steamy streets of the Big Easy in Ain't That New Orleans, the eleventh outing in his series featuring former homicide detective turned private eye Dino LaStanza. A slew of challenging cases, a masterfully presented setting--this is as New Orleans as it gets, readers!
  
  
  
• SMFS's Debra Bliss Saenger is among the talented scribes unraveling the fragile lines between truth and delusion in Spilt Ends: A Psychological Thriller Anthology. Fractured identities, hidden motives, steadily building tension--you'll pay for a whole seat, but you'll only need the edge!
  
  
  
• The heartland is never as innocent as it seems, and you'll find evidence aplenty in Scenic and Sinister: An Indiana Landmarks Anthology brought to you by the Speed City chapter of Sisters in Crime. MB Dabney and Shari Held are among the Hoosier highlights in this fast-paced collection of stories bringing crime and mayhem to the best-known sites in the state!
  
  
  
• And here's Shari Held again, alongside Veronica Leigh, Kathleen Marple Kalb, S. B. Watson and others in Detectives, Sleuths, & Nosy Neighbors III. Short mysteries with a bite!
  
  
  
• At the online journal Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Terena Elizabeth Bell puts a delightfully nasty twist on a classic tale in "Hans and Gretchen."
  
  
  
• Over at The People's Friend, Veronica Leigh has another criminal treat for readers when she goes "Behind the Veil"!
• The latest edition of Mystery, Crime and Mayhem is about Copycats--but donalee Moulton and the other authors showing their stuff have decidedly original stories to share!
• And finally, SMFS once again reminds you that with hundreds of pages of mystery, sci fi, and other pulp goodness every single week, there's no better bargain for your reading dollar than Black Cat Weekly, including recent contributions from John Floyd and Shari Held!
  
  
  

Stay tuned for more hot reads from SMFS to keep your summer riveting!