Mystery Tribune: Nevermore: A Literary Crime Fiction By BV Lawson

 Mystery Tribune: Nevermore: A Literary Crime Fiction By BV Lawson

SMFS Member Publishing News: BV Lawson

All Due Respect: Issue #70 -- December 2020: QUAKING IN MY BOOTS BY BV LAWSON That is some serious badass work, right there. Brett Holder stood in the middle of the living room, studyin...

SMFS Member Publication News: BV Lawson

SMFS list member BV Lawson reports that in addition to the previously reported “The Barbecue Pot” in Flash Bang Mystery: Fall 2019 issue, her story, “Moby Dick” appeared last August at Akashic Books’ Mondays Are Murder.

BV Lawson also reports that her book, The Suicide Sonata: A Scott Drayco Mystery was published last month by Crimetime Press. This is the fifth book in her Scott Drayco Mystery Series and is available in print from the publisher, Amazon, and other vendors.

Synopsis:

Can a piece of music be cursed?

When a young marine biologist is found dead of suicide, his father can't believe he took his own life and hires Scott Drayco to prove it was murder. But what of the strange song found with the young man's body—the same song linked to a piano sonata that led to a wave of suicides in 1930s Hungary?

As Drayco digs deeper, he finds even more unusual aspects of the case not easily explained: the victim’s missing cellphone; his “Gang of Five” friends and their interest in the Akashic Records spiritual philosophy; and the gun used by the victim that was mysteriously stolen from a friend’s car.

Drayco fears a tragic incident from his own past may be clouding his objectivity. After all, the facts point to suicide, case closed. But when Drayco starts suffering from depression himself after playing the sonata, can he really be sure of what’s real and what’s imagined?

The Suicide Sonata is the fifth installment in the acclaimed Scott Drayco mystery series, a finalist for the Shamus, Silver Falchion, Daphne, and Kindle Book Awards.

SMFS Member Publishing News: BV Lawson

SMFS list member BV Lawson reports that she has a story appearing in Woman’s World Magazine. Her short story, “The Lost Treasure” is in the current issue (September 10, 2018 with Dr. Oz on the cover) and marks her third short story in this publication.

Short Story Month: BV Lawson

StoryADay.org proclaimed May International Short Story Month back in 2013. As the short story, in the mystery genre, is the reason why the Short Mystery Fiction Society exists, we join in the celebration each year. 

The SMFS spin on festivities is to highlight one or more members' online stories per day. Today, BV Lawson shares “Elementary, My Dear Abraham” archived at Mysterical-E as well as “With Sweet Lavender” archived at  Over My Dead Body.

If you would like to be included, email the link to your story to KevinRTipple at Verizon dot net.

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Short Story Month: BV Lawson

StoryADay.org proclaimed May International Short Story Month back in 2013. As the short story, in the mystery genre is the reason why the Short Mystery Fiction Society exists, we join in the celebration each year. The SMFS spin on festivities is to highlight one or more members’ online stories per day.

Today, BV Lawson shares three stories archived at various sites. “Gun Love” from Plots With Guns and “Wrong Side of the Bed” at The Cynic Online Magazine as well as “But for the Grace of God” at Powder Burn Flash.

If you’d like to be included, email the link to your story to KevinRTipple  at Verizon dot net.

SMFS Member Nominees for Killer Nashville’s 2016 Silver Falchion Award

The following members have been nominated for awards at this year’s Killer Nashville convention. The complete list of nominees is on the 2016 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Finalists website. Winners will be announced at the 2016 Killer Nashville Guest of Honor & Awards Dinner.

In the Best Fiction Short Story Anthology category there are two nominees.

Kaye George is nominated for Murder On Wheels.

Josh Pachter is nominated for The Tree of Life.

In the Best Nonfiction Young Adult Book category, P. A. De Voe is nominated for Warned, A Mei-hua Adventure. While grateful to be nominated, P. A. would like it to be noted that, despite the nominated category, her book was entered as and is a historical young adult mystery/adventure. The book is also listed a nominee in the Judges’ Choice Award.

In the Best Mystery/Crime category, BV Lawson is nominated for Dies Irae.

In the Best Fiction Adult Book category, member Craig Faustus Buck is nominated for Go Down Hard.