SMFS Members Published in Checkpoint 'Charley': Beyond the Iron Curtain

 
Two SMFS list members have short stories in the new anthology, Checkpoint 'Charley': Beyond the Iron Curtain. Published by Pro Se Productions, the read is available in digital and print formats at Amazon. The SMFS list members in the book are:

 

Wendy Harrison with "Look at Little Sister."

 

Ed Teja with “The Last Detail.”

 

Synopsis:

1961: Charley McKenna has a dirty job. She works for 'the Company' and she's just been promoted to Head of Station in West Berlin. Dropped into heart of the Cold War, Charley finds herself working on a knives edge as tensions between he East and West reach an all time high. 

Pro Se Productions presents four new tales of Cold War espionage as Charley McKenna and her team of crack operatives fight to stave off universal armageddon. The stories in CHECKPOINT 'CHARLEY' take you beyond the Iron Curtain, back to a time when the great game was for real and the stakes were astronomical. 

From the mind of David J. Foster and the pens of of Wendy Harrison, Ed Teja, E. W. Farnsworth, and James Hopwood explodes intrigue and espionage in CHECKPOINT 'CHARLEY'. From Pro Se Productions.

SMFS Member Publication News: M. A. Monnin

SMFS list member M. A Monnin’s short story, “Siren Song” appears in the new anthology, All That Weird Jazz. Published by Pro Se Productions, the book is available in eBook and print formats at Amazon.

Synopsis:

Jazz. A music of improvisation, of passion, of its very own kind of magic. Considered by many to be the only truly original American form of music, it has since its birth in a smoky room somewhere also been tied to the strange, wrapped up in the supernatural, associated with the occult, at least in hints and shadows. Pro Se Productions now brings together several of the most innovative writers in genre fiction today in ALL THAT WEIRD JAZZ, telling the tales of the unusual between the notes, the magic behind the music.From straight up pulp action to ghostly noir to a dragon who digs Jazz more than anyone else, ALL THAT WEIRD JAZZ takes love for this unique musical styling to an all new level, complete with adventure, thrills, and even a chill or two

SMFS Members Published in Gary Phillips' Hollis For Hire

Two SMFS list members are published in the just released short story collection, Gary Phillips’ Hollis For Hire. Published by Pro Se Productions, the book is currently available in print and digital formats from Amazon. The two members are:

Sarah M. Chen with “The Parachute Kids.”

Editor Gary Phillips with “Hollywood Killer” and “King Cow” as well as "The Case of the Missing Dentist."

Amazon Synopsis:

In this rollicking collection private investigator Nate Hollis, a routine visit to the dentist sends him into an underground world of addictive vices; hunts a killer in the dead of winter in Chicago; uncovers secrets from the buried past; stalks the stalker of super hero street performers in the back alleys of Tinseltown; braves the unforgiving streets of New York City to stop a killer, and more in this electric-charged assortment of stories.

New York Times bestseller Sara Paretsky, Edgar winner Naomi Hirahara, Deadly Ink nominee Sarah M. Chen, hardboiled adept Scott Adlerberg, and new pulpster Phillip Drayer Duncan along with Hollis’ creator and 2018 Anthony Award winner Gary Phillips (Black Pulp, Peepland) deliver tales of a P.I. who Kevin Burton Smith in Mystery Scene magazine said was “Slick as spit, big-shouldered Hollis walks the walk and talks the talk…” This edition also includes two previously published Hollis stories by Phillips, “King Cow” and “Hollywood Killer.”

SMFS Member Publication News: Jim Doherty

Jim Doherty’s first novel, AN OBSCURE GRAVE, is now out in eBook and trade paperback formats with the hardback coming very soon. Available from the publisher, as well as Amazon and elsewhere, it features Dan Sullivan, who first came to fictional life by way of several short stories.

Amazon Synopisis:

A beautiful victim. An elusive criminal. A part time policeman. Three pieces of the mystery that is Jim Doherty's AN OBSCURE GRAVE.

Dan Sullivan, UC Berkeley undergrad and part-time cop, is working the tip-line for a missing-persons case that is getting national attention. DeeDee Merryweather, beautiful Cal co-ed, has disappeared. The prevailing theory is that she's been abducted. But one of the tipsters, an anonymous caller claiming psychic powers, believes it's a murder, because, she says, she's sensed DeeDee's corpse buried in a makeshift tomb.

If she's right, the Berkeley Police and the FBI are on the wrong track. But will a part-time reservist be able to put them on the right one that leads to DeeDee's obscure grave? And, from there, to her killer?

Jim Doherty, author of JUST THE FACTS: TRUE TALES OF COPS AND CRIMINALS, crafts a challenging mystery within this spot on police procedural. An Obscure Grave, his first novel, was a finalist for a CWA Debut Dagger Award, competing with hundreds of entries from all over the world.