SMFS list member John M. Floyd has another
book out. Published by
Dogwood Press,
the book is a collection of his short stories titled,
The Barrens. Released today, it is available in hardback from
Amazon
and other vendors.
Amazon Synopsis:
For the past
twenty years Mississippi author John M. Floyd has been one of the most
widely-published short story writers in America. His work has been nominated
for the Edgar Award, has won the Derringer Award three times, and has been
nominated three times for the Pushcart Prize. In addition, his stories have
been listed among the top fifty mysteries of the year seven times by Best
American Mystery Stories editor Otto Penzler, and twice among the top twenty.
He was even recently awarded the Edward D. Hoch Memorial Golden Derringer Award
for lifetime achievement in short mystery fiction. The work of John M. Floyd
has been praised by James Patterson, Nevada Barr, Jan Burke, Carolyn Haines,
Steve Hamilton, Marcus Sakey, Tom Franklin, and many others. Douglas Preston
has called him a master of the art of the short story. Never has that talent
been more evident than in this seventh collection of Floyd short fiction. All
thirty stories contained in The Barrens are mystery/suspense, most are set in
the steamy South, and six of them are installments in his popular Law and
Daughter series, featuring Sheriff Lucy Valentine and her crimesolving mother
Fran. Like his previous books (Rainbows End, Midnight, Clockwork, Deception,
Fifty Mysteries, and Dreamland), the adventures here are full of quirky
characters, Hitchcockian tension, and (maybe most important of all) plenty of
plot twists and surprises. Welcome to The Barrens. Proceed with caution . . .
