Someone doesn’t want RaeJean Hunter to investigate the puzzling death of the woman whose case inspired Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Mystery of Marie Roget.” As she follows clues through four states and discovers living family members who both help and hinder her search, she quickly realizes that the secrets of Mary Rogers’ demise were never meant to be exposed.

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Someone doesn’t want RaeJean Hunter to investigate the puzzling death of the woman whose case inspired Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Mystery of Marie Roget.” As she follows clues through four states and discovers living family members who both help and hinder her search, she quickly realizes that the secrets of Mary Rogers’ demise were never meant to be exposed.

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Rogers Family Tree

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Malice in Dallas, Metroplex Mysteries Volume I, is a collection of 10 short stories by 10 authors, edited by Barb Goffman, with an introduction by Charlaine Harris. While these crime-related stories share a common setting in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, their similarities diverge from there. “A Crime Scene” by Joseph S. Walker has been selected by Otto Penzler and guest editor, Amor Towles to appear in The Best Mystery Stories of the Year, 2023. Malice in Dallas is nominated for an Anthony Award for best anthology in 2022 presented at Bouchercon 2023 in San Diego, CA in August.

Reckless in Texas, Metroplex Mysteries Volume II, is the second collection of 10 short stories by 10 authors, edited by Barb Goffman, with a foreword by John M. Floyd. The same as Volume I, these crime-related stories take place in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. Their similarities diverge from there. My story “The Laundry Larceny,” a cozy mystery, takes place in a life-plan community where people ‘age in place.’ When a body is found in the laundry room of the memory care facility, the only witness is a man who thinks he is Xerxes the Great, the fourth King of the Achaemenid Empire. He ruled from 486 to 465 BC.

A Perfect Gift For Mystery Lovers!
Welcome to the third anthology by the chapter members of Sisters In Crime North Dallas. The cities of Dallas, Fort Worth, and surrounding locales offer great fodder for mystery writers—and readers. These have inspired the stories contained in: Notorious in North Texas: Metroplex Mysteries Volume II.

• THE UNTITLED GUNFIGHTER BALLAD, by Mark Thielman
• DON’T GET CAUGHT, by Karen Harrington
• OLIVER KOWALSKI, by Terry Shepherd
• AMARILLO BY MORNING, by Dänna Wilberg
• GRAVE NEWS, by Cindy Martin
• LONGSHOT AT LONE STAR PARK, by ML Condike
• TRULY, MADLY, DEEPLY, by Pam McWilliams
• A VAGUE THREAT, by Tiffany Seitz
• WHATEVER HAPPENED TO…?, by Kevin R. Tipple
• HIGH WINDOW, by Amber Royer
• BITTER COLD, by Shannon Taft
• CITIZENS ARRESTED, by Joseph S. Walker

Tall Tales and Timeless Stories were all entries in the 2021 Bloc Bloc Buster Challenge Short Story Contest sponsored by Granbury Writers’ Bloc in Granbury Texas. This contest was open to all genres except erotica, and the contest entries were limited to 1,500 words each. (The tales contained in this volume may slightly exceed the individual 1,500-word maximum due to final editing and polishing.) The stories fall into a wide range of genres, including paranormal, mystery, crime, literary, memoir, historical, science fiction, fantasy, adventure, western, young adult, and children.

More Words from the End of the Road (2022) is a follow-up to the Words from the End of the Road anthology published by the Key West Writer’s Guild in 2018. More Words is a collection of 28 short stories and 15 poems written by 24 club members. These stories and poems capture the unique atmosphere of the Florida Keys, and in particular Key West, where writers go to write and absorb the eclectic community spirit of the “Conch Republic.” While all the included works involve the Keys in some way, their genres, moods, and topics vary as widely as the human condition.