Thursday Treats 11/05/2026

Some reading opportunities of interest this week.

 

Black Cat Weekly #270 is out. This final issue includes short stories by SMFS list members Michael Bracken (Zombie Girl’s Temporary Agency and Spare Parts Emporium), Barb Goffman (Just One Twist) and Paula Messina (The Closer). The cover story is by SMFS list member  Robert Jeschonek (The Biggest Grudge of All). You can pick up the final issue here.

 

Personal note: I am very sad to see this end. John Bentacourt was great to work with and I wish I had submitted more to him. My short story, A Plan Comes Together, appeared in BCW #254. You can pick up the issue here.

 

Speaking of stuff I have been involved with, Santa Rage II: Another Killer Claus Compendium, is on the way and available for preorder. I announced the TOC Sunday, but thought I would mention it here as well. In alphabetical order,  John T. Aquino (The Bad Side of Santa Claus), Madison Blackwell (The Contract), Ron Clyburn (Jingle Bell Justice), Michael Ferreter (Get What You Need), John M. Floyd (Up On The Roof), Tom Haftmann (Christmas Week at the North Pole), Geoff Holder (All l Want For Christmas Is An Ass Tattoo), April Kelly (The Devil's In The Details), Beverle Graves Myers (Slay Ride), Pat Remick (The Throuple Claus(e)), Kevin R. Tipple (Second Contact),  and Christine Verstraete with “Nick's Secrets.”

 

SMFS list member Pam Ebel announced that her short story, The Thrill is Gone!, was published online at Kings River Life Magazine. A Halloween related tale, you can read it for free here. While there, you can also read fellow SMFS list member Debra Bliss Saenger’s short story, Knocking on a Heathen’s Door, here.

 

Speaking of KRL, the most recent Mysteryrat's Maze Podcast was Halloween themed and featured SMFS list member  Leslie Budewitz. The mystery short story, Pepper Reece and the Ghost of Arthur Goodwin, runs a little over 12 minutes. You can listen, for free, here.

 

SMFS list member Abe Margel announced that his short story, Weather Report, was published online at Mystery Tribune. You can read it, for free, here.

 

Another free online read is Umbrea Magazine. SMFS list member John M. Floyd announced that his short story, Rainbow's End, had been published here. Fellow SMFS list member Martin Hill Ortiz also announced his short story, Eyetooth, had been published and was free to read here.

 

SMFS list member H.K. Slade announced that his short story, Dodging a Train, had been published by Close to the Bone Magazine. You can read the tale, for free, here. You can also read some background on the story at the author’s website.

 

SMFS list member James Patrick Focarile announced that his short story, Some Other Time, appeared at the substack, Rat Bag. You can read the 300 word story, for free, here.

 

SMFS list member Veronica Leigh announced that her novel, Eye For An Eye: A Lady Sheriff Mystery, had been published. The first of a planned trilogy, the read was released by Level Books-Historia, and is available at Amazon and other vendors.

 

Author J. R. Lindermuth announced on Facebook that his novel, A Favored Child: A Sheriff Syl Tilghman Book, was now out. This is the fifth read in the Sheriff Syl Tilghman series and is published by Sunbury Press. You can pick it up at Amazon , where it is also part of the Kinlde+ program or direct from the publisher.

 

A reminder that Mystery Fanfare: Mystery Readers Journal: Cross-Genre Mysteries is now available for purchase. SMFS list members Kaye George (My Ghost Mystery) and donalee Moulton (Trials and Tribulations of Researching Life -- and Death -- in 1734) publicly announced on the list their presence in the read. Lots of other familiar names contributed pieces to the read. Learn more at the website.

 

Also, Crimeucopia - Objection! Overruled!! is now out from Murderous Ink Press. The anthology includes short stories by Wil A. Emerson (Three Strikes—You’re Out) and John M. Floyd (Nothing but the Truth). The read is available at Amazon and other vendors.

 

Author Maryann Miller announced on Twitter that her new book, Second Chances And Other Stories, is now available for preorder. Published by MCM Enterprises, the read is about characters experiencing life in many different ways. Scheduled to be published on November 24rth, when it will also be available on Kindle+, the read can be purchased now on Amazon.

 

 

Until  next time…

 

Kevin R. Tipple ©2026

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Short Story Wednesday Review: A Dark Place and Other Kate Burkholder Short Stories by Linda Castillo

A Dark Place and Other Kate Burkholder Short Stories by Linda Castillo opens with every parent’s nightmare. 12-year-old Aaron Kuhns and 11-year-old Kevin Dennison are missing. As the night goes on and the weather gets worse, it is all hands-on deck for the small police force in Painter’s Mill, Ohio, led by Kate Burkholder.  The kids have to be found.

 

A missing child is also  in play in “Disappeared.” The youngest child of Joseph and Emma Kline, a toddler, is missing. The child might have wandered outside and could have easily gotten to the nearby Painters Creek. Or be lost elsewhere on their Amish farm.

 

Merle Beachy was just trying to get home in “Blood Moon.” The buggy is on the way home down backroads as the fog gets thicker when everything goes wrong. The horse got spooked and bolted, the buggy crashed, he got attacked, and now dispatch is waking up the chief with the call for help out at the Levi Miller Farm.

 

Eddie Chupp is harvesting pumpkins as “Hallowed Ground” begins. The harvest is a good one. He’s happy and enjoying the day until his dog gets into something in the field.  The dog won’t stop digging. Eddie goes to see what the dog has found and thinks that it is a human bone.

 

And arsonist has done their work as “Dark Storm Rising” begins. Just days later, Kate Burkholder and John Tomasetti, BCI agent, are on the way to their honeymoon cabin somewhere close to Lake Erie. Sugar Maple Cabins is owned and operated by Mr. and Mrs. Nisley. They are also having some trouble as one of their cabins was burned down recently.

 

A derecho is a terrifying and destructive weather event. Here in NE Dallas, we are blasted by one a few years ago. The result was a multi-day power outage that made me sick from the heat and widespread damage. They are far more common in the Midwest, places like Ohio. One has hit “A Dark Path” and people are missing. It might not be just the fault of the weather either.

 

I have long been a fan of the Kate Burkholder series by Linda Castillo. I was onboard long before she was famous and winning awards. Like the late Steven F. Havill, her books are set in a small town, feature diverse and complicated characters, and build upon each other. The primary characters become like family to the read as they go through their lives. The series is fluid and the same can be said of her latest short story collection.

 

If you are a new to this author, A Dark Path and Other Kate Burkholder Short Stories is a very good start. And if you are an old hand at the series, reading this is like coming home. Truly a balm for the soul and what ails you.

 

Amazon Associate Purchase Link: https://link.amazon/B04oKRVqN

 

After being denied by the publisher, Minotaur Books last summer  on NetGalley, Lesa Holstine sent me her paperback review copy several months ago. I am grateful to her for sending me her copy to read and review. You should read her review as well.

 

Kevin R. Tipple  © 2026

Publication Day Review: Have Courage: Longmire Stories by Craig Johnson

Have Courage: Longmire Stories by Craig Johnson collects a number of the holiday stories that he wrote over recent years and g away as free reads in his newsletter. The second of such books, following in the tradition of Wait for Signs: Twelve Longmire Stories, (a great read if you have not read it) includes the all-new short story, “Angel Shot with a Twist.”

 

After the introduction by A. Martinez, Jacob Nighthorse, the book opens with “Warms You Twice.” Set on Christmas Eve of December 1972, Walt Longmire is a new and relatively untested Deputy. Sheriff Lucian Connelly decides it is time for Deputy Longmire and he to go out on their first call out together and warns him not to do anything stupid. The cantankerous Sheriff is taking him to see  Willis Dietz who has troubles of his own.

 

Also set in 1972 and a few months earlier, “The Perfect A,” comes next. Walt Longmire was hired days earlier and is pretty much alone when the call comes in at the Absaroka County Sheriff’s Department. Doctor Bloomfield wants to go check on one of his patients, Salvatore Ibarra, up at his mountain camp. He’d been in town earlier and that visit concerned the good doctor. So much so he wants somebody to go check on Mr. Ibarra, a sheep herder, at his camp in the mountains. Doctor Bloomfield wants to go too and to do it now during an ice storm.

 

Sheriff Longmire always heads out alone, for a day or two around Christmas. He doesn’t explain himself. In “Known Associate” we find out why he does what he does. Of course, he does it for good reason and it is nobody’s business at the office but his.

 

One never wants a hostage situation. Especially at Christmas. It’s Christmas Eve in “Land Of The Blind” and that is what is happening out at the Congregational Baptist Church out at the edge of the county. The deputy known as “Double Tough” and Sheriff Longmire head over in an attempt to end things peacefully. Easier said than done.

 

What got Eddie in jail and a lot more is explained in “Elven/Twenty-Nine.” It is also a tale of grace and redemption as are many of the stories in this read.

 

The Sheriff of Campbell County, Sandy Sandburg, and Sheriff Walt Longmire are on the hunt for a murder suspect, Mike Embersoll. That hunt has led them to the Crow Butte Mine. “The Percentages” takes readers on the hunt for Mike Embersoll who is a heavy equipment operator at that mine. Going to a working mine is dangerous enough before you throw in a possible murder suspect that can operate heavy equipment.

 

For the third year in a row, somebody has stolen the baby Jesus from the church nativity scene. Deputy Santiago Saizarbitoria has been working the case from the start. He is taking the latest theft very hard in “Away, In A Manger.” Soon, Sheriff Longmire arrives at Saint Matthias to assist with the latest investigation.

 

It is Christmas Day in Powder Junction, Wyoming, and there is quite the commotion at the unofficial local trailer park. The Kropky brothers are all large men. They are all currently in mutual and destructive combat with household goods sailing out into the yard around the trailers. In “Who’s your Daddy”  familial history has suddenly come to light and the news has not been universally well received.

 

Barrett Long is the part-time dispatcher. He wants to tag along as Longmire and his dog head out on Christmas Day for a domestic dispute. The call is to the Murdochs’ place and one the good Sheriff have visited many times before. So, after they talk a bit, Longmire decides to let his future deputy come along. In so doing, he gives  the man a glimpse of the job in “Musical Chairs.”

 

It has happened again at the “Durant Home for Assisted Living” and it needs to stop. In “Recidivism” the former Sheriff and current resident, Lucian Connelly, is of little help. Can not really tell you more without blowing up the tale, so I won’t.

 

“Starter’s End” is next where Ruby, the dispatcher, has entrusted Longmire with a jar of sourdough starter. The stuff dates back over 150 years has come down through Ruby’s family. In the here and now of the story, Ruby, as a member of the Methodist Ladies Baking League was supposed to hand it out to various ladies of the league. But, she has to go out of town and has turned it over to Sheriff Walt Longmire for feeding and monitoring. He, in turn, has to deliver the jar of stuff to Barbara Graff, at a precise time. He is on a schedule with the stuff while he is also supposed to doing his duties as Absaroka County Sheriff with nearly everybody in the department gone. Boy, howdy.

 

Barbara Graff makes a repeat appearance in the next story, “Scents Of The Season.” She was hosting a Christmas Eve holiday party and everything was fine. That was until a skunk got inside her place and all the guests fled outside. With it being a holiday resources are limited, so Longmire and Undersheriff Victoria Moretti have to deal with it and more.

 

“Angel Shot with a Twist” is the all-new tale that concludes this short story collection. Bernadette Ochoa needs help this New Year’s Eve. She’s been well known to local law enforcement for many decades now. She has been drinking at the only bar for miles around that will let her in their establishment, the Chicken Shack Bar. Now the seventy-two-year-old woman is a hostage and needs help.

 

Have Courage: Longmire Stories by Craig Johnson is a highly entertaining short story collection. Filled with many historical nuggets and true facts, characters that are like family, and the idea that in the end things work out, the read is a good one. Well worth your time, Have Courage: Longmire Stories by Craig Johnson is perfect for this and all holiday seasons.

 

Make sure you check out Lesa Holstine's review as well. 

Amazon Associate Purchase Link: https://link.amazon/B0aElo6si

 

 

My digital ARC came from the publisher, Viking, through NetGalley with no expectation of a positive review.

 

 

Kevin R. Tipple ©2026

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Aubrey Nye Hamilton Reviews: So Anyway, I Replied to the Nigerian Prince by Mark Dowling

 

So Anyway, I Replied to the Nigerian Prince (Independently published, 2026) by Irish author Mark Dowling is a light-hearted thriller with a serious streak set in Dublin. I am not sure how it came my way but I am delighted that it did.

Liam O’Sullivan is desperate. He lost his job with an internet supplier and can’t find another one. He’s out of cash and behind on his rent. Even tiny rundown apartments above a kebab shop require a regular cash outlay. Then there’s the debt he owes the local moneylender Fingers, who is losing patience. So when the email from Prince Amokachi of the Royal House of Benin arrives, offering him 10 million pounds for his assistance, Liam responds by saying he only needs 10 thousand pounds and the prince can give the rest to someone else. He resists adding a couple of sarcastic emojis and hits the Send key.

Almost two weeks later an invitation to meet the prince at the best hotel in Dublin arrives. His similarly down-and-out friends Kevin, Spud, Darren, and Gerry insist on accompanying him to serve as protection. Prince Amokachi appears in person and explains that his late father left the bulk of his money in a London account that is being contested by a cousin. His father’s will requires the signature of a third party, completely unbiased, to release the funds to the older son, and the prince is asking Liam to serve as that independent signatory.

The transfer will take place in London, and the transaction has a deadline. If the prince does not meet the deadline, he forfeits the money. The cousin has a vested interest in seeing that the prince does not appear in court at the appointed time and his thugs are actively searching for the prince. Liam and his friends undertake to hide the prince until they can fly to London.

An original and funny premise with some spot-on characterization. The lack of employment and career options for those without the means or interest to attend university comes through clearly. Dowling plainly shows there is no future for these folks without a Nigerian prince or a fairy godmother. Dowling unfortunately did not maximize the suspense potential of the plot but he has a great eye for the ridiculous and knows how these characters think. Possibly the happiest book I have read all year.

 

• ASIN: ‎B0H3KHB7K9
• Publisher: ‎Independently published
• Publication date: ‎May 31, 2026
• Language: ‎English
• Print length: ‎149 pages
• ISBN-13: ‎979-8255367627

 

 

Amazon Associate Purchase Link: https://link.amazon/B05xnflJ4

 

 

Aubrey Nye Hamilton ©2026

Aubrey Hamilton is a former librarian who works on Federal It projects by day and reads mysteries at night.

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It seemed a good idea to announce the authors and their titles for the upcoming anthology, Santa Rage II: Another Killer Claus Compendium. In alphabetical order they are:

 

John T. Aquino with “The Bad Side of Santa Claus.” 

 

Madison Blackwell with “The Contract.”

 

Ron Clyburn with “Jingle Bell Justice.”

 

Michael Ferreter with “Get What You Need.” 

 

John M. Floyd with “Up On The Roof.”

 

Tom Haftmann with “Christmas Week at the North Pole.” 

 

Geoff Holder with “All I Want For Christmas Is An Ass Tattoo.”

 

April Kelly with “The Devil's In The Details.”

 

Beverle Graves Myers with “Slay Ride.”

 

Pat Remick with “The Throuple Claus(e).”

 

Kevin R. Tipple with “Second Contact.”

 

Christine Verstraete with “Nick's Secrets.”

 

The read is up now at the Misti Media Bookstore  for pre order with a planned release date of later this month. It will be up soon at other vendors, at a higher cost, so the publisher bookstore is the way to go is the way to go. I hope you will check it out. Makes for a great stocking stuffer IF the recipient is okay with violence strong language, twisted humor, etc.

 

Kevin R. Tipple ©2026

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KRL Update

Up on KRL this week a review and giveaway of "Miss Walcott's Ghost" by Louise Penny https://kingsriverlife.com/10/31/miss-wolcotts-ghost-by-louise-penny/

And a review and giveaway of "Bone Hash" by Skye Griffith https://kingsriverlife.com/10/31/bone-hash-by-skye-griffith/

For those who enjoy romantasy, this week we have a perfect book for Halloween season featuring a grim reaper, a review and giveaway of "Love You to Death" by Jenna Levine https://kingsriverlife.com/10/31/love-you-to-death-by-jenna-levine/

We also have an interesting article about The Legend of La Lechuza by Sarah Peterson-Camacho, perfect for your Halloween reading https://kingsriverlife.com/10/31/beware-the-witchs-owl-the-legend-of-la-lechuza/

And a Day of the Dead short story by Pamela Ebel https://kingsriverlife.com/10/31/day-of-the-dead-short-story-the-thrill-is-gone/

For those who prefer to listen to Mysteryrat's Maze Podcast directly on KRL, you can find the player for the latest episode here! It features the mystery short story "Pepper Reece and the Ghost of Arthur Goodwin" written by Leslie Budewitz and read by local actor Cady Mejias https://kingsriverlife.com/10/31/mysteryrats-maze-podcast-pepper-reece-and-the-ghost-of-arthur-goodwin/

Up during the week, we posted a spooky short story for Halloween written by Sharon Hunt https://kingsriverlife.com/10/27/a-halloween-ghost-short-story-the-woman-in-white/

And another spooky short story for Halloween, this one by author Debra Bliss Saenger https://kingsriverlife.com/10/28/halloween-short-story-knocking-on-a-heathens-door/

Up on KRL News and Reviews this week we have a review and giveaway of one more mystery involving Halloween before the season ends--a review and ebook giveaway of "Spirits of the Law" by Elle Jauffret https://www.krlnews.com/2026/10/spirits-of-law-by-elle-jauffret.html

And for those who enjoy fantasy and dragons, a review and giveaway of "The Dragon Within" by Marty Sommers https://www.krlnews.com/2026/10/the-dragon-within-by-marty-sommers.html

Happy Halloween,

Lorie 

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Scion by James Islington is his first foray into science fiction. It also appears to be his first published story told from one character’s perspective.

 

Azure is an assassin in some far-off future time on Earth. Humanity has found a way to make some people live forever. Those people are “Lifers.” With limited resources and most people struggling, society has decided that Lifers can legally be murdered. Azure works for the Keres corporation who plays both sides of the game. The assassination part and the protection part. Azure is forced by his corporate masters to go protect a new client that has specifically hired him for a protection detail. Of course, there is a lot more going on in.

 

This is an action-packed thriller that is relatively on the short side. It does not include a glossary of science fiction terms for its world so readers might be confused. I also did not appreciate the ambiguous ending.

 

Despite those flaws, I really enjoyed this read. This was a fun read that is very different from his previously published work that is fantasy driven and also good. In this case, I hope he does science fiction again as I enjoyed this a lot.

 

 

Amazon Associate Purchase Link: https://amzn.to/4xPNxC1 

 

I read this by way of the Libby/Overdrive app through the Dallas Public Library System.

 

Scott A. Tipple © 2026

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With a current planned publishing date of mid to late November, I am pleased to announce that Santa Rage II: Another Killer Claus Compendium, edited by Kevin R. Tipple, is now available to preorder at the publisher, Nazca Press of Misti Media.

https://www.mistimedia.com/product/santarage2/MM/32/