Thursday Treats: 4/9/2026

 

The latest reading opportunities…

 

 

SMFS list member Anna Scotti announced that her short story, The Intruder, was published online at the Chautauqua Journal. You can read the story for free here.

 

SMFS list member Sandra J. Cady announced that her novel, A Game of Luck: A Sam Roma Detective Mystery, will be released on 4/30/2026. Published by Black Rose Writing, the read is available for preorder in eBook or paperback formats at Amazon.

 

Author Beau Johnson announced on Threads that his books, out of print due to the demise last year of the previous publisher, are coming back into print. Shotgun Honey will first release, A Better Kind of Hate: Stories, tomorrow in both eBook and print format. More coming from the Bishop Rider series will be released later. You can get your copy of this first book at the publisher.

 

Author Eric Beetner announced on Facebook that his latest book, A Wound That Will Not Heal, is now out from Level Best Books. This final book in the Carter McCoy series will be out in print and audio formats later. You can pick up the eBook, as well as the two preceding novels of the trilogy, at Amazon.

 

SMFS members Jon Matthew Farber (The Italian Cufflink Mystery) and Tom Milani (Riley Walker) have short stories in the latest issue of Black Cat Weekly. You can pick up Black Cat Weekly #240  here.

 

A reminder that the new book, Kansas City Breakdown, is about to be released by Cowboy Jamboree Press. The book by M. E. Proctor and Russell Thayer is a sequel to their Bop City Swing of last year. It is up at Amazon for preorder in advance of the publication day of next Tuesday. M. E. Proctor’s guest post on this blog explains the origin story for the new read. You can also read a chapter from the book at The Literary Garage, for free, as well as a lot of other cool stuff.

 

Finally, as noted last week, the short story collection, Hot Shots: Celebrating Thirty Years of the Short Mystery Fiction Society is now out. Editor Josh Pachter has culled through all of the Derringer winning stories over the decades to select one for each year to highlight. Published by Level Best Books - Level Short, the book is currently available to in eBook and paperback format at Amazon.

 

 

Until next time….

 

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