Thursday Treats: June 6/4/2026

The latest reading opportunities…

 

Punk Noir has published, Champagne For My Real Friends, Real Pain For My Sham Friends — Issue 4.  This series of flash short stories are all free to read online at their website. You can also read the first issue for free here as well as the second here and the third here.

 

Fellow SMFS list member Brandon Barrows announced that he had gotten all right back after the previous publisher closed and Sinners Ride was back in print. Published by Full Speed Publishing, the read is available in both eBook and print formats at Amazon. Additionally, he noted that the “Paperback edition contains two bonus stories never before in print, including the Derringer Award-nominated "The Right to Hang!"’

 Fellow SMFS list member Abe Margel announced that his  mystery short story, Preferred Puff, was published online at Story Quilt. The story was published a month ago and is free to read here.  

 

Fellow SMFS list member Richard Helms announced publication of his book, GREAT WHITE: an Eamon Gold novel. He says this will be the final book of this San Francisco based private investigator mystery series. Published by  Barbadoes Hall Communications, you can pick it up at Amazon in digital or print formats.

 

Editor John Connor of Murderous Ink Press announced that his latest anthology, Crimeucopia - New Kids In Da 'Hood, will be released on June 9^th. Features 16 crime fiction short story tales including one by fellow SMFS list member Thomas F. Gorham III (Classless Reunion). It can be preordered at Amazon now.

 

On another list I am on, author Carole Shmurak announced that Buried Under Books: A Susan Lombardi Mystery had been published. This fifth book in the series is out in digital and print formats from Park Court Press. You can pick up the read at Amazon..

 

I have a lot of author alerts set up on Amazon. I have left them going, even when I am way, way, way behind in a series. That was how I found out that author Ed Lynskey’s new book, Sister: A P. I. Frank Johnson Mystery is releasing on June 20^th. Published by ‎ECL Press, this 38^th book in the long running series can be preordered here.

 

That is not all from this author either. Mr. Lynskey’s book, Berried Clues: An Appalachian Farmers' Market Cozy Mystery, was published on June 1^st. Also from ECL Press, this too can be picked up on Amazon here.

 

The latest issue of Black Cat Weekly also came out. Black Cat Weekly #248 includes a short story by fellow SMFS list member   Dave Zeltserman (Sleeping Dogs) among other works. You can pick up the latest issue of this weekly, multi genre, magazine here.

 

 

Fellow SMFS list member, Michael Bracken, announced that the anthology, Wish Upon A Crime: Crime Fiction Inspired by Fairy Tales, is now out. Coedited with Stacy Woodson of the SMFS, the book features short stories from Donna Andrews, Michael Bracken (editor), David Dean, John M. Floyd, Barb Goffman, Debra H. Goldstein, James A. Hearn, Adam Meyer, Tom Milani, Laura Oles, Josh Pachter, Joseph S. Walker, Andrew Welsh-Huggins, and Stacy Woodson (editor). Published by Level Short (an imprint of Level Best Books), the anthology is available in both print and digital book versions at Amazon.

 

Until next time….

 

 

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