Brian Cox

Lee Matthew Goldberg

Mark SaFranko

Reed Farrel Coleman

SJ Rozan

Kevin Egan

David Rich

Gary Earl Ross

Sharon Hunt

Paul Handley

Karl Luntta

Scott Miles

Thomas Burchfield

Victor Kreuiter

D.C. Benny

Jonathan Worlde

David Bart

John Timm

Sara Henry Paolozzi

The 480-page issue No22-23 features: A curated collection of short fiction including stories by Reed Farrel Coleman, SJ Rozan, Sharon Hunt, Scott Miles, Mark SaFranko, David Rich, Lee Matthew Goldberg, Paul Handley, Kevin Egan, Thomas Burchfield, Victor Kreuiter, D.C. Benny, Brian Cox, Jonathan Worlde, David Bart, Gary Earl Ross, Karl Luntta, John Timm, and Sara Henry Paolozzi. Interviews, Essay and Reviews by Zakariah Johnson, Rob D. Smith, and Casey Stegman Art and Photography by Justin Sellers,Tommi Viitala, and Trevor Lawrence. This issue also features a preview of the new graphic novel A Treasury of XXth Century Murder Compendium II by Rick Geary and exclusive covers of “Heat Seeker: Combustion”, the new comic series by Charles Ardai. NY Times Bestselling author Reed Farrel Coleman has called Mystery Tribune “a cut above” and mystery grand masters Lawrence Block and Max Allan Collins have praised it for its “solid fiction” and “the most elegant design”. An elegantly crafted quarterly issue, printed on uncoated paper and with a beautiful layout designed for optimal reading experience, our Issue No22-23 will make a perfect companion or gift for avid mystery readers and fans of literary crime fiction.

Mystery Tribune / Issue No22-23

WINNER of THE 2005 EDGAR AWARD for DRAMA from MYSTERY WRITERS of AMERICA, WINNER of THE 2005 EMANUEL FRIED AWARD for OUTSTANDING NEW PLAY, and a 2009 SELECTION for the NAAA PLAY READING FESTIVAL in London. It is 1960. Kennedy and Nixon are vying for the White House as lunch counter sit-ins spread throughout the South. Sam Cooke is on the radio, and The Untouchables is on television. Buffalo, New York, has so few black women lawyers they can be counted on a single hand. In this stirring legal drama, one of them, Temple Scott, is locked in the courtroom fight of her life. There is no doubt the young woman the press calls the Negro Lizzie Borden murdered her employer. To keep Mae Lou McKitchen out of the electric chair, however, Temple must uncover the truth behind the crime. Murder, you see, is always a matter of intent. A crime without a witness, a society without perspective, a criminal justice system that is anything but just.--The Buffalo News

Matter of Intent

Tales Macabre and Curious

Shimmerville

It is 1925. Ossian Cain-a widowed black doctor with a teen daughter, a new wife and baby, and a dentist brother-buys a home in a white neighborhood in a northern industrial city. On their second night, the Cains are threatened by a mob that calls for lync

The Mark of Cain

WordCraft is a concise guide for the everyday writer intimidated by 800+ page grammar tomes. Authored by a retired language arts professor (with more than 200 publication credits in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama), this compact handbook offers simplified explanations of basic grammar, systematic tips for producing the best writing possible, and an introduction to creative writing techniques that make everyday writing shine. At just 100 pages, WordCraft is especially useful for students who must compose essays, workers and others required to produce reports, and the ordinary person who dreams of writing stories or poetry.

Wordcraft

A stage thriller from the 2007 TSC New Play Festival and the Edgar Award-winning author of Matter of Intent: Criminal psychology professor Marcus Micheaux and his mystery writer wife Beverly Hatcher have the perfect life-until condemned serial killer Gunther Creel, whom Marcus interviewed extensively for his research, paints a portrait of them. After Creel's execution the painting gradually begins to change-and so do Marcus and Beverly, until, along with their closest friends, they are entangled in a widening web of betrayal, madness, and murder.

Picture Perfect A Thriller in Two Acts

Gary Earl Ross

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