The Lineup

Film writer, novelist, and short-story writer Craig Faustus Buck is the author of Go Down Hard (Brash Books, 2015) and Psycho Logic (Stark Raving Press, 2014).

Joslyn Chase’s work appeared in the Malice Domestic anthology, Mystery Most Devious.

Libby Cudmore, a staff writer at Hartwick College, released Negative Girl (Datura) earlier this year.

John H. Dirckx is the author of Dr. Thorndyke’s Dilemma.

Canadian Marcelle Dubé writes the A’lle Chronicles mystery series.

Laurel Flores Fantauzzo is the author of the YA novel My Heart Underwater (Quill Tree Books, 2020).

John M. Floyd is an Edgar finalist, a Shamus Award winner, a five-time Derringer Award winner, and the author of seven collections of short mystery fiction.

Tom Larsen’s true crime story “Women Fight Back” appears in the anthology Women Who Murder (March 2024) from Mango Publishing.

Janice Law’s work appears in EQMM, Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine, Black Cat Weekly, and Mystery Magazine lately, and the Sleuthsayers anthology Murder, Neat.

Ken Linn’s last story appeared in the May/June 2023 issue of EQMM (see “A Flash of Headlights”).

Georgia writer Irette Y. Patterson’s stories have appeared in FIYAH: Black Speculative Literary Magazine, Strange Horizons, and Translunar Travelers Lounge as well as the website of the Saturday Evening Post and WMG Publishing anthologies.

U.K. author Steven Sheil’s stories appear in Black Static, The Ghastling, Fudoki, and elsewhere.

Vicki Weisfeld’s work has won awards from the Short Mystery Fiction Society and the Public Safety Writers Association.