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Malice Domestic: Mystery Most Devious, Issue 18. A cover of man and woman, both in detective hats and trench coats, standing back to back with a building in the foggy distance.

April 2024

“Heads I Win, Tails I Lose"

Things are not as they seem when Sarah moves into the neighborhood ... or are they?

Malice Domestic: Mystery Most Devious, Issue 18

Three Strikes You're Dead (14 Great Sports Mysteries). An illustrated cover of a baseball player in motion, beneath a noose.

April 2024

“Run for Your Life”

Anastasia just wants Mitchell to propose, but will she be the one he proposes to?

Three Strikes You're Dead (14 Great Sports Mysteries)

The Killing Rain (The Left Coast Crime 2024 Anthology). A cover featuring the reflection of Seattle building in an oil slick rain puddle.

April 2024

“Oil and Water”

How far will a group of scientists go to save the orcas in Puget Sound?

The Killing Rain (The Left Coast Crime 2024 Anthology)

Black Cat Weekly, Issue 96. A cover of a black cat wearing a black top hat, cape, and tux with a red collar, standing on a foggy street in London.

*Nominated for 2024 International Thriller Writers Award for Best Short Story

July 2023

“An Honorable Choice”

When young love meets old tradition, only one can survive. Which will you root for?

Black Cat Weekly, Issue 96

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Skeletons In the Closet. A cover with a jack-o-lanterns, bird skeleton, and candles on a table.

*Nominated for 2023 International Thriller Writers Award for Best Short Story

September/October 2022

“Publish or Perish”

Two professors will go to any lengths to get tenure, but will they get away with it?”

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

Chesapeake Crimes: Magic Is Murder. A cover of white gloved magician hands with a wand pointed at an open book.

August 2022

“A Charming Solution”

A legendary snake charmer, a rival he didn’t know he had, and a King Cobra on a mission. Which will emerge victorious?

Chesapeake Crimes: Magic Is Murder

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Behind Closed Doors. An illustrated man standing behind a cracked door.

May/June 2022

“The Manglik Curse”

A young woman plots to escape an arranged marriage that was cursed from the start.

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

Malice Domestic: Mystery Most Diabolical, Issue 16. A cover of a frowning mask next to a tea cup with a skull rising from the steam.

April 2022

“Keeping Up with the Jainses”

Adit Sharma will do anything to get his daughter married to Rishi Jain, the sole heir to a billionaire’s fortune. His servants will do anything to stop him.

Malice Domestic: Mystery Most Diabolical, Issue 16

Virginia is For Mysteries, Vol 3. A gray scale cover of roaring waters and bright sun in a cloudy sky.

February 2022

“Unfinished Business”

The annual Specters and Spirits tour conjures up 200-year-old ghosts who have a score to settle.

Virginia is For Mysteries, Vol 3

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Beware The Night. A cover of a woman standing at a counter inside a gas station, facing the bright headlights of a mysterious car at a pump.

July/August 2021

“The Fraud of Dionysus”

If you like mystery, wine, and a double twist, this story is for you!

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Beware The Night

Mystery Writers of America Presents: When A Stranger Comes To Town. Cover of a silhouette figure against a bluish black night.

April 2021

“Kohinoor”

A Mumbai dance bar girl takes on the morality police to avenge her sister’s death.

Mystery Writers of America Presents: When A Stranger Comes To Town

Virginia Is For Mysteries, Vol. 1. Black and white cover of leafless trees and an overcast sky.

“A Tri-ing Day”

Triathlons can be murder.

Virginia Is For Mysteries, Vol. 1

Chesapeake Crimes: This Job Is Murder. Cover of a beach at sunset, a warning sign in the sand, choppy waters, and a long bridge in the distance.

“An Education in Murder”

The chief of police will do anything for the woman he loves. Will that include murder?

Chesapeake Crimes: This Job Is Murder

Mumbai Noir. Cover of a person holding an umbrella walking on a cobblestone path.

“The Body in the Gali”

When Subinspector Subhash Mehta is found murdered in an alley behind a eunuch commune, the man assigned to find his killer has other ideas.

Mumbai Noir

Chesapeake Crimes: They Had It Comin'. Cover of a silhouette of a woman holding a gun at the end of an L shaped pier at sunset.

“Cosmic Justice”

Prema Agarwal is convinced she’ll be happy in marriage because her natal charts said so. What they didn’t tell her was which man she’s supposed to marry.

Chesapeake Crimes: They Had It Comin'

Edited skyline of Mumbai on the water at dusk.

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