Erica Miner’s screenplay version of the first in her Julia Kogan “Opera Mystery” series, Aria for Murder, rose into the @Stage32 Marketplace, one of the first projects to earn a place at launch. https://www.stage32.com/project/aria-for-murder #stage32marketplace
Susan McCormick’s The Room at the End of the Hall, and Charlotte Stuart and Don Stuart’s Bad Day for Justice (Warren & Carmichael Legal Thrillers) were shortlisted for the 2026 Clue awards for Suspense and Thriller Mysteries with Chanticleer. Charlotte Stuart’s Trolling for Murder (a Vashon Island Mystery), and Maria Lynn Barrs’s Parallel Peril made the shortlist in the Mystery & Mayhem category for Cozies with Chanticleer.
Marty Wingate’s new book, A Murder is Rehearsed, is available now. Nothing says an English Christmas like a pantomime, and, in December 1952, the MiddleFox Players celebrate by staging Cinderella with all the fun and daftness that pantos have come to represent since Victorian times. When Fairy Godmother is killed and the murder weapon is Cinderella’s coach, can Ugly Stepsister/Detective Sergeant Arno Mackerell solve the murder in time for the show to go on?
All are invited to join Gerald Elias on Tuesday, November 17 at 7 PM, when he presents his short crime fiction collection, Murder on Vacation, at Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park, Washington. Wherever the lovable crime-solving couple, retired NYPD Police Chief Maury Gross and his perspicacious wife Bobbi go in search of a little R&R, they can’t seem to avoid tripping over dead bodies.
