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“Deceit by Design”
Published in Paradise is Deadly: Gripping Tales from Florida's Gulf Coast
Kimberly has designs on a board seat of Miami’s Art Deco Guild, and just the dicey scheme to get it.
Short Story Anthologies
Featuring Author Mary Dutta
Upcoming Stories
“Bridesmaid #1”
Published in First Comes Love, Then Comes Murder.
Amber takes her bridesmaid duties seriously. Deathly seriously.
“Bitch’s Brew”
Published in Janie's Got a Gun: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Aerosmith.
One man, two women. Trouble’s brewing at Bitch’s Brew coffee house.
The Wonderworker is "a wickedly clever riff on the college admissions scandal"
Leslie Wheeler
Chair of the Al Blanchard Award Contest Committee, New England Crime Bake.
Winner of the Al Blanchard Award for Best Short Crime Fiction
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“Deceit by Design”
Published in Paradise is Deadly: Gripping Tales from Florida's Gulf Coast
Kimberly has designs on a board seat of Miami’s Art Deco Guild, and just the dicey scheme to get it.
“The Grift of the Magi”
Published in Hook, Line, and Sinker: The Seventh Guppy Anthology
The only thing Marlene wants more than a divorce is to ruin her husband Oliver’s dreams of art glory. All she needs is a painting and a plan.
“The Final Curtain”
Published in Land of 10,000 Thrills: Bouchercon Anthology 2022
The show must go on at the Story Book Playhouse, even if the final act is homicide.
“Devil's Advocate”
Published in Mystery Most Diabolical
Choosing a high school mascot shouldn’t be a life-or-death decision, but it can be.
“The Good Citizen”
Published in Murder by the Glass
The competition is deadly for the Senior Center’s Good Citizen of the Year award.
“The Wonderworker”
Published in Masthead
People would kill to work with the right college admissions counselor.
“Though the light is much brighter there, Mary Dutta makes suburbia seem as dark as any noir ally in ‘The Wonderworker.’”
Michael Bracken
Anthony-, Edgar-, and Shamus-nominated writer/editor.