Mary Dutta

Short Story Anthologies

Featuring Author Mary Dutta

Malice Domestic Devil’s Advocate

Latest Book Release

“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.

Upcoming Stories

Land of 10,000 Thrills: Bouchercon Anthology 2022.

"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.

"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 Wonderworker is "a wickedly clever riff on the college admissions scandal"
“The Wonderworker” Published in Masthead
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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“The Good Citizen” Published in Murder by the Glass

“The Good Citizen”

Published in Murder by the Glass

The competition is deadly for the Senior Center’s Good Citizen of the Year award.

“Greetings from the Board” Published in The Fish That Got Away

“Greetings from the Board”

Published in The Fish That Got Away

HOAs can be murder.

“The Wonderworker” Published in Masthead

“The Wonderworker”

Published in Masthead

People would kill to work with the right college admissions counselor.

“Festival Finale”

Published in The Best Laid Plans

Literary fame is to die for.

“Though the light is much brighter there, Mary Dutta makes suburbia seem as dark as any noir ally in ‘The Wonderworker.’”
“The Wonderworker” Published in Masthead
Michael Bracken
Anthony-, Edgar-, and Shamus-nominated writer/editor.