Ripley and the Unsubtle Art of Murder

We've moved to Substack!

Lured like a month to flame by the promises of better analytics and referrals, I’ve transferred my newsletter to Substack (hopefully you won’t notice much of a difference, dear reader, but if you do, please drop me a line)! Before we begin with this month’s update, a couple of summer releases for your reading pleasure:

• My Derringer-nominated novella “Madam Tomahawk” is now available in a paperback edition, bundled with three other short works in the long-running Grifter’s Song series (by TG Wolff, Jeffery Hess, and James DF Hannah). It’s perfect beach reading because each novella features Sam and Rachel, the antiheroes of the series, executing a fiendishly complicated con… and trying to live through the inevitable repercussions.

• I also have a new story in an anthology titled “Bishop Rider Lives” alongside Rob Hart, S.A. Cosby, Paul Garth, and other badasses of crime fiction. My tale focuses on what happens when a wounded community decides to take justice into its own collective hands, g…