2023 Derringer Nominees for Best Short Story Announced

Seaside hotel setting for SOMETHING BLUE, published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine Nov / Dec 2022

The Short Mystery Fiction Society has announced the nominees for the prestigious 2023 Derringer, to be awarded at Bouchercon in San Diego this year. I'm thrilled to say I am on the list in the long form category.

Congratulations, everyone!

Flash
Catch and Release - April Kelly
Acknowledgments - Karen Harrington
Easter Spam - John Weagly
The Final Chapter - James Blakey
Where Palms Sway and the Surf Pounds - Curtis Ippolito

Short
Double Trouble - M.E. Proctor
Hiding Out in Cedar Key -Sharon Marchisello
The Shape of Australia - Christine Poulson
My Two-Legs - Melissa Yuan-Innes
Digging In - Andrew Welsh-Huggins

Long
The Vigil - Toni Goodyear
Tethered - Marcelle Dubé
The White Calf and the Wind - Mike Adamson
The Donovan Gang - John M. Floyd
Negative Tilt - Bobby Mathews
Something Blue - G.M. Malliet

Novelette
The Wraith of Bunker Hill - Paul D. Marks
Two Shrimp Tacos and a .22 Ruger - Adam Meyer
Dead Men Tell No Tales - Liz Filleul
The Refusal Camp - James Benn
Ripen - Ashley-Ruth M. Bernier

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