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Reckless in Texas

(2023)
(The second book in the Metroplex Mysteries series)
An anthology of stories edited by

 
 
There’s just something about Texas … May you have as much fun with these ten tales of murder and deception as I did, and may you remember them long afterward. As Carl Sandberg said, “Texas is a blend of valor and swagger.” So are these stories.
—from the Foreword by JOHN M. FLOYD

A Perfect Gift For Mystery Lovers!

Welcome to the second anthology by the chapter members of Sisters In Crime North Dallas. The city of Dallas and surrounding locales offer great fodder for mystery writers—and readers. These inspire the stories contained in Reckless in Texas: Metroplex Mysteries Volume II.
  • MONSTER, by Shannon Taft

    THE PRIME WITNESS TO THE MURDER OF DR. MALACHI SAMSON, by Derek Wheeless

    TRACTION, by Terry Shepherd

    THE LAUNDRY LARCENY, by ML Condike

    WHO SHOT THE PARTY CRASHER?, by Amber Royer

    STOOD UP, by Dänna Wilberg

    STEER CLEAR, by Mark Thielman

    RISK REDUCTION, by L. A. Starks

    ROAD RAGE, by Pam McWilliams

    THE MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF JASON WHETSTONE, by Karen Harrington


    BARB GOFFMAN, who edited this anthology, is a short story writer and freelance crime-fiction editor. She’s won the Agatha Award (twice), as well as the Macavity Award, Silver Falchion Award, and Readers Award given by Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. She’s been nominated for major crime-writing awards thirty-seven times, including seventeen Agatha nominations (a category record), and multiple nominations for the Anthony, Macavity, and Derringer awards. Novels and stories she’s edited have won the Agatha, Derringer, and EQMM Readers Award and have been nominated for the Agatha, Anthony, Derringer, Macavity, and Shamus awards. In 2020, Crime Travel, a time-travel mystery anthology Barb edited, was nominated for the Anthony. She blogs at SleuthSayers.org. Learn more at barbgoffman.com.


    Genre: Mystery

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