And Of Course, There Was the Girl, the first full-length mystery about my PI Sam Harrigan will be out in the April !from Full Speed Publishing and pre-orders are up now!

Ebooks are available to pre-order and paperback copies will be go on sale same day!

Get yours here!

If you read Guilty Crime Story Magazine, you'll recognize the name Sam Harrigan from a series of private eye stories I've published there. I actually first wrote a novel about the character, and it's finally going to be released into the world!

Gabriella's name meant love and lies...

When Sam Harrigan agreed to find runaway bride Gabriella Cole, he expected to be looking for a marriage-scammer, not a lovely phantom with a trail of devastation in her wake whose victims include washed-up celebrities, politicians, and even mobsters.

Now everyone wants to get their hands on Gabriella, but with each step Sam takes, she seems further away as danger races closer and romance, lust, and murder are never far behind!


And Of Course, There Was the Girl will be out in the spring from Full Speed Publishing! Pre-orders should be up by next month!

​More to come!

Coming next week, Say It Again, an anthology of reprints selected by Murderous Ink Publishing as stories they feel the world needs to see again.

And opening the book... is my story "What Goes Around," originally published in The Dark City Mystery Magazine some three years ago!

Below is the full table of contents:

You can preorder your copy now, in ebook or print, and it'll be out next Tuesday!

Four days until the end of this year. Who knows what 2024 will bring? Well, I know one thing, but I'll save that for later.

Right now, here's everything I had published in 2023, along with links where you can get your hands on a copy or even read for free in some cases.

Novel:
• The Last Request, Bloodhound Books (Open Road Media), September, 2023

Short stories:
• “It’s All An Act”, short story, Guilty Crime Story Magazine #7, January, 2023
• “Conviction”, (As “Anderson Barnes”) short story, Guilty Crime Story Magazine #7, January, 2023
• “No Trouble,” (As “Wayne McIntire”) short story, Guilty Crime Story Magazine #7, January, 2023
• “The Delphi Murders”, (as “N. Fraley”) article, Guilty Crime Story Magazine #7, January, 2023
• “Nice Boy”, short story, Fabula Argentea eZine, January, 2023
• “Suck it Up, Get it Done”, flash fiction, audio drama adaption in Suddenly Shocking, volume 16 (No Sleep Podcast), January, 2023
• “Hunt”, short story, The Vampiricon, Mind’s Eye Publishing, January, 2023
• “Rat”, flash fiction, Guilty Crime Story Magazine, February, 2023
• “A Reasonable Motive”, short story, JOURN-E, March, 2023
• “Please Come Out”, short story, Superstition, March, 2023 (Redwood Press)
• “Too Late”, short story, Guilty Crime Story Magazine #8, April, 2023
• “A Real Artist”, short story, Strictly Off the Record (Murderous Ink Press), April, 2023
• “Master Touch”, short story, Mystery Magazine, May, 2023
• "Use Your Head", flash fiction, Saddlebags Dispatches, July 2023 - 2nd Place Mustang Award Winner
• “Play It Safe”, short story, Modern Crimes for Modern Times (Murderous Ink Press), July, 2023
• “Like a Good Neighbor”, short story, Epic Echoes Magazine #1, September, 2023
• “Scratch Pace”, short story, Guilty Crime Story Magazine #9, September, 2023
• “Sleep Rough,”, flash fiction, Shotgun Honey, September, 2023
• “Dead Horse”, short story, The Deeps Magazine #2, October, 2023
• “Glass Houses”, short story, Tough, October, 2023

"Nice Boy," "Rat," "Sleep Rough," and "Glass Houses" can all be read as individual stories for free, and the entire first issue of Epic Echoes is free as a downloadable PDF, and below is a gallery of some of those covers of the above publications.

Happy New Year, everyone!

Check out some reviews for my most recent novel--The Last Request!

I don't write much horror anymore, so I'm thrilled to announce my folk horror story "Dead Horse" is in the new issue of The Deeps Magazine!