Murder Has a Way of Catching Up with You!

Ten years ago, I contributed a piece of flash fiction to an e-book called Fatherly Instincts: An Anthology of Murder and Malice, co-edited by Thomas Kleaton and M. J. Sydney. It was to be part of a themed trilogy, the other components being A Mother's Love: An Anthology of Murder and Mayhem and Family Memories: An Anthology of Murder and Mischief. All three e-books were meant to be combined into a print volume at the time—a fact that had fallen into the mental waste bin that holds most of my ten-year-old memories until M. J. Sydney reached out on Facebook recently—but it was not meant to be.

Now, ten years later, however, it is meant to be. All three volumes of these literary confections have been bound into the beautiful hardcover tome you see in the above image from the publisher's website. All you have to do to order up a copy for your bookshelf is click here.

If further enticement is needed, here's a look at the full list of contributors, along with links to the original e-books, which are still available for purchase as well:

A MOTHER’S LOVE—AN ANTHOLOGY OF MURDER AND MAYHEM

• Salt ♥ MERCEDES MURDOCK YARDLEY (Contest Winner) 

• Story Time ♥ MCKENZIE JOHNSTON WINBERRY (Contest Winner) 

• Conspiracy of Ravens ♥ ROSE BLACKTHORN 

• A Moment of Vanity ♥ JEFFREY L. BUFORD, JR. 

• No Safe Place ♥ CANDY BURKE 

• Mistaken Identity ♥ TAYE CARROL 

• Ghost of Christmas Past ♥ LISA DABROWSKI 

• Lioness ♥ WENDY S. DELMATER 

• B&E Gone Bad ♥ RON GILLESPIE 

• This Corrosion ♥ MORGAN GRIFFITH 

• A Dish Best Served Wet ♥ CYNTHIA A. HUDSON 

• Lack of Evidence ♥ JIM HUTCHINSON 

• Dead Man's Switch ♥ THOMAS KLEATON 

• Carousel ♥ WAYNE LEMMONS 

• Dog Gone Cold ♥ D.K. MASON 

• You Shouldn't Have ♥ TERRY MICHAELS 

• Ballad of a Mother and Slave ♥ DONNA J. W. MUNRO 

• Sudden Vengeance ♥ JOHN ROSSMAN 

• Mama ♥ JO-ANNE RUSSELL 

• In the Kitchen ♥ SHELLY SCHULZ 

• Leave My Mother Alone ♥ M.J. SYDNEY 

• Brutus and Tank ♥ PEGGY A. WHEELER 

• Sibling Rivalry ♥ MATT WINBERRY

  
  

FATHERLY INSTINCTS—AN ANTHOLOGY OF MURDER AND MALICE

• ✰ Ipecacuanha ✰ MCKENZIE WINBERRY (Contest Winner) 

• ✰ Endsong ✰ JAY FAULKNER (Contest Winner) 

• ✰ Megachiroptera Echolocation ✰ STEPHEN COONEY (Artist) 

• ✰ Villains ✰ ROSE BLACKTHORN 

• ✰ Vengeance is Mine I Will Repay ✰ TAYE CARROL 

• ✰ Asshole Season ✰ LISA DABROWSKI 

• ✰ Judge Not ✰ DUSTY DAVIS 

• ✰ Like Father, Like Son ✰ CLAIRE DAVON 

• ✰ Insure Us With Grace ✰ SK DELPH 

• ✰ Grave Robbing ✰ RONALD GILLESPIE 

• ✰ The Confession ✰ JIM HUTCHINSON 

• ✰ Like Fireflies in the Dead of Winter ✰ THOMAS KLEATON 

• ✰ Where Are They Now? ✰ D.K. MASON 

• ✰ Not Today ✰ EILEEN MATSUMURO 

• ✰ Our Little Alice ✰ RICK BENFORD (Photographer) 

• ✰ Termination ✰ JOHN MCACHREN 

• ✰ Father Dog ✰ PETE MESLING 

• ✰ Last Stand ✰ TERRY MICHAELS 

• ✰ Daddy’s Girl ✰ DONNA J. W. MUNRO 

• ✰ Spaced ✰ JOHN ROSSMAN 

• ✰ Catch of the Season ✰ JO-ANNE RUSSELL & RICK BENFORD 

• ✰ Psicografia de Papai ✰ M.J. SYDNEY 

• ✰ Poppy Flower ✰ PEGGY WHEELER 

• ✰ The Funeral ✰ SHERI WHITE 

• ✰ Mr Jones’s Dog Died ✰ VAL WILLIAMSON

FAMILY MEMORIES—AN ANTHOLOGY OF MURDER AND MISCHIEF

• ❧ Grandparents Day 1978 – Present ☙ A BRIEF HISTORY 

• ❧ The Adventure of the Unburied Hatchet ☙ MICHAEL ALBRIGHT QUINN (Contest Winner) 

• ❧ Grandfather and The Storm ☙ JAY FAULKNER (Contest Winner) 

• ❧ A Storm’s A-Comin’ ☙ JERROD BALZER 

• ❧ Facing Reality ☙ ANTON CANCRE 

• ❧ The Silver Lining ☙ TAYE CARROL 

• ❧ Blackjack Solitaire During a Stand-Off Against Crazy People ☙ JAMES KISTEFER CHAMBLISS 

• ❧ Hag-Ridden ☙ DUSTY DAVIS 

• ❧ Get Off My Lawn ☙ CLAIRE DAVON 

• ❧ Chicago Waterfall ☙ SK DELPH 

• ❧ Snorting Cancer Meds ☙ MATTHEW DEXTER 

• ❧ Big Jack ☙ PETER N. DUDAR 

• ❧ The Family Secret ☙ RONALD W. GILLESPIE 

• ❧ The Nick of Time ☙ ROB HOUGLAN 

• ❧ Grandchildren To Die For ☙ CYNTHIA A. HUDSON 

• ❧ Dear Emily ☙ CARL R. JENNINGS 

• ❧ Toadstools ☙ THOMAS KLEATON 

• ❧ Wedding Day ☙ D.K. MASON 

• ❧ Grandpa’s Pistol ☙ TERRY MICHAELS 

• ❧ Raknad ☙ N.L. MUNN 

• ❧ The Crone’s Jule ☙ DONNA J. W. MUNRO 

• ❧ Appearances ☙ W. K. POMEROY 

• ❧ The Devil and His Grandson ☙ JAMES PYNE 

• ❧ Legacy, Deep ☙ JOE ALBRIGHT QUINN 

• ❧ Killer Grandpa ☙ CICA REIFSCHNEIDER 

• ❧ The Vicar and the Orange Tree ☙ ELISA REIFSCHNEIDER 

• ❧ Grandpa Ivan ☙ JOHN ROSSMAN 

• ❧ Survivor ☙ JO-ANNE RUSSELL 

• ❧ Surviving Riley ☙ LYLE STAFFORD 

• ❧ The Midnight Train ☙ M.J. SYDNEY 

• ❧ My Grandma Mimi and My Other Grandma Mimi ☙ PEGGY WHEELER 

• ❧ They Thought of Everything ☙ SHERI WHITE 

• ❧ Kept ☙ MCKENZIE JOHNSTON WINBERRY 

• ❧ Craig Spector on Living and The ART of NOT Dying ☙ CRAIG SPECTOR 

That's it for now, folks. More publishing news very soon!