Mysteryrat’s Maze

The Boyfriend By Frieda McFadden

by K.G. Whitehurst


Frieda McFadden, now a part-time physician specializing in brain injury, is a multiple award-winning author of psychological thrillers. She considers her training gives her an advantage in writing such works. Most, like The Boyfriend, are standalones, so no worries about coming into the middle of a series.

Read With Care – Along with a Cold Beverage & Hot Partner: Sex & Violins: An Erotic Crime Anthology

by Linda Kay Hardie



I’ve been a writer ever since I made them teach me the alphabet when I was four years old. I’ve been told all my life to “write what you know” by schoolteachers, writing instructors, editors, agents, and college professors. I also trained to be a journalist and report “just the facts, ma’am.” I know how this all works. So, yikes! After reading these stories, I’m kind of afraid to meet some of the authors I share space with in Sex & Violins: An Erotic Crime Anthology edited by Sandra Murphy.

Murrieta’s Midnight Ride: The Legend of California’s Headless Horseman Part 2

by Sarah Peterson-Camacho
What began as a joke by a San Francisco pundit in 1906—the earliest Joaquin Murrieta ghost reference I could find in the California press—would become a headless paranormal powerhouse by mid-century.
First appearing as a put-upon spirit placating the weepy wraith of Scottish pirate Captain Kidd in A.J. Waterhouse’s “Occidental Accidentals” humor column in The San Francisco Call and Post, the ghost of Joaquin Murrieta retained his head—but not his sense of humor—in Why Kidd’s Ghost Wept.

The Mystery of the Mirror: A Halloween Mystery Short Story By Shari Held

by Sheri Held


I watch them, the young Americans with trendy $200 haircuts and designer clothes straight from the front pages of Vogue. I listen to their carefree laughter and idle chatter regularly punctuated with a giggle or an OMG! They haven’t a care in the world. Their charmed lives lie ahead of them. Dinner and dancing with handsome men who drive fancy sports cars. Trips to Europe and exotic islands. They take it all for granted. Like their lives are unfolding in a script of their own making.

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