The Ellie Stone Mysteries have also been finalists for the EDGAR®, BARRY, and LEFTY Awards
January 25, 2021
“The Twenty-Five-Year Engagement” is a finalist for the 2021 Edgar Award for Best Short Story.
TURN TO STONE is a finalist for the Lefty Award for Best Historical Mystery (Bruce Alexander Memorial) and the G. P. Putnam’s Sons Sue Grafton Memorial Award.
December 28, 2020
My new Sherlock Holmes pastiche, “The Twenty-five-year Engagement” appears in In League with Sherlock Holmes, edited by Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger.
September 30, 2019
“A mystery that puts an inventive twist on Boccaccio’s Decameron, TURN TO STONE takes the reader on a richly-imagined and entertaining journey to Florence and the Tuscan countryside in 1963. And the engaging, indomitable Ellie Stone, who holds her liquor but never her tongue, is the perfect traveling companion.”
—Lou Berney, Edgar Award-winning author of November Road

Tancredi and Ghismunda
August 5, 2019
Turn to Stone cover reveal
Coming January 21, 2020
May 15, 2019
A Stone’s Throw is a finalist for the 2019 Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original
March 23, 2019
My short story, “A Bed of Roses,” appears in the latest issue of Strand Magazine.
January 16, 2019
A Stone’s Throw has been named a finalist for the 2019 Lefty Award for Best Mystery.
Just finished Turn To Stone, another masterpiece that left me with some salty discharge at the end! Please keep them coming!!
Thank you, Anna! So nice to hear.
Jim