In the Spirit of 13
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Ghosts and demons and booze, oh my!
To celebrate their 10th anniversary, the Mesdames and Messieurs of Mayhem have let their imaginations run wild to bring you their fifth anthology, In the Spirit of 13. Does “spirit’ mean ghost or demon - or debunking of same? Or simply the evil in twisted human hearts? Or could it be alcohol? You must read these 23 tales to find out!
The Mesdames and Messieurs of Mayhem are established award-winning authors as well as talented new writers. They aimed to keep their stories light-hearted to counter the world’s troubled times, but some of them have strayed into the dark. They are crime writers after all!
Laugh, shed a tear and prepare to be deliciously frightened.
M.H. Callway, Project Manager - Foreword, Amdur's Ghost
Donna Carrick, Editor - Beloved Ink
Ed Piwowarczyk, Copy Editor - The Haunting of Mississippi Belle
Catherine Astolfo - The Spirit of St. Lewis
Rosemary Aubert - The Phone
J.E. Barnard - Rubies for Romeo
Melodie Campbell - The Kindred Spirits Detective Agency
Lisa de Nikolits - In a Land of Fear and Denial
Cheryl Freedman – Possessed
Therese Greenwood - The Iron Princess
Marilyn Kay - Rise Up
Blair Keetch - To Catch a Kumiho
Sylvia Maultash Warsh - Aunt Bertie Tries to Save the World
Rosemary McCracken - The Fur Coat Conundrum
Cat Mills - The Dollhouse
Lynne Murphy - The Trespassers, Gracie, the Invisible Dog
Jane Petersen Burfield – Whispers
Rosalind Place - A Faint Disturbance of Hope
Madona Skaff - Moving On
Caro Soles - The Yellow Bird
Kevin P. Thornton - The Fixer
Melissa Yi - The Mob Bar Mob
Mesdames of Mayhem
We are les Mesdames of Mayhem, a collective of dedicated Crime Writers who share one deadly mission: to thrill readers with our passion for Crime Fiction.Meet the Mesdames:Catherine Astolfo, author of the Emily Taylor Mystery SeriesRosemary Aubert, author of sixteen books, among them the acclaimed Ellis Portal mystery series and her latest romantic thriller Terminal Grill.Jayne Barnard’s novels won her the Canadian Crime Writing Award of Excellence and the Alberta Book of the Year. She’s been a finalist for both the Prix Aurora and the UK Debut Dagger.M.H. Callway, Madeleine Harris-Callway, founder of the Mesdames of Mayhem collaboration, whose debut novel, Windigo Fire, was short-listed for the 2012 Unhanged Arthur award and previously for the Debut Dagger award.Melodie Campbell, author of Rowena Through The Wall, The Goddaughter, and other comic crime and time travel novels.Donna Carrick, author of 3 mystery novels: The First Excellence, Gold And Fishes and The Noon God, as well as 2 crime anthologies.Lisa de Nikolits is a magazine art director and has worked on international titles such as Vogue Australia, Vogue Living, Cosmopolitan, marie claire and SHE. Her titles include: The Witchdoctor’s Bones, A Glittering Chaos, The Hungry Mirror and West of Wawa.Catherine Dunphy was a staff writer at The Toronto Star, Canada’s largest newspaper, for more than 25 years. She is the author of Morgentaler, A Difficult Hero, which was nominated for the prestigious Governor General’s Award in 1997.Cheryl Freedman, former secretary-treasurer and later executive director of Crime Writers of Canada. An honorary lifetime member of the CWC, she’s also the chair of the board of directors of Bloody Words, Canada’s oldest mystery conference. Cheryl is also working on her own historical mystery series.Therese Greenwood is an award-winning author whose short historical crime fiction has appeared across North America. Her website is www.therese.ca.Marilyn Kay made her crime fiction debut with a story in the Bouchercon Passport to Murder anthology. She has since published three stories in Mesdames anthologies.Blair Keetch is a mystery writer based in Toronto. His short story, A Contrapuntal Duet, was selected for the emerging new mystery writer for the ‘In the Key of Thirteen’ anthology also by Carrick Publishing.Sylvia Maultash Warsh, author of the award-winning Dr. Rebecca Temple mystery series, whose historical novel, The Queen of Unforgetting, published in 2010, was chosen for a plaque by Project Bookmark Canada.Rosemary McCracken, whose mystery novel, Safe Harbor, was shortlisted for Britain’s Crime Writers’ Association’s Debut Dagger Award in 2010.Cat Mills is an award-winning filmmaker with a passion for the unconventional. She is the winner of the 2016 and the 2020 Hot Docs Short Pitch Competition and the Director of 7 short documentaries for CBC and Al Jazeera.Lynne Murphy, founder and past president of the Toronto Chapter of Sisters in Crime, whose recent short story The Troublemaker appeared in the anthology The Whole She-Bang.Jane Petersen Burfield, author of short stories (Blood on the Holly) and Communications professional.Ed Piwowarczyk is a retired journalist, and is currently a freelance fiction editor. Ed’s short fiction has been published in Toronto Sisters in Crime and Mesdames of Mayhem anthologies, and, most recently, in A Grave Diagnosis.Rosalind Place was born a Brit, and grew up in Toronto, Ontario. She has had a number of short stories and poetry published and recently completed her third book, a tale of magic and discovery set on a rural Ontario farm in the 1960s.Madona Skaff is the author of the Naya Investigates series, about a young woman disabled by multiple sclerosis, who turns sleuth to solve crimes. The series includes Journey of a Thousand Steps and Death by Association.Caro Soles, founder of The Bloody Words Mystery Conference and author of the mystery Drag Queen in the Court of Death and the sf adventure/thriller series The Merculians.Kevin P. Thornton was born in Kenya. A seven-time finalist for the Arthur Ellis Crime Writers of Canada awards, his short stories and poetry have appeared in several publications.Melissa Yi is an emergency physician and author of the Dr. Hope Sze medical thriller series. Yi has been a finalist for the Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award, the Crime Writers of Canada Award of Excellence, and the Derringer Award.
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