New Mystery Authors! Bios, Photos and News
Past Contributors include the finest mystery masters and upstarts from around the world... and in your own backyard.New Mystery debuts a new mystery writer each issue. Thanks to our celebrity author contributors, NMM has been able to help new writers continue with their careers. Many authors have contributed only their best, new, original, exclusive short mystery fiction. Their short stories are available in New Mystery Magazine...and a few occasionally online for a limited time here at NewMystery.tv.
Author list 1989-2004:
Click here for Authors L to Z.
Mr Ashforth
Albert Ashforth
wrote the great Second Acts for our first issue I#1. It all started with the routine check of an insurance claim by this small town guy in a wheelchair...and brought down the whole county.Watch the next issue for a new story about a brainy blue collar guy amid academia, called A Smart Man Never Found A Dead Body by Mr Ashforth.
Mr AtodaTakashi Atoda
is the mystery maestro of Japan, loved by millions of fans in many languages. His Woman With Hobby helped us launch issue number one of New Mystery. Woman With Hobby Read Woman With Hobby, click here now!
Michael Avallone
infamous detective novelist shows he can handle the short story form in an experimental way with Ya' Don't Get The Kids Back, Unless... from I#3 featuring pimples, kidnap and a missing schoolbus.
Mr Ballard and friend
David Ballard
made his debut in V#2 of New Mystery with his story Child Support, Dog Support a tale of hope and woe with the barking frisbee champion. This short story is currently in film debut and has been selected for prestigious anthologies and translation.
Mrs Barrasso
Sibylle Barrasso
reviews the new mystery novels.Read her latest book review here.
Mr BeinhartLarry Beinhart
See Press Release link above. Edgar 1996 Nominee! Death In A Small Town, his getdown story of a jogging college kid who was almost a yuppy features a trashy small town girl who... (IV#1)Watch for his upcoming story, Divorce, in the next issue. Edgar 1996 Nominee'
Lawrence Block
contributed his exclusive short story Something To Remember You By for our first issue of New Mystery. He surely helped us launch this magazine as one of the current mystery masters. His BURGLAR WHO... and Matt Scudder novels are bedrock for the best in contemporary fiction.
Mr Cross and Mr Dolphin
Monte Cross &Jack Dolphin
wrote the compelling pounding getdown narrative of Hoods, a punk rock drug-stupored murder romp band with a new problem. Mr Cross and Mr Dolphin live in Brooklyn. If I were you, I wouldn't walk down their block, better cross over to the river before or after their neighborhood. See, there's a reason they call them hoods. I#2.
Mr BreinersdorferFred Breinersdorfer
wrote The Orellis Clowns for New Mystery and these brothers are not like your usual guys...one clown is always pushing the other one around. (see II#1)
Lisa Cantrell
tells us how a muttering old mop lady at work at night in a bluejeans factory, cleans the executive boardroom, in A Good Day's Work, I#3.
Mr ChavarriaDaniel Chavarria
long a bastion of Havana's literary community is a contributing editor of New Mystery Magazine and internationally acclaimed novelist.
Mr CriderBill Crider
tells us about love; he taught her Keats, she taught him lust and murder and more...in Death's Brother (I#2). Click here for Mr Crider's web page.
Mr CrumbR Crumb
needs no introduction. The infamous underground cartoonist is now resting at his chateau in Provence, enjoying the case of Schmidt's Beer we sent him. Thanks to Last Gasp Press and Ron Turner for helping us get the fine cover of our Angry White Man issue of New Mystery magazine. IV#1.
Mr DeFillipi
James DeFilippi,
appears in a recent issue with, A Fog Of Many Colors, which at first seems like a regular old down-and-out-meets damsel-in-distress, but wait, there's more. There's a lot to drink in this story, so remember to have a designated driver by the time you finish. Mr DeFilippi lives in Vermont. This is his first story for NMM.
Mr De NouxONeil DeNoux
is a novelist and homicide inspector living and working in suburban New Orleans. appears in the current issue with, Her Windblown Skirt. They were just taking the day off in a New Orleans cafe. But no...His early short story, The Man With Moon Hands appeared in I#3. We subtitled the cop tale, "The wacko in the alley had a gun...held in his moon hands!"
Miss DiCanio
Margaret DiCanio
appears in the current issue with, Just Deserts, or The Bag Lady Caper She put on an old sweater that made her mind roam. Don't miss this fine short story.
Mr DorrJames Dorr
reminds us that if we don't do what we are told, Daddy will put us on a milk carton. See Milk Carton Monsters in our first issue, I#1. And find his wonderful short story, Paper Boxes, in V#1 New Mystery.In addition to writing crime short stories, Mr Dorr has written science fiction and horror, and now has one hundred short stories in print. Also an acclaimed poet, he has seventy poems published. He also has a chapbook, TOWER OF DARKNESS available. He is an active member of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Association and the Horror Writers of America. At various past times, he has been a technical writer, an associate editor on a city magazine, a fulltime non-fiction freelancer and a semi-pro musician. He currently resides in Bloomington, Indiana with a large male semi-black raven-like brindled cat named Edgar.
Mr DrummondMichael Drummond
gave us his delicious story of a lonely long-divorced gourmand who raised delicacies for the finest chefs in the world, and grew them in his special soil in a special way. See The Helix in the Bad Women special issue of New Mystery, III#1.
Miss Epstein
Charlotte Epstein
tells a delicate story of a new neighbor and a dog that barks all night long...woof, woof, woof. In V#2, our Special Bad Dogs issue.
Miss Fennelly
Tony Fennelly
has given the world a unique and fine series of gritty New Orleans style crime novels. She finds high purpose in low places fearlessly. One of the few genuine literary voices from the Big Easy, her finely-crafted story appears in the Bad Dogs Issue, V#2, of New Mystery. Don't Miss It! Her latest novel is 1(900) DEAD from St Martin's.Tony Fennelly writes:
I have always found jobs in the Miscellaneous column of the classifieds. I sold lingerie in New York, sold books in Puerto Rico, clerked in a bank in L.A., waited tables in Chicago and San Francisco.
Hitting New Orleans in 1969, I ordered stripper gowns, and danced on Bourbon Street for two years. In '72, I married Richard Catoire, a Cajun barge laborer, enrolled in the University of New Orleans and studied Drama. On graduation I wanted to write and stayed home and wrote full-time for ten years before selling anything. THE GLORY HOLE MURDERS, my eighth book, was the first published and nominated for an Edgar. That came out in 85, the year I worked in the welfare office. An experience which I used for my second Sinclair mystery, THE CLOSET. My third Sinclair mystery, KISS YOURSELF GOODBYE, appeared abroad, but not here.
My new series features a writer and former stripper, Margo Fortier. The first Fortier mystery, the hippie in the wall, came out from St. Martin's in 94 and the second, 1(900)DEAD, was just published.
I've enjoyed unique opportunities. In 89, at the Semana Negra in Gijon, Spain I led a conga line of 4,300 people along the marina. In 91 I made a reading tour of Germany. In 92, I did a local production of Friel's ARISTOCRATS. In October, 96, I appeared in SHOWBOAT.
I've learned about Mexican politics from Paco Taibo in Mexico City, climbed the Toltec pyramids at Chichen Itza, traveled through the mountains of Cuba with a man who had fought for Castro and had my shells read by an Yruba priest in Havana. I travel whenever I can, but my characters stay in New Orleans.
Click here for Miss Fennelly's web page
Mr GaultWilliam Campbell Gault
See press release above. His great stories have appeared in New Mystery regularly. See The Kerman Kill and The Sister.Will Goldschein
has been critic for New Mystery since the earliest years... and his courage, rapier wit and black powder temper have given us a reputation for book reviews with clout and foresight. His reviews, themselves have often been as entertaining as our short stories. And calls for us to censor him have been stonewalled. Read Mr Goldschein's latest book review now in New Mystery Magazine...and here online occasionally. But you better take an aspirin first. He lives in New York CPW.
Mr GreeleyFather Andrew Greeley
appears in a rare short story featuring Bishop Blackie Ryan, that dashing man of the cloth from the windy city as he tracks a murderer among the snooty Irish-Am elite in Cold Daesdemona IV#2, our special Bad Catholics issue.
Mrs GustavEileen Gustav
makes her debut redux in the Bad Catholics Special Issue of New Mystery, IV#2. The bride and the groom were stuffing wedding cake into each others' mouths and the tears of joy in the room turned to...well Inspector Slazenger and his un-named sidekick, in their first appearance. Call it Wedlock.Gar Anthony Haywood
writes the lead piece in our special Mendacity issue with the incredible offbeat sardonic procedural, Third Santa From The Left. Mr Haywood is a respected novelist and screenwriter. His beloved series of black character novels featuring retired cop Joe Loudermilk and his odd wife Dottie, are hilarious examinations of middle class parents on the road, avoiding their grown-up children. His other mystery series featuring Aaron Gunner, private investigator from the mean streets of LA, won the Shamus Award in 1988 for FEAR OF THE DARK.
Mr HickeyFrank Hickey
made his impressive debut in New Mystery III#2 with What Will People Say where a new deputy in the New South shows his grits.
Mr HorvitzLeslie Alan Horvitz His &Hers
appeared in our first issue, and this gritty tale of love gone wrong proved that things out in the suburbs still weren't going so well. Mr Horvitz has continued writing feature reviews of the new mystery novels for New Mystery over the years giving us prestige and clout in the genre. See his reviews regularly and check out his latest opinions in the current Bad Catholics Special Issue of New Mystery...on newsstands now. Mr Horvitz's latest book, LEVEL 4, Virus Hunters of the CDC co-authored with Joseph B McCormick of the Center for Disease Control is a blockbuster hit about disease detectives from Turner Publishing. Highly Recommended, isbn 1-57036-277-7
Miss HightowerLynn Hightower
is a rising star from Tennessee, who has a fine run of original novels. Her short story is slotted for next Spring.
Mr Jones
Thomas Jones
appears in the current issue with, I Was A Reluctant Garbage Cop. They were arguing about everything and then they watched the trucks unload. A debut author.
Miss KacirkovaEva Kacirkova
gave us Tattoo Blue about a businessman lured to a seedy room for a disappointment. This fine Czech writer shows the promise and hypocrisy of mittle war among Prague's have's and have-not's.
Mr Kaminsky
Stuart Kaminsky
appears in V#1 of New Mystery with an exclusive original short story of anger, heartbreak and doublecross. This well-liked master of mystery, an Edgar Award-winner for Best Novel and author of the immensely popular Porfiry Rostnikov Novels and his critically-acclaimed Abe Lieberman series of novels, lives in Sarasota. Watch out for Miriam! Newsflash! Kaminsky receives three Edgar Award Nominations for 1998-including Find Miriam which appeared here first!
Mr KennealyJerry Kennealy
gave us the first appearance of Detective Polo in the short story form, Polo At The Ritz (II#1). His Polo series of San Francisco novels is out from St Martin's Press. A new paperback novel, THE CONDUCTOR is just out from Signet.
Mr LambJJ Lamb
is considered pretty hot with crime dialect, and is now working on his seventh novel at home in Marin County. His hit story, The Hit (It was a job for a pro, alone, but they hung this creep on him,) appeared in I#3.Robert Leuci
appears in the next issue of New Mystery with Gray Eyes, a rare short story from the man who was Prince of the City, title of author Robert Daley's bestseller and subsequent film detailing undercover detective Leuci's experiences during the Knapp Investigation of the Seventies. This is rare short story from novelist Leuci. It walks you along with the man- in-blue, out there on midnight streets of the urban jungle. And there's this screwdriver...Mr Leuci's newest book is FENCE JUMPERS, a great brawling pasta and linquine feast of New York City cops, wiseguys, loyalty, brotherhood and even a dwarf assassin. This well-received novel is a breakthrough for the accomplished Mr Leuci. KIRKUS called the new novel "A Mafia opera worthy of Verdi!" St Martin's Press isbn 312-13073-2. His other novels include: DOUBLE EDGE, ODESSA BEACH, CAPTAIN BUTTERFLY and DOYLE'S DISCIPLES. He lives in Rhode Island, outside Providence.
Randye Lordon
wrote the extremely personal and emotive Do Unto Others for New Mystery, (II#1,) and it remains a favorite to our fans. See, she remembered his hands and then she invited him back to her apartment and then she reminded him that they had met before under similar circumstances, and then she got a little angry, and then she...
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