The Killer Wore Cranberry: A Second Helping

Arthur C. Carey · John Weagly · Earl Staggs · Amanda Lundberg · Betsy Bitner · S. Furlong-Bolliger · Steve Shrott · Andrew MacRae · Zoe Burke · Arlen Blumhagen · Lesley A. Diehl · Gail Farrelly · Herschel Cozine · Linda S. Reilly · Stephen D. Rogers · Barb Goffman · Linda Hartman

Oct 2012 · The Killer Wore Cranberry Book 2 · Untreed Reads

About this ebook

It's the Thanksgiving mystery anthology everyone's been dying for! In 2010, The Killer Wore Cranberry showed how funny murder and food could be. Now, in 2012, Untreed Reads presents a new installment of the worldwide, bestselling anthology with a table full of seasoned authors and new voices alike. Join all of these fantastic authors as they make your holidays murderous and fill you with laughter: Arthur C. Carey, John Weagly, Earl Staggs, Amanda Lundberg, Betsy Bitner, S. Furlong-Bolliger, Steve Shrott, Andrew MacRae, Zoe Burke, Arlen Blumhagen, Lesley A. Diehl, Gail Farrelly, Herschel Cozine, Linda S. Reilly, Stephen D. Rogers, Barb Goffman and Linda Hartman. So make some room for that extra portion of turkey, scarf down another slice of pumpkin pie and make room in the basement for all the dead bodies in this hilarious short story anthology that's destined to become a holiday classic.

About the author

ARTHUR CAREY is a former newspaper reporter and journalism instructor who lives in the San Francisco Bay area. A graduate of the University of Michigan and UCLA, he is a member of the California Writers Club. His fiction has appeared in a number of print and Internet publications, including Funny Times, Future Mysteries Anthology, Suspense Magazine and Still Crazy. He is the author of The Gender War, a recently published humor novel. Mystery author Earl Staggs recently received his second Derringer Award for Best Short Story of the Year with Where Billy Died, also published by Untreed Reads. His novel Memory of a Murder earned a long list of Five Star reviews. He served as Managing Editor of Futures Mystery Magazine and as President of the Short Mystery Fiction Society and has seen many of his short stories published in magazines and anthologies. Website: http://earlwstaggs.wordpress.com. He can be reached via email at [e-mail]. JOHN WEAGLY has toured the United States as a writer/performer with “Authorized Personnel: A Comedy and Improv Team,” and has had over 50 plays produced by theaters around the world. As a fiction writer, he’s been nominated for a Derringer Award four times, winning one in 2008, and been nominated for a Spinetingler Award. His latest short story collection, A Bucket of Boobs, is available on Kindle. His website is www.johnweagly.com. BETSY BITNER is a recovering attorney and professionally trained chef who turned to writing for the fame, fortune and big bucks. A slow runner, slow reader, and someone who’s usually slow on the uptake, it comes as no surprise she’s also a slow writer. She is working on a full-length mystery that she hopes to finish sometime before they stop publishing books and start feeding us all the information we need to know through chips implanted in our brains. In the meantime, she writes a humor column for the Times Union (Albany, NY) and blogs at http://www.lostintheadirondacks.com. Her cleverly named website is http://www.betsybitner.com. STEVE SHROTT is an award-winning writer whose fiction has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. In addition, he has crafted comedy material for well-known performers and written a “how to” book on humour. Some of his jokes are in the Smithsonian Institute. LESLEY A DIEHL retired from her life as a professor of psychology and reclaimed her country roots by moving to a small cottage in the Butternut River Valley in upstate New York. In the winter she migrates to old Florida—cowboys, scrub palmetto, and open fields of grazing cattle, a place where spurs still jingle in the post office, and gators make golf a contact sport. Back north, the shy ghost inhabiting the cottage serves as her literary muse. When not writing, she gardens, cooks and renovates the 1874 cottage with the help of her husband, two cats, and, of course, Fred the ghost, who gives artistic direction to their work. She is author of numerous short stories, a stand-alone mystery and two mystery series, both featuring country gals with attitude. ANDREW MACRAE is a misplaced Midwesterner who rolled downhill to Northern California a quarter century ago where he worked in the fields of artificial intelligence and virtual reality. He writes mystery and historical stories, the occasional poem and his debut novel Murder Misdirected was released earlier this year by Mainly Murder Press. BARB GOFFMAN’S published fiction has all been in the crime short-story realm. Her stories mostly focus on families, because the people you know best are the ones you’ll most likely want to kill. Barb has been nominated for the Agatha Award four times and for the Anthony and the Macavity awards once each. In her spare time, Barb serves as a co-coordinating editor of the Chesapeake Crimes series (Wildside Press) and as program chair of the Malice Domestic mystery convention. She’s an avid reader and a doting mom of a very cute dog. You can learn more about her at www.barbgoffman.com. ZOE BURKE’s story “Secret Ingredients” features the main characters from her upcoming debut mystery novel, Jump the Gun: An Annabelle Starkey Mystery (Poisoned Pen Press, August 2013). She has written two children’s books, Lightning Bug Thunder (Firefly, 1998) and Charley Harper’s What’s in the Woods: A Nature Discovery Book (Pomegranate, 2013). In her day job, she is the vice president and publisher at Pomegranate Communications, an art book publishing company. She lives in Marin County with her husband, Thomas. www.zoeburke.com. ARLEN BLUMHAGEN is a Montana author. He and wife Lynn have two grown children, and three absolutely perfect grandchildren. Arlen has several published works including the worldwide best-selling novel; Mount, A Mountain Man’s Adventures. He and his family live in Billings. GAIL FARRELLY (http://www.farrellysistersonline.com/) writes mystery novels and short stories. She also publishes satire pieces at http://www.thespoof.com/ and at The Westchester Guardian (http://www.westchesterguardian.com/). Her next book, LOL: 100 Comic Cameos on Current Events, will be published in 2013. Gail’s short story, ”The Christmas Exception,” is available for sale at Untreed Reads (http://bit.ly/vuBzL9), on the Kindle (http://is.gd/tMJOUM), and at other ebook retailers. HERSCHEL COZINE has published extensively in both children and adult publications. Work by Herschel has also appeared in Alfred Hitchcock and Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazines, Wolfmont Press Toys for Tots Anthologies and Woman’s World. His story, “A Private Hanging” was a finalist for the Derringer award. LINDA S. REILLY lives with her husband in New England. Her short mysteries have been published in Woman’s World magazine and in Futures Mystery Anthology Magazine. Her first full-length mystery, a cozy titled Some Enchanted Murder, will be released in February 2013 by Five Star Publishing, a part of Cengage Learning. STEPHEN D. ROGERS is the author of Shot to Death, Three-Minute Mysteries, and more than 700 shorter works. His website, www.StephenDRogers.com, includes a list of new and upcoming titles as well as other timely information.