Carrick Publishing has announced the names of the 35 authors whose stories will appear in its upcoming crime fiction collection, A Grave Diagnosis:
- Catherine Astolfo: “The Backpack”
- Rosemary Aubert: “Mercy”
- Jayne Barnard: “Christmas Rose”
- Thom Bennett: “The Empty Grave”
- Susan Bowman: “The Bridge Case”
- Jane Petersen Burfield: “Unmasked”
- Linda Cahill: “The Referral”
- M.H. (Madeleine) Callway: “The Eternal Bakery of the Fractal Mind”
- Melodie Campbell: “Two Crooks Walk into a Store”
- Donna Carrick: “A Grave Diagnosis”
- Rosalind Croucher: “The Drowning”
- Lisa de Nikolits: “Love Thy Neighbour”
- John Floyd: “The Rocking R”
- Mary Fraser Hamilton: “Aura”
- Delee Fromm: “The Neighbourhood Watch”
- Therese Greenwood: “Boom Town Shakedown”
- Elizabeth Hosang: “A Pill a Day Keeps the Blues Away”
- Blair Keetch: “Sleep, Perchance to Die”
- Laura Kulmann: “Change of Heart”
- Hayley Liversidge: “The Crimson Grave”
- Sylvia Maultash Warsh: “Days Without Name”
- Rob McCartney: “The Red Cord”
- Rosemary McCracken: “Hooked”
- Lynne Murphy: “Woman Aglow”
- Joan O’Callaghan: “Napoleon’s Nose”
- Ed Piwowarczyk: “Danny and Me”
- Rosalind Place: “Criminals Like Us”
- Merrilee Robson: “In His Element”
- C.A. (Carolyn) Rowland: “The House of Elizabeth Dandridge”
- Steve Shrott: “Sometimes Miracles Happen”
- Madona Skaff: “Cross Match”
- Caro Soles: “Waiting in the Wings”
- Blake Stirling: “The Poison Pill Cure”
- Kevin Thornton: “Hypochrondriacs Don’t Get This”
- Vanessa Westermann: “Medicine”
All the stories in the anthology revolve around an illness/disease and, of course, a crime. Publisher Donna Carrick says she was “blown away” by the quality of the submissions. “And I’m not easily impressed anymore,” she adds.
A Grave Diagnosis will be released in October.
