Yesterday, I featured the fine anthology of Irish crime fiction, Requiems for the Departed, edited by Gerard Brennan and Mike Stone. There are some other anthologies and collections that have just recently been released you might also look for:
Delta Blues, edited by Carolyn Haines, has 19 crime blues-themed tales set in and around the America's Mississippi Delta region, by Ace Atkins, James Lee Burke, John Grisham, Charlaine Harris, Les Standiford and others. As actor Morgan Freeman says in his intro, "Like the blues, these tales move and shift over the character of human nature. They combine an element of crime or noir with the world of the blues. A partnership that is easy to understand. Both are messy, and they both tell about pain." Sales benefit the Rock River Foundation, an educational grant-matching organization created by Freeman.
Hook, Line & Sinister: Mysteries to Reel You In, with 16 stories edited by T. Jefferson Parker. "From the tragic to the comic with many stops in between, these stories reflect the authors' passions for both making stories and catching fish." Contributors include Michael Connelly, Ridley Pearson, James W. Hall and John Lescroart, with sales aiding Casting for Recovery (a group that helps women cancer survivors to heal body and soul through fly-fishing) and Project Healing Waters (which does the same for our returning veterans).
The Columbo Collection by William Link (the co-creator of Columbo and other classic TV shows) has 14 new stories about Lt. Columbo, the iconic policeman from the 1970s hit TV series starring Peter Falk, published by Crippen & Landru.
The Dark End of the Street, edited by Jonathan Santlofer and S.J. Rozan, with 19 stories about sex and crime culled from "both banks of the stream dividing crime writing and literary writing" by Lawrence Block, Lee Child, Michael Connelly, Laura Lippman, Joyce Carol Oates et al.
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