Midnight Hour, a collection of short mystery fiction by authors of color, is out today!
Edited by Abby L. Vandiver and published by Crooked Lane Books, here's the list of authors who contributed stories:
Jennifer J. Chow, Tracy Clark, H. C. Chan, Christopher Chambers, Richie Narvaez, Frankie Y. Bailey, E. A. Aymar, Faye Snowden, Tina Kashian, Rhonda Crowder, V. M. Burns, Raquel V. Reyes, Callie Browning, Elizabeth Wilkerson, David Heska Wanbli Weiden, Stella Oni, Gigi Pandian, Delia C. Pitts, Marla Bradeen. Yes, what a list!
The book features my locked-room mystery story “The Diamond Vanishes,” a Jaya and Sanjay story:
A cursed diamond, a midnight séance, and an impossible crime... Stage magician Sanjay Rai, aka The Hindi Houdini, reluctantly agrees to perform a fake séance as part of his act. But when one of the participants vanishes from a locked room, he and Jaya Jones must unravel a dark deception connected to India’s legendary Koh-i-Noor Diamond.