G Miki Hayden: 10 books

This third edition of G. Miki Hayden’s award-winning guide for mystery writers provides invaluable step-by-step advice on shaping plots, developing characters, and creating a fast-paced and compelling mystery for the modern market. Regular exercises throughout the book help you put into practice...

Punctuation from the award-winning author of Writing the Mystery and The Naked Writer--both writing instructionals--as well as much fiction and nonfiction. G. Miki Hayden has taught at Writers Digest University for the last 11 years.

*Jesus of Nazareth, Boy and Man: A Novel of the Lost Years* opens with the preaching of Jesus in the Temple and progresses through the years that the Gospels are silent on. Although this is a novel and the events are mere conjecture, Hayden has taken recent archeological findings and her own knowledge...

The first short mystery story in the continuing saga of amateur detective Miriam Obadah, a woman from Ghana who lives in Harlem with her husband, Kofi, and co-wife, Nana. Download the anthology for other good reads. Five of the 11 stories in the anthology appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine.

This story is based on the premise that a blood test mandated for U.S. citizens at age 40 will predict the time frame and cause of their eventual deaths. The author is an Edgar short story winner published in speculative and mystery genres among others.

When a man is found dead at his doorstep on the edge of Walden Pond, naturalist and writer Henry David Thoreau follows his highly developed moral compass to track down the killer. A short story by an Edgar short story winner.

TEMPERS FLARE IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT… …And the wrong move, the wrong word, even the wrong look can set off any man or woman already driven past their boiling point. A Hot and Sultry Night for Crime, edited by bestselling author Jeffery Deaver, features 20 stories of people dealing...

The Great Tome of Forgotten Relics and Artifacts, volume one of The Great Tome Series, presents fifteen tales of cursed relics, ancient artifacts, magical items, and alien devices. In this volume: The Candle Room by James S. Dorr The Heart of Irelda by Jeff Sullins Her Long...

The complete collection of 11 mystery/crime stories of Miriam, her husband, Kofi, and her co-wife, Nana, by an Edgar-winning short story author. Five of the 11 stories were initially published in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine and well received. The entire first story may be downloaded on Smashwords for free.

VIGILANTE? VICTIM? VILLAIN? Where is your breaking point? Would you defy the law in pursuit of justice? How far would you have to be pushed before you got…blood on your hands? Nineteen gripping crime and mystery stories reveal the transgressions ordinary people commit when they feel...