Gigi Vernon

For your listening pleasure….

My short story “One for the Road” which was published in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine in the Jan/Feb 2006 issue is now a podcast. It went live today and can be downloaded here: http://ahmm.podomatic.com/entry/2014-06-27T09_16_36-07_00

It’s free to all courtesy of AHMM and Dell Magazines. (Thanks guys!) I did the reading (my first!) at the Bouchercon 2013 Mystery Convention (not my first, my fourth) in Albany. The very faint background hum in the background is convention center and crowd noise from mystery enthusiasts.

The story is one of my favorites. It’s set in Prohibition Detroit and it concerns a gun moll’s missing purse which is a matter of life and death.

Michigan & Griswold circa 1920 from Early Detroit Images from the Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library

I hope you enjoy it.

Just back from New York City which I visited for MWA Edgars’ week and the launch of Mystery Writers of America Presents Ice Cold: Tales of Intrigue from the Cold War at The Mysterious Bookshop.

Such an honor to have my short story “Show Stopper” about killer Soviet fashion to be included.

And best launch ever!

Foreground, right: Women in red with her back to the camera is me.

• Met Otto Penzler, publisher and owner of the awesome The Mysterious Bookshop.
• Met the anthology editors Raymond Benson and Jeffery Deaver.
• Met my fellow anthologists for the first time in person.

Lower left: Me signing, frowning in great concentration with ink-stained right hand and broken left wrist in a brace.

Met fans. FANS! Great fans! Who came out to buy copies!

They’re going fast, but last time I checked there were still a few signed copies available directly from The Mysterious Bookshop.

All photos courtesy of: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.763020060397050.1073741835.113518992013830&type=3

My story “Purse Strings” made the cover of the April 2014 issue of Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine.

A first for me!

As they say, I’m on “The Cover of the Rolling Stone.”

More about the research and writing of “Purse Strings”