Category Archives: Mystery/Thriller

First holiday story of the year

By Dayle A. Dermatis, Mystery/Thriller, Short Stories, Soul's Road Press, ,

Sometimes you get an idea for a story but you just can’t figure out how to execute it. The underlying idea in this women’s fiction/crime story has haunted me for years, but I only recently figured out whose story it was to tell. I hope you enjoy it.

Clap Your Hands webEsme Blaylock, missing her deployed husband, wants to be curled up in her warm home with her baby daughter on Christmas Eve. Instead she’s at an upstate New York prison, assigned to interview Jennifer Duschanes, who poisoned her own children one year ago.

Jennifer sees a kindred soul in new mother Esme, and for the first time, reveals why she committed her heinous crime.

The truth will change Esme forever.

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Pulse Pounders is here!

By Dayle A. Dermatis, Fiction River, Mystery/Thriller, Short Stories

Pulse Pounders, a Fiction River thriller anthology, is now available! It contains my story “The Scent of Amber and Vanilla.” Publisher’s Weekly (!!) says

Dayle A. Dermatis’s “The Scent of Amber and Vanilla,” about a woman trying to protect her child from her psycho partner, is a nail-biter.

FR Pulse Pounders ebook cover webIf that’s not enough for you, the anthology contains a never-before-published story by Frank Herbert (I’m in an anthology with Frank Herbert! My name is on the cover of an anthology along with Frank Herbert’s! Frank freaking Herbert!), as well as a story that utterly blew me away when I first read it, “The Chair” by J.C. Andrijeski. Oh, and stories by Phaedra Weldon, Kristine Kathryn Rusch…so many amazing authors.

Did I mention it was edited by Kevin J. Anderson? Let me mention that now: Kevin J. Anderson edited this anthology. It’s a fangirl’s dream, I tell you.

Note: If you have a Kobo reading device (or a way to read Kobo files), they have a special edition of the book with three extra stories.

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