News: My Detective Story in New UK Anthology, & a Book Review
A small milestone reached for the future series
In January 2025, I celebrated the publication of my first story from the future Detective Grigoris series, in the latest multi-author anthology of the Crimeucopia series, entitled: Hey! Don’t Read That, Read This! (Murderous Ink Press, UK). Available in both paperback and Kindle forms via Amazon worldwide on the below links, the anthology brings together diverse works of mystery fiction by international authors.
“The Mystery of the Scavenging Crabs,” as my story is called, is a somewhat comic tale involving off-roading in the wilds of northeastern Greece, an enigmatic luxury-car theft, action, adventure and plenty of interaction with the colorful characters, foods and landscapes that the detective meets while sussing out another unexpected case.
Although it’s set in 2023—a good 24 years after the protagonist, Grigoris Kardamylios began his career as ‘Greece’s most famously obscure private detective’—the story is the first to be published. It was written in the summer of 2023, a prolific time of writing for me, and contains references to other as-yet-unpublished stories and series elements that I’ve been developing since launching this project in late 2021.
Anthology length (paperback): 308pp.
Anthology contributors: Anthony Kane Evans, Carlos Ramet, Tristan J. Deehan, Christopher Deliso, Tucker Struyk, Ed Teja, Gene Kendall, Hal Dygert, Ian Blackwell, L.C. Adams, Patrick Ambrose, Kamal Mouhoune, Rand Gaynor, Rob Loughran, and Edward St. Boniface
Buy Hey! Don’t Read That, Read This! via the following Amazon websites:
One more Literary Note…
Earlier in January, I reviewed a brand-new novel by British travel writer and novelist Andrew Sanger, on my website.
Entitled On Romford Road, the four-part book tells the tale of intertwined love, struggle and revenge in London’s rough-and-tumble East End. Narrating from the lead perspectives of four women in one family, Sanger retraces a century of known (and less known) events in British history and society. Aside from functioning as a straightforward prose novel, On Romford Road thus inhabits that kaleidoscopic space between a social history and travelogue.
For more details, you can read my review here, or buy On Romford Road on Amazon here.
I would like to offer a wholehearted thanks to all of my readers for your continued support, and wish you all the best for the new year that has so quickly begun. I very much hope and expect to have many more interesting publications to share with you in the months ahead.