The Private Eye Writers Bulletin Board

Word on the street is…

This is something new-ish I’m trying out here, but it really depends on you. If you’re a private eye writer, and you’ve got something in a private eye vein coming out in the next little while, please let me know via email, DM or just use the Comments Section on this page, and I’ll post it here. All I ask is that you keep it short, keep it pithy and keep it relevant (ie: P.I.-related). If you’re not sure, check out What the hell is a private eye, anyway?

Don’t worry — I’ve got plenty of thumb tacks.

Also, let me know what you think about this idea…

Gay Toltl Kinman
My new Jo Peters mystery short story, “Gardening Because Murder is So Wrong,” is available on Amazon and Kindle, and has the part-time city attorney working as a P.I.

Ron Miller
The 55th story in the my Velda, Private Eye series, “Kill and Make Up,” will appear in issue #262 of Black Cat Weekly. The final story in the series — the 63rd — will appear in the Hallowe’en issue.

Sara Paretsky
St. Martins will publish my standalone novel, Bad Company, on November 10. It features Lily, a 70-something retired CIA agent now on the run from the Company, and has garnered Booklist & K.irkus starred reviews.

Chip Hughes
The seventh Surfing Detective mystery featuring my PI Kai Cooke recently appeared in a first-ever cloth edition with dust jacket from Ingram-Spark and an audiobook is in the works by series narrator Scott Ellis of Ellis Audio books.

Dana King
Dana King’s eighth Nick Forte novel, Sideshow, dropped in September. In it, Forte deals with a televangelist who may or may not have had something to do with the disappearance of a young woman employee.

Richie Narvaez
I co-edited The Speculative Detective Agenry: Case Files of the Supernatural and Fantastic (Diversion Books, October 2026), with Matthew David Goodwin, an anthology featuring 16 short stories, each starring an occult detective working for a global organization that investigates cases that defy conventional logic. My story “A Haunting on South 4th Street” also appears in the anthology

O’Neil De Noux
My latest private eye short story, “Charming Charlie Lovely Eyes” appeared in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine in the July/ August 2026 issue, while my police procedural short story “Le Rouge 2B” appeared in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine in the July/August 2026 issue, and my short story “Buttonholed” appeared in Von Stray’s Crimestalker Casebook in the December 2026 issue. 

Robert Lopresti
My short stories, ”Was That So Hard?” appeared in the Sept/Oct issue of A!fred Hitchcock’s MJstery Magazine, “Catch as Cat Can” in Midnight Mousers: 12 Original Cat Tales, and “The Crossing” in Crime Before Our Time.

Sandra J. Cady
Crimeucopia: The Not So Frail Detective Agency, a mystery anthology featuring 15 female private eye stories, was first runner up for the 2026 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award for short story collections/ anthologies. My short story “High School Reunion” appears in the book. Crimeucopia was also a 2026 Derringer Award finalist. Meanwhile, the Kindle version of my novel, A Game of Luck: A Sam Roma Detective Mystery, has now also been translated into Portuguese and Italian.

Greg Stout
My newest book, When the Music’s Over, the sixth in the Jackson Gamble series, is scheduled for release by Level Best Books on November 10. This time, Gamble tries to juggle three investigations at one time, including tracking down a business partner who has absconded with his company’s working capital and converted it into cryptocurrency, and attempting to clear a young man who, for reasons no one can explain, has confessed to a murder he didn’t commit.

Michael Bracken
The Best Private Eye Stories of the Year 2026, containing the best PI stories published in 2025, will be released this year. S.J. Rozan is the guest editor. Gary Phillips will be the guest editor for The Best Private Eye Stories 2027, and as series editor I’m looking for the best private eye stories published in 2026. If you had a PI story published this year, or will have one published before the end of this year, ensure that I receive a copy. If we doesn’t see your story, we can’t consider it. Send it, or have your editor send it. Complete instructions on how to submit can be found here.

Tom Milani
Places That Are Gone, my debut novel, has been republished in eBook format by Open Road Integrated Media and will be released in print-on-demand in January. “Andrea Gutierrez,” featuring PI Erin Ferrigno, appeared in Black Cat Weekly #254. 

M.E. Proctor
The third book in the Declan Shaw PI series will be released on October 13 from publisher Shotgun Honey. In The Way You Say My Name, Declan isn’t the searcher-he’s the one who cannot afford to be found. (Available in paperback & eBook)

Max Allan Collins
The 50th anniversary Quarry novel, Quarry’s Reunion, will be published in early November by Hard Case Crime. Quarry, the first book in the series, appeared in 1976. After four books, the series drifted into occasional short stories, one midstream novel (Quarry’s Vote, 1987), and developed enough of a cult following to spawn a short film (“A Matter of Principal”), a feature film (The Last Lullaby) and a one-season HBO/ Cinemax series. Starting in 2006, Hard Case Crime have published another dozen entries which publisher Charles Ardai says is the longestrunning myste1y series in America.

SJ Rozan
The third ·book in the Dee & Lao series, written with John Nee, will come out November 3rd from Soho Press. Set in London in 1925, A Warning to the Curious features two Chinese detectives, one of them the celebrated Judge Dee, possibly familiar from the Robert van Gulik books. We thought Judge Dee would enjoy the early 20th century.

April Kelly
My comic caper story “Bank Job, Italian Style” appears in the premiere issue of Betascape Magazine, which is free reading for everyone who noodles www.betascapemagazine.com

Barb Goffman
My newest story, “Into the Woods,” appears in Hooked on Urban Legends-and Murder!, an anthology I edited with Donna Andrews and Marcia Talley. In my story, a town has laws designed to protect women from the cryptid supposedly living in the forest, but the rules don’t keep two rogue librarians from sneaking into those very woods.

Vy Kava
My short story, “The Last Call,” was recently published in Black Cat Weekly. My private eye Nolan Raye is hired to find a missing music score that his client wrote more than ten years ago and disappeared the night Lucien Duval, a jazz clarinetist, was murdered.

Andrew McAleer
Private eye tales in December’s Von Stray’s Crimestalker Casebook: include Gay Toltl Kinman’s “Jax + Cos”; O’Neil De Noux “Buttonholed”; Stephen D. Rogers “Sins of the Family.” My book Death Shines in the Dark (August). 

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