River Road and Other Mystery Stories

<p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>John M. Floyd is the author of more than a thousand short stories in publications like </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine Strand Magazine The Saturday Evening Post Best American Mystery Stories </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>(2015 2018 2020) and </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Best Mystery Stories of the Year</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> (2021 2024). A former Air Force captain and IBM systems engineer John is also an Edgar Award nominee a Shamus Award winner a six-time Derringer Award winner and a past recipient of the Short Mystery Fiction Society's lifetime achievement award. </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>River Road and Other Mystery Stories</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> is his ninth book.</span></p><p></p><p></p><p>Clever witty full of heart and a sense of place - John M. Floyd's stories are engaging and meticulously crafted. This collection is sure to bring him new admirers. -- Linda Landrigan Editor of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine</p><p></p><p>Every generation the world gets a short fiction writer like Poe Doyle Saki Stanley Elin Shirley Jackson or Guy de Maupassant and John Floyd is just that writer. Tales with twists a keen sense of the macabre the wry humor never gets in the way of those gripping plots and after each story you'll take a deep breath-because each journey is exhilarating and you'll be saying to yourself 'one more.'</p><p>Andrew Gulli-Managing editor <em>Strand Magazine</em></p>