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What do get when you put a group of writers together at a dinner table? If it were Malice in Memphis, a local mystery writers group, the answer would unarguably be, “criminal minds.”
Each writer brings their own unique style to the table and the group consists of approximately 25 members, men and women, from across the Mid-South. Nine members of the Malice crew gathered Feb. 25 at Book Stop Plus in Bartlett on for book signings.
Nearly every writer in the group, if not all, are published authors. Many have several books and recognizable names. More than half the group are responsible for a collaboration of three Malice in Memphis Anthologies published by Dark Oak Press. Book one, “Malice in Memphis: Bluff City Mysteries,” is filled with short mystery stories. Book two, “Malice in Memphis: Ghost Stories,” features short ghost stories. In both books, each story is written by a MIM mystery writer.
MIM recently found out that two stories, “Drive-In Miss Daisy,” by Phyllis Appleby, and “The Nature of Ghosts,” by Carolyn McSparren, in the anthology “Malice in Memphis: Ghost Stories,” were named finalists of the Darrell Awards for the Best MidSouth Short Story of 2017 presented by MidSouthCon.
The third book of the series, the name of which the writers aren’t ready to reveal, should be coming out in May. It will be a combination of mysteries and ghost