Publication Date: April 21, 2024
This original collection of sports-themed mystery stories features felonies and foul play across a range of athletics. Readers will find riveting stories involving baseball, biathlon, boxing, cycling, figure skating, swimming, tennis, and more. These clever tales-some penned by award-winning authors-offer something for everyone. From traditional whodunits to historical mysteries from noir tales to cozies, Three Strikes, You’re Dead! is the collection both mystery and sports fans have been waiting for!
Included are stories by: Alan Orloff, F. J. Talley, Kathryn Prater Bomey, Adam Meyer, Rosalie Spielman, William Ade, Maddi Davidso, Shannon Taft, Sherry Harris, Robin Templeton, Lynne Ewing, Barb Goffman, Joseph S. Walker, and Smita Harish Jain.
Three Strikes, You’re Dead! is a collection of short, sport-themed mystery stories. These stories involve baseball, biathlon, boxing, cycling, figure skating, swimming, tennis, and more.
These 14 great mysteries are written by a host of authors, including Alan Orloff F. J. Talley, Kathryn Prater Bomey, Adam Meyer, Rosalie Spielman, William Ade, Maddi Davidso, Shannon Taft, Sherry Harris, Robin Templeton, Lynne Ewing, Barb Goffman, Joseph S. Walker and Smita Harish Jain.
Lovers of sports and mystery have found their perfect match with Three Stikes-You’re Dead.
Three Strikes, You’re Dead! is a perfect nightstand book. Whereas it can be easy to get sucked into a longer novel, these short stories are the perfect length for a quick read before bed. Each author does a great job setting the scene and the witnesses and quickly pulling everything together for the conclusion.
As far as short stories are concerned, I have no complaints. Each author pulled together a captivating and intriguing mystery using only several pages.
As I stated earlier, I think this is best as a nightstand book. I read a few of the stories in a row when I first started reading. After the fourth one, the stories began to feel monotonous. However, reading them at separate sittings reinvigorates your mystery senses and pulls you back into the drama.
The intermingling of mystery, crime, and sport, the combination we never knew we needed in Three Strikes, You’re Dead!
Donna Andrews is the Agatha-, Anthony-, and Lefty-award winning author of the Meg Langslow series from Minotaur. Birder, She Wrote (August 2023) and Let It Crow! Let It Crow! Let It Crow! (October 2023) are the 33rd and 34th books in her NYT-bestselling series, to be followed in Between a Flock and a Hard Place (August 2024) and Rockin’ Around the Chickadee (October 2024). In addition to co-editing a series of 11 anthologies with Barb Goffman and Marcia Talley, she is also the co-editor, with Greg Herren and Art Taylor, of the Anthony-nominated School Of Hard Knox anthology.
Barb Goffman has won the Agatha Award three times, the Macavity Award twice, and the Anthony and Ellery Queen Readers Award once each for her short stories. She’s the 2024 recipient of the Short Mystery Fiction Society’s lifetime achievement award and is a current Anthony and Macavity finalist. In addition to her story in Three Strikes—You’re Dead!, she has recent stories in Murder, Neat and (I Just) Died in Your Arms: Crime Fiction Inspired by One-Hit Wonders. She’s an associate editor of Black Cat Weekly and an editor/coeditor of fourteen anthologies, including the Anthony Award-nominated crime/time travel anthology Crime Travel.
Marcia Talley is the author of Circles of Death and nineteen previous novels featuring Maryland sleuth Hannah Ives. A winner of the Malice Domestic grant and an Agatha Award nominee for Best First Novel, she has won two Agatha Awards and an Anthony Award for her short stories. She is author/editor of two star-studded mystery collaborations, Naked Came the Phoenix and I’d Kill for That, and her short stories appear in more than a dozen magazines and anthologies.
