SoWest: Wrong Turn

by Claire A. Murray (Editor)

Assassins ♦ Blackmail ♦ Revenge ♦ Protecting the family ♦ Redemption ♦ Escape from abuse Survival.

Surprises and twists abound in these sixteen stories set on Arizona’s city streets, highways, and in the desolate desert where the heat muddles the mind and the next turn may be your last.
"If you're looking for murder, mayhem, and twisty surprises set amongst rich southwestern settings, Wrong Turn will take you right where you want to be." ~ Leigh Perry, Author of the Family Skeleton series, aka Toni L.P. Kelner, Agatha Award Winning Short Story Author

Contributing Authors: Paula Barr Skillicorn, Patricia A. Bonn, Lauren Buckingham, Susan Budavari, Jo Burrough, William D. Butler, Meg E Dobson, Suzanne E Flaig, Robert Gibson, Kim McCavan, Kathy McIntosh, Laura MacKenzie, Susan Cummins Miller, Claire A Murray, D.R. Ransdell, Joseph S. Walker.

Lead Editor: Claire A Murray. Co-editors: Meg E Dobson, Suzanne E Flaig, Sarah Smith.

Cover Designer: Maegan Beaumont.

162 pages, Paperback

Published August 18, 2023

About the author

Claire writes crime/mystery, fantasy, and sci-fi, not necessarily in that order. She is a member of Sisters in Crime (& president of the Desert Sleuths Chapter), Mystery Writers of America, and the Short Mystery Fiction Society. Claire transplanted from New England to Phoenix where she writes full-time, paints, and lives on a steady diet of Zoominars for connection, inspiration, and sanity.

She hosts 2 weekly “Zoominar” write-in sessions for aspiring and experienced writers as well as write-ins for Sisters in Crime Worldwide and writes book reviews for Kings River Life Magazine.

Her short stories are in more than a half dozen anthologies and online magazines. Play the Hand You're Dealt, her short story collection, includes several stories that earned honors in various competitions.

Learn more at CAM-writes, Where Character, Crime, and Mystery Collide.