Libby’s Short Stories

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The Whole World is Watching

Originally published in the Sisters on the Case Anthology, Obsidian/NAL Books, 2007; This story was reprinted in Akashic’s Chicago Noir 2: The Classics September, 2015. It is also in Nice Girl Does Noir.

No Good Deed

Fiction River Crime Edition, WGM Publishing, 2014
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Was republished as one of the best “Criminally Good” 2014 stories by Ed Gorman in 2015.

Letters From Havana

Honorable Mention, Saturday Evening Post 2014 Fiction Contest

Published in Best Short Stories from The Saturday Evening Post Great American Fiction Contest, 2015

War Secrets

Published in Mystery Writers of America Presents The Mystery Box, 2013

Capital Partners

Published in the Writes of Spring Anthology, Nodin Press, 2012

The Murder of Katie Boyle

Published as a chapbook, 2009. It is also in Nice Girl Does Noir.

High Yellow

First published in A Hell of a Woman: An Anthology of Female Noir, 2007. It is also widely available in Nice Girl Does Noir.

The Jade Elephant

Expletive Deleted, 2007
Also widely available in Nice Girl Does Noir.
And Top Suspense: 13 Stories from 12 Masters of the Craft, 2012

Your Sweet Man

First published in Chicago Blues, 2007. It is also widely available in Nice Girl Does Noir.

Detour

Originally published in These Guns for Hire, 2006. It is also widely available in Nice Girl Does Noir.

Josef’s Angel

First published by Amazon Shorts, 2006. It is also widely available in Nice Girl Does Noir.

A Winter’s Tale

Originally published in Techno-Noir, 2005. It is also widely available in Nice Girl Does Noir.

House Rules

First published in Murder in Vegas, 2005; reprinted in Favorite Kills, 2012; Nominated for an Anthony and an Agatha for Best Short Story. It is also widely available in Nice Girl Does Noir. 

A Berlin Story

Originally published in Show Business is Murder, 2004. It is also widely available in Nice Girl Does Noir.

Common Scents

First published in Blondes in Trouble, 2004; widely available in Nice Girl Does Noir.

The Last Radical

First published in Futures Magazine, April-May, 2001; it is also widely available in Nice Girl Does Noir.

The Rainforest Messiah

First published in World Wide Writers Magazine (UK), November 2000, and in Mysterical-E, January 2001; it is also widely available  in Nice Girl Does Noir.

Dumber Than Dirt

First published in Blue Murder, June 2000, and in Blood & Donuts, 2001; reprinted in Once Upon A Crime, 2009; it is also widely available in Nice Girl Does Noir.

The Day Miriam Hirsch Disappeared

The Day Miriam Hirsch Disappeared

Published in Futures Magazine, Autumn, 2002; published on Amazon Shorts, 2006. It is also in Nice Girl Does Noir.