mystery and crime short fiction

  • Congratulations to Craig Faustus Buck, Macavity Award winner for “Honeymoon Sweet”

    We are thrilled to share that Craig Faustus Buck’s story, “Honeymoon Sweet” is this year’s Macavity Award winner for best short story. First published in Murder at the Beach: The Bouchercon Anthology 2014, “Honeymoon Sweet” was featured in Plan B Volume V. You can get the ebook of Plan B Volume V here, read the story online here…

  • All Good Things…

    It’s been a great couple of years of stories, but as of now Plan B is on hiatus. We may return in the future with more tales of plans gone wrong, but for now we are focussing on other projects. Thanks for reading, listening, commenting, writing and otherwise being part of Plan B.

  • The Good Neighbor by Lawrence Buentello

    Listen to this story on the podcast. All her neighbors agreed that Henrietta Soames had murdered her husband. An investigation followed the discovery of his body; his death was ultimately ruled a homicide. But after initially questioning Henrietta the police dismissed her as a suspect. Apparently, they had no evidence to charge her. Eventually the…

  • Coffee and Killings by Simon Maltman

    Listen to this story on the podcast. The hubbub of the cafe offered a pleasant background noise. It was Saturday and customers in the Starbucks seemed generally relaxed and to be enjoying their conversations. It was the beginning of spring and the morning sun allowed most to be in t-shirts and some to venture into…

  • Mysterious Private Investigations by Peter DiChellis

    Listen to this story on the podcast. Jimmy told me about the burglary almost exactly a year after it happened. Right after we got thrown out of the pawnshop where Jimmy tried to sell the jewelry. He had gone into a house one afternoon, Jimmy told me, with a guy everybody called Howie The Dog…

  • The Asshat Fund by Todd Morr

    Listen to this story on the podcast. 1. The wire digging into my wrists and the punches to the gut and face were unnecessary. I would have given them the name based on mean looks and harsh language. Depending on the day, they could have just asked nicely. After digging another upper cut into the…

  • Intimate Knowledge by Suzanne Baginskie

    Listen to this story on the podcast. Gentlemen’s Night Club, where I pole danced, reeked of cigarette smoke and stale booze. Heat from the overhead spotlights illuminated the stage floor and made my skin clammy. I bumped and gyrated to the tune “Let’s Get it On” in front of twenty or so leering men with…

  • Broken Hearts by Laird Long

    Listen to this story on the podcast. The house was in the hot part of Hollywood. The part where the sun doesn’t shine tourist-bright and pleasant, but rather hot and oppressive; the part where you’d never dream in your wildest scar-dust dreams that there was a great big, cool blue ocean only five miles away….

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