Richie Narvaez

Vote for Shamu!

Please consider my story “Shamu, World’s Greatest Detective” for a Macavity for Best Short Story. The story appeared in Killin’ Time in San Diego: Bouchercon Anthology 2023 (Down & Out Books), edited by Holly West. In my story, “Shamu: World’s Greatest Detective,” the killer whale has been outfitted with a device that lets AI translate and transcribe her thoughts. With the aid of land-based assistant, Angie Gomez, Shamu investigates crimes

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Thinking Knoxiously

Crippen & Landru just launched the anthology School of Hard Knox this week! Per Jazzy Jeff Marks of C&L: “Nearly 100 years ago, The Reverend Monsignor Ronald Knox of the famed Detection Club developed ten rules—a Decalogue he called them—that he felt were ‘necessary to the full enjoyment of a detective story.’ Fairness with readers seemed an author’s highest calling, and—lo!—’the faculty for writing a good mystery story is rare.’” My story

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