Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine - July/August 2023

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Love and murder are found the world over. The passionate intensity of feeling that drives romantic or violent behavior likewise inspires our most moving stories, from the ancient myths to the Bible, and from the Shakespearean stage to, well, these pages.
A mystery lover plots her revenge on the friend who wronged her in “We Both Loved Scandis” by Michael Canfield. A woman alchemist in Florence during the time of the Medicis traces the evidence after a deadly poisoning in Sharan Newman’s “A Serving of Murder Florentine.” An attorney faces a reckoning for his mendacious misdeeds in the winter woods of northern Quebec in “Spirits Along the One North Road” by Robert Mangeot. Canada is also the setting of Melissa Yi’s story featuring Dr. Hope Sze, who while driving on a lonesome, wintery road hits a disoriented man in “Brain Candy.” An art theft turns into a rescue mission in Auckland City, New Zealand, for two men heading off to fight in World War II in “Concrete Dog” by Stephen Ross.
The American Civil War shatters a northern Virginia community in “The Knife Sharpener” by Shelley Costa. In R. T. Lawton’s “Sydney Coves,” an orphan in San Francisco finds a benefactor in the old man he is sent to rob. Hobos riding the rails in 1910 Iowa solve a murder among their own in “Law of the Jungle” by Robert Lopresti. The caretaker for an elderly woman suffering dementia discovers she is connected to her charge through a long-ago betrayal in “Italian Alzheimer’s” by Kevin Egan.
Murder and betrayal come calling in “Crazy Cat Lady” by Steve Liskow. A woman in a remote cabin in the Rockies must think quickly when her menacing brother calls in “Trapfall” by Carol Cail. A hoarder’s suspicion grows when her neighbor takes a deadly fall down the stairs in “Along Came the Gaudets” by Susan Breen. A proposed solar project in the Mojave desert tears a community apart in “Golden Hour” by Kell Brigan.