THE MESDAMES 2025 YEAR END BOOK REVIEW

Happy Holidays, Dear Readers!

Winter has arrived, and the Holidays are just around the corner. Books make great gifts. What’s more wonderful than snuggling up to a book or story by the fabulous Mesdames and Messieurs of Mayhem?

Whether you love cozy crime, thrillers, historicals, whodunnits, noir, Sherlockania, romance or speculative fiction, we have something here for you. And as a special treat, true crime and a ground-breaking memoir.

Enjoy, have the best holiday ever and we wish you the best for 2026!

The New Year will be exciting for the Mesdames and Messieurs. Stand by for the cover reveal of our seventh anthology, The Power of 13. And more terrific news about our upcoming book and story publications and author events in 2026.

THE MESDAMES ANTHOLOGIES CELEBRATING CRIME FICTION!

NUMBER 6, OUR LATEST!
Derringer Finalist for Best Anthology
Featuring Therese Greenwood’s CWC Award Winner!
Spirits, mostly evil!
Music, mayhem and murder!
Cathy Astolfo’s CWC Award Winner!
Our Take on Father Time!
Our very first book!

FABULOUS NEW MYSTERIES AND THRILLERS!

Whodunnit set in the roaring 1920s
Noir thriller where no one can be trusted
Riversong crime fiction by Rosemary McCracken
The 5th Pat Tierney, financial analyst mystery
The 3rd book in the Dr. Hope Sze Deadly Sins mysteries

CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED NON-FICTION!

Critically acclaimed memoir of Chief Robert Cree, written with Therese Greenwood
Fascinating history of breakouts from Canadian prisons

TERRIFIC RECENT CRIME FICTION RELEASES!

Salty tales from an uncompromising Irish dame! CWC Finalist for “Farmer Knudson”
Critically acclaimed historical YA mystery
CWC Award finalist for Best YA Mystery

Mayhem in Magazines!

“The Sailing of the Serpent Goddess” by Melissa Yi
“The Lost Diner” by M. H. Callway

Amazing Anthologies!

“King Larp” by Jayne Barnard
Too Close to the Edge” by Rosalind Place
Winner of Derringer for Best Anthology and contains “The Mob, the Model and the College Reunion” by Melodie Campbell
The Watching Game” by Lisa De Nikolits
“Number One: Enduring Across Time” by Madona Skaff
Evil Ex, Silly Whys and the Hole of Doom” by Melissa Yi
“The Rama Cabin” by Jane Petersen Burfield
“Silence Is Platinum” by Madona Skaff
“Polly Wants a Freaking Cracker” by Sylvia Maultash Warsh
Pressure Point” by Madona Skaff and “Cold Shoulder” by Melissa Yi
A Sherlockian poem by Kevin Thornton
“Time to Fly” by Lisa de Nikolits
Poems by Melissa Yi
“The Nice Capades” by Melissa Yi
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“In the Interest of Transparency” by Lisa de Nikolits and “Delicate Creatures” by Melissa Yuan-Innes (Melissa Yi)

COZY HOCKEY ROMANCE SERIES

All by Melissa Yi!

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