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INTRODUCTION

Back in 2015, Murder on Wheels, the maiden mystery anthology brain child of Austin Mystery Writers, was published. The maiden was crowned with the 2016 Silver Falchion Award at the Killer Nashville writing conference as best fiction short-story anthology of the year.

We are full of pride and gratitude at the favorable critical reception for Murder on Wheels. It was a labor of love all the way. We can’t say enough good things about our editor, Ramona DeFelice Long, who also edited Lone Star Lawless.

Never ones to leave well enough alone, we have engendered this second brain child called Lone Star Lawless: 14 Tales of Crime in the Lone Star State. Austin Mystery Writers members Gale Albright, Valerie Chandler, Kaye George, Laura Oles, and Kathy Waller have each contributed a story. Our talented friends in the writing community—Alexandra Burt, Janice Hamrick, Scott Montgomery, Mark Pryor, Terry Shames, Larry D. Sweazy, George Wier, and Manning Wolfe—were invited to add to this tome. We are blessed with an embarrassment of riches.

The stories in this volume cover motel hell, medical menace, mortuary mayhem, sharp knives, kidnapping, theft, murder, assault by food, dangerous exercise, fickle fingers, and bad attitudes.

It’s the perfect crime anthology to read late at night. We hope you enjoy it.

—Gale Albright, Anthology Coordinator