Instead of contending with in-laws for the Thanksgiving weekend, a man leading a double life must contend with the assassins who’ve just entered his home.

Mystery Tribune daily fiction selection.

https://www.mysterytribune.com/four-minutes-on-high-thriller-flash-fiction-by-c-matthew-smith/

Massive flooding disinters caskets from a small southern town’s cemeteries. Then come the murders—prominent citizen after prominent citizen dead. Sheriff Everett Dorsey learns he may be dealing with a killer who is far from ordinary.

Mystery Weekly August 2021 issue cover story.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09BGLZ1CZ

A man captures more than he expects on the camera outside his cabin.

Appearing in Close to the Bone

https://www.close2thebone.co.uk/wp/author/c-matthew-smith/

A surgeon, his ex-con brother, and their sort-of friend plan a different kind of heist.

Forthcoming from Mickey Finn: 21st Century Noir Vol. 3 (Down & Out Books).