No one can work entirely alone. We all have friends, colleagues, partners in crime. Even authors, whose work is notoriously solitary, get advice from other authors and eventually connect with agents, publishers and readers.
That’s the message of my story, Teamwork, in Dark Venice, the new and wonderful anthology of short stories from Darkstroke.
The two women in the story are thrown into a situation where their only chance of extricating themselves lies in pooling their abilities.
I have visited Venice three times. It’s a unique and fascinating city. If you haven’t been, I highly recommend going there. And in the meantime, read these dark and delightful stories. Click on the link.
Still here? Read some hints of what you can find in the book.
| Anna Legat Veni Vidi Perivi | Hundreds of years from now Venice has sunk to the bottom of the sea but it is still capable of seducing a random traveller with its hypnotic charm. And there is a price to pay for feasting on its beauty. |
| Anne-Marie Ormsby Night Call | A young woman searches Venice after dark when her best friend disappears, but the investigation is haunted by disturbing calls from the missing girl’s mobile phone. |
| Cathie Dunn The Girl in the Lagoon | In the early 20th century, when fascism is gathering support across northern Italy, the discovery of a young woman’s dead body in a lagoon reveals a sinister plot way beyond Francesco di Luca’s imagination. |
| Christopher Stanfield A Rose By Another Name | Reunited with her best friend Cindy Nix, notorious serial killer Apple Rose settles in the beautiful city of Venice. But a specter from the past returns and it won’t be long before they have to reckon with a bloody choice made long ago. |
| Cory Maddalena And Venice Slept | While on her honeymoon in Venice, a young newlywed navigates the city’s winding streets and canals. The last thing she expects is to be haunted by an insidious entity known only through folklore as the poverella. |
| Donna Cuttress The Tarot Reader | A Tarot card reader reluctantly becomes involved in deception, smuggling and murder. |
| GJ Scobie The Inference Machine | While in Venice celebrating their twentieth wedding anniversary, Greg leaves Sally to spend an afternoon by herself in the Leonardo Da Vinci Museum, where a mysterious invention reveals secrets about her marriage she had never dared to contemplate. |
| Jenna Morrison Devil’s Town | For years, Venice Harbor has been rumored to be cursed, and it is now known as Devil’s Town. An epidemic hit the island and Doctor Harvey Hardy is chosen to treat the natives of Devil’s Town; however, strange things begin to happen as soon as he arrives, which ultimately places his life in jeopardy. |
| Linda Conn Amstutz Enough | When you have experienced this kind of love, nothing, not even death, can change it. |
| Mary Kendall Paradiso Perduto | Simone stumbles upon a couple violently fighting in a dark Venetian alley one night which triggers haunting and painful memories best left forgotten. Can she reconcile the woman she has become with a younger self who had been brimming with brazen moxie and big dreams? |
| Miriam Drori Teamwork | Two women – a British pianist and her Venetian tour guide – are only just getting to know each other when calamity strikes. Neither can extricate them from the situation alone, but together there might be a chance. |
| Ross Alexander State of Love and Trust | A restaurant owner with a troubled past plans drastic actions to prevent a troubled future. |
| Sue Barnard La Serenissima | A young writer travels round Italy in search of inspiration for his work. On arriving in Venice, what he finds will change his life for ever. |
Miriam Drori, Author 