Winner of the Ditmar Award, finalist for the Ned Kelly Award for First Crime Novel.

“I really, really enjoyed the book. It was an absolute page-turner, rising tension, as well as a lovely mystery yarn.” –Karen Joy Fowler

”A mystery within a mystery, this literary detective novel set in Australia begins when unemployed college graduate Mel Kirksley bumps into her ‘almost step-mother’, who knows of a perfect temporary job. Soon, Mel is hired by Roxanna Press, a feminist publishing company, to sleuth out the name of an anonymous author whose 1865 novel was serialized in the Tolletown Chronicle newspaper.” – Publishers Weekly

Seventeen stories from some of Australia’s brightest talents, complemented by fantastic tales from the US and UK.

More Scary Kisses promises vampires, aliens, fairytale princesses, parallel universes, voodoo, werewolves, wizards, phantoms, dryads and cherubim.

Heather Albano – “The Dark Season”
Annette Backshall – “Hunting Rabbits”
Liz Coley – “Marriage of Convenience”
Dayle A. Dermatis – “Matchmaker”
Roxanne Dent – “Miss Luella’s Magic Shop”
Felicity Dowker – “Berries & Incense”
Donna Maree Hanson – “Phantom Love”
Martin Livings & Talie Helene – “The Last Gig of Jimmy Rucker”
Kirstyn McDermott – “Frostbitten”
Nicole R. Murphy – “The Protector’s Last Mission”
Jason Nahrung – “Resurrection in Red”
Amanda Pillar – “Philomena and the Blond God”
Carol Ryles – “Snake Charmer”
Fraser Sherman – “Sword of Darcy”
Eric Steele – “3am”
Frank Summers – “Dances with Werewolves”
D C White – “The Dark Night of Anton Weiss

A collection of paranormal romance with bite.

On the menu is a tasty selection of heroines and heroes: time travellers, vampires, zombies, ghosts, witches, trapped spirits, dragons, wizards, monsters, even cartoons. From sweet to sexy, these stories will seduce.

208 pages

Contents
“The Anstruther Woman”, Nicole R. Murphy
“Fade Away”, Ian Nichols
“Bread and Circuses”, Felicity Dowker
“Black Widow”, Shona Husk
“The February Dragon”, Angela Slatter and Lisa L. Hannett
“Growing Silence”, Matt Tighe
“The Hidden One”, Astrid Cooper
“A Darker Shade of Pale”, David Bofinger
“The Valley”, Martin Livings
“Cursebreaker: the Welsh Widow and the Wandering Wooer”, Kyla Ward
“Heat”, Donna Maree Hanson
“Phaedra”, Bruce Golden
“Date with a Vampire”, Annette Backshall
“Pride and Tentacles”, D C White