Welcome to Cafe Noir 

These days I'm mostly posting/blogging at two other blogs: 7 Criminal Minds, every other Friday, and SleuthSayers, once or twice a month on Tuesdays. So I hope you'll join me at those blogs. See you there!

And I'm thrilled to announce that my story "Ghosts of Bunker Hill," from the December, 2016, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, has been nominated/short listed for a 2017 MACAVITY AWARD and was voted #1 in the ELLERY QUEEN READERS POLL Poll for 2016. (See pic below.) You can read that and other stories for free on my website at: http://pauldmarks.com/stories/

Notice: Unfortunately, because I’m so backed up on reading, I’m going to have to decline reading books, stories, etc., for blurbs or critiques for a while. You can still ask, but most likely I’ll have to say no. So please understand. It's not that I don't want to help, but I'm way overextended.

Paul