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One Unsolved Murder.
Twenty-Six Stories.
Can You Solve It?
Welcome to the Keats Beats and Eats Music Festival, serving up great food, live music … and one unsolved murder.
What happens next?
That’s where things get interesting.
Across Colorado, over one chaotic week, twenty-six stories unfold. Each story is a complete mystery. Each story contains a clue. Put them together, and you might crack the case.
From the talented writers of Sisters in Crime-Colorado comes a collection that invites you to read between the lines – and to become the detective. Ranging from cozy to chilling, the mysteries in this collection span Colorado’s quiet mountain towns to its bustling city streets.
Can you put the clues together before the final reveal?
Colorado Mystery Merge, Crime Fiction Collection 2 will publish Oct. 23!
Stay tuned for all the details!
Chapter Anthology Coordinators
Did you catch Colorado Mystery Merge 1?
Our first short-story collection was a finalist for the 2025 Colorado Authors League awards!
One perplexing murder mystery … plus eighteen different short stories containing the clues to solve it.
You’ve never read a short story anthology like this one!
These stories - unrelated, but all set in Colorado during the same week - will each merge for a moment to drop a pertinent clue about an overarching mystery, the news of which is blanketing the entire state that week.
As you read each standalone short story, channel your inner detective and collect the mystery merge clues to figure out the killer.
You’ll find nineteen entertaining short mysteries by talented Colorado authors - all members of Sisters in Crime-Colorado - writing in various crime fiction genres from cozy to thriller. There’s something for everyone!
