New from Down & Out Books: Paranoia Blues: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Paul Simon edited by Josh Pachter

New from Down & Out Books …

Paranoia Blues: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Paul Simon edited by Josh Pachter

PARANOIA BLUES: CRIME FICTION INSPIRED BY THE SONGS OF PAUL SIMON edited by Josh Pachter
Publication Date: October 31, 2022

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Synopsis … Across five studio albums with Art Garfunkel (1964-1970) and fourteen solo albums (1965-2018), Paul Simon’s music and lyrics have inspired generations of listeners. For Paranoia Blues, nineteen masters of contemporary short crime fiction wrote new stories, each inspired by one of Simon’s songs: one from each of the five Simon and Garfunkel studio albums (plus a bonus second story inspired by a song from Bridge Over Troubled Water) and one from each of the fourteen solo studio albums.

The contributors include award-winners E.A. Aymar, Martin Edwards, Cheryl A. Head, Edwin Hill, Tom Mead, Raquel V. Reyes, Gabriel Valjean, and a dozen more—plus the first new story by Robert Edward Eckels in more than forty years!

This is the fifth “inspired by” anthology edited by Josh Pachter, a recent winner of the Short Mystery Fiction Society’s Golden Derringer Award for Lifetime Achievement; the previous books drew on the music of Jimmy Buffett, Billy Joel, and Joni Mitchell—and the films of the Marx Brothers.