John M. Floyd is the author of more than a thousand short stories in publications like Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Strand Magazine, The Saturday Evening Post, Best American Mystery Stories (2015, 2018, 2020), and Best Mystery Stories of the Year (2021, 2024). A former Air Force captain and IBM systems engineer, John is also an Edgar Award nominee, a Shamus Award winner, a six-time Derringer Award winner, and a past recipient of the Short Mystery Fiction Society's lifetime achievement award. River Road and Other Mystery Stories is his ninth book.Clever, witty, full of heart and a sense of place - John M. Floyd's stories are engaging and meticulously crafted. This collection is sure to bring him new admirers. -- Linda Landrigan, Editor of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine"Every generation, the world gets a short fiction writer like Poe, Doyle, Saki, Stanley Elin, Shirley Jackson, or Guy de Maupassant and John Floyd is just that writer. Tales with twists, a keen sense of the macabre, the wry humor never gets in the way of those gripping plots, and after each story you'll take a deep breath-because each journey is exhilarating and you'll be saying to yourself, 'one more.'"Andrew Gulli-Managing editor, Strand Magazine