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Stone Cold Crime Stories

True crime accounts and crime fiction tales with research and excerpts from the Tom Stone Detective Stories, a thriller-adventure crime story series available on Amazon.

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A Murder Mystery-Thriller

1 min readApr 18, 2025

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A Murder in Encino now available in print and audio

Thanks to those who have read She Cradled the Smoking Gun.

The story started as a short story but turned into a novella.

After publishing the 20-plus chapters here, we took a few more months to revise and changed the title to A Murder in Encino, available on Amazon in Kindle, Kindle Unlimited and now available print and audio.

We also wrote a short story, Prayers for Edgar, that runs parallel to our first title A Nitty Gritty Christmas.

Why do some kids go bad and stay bad?

And why do others change?

We explore the answers using Edgar, a young man who grew up in the San Fernando Valley community of Van Nuys with Anthony Angelino, the antagonist in the first three Detective Tom Stone stories.

Check them out and look for new stories soon.

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Stone Cold Crime Stories
Stone Cold Crime Stories

Published in Stone Cold Crime Stories

True crime accounts and crime fiction tales with research and excerpts from the Tom Stone Detective Stories, a thriller-adventure crime story series available on Amazon.

Don Simkovich, MA
Don Simkovich, MA

Written by Don Simkovich, MA

Don is co-author of the Tom Stone Detective novels on Amazon and writes content for businesses. Visit Don Simkovich Amazon.

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