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Bio
Tom Andes wrote the detective novel Wait There Till You Hear from Me (Crescent City Books, 2025). His stories have appeared in Best American Mystery and Suspense Stories 2025, The Best Private Eye Stories of the Year 2025, The Best American Mystery Stories 2012, and Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. He lives in Albuquerque, where he is a musician and freelance editor. Southern Crescent Recording Co. re-released his acclaimed EPs on vinyl under the title The Ones That Brought You Home in 2025. He can be found at TomAndes.com.
Books
Title: Wait There Till You Hear from Me
Publisher: Crescent City Books (2025)
Genre: Contemporary Detective
Charles Prentiss chickened out on becoming a private eye after nearly getting shot serving papers to a car thief. He’s got a desk job in New Orleans, where he’s engaged to Gwendolyn, a lawyer. But he doesn’t feel like he measures up to his fiancée’s upper crust family.
A couple months before the wedding, Gwendolyn’s college-aged brother Marshall disappears. When Gwendolyn’s wealthy uncle offers Charles fifteen grand to find Marshall, Charles knows it’s a bad idea. But he’s convinced Marshall is in trouble. And this is Charles’s big chance to prove himself to his future in-laws.
But Marshall doesn’t want to be found. Gwendolyn is keeping a secret that might explode their relationship. And when Charles uncovers a creepy pattern of behavior that connects Marshall to a conspiracy involving a shady real estate developer, Charles has to protect the kid from the same gun-toting tough who’s stalking Charles and Gwendolyn.
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Articles/Essays
“Bad Cop, Bad Cop: Jean-Claude Izzo and Mediterranean Noir” ♦ TOUGH, June 08, 2025
Poetry
“Six Poems” ♦ 3:AM Magazine, August 2020
Short Stories
“Thanks for Stopping” ♦ Genre: Literary ♦ Cowboy Jamboree Issue 10:2 Tough Women Gritty Tales Magazine
“Let’s Just Say We’re Two Friends” ♦ Genre: Literary ♦ Santa Fe Reporter
“I Guess I Better Not” ♦ Genre: Literary ♦ Reckon Review
“Deadhead” ♦ Genre: Mystery/Detective ♦ Cowboy Jamboree: A Case of Kink
“That’s My Final Offer” ♦ Genre: Flash/Noir ♦ Punk Noir: Super Noir-io
“Never Mind in Two Thousand” ♦ Genre: Literary ♦ Action, Spectacle Summer 2024
“Tubthumping” ♦ Genre: Noir ♦ TOUGH
“Keep Yr Eye on the Moon” ♦ Genre: Literary ♦ Cowboy Jamboree: The Covers Issue
“Death Gets in the Nostrils” ♦ Genre: Mystery/Noir ♦ Jim Martin Memorial Short Story Contest
“It Wasn’t Waylon and Willie” ♦ Genre: Flash/Noir ♦ Anti-Heroin Chic March 2023
“Fourth and Inches” ♦ Genre: Noir ♦ Bull
“No One Asked Questions” ♦ Genre: Flash/Noir ♦ Shotgun Honey
“Nashville Radio” ♦ Genre: Literary ♦ Valparaiso Fiction Review Vol. 9 Issue 1
“Valley Girl” ♦ Genre: Flash/Noir ♦ Shotgun Honey
“Something I Can Never Have” ♦ Genre: Noir ♦ TOUGH
“Taylor Swift Valentine’s Day Advice” ♦ Genre: Flash/Literary ♦ Atticus Review
“Detour” ♦ Genre: Noir ♦ Tough
“The First Blow” ♦ Genre: Flash/Noir ♦ Akashic Books Mondays Are Murder Flash Fiction Blog
“Warning Shot” ♦ Genre: Flash/Noir ♦ Shotgun Honey
“Customers” ♦ Genre: Flash/Noir ♦ Akashic Books Mondays Are Murder Flash Fiction Blog