Patrick Whitehurst

  • OUT NOW: EERIE ARIZONA

    Out this week is EERIE ARIZONA, my latest nonfiction book from The History Press, featuring creepy cryptid stories, ghostly haunts, the Phoenix Lights, and famous Arizona unsolved mysteries. Read about the chupacabra, the story behind the film Fire in the Sky, the murder of the star of Hogan’s Heroes, and more. Find it on Barnes

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  • Eerie Arizona to be released Oct. 21, 2024

    The History Press will release Eerie Arizona, my sixth nonfiction book, on Monday, October 21, 2024. Look for it everywhere online and in bookstores throughout Arizona. Preorders for the book are now available here! Read the blurb below: Mysterious lights, mystical vortexes and the Mogollon Monster. Go beyond the beautiful vistas and desert landscapes and

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  • Off the Cuff with me and Dietrich Kalteis

    Thrilled to be today’s guest on Off the Cuff with one of the best crime writers of our generation, Dietrich Kalteis. We chatted about my latest Barker Mysteries novella, Monterey Lies, and writing stuff in general! Read it here!

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  • Irish Devil – New Story at Shotgun Honey

    Thrilled to announce the arrival of a new Sam the Thug flash fiction story at Shotgun Honey. IRISH DEVIL has Sam about to engage in a brass knuckled fist fight in a Barnes and Noble Starbucks. The story is free to read! Find it here!

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  • Bristol Noir short crime fiction tale

    Happy to report my short story, “Don’t Put Kincaid Barber in a Novel and Kill Him,” is up at Bristol Noir this week! The story revolves around two old writers and an argument over their choice of seating arrangements at the local Barnes & Noble. Read it free here!

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  • Short Horror tale for Halloween in Dark Dossier

    It’s nearly October and that means the ghouls and mummies are having their coffee in preparation for scary times to come! My latest short story, MADE OF MOSQUITOES, offers just such a scary time. There may not be a mummy or a ghoul, but there is a blood sucker named Frank, or is it a

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  • Monterey Lies coming this summer

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  • Piece of Slime – new Sam the Thug at Punk Noir

    Thank you to Punk Noir Magazine for giving a home to Sam the Thug’s return! Be sure to read my tale of put-downs and exclamation marks online now. Sam would appreciate it! Read it free here!

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  • Left Coast Crime anthology – Trouble in Tucson

    Be sure to grab a copy of TROUBLE IN TUCSON if you’re heading to this year’s LEFT COAST CRIME convention here in… Tucson. The companion anthology to the convention, featuring my crime tale THE BOYS WERE SEEN is out now. Special thanks to the Tucson Sisters in Crime organization for including my humble submission in

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  • March 2023 – Author Events

    TUCSON FESTIVAL OF BOOKS I’m excited to announce I will be hanging out with the Tucson Sisters in Crime group at the Tucson Festival of Books on Saturday, March 4, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and will have books available. Look for me at BOOTH #427. TUCSON NOIR AT THE BAR On Wednesday, March

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