C W Blackwell

Genres: Mystery

New and upcoming books

September 2026

The Cold Dark Forever

Novels

Song of the Red Squire (2022)
The Cold Dark Forever (2026)

Collections

River Street Rhapsody (poems) (2022)
Whatever Kills the Pain (2025)

Novellas and Short Stories

Hard Mountain Clay (2023)

Series contributed to

Guns + Tacos
21. A Handful of Chicles and a Custom Nine (2022)

Books containing stories by C W Blackwell

Hot Shots (2026)
Celebrating Thirty Years of the Short Mystery Fiction Society
edited by
Josh Pachter

The Savage Waves of Spring (2026)
edited by
Nik Xandir Wolf

Myopic Duplicity (2025)
Do the Ends Ever Justify the Means?
edited by
Jeff Circle

More books

Award nominations

2026 Anthony Award for Best Anthology or Collection (nominee) : Whatever Kills the Pain

C W Blackwell recommends

Bishop Rider Lives (2024)
(Bishop Rider)
Hector Acosta and Beau Johnson
"Bishop Rider Lives elevates violence to an art-form: every knife is a paintbrush, every clawhammer a sculptor's chisel. These stories will stay with you long after the last scumbag hangs from his own viscera. Yet amid all the carnage, you may feel these tales tugging at your heartstrings."

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