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Renew your subscription to Mystery Readers Journal 

(Volume 41) for 2025

Subscribe to Mystery Readers Journal (Volume 41) for 2025 

Mystery Reader Journal is available as hardcopy and PDF download. 

MRJ is in its 41st year of publication! 

Themes in 2025: 

Mysteries Set in London II

Retail Mysteries

Northern California Mysteries

Cross-Genre Mysteries

Mystery Readers Journal: Quarterly themed review periodical. 

80-120 pages per issue: Reviews, News, and Author Essays 

Call for Articles! 
We're looking for articles, reviews, and Author essays for 2025 issues: Author! Author! essays are 500-1000 words, first person, upclose and personal about yourself, your books, and the "theme" connection. 

Themes in 2025: 

Mysteries Set in London II; Retail Sales;

Northern California Mysteries; Cross-Genre Mysteries

Many back issues of Mystery Readers Journal are available as single copies in hardcopy or PDF.

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CALL FOR ARTICLES: 
Retail Sales

The second issue of Mystery Readers Journal (Volume 41:2) in 2025 will focus on Retail Sales Mysteries (Crime fiction that takes place in stores or shops or involves retails sales in some way). We're looking for reviews, articles, and Author! Author! essays. 

Reviews: 50-250 words

Articles: 250-1000 words

Author! Author! essays: 500-1500 words. Author essays are first person, about yourself, your books, and the "Retail Sales"connection. Treat this author essay as chatting with friends and other writers in the bar or cafe about your work and your unique Retail Sales mysteries connection. Add title and 2-3 sentence bio/tagline. 

Deadline: April 20, 2025. 

Send to: Janet Rudolph, Editor. janet @ mysteryreaders . org

Please forward this request to anyone you think should be included.

Many back issues of Mystery Readers Journal are available as single copies in hardcopy or PDF. 

Southern California Mysteries (reduced cost and donation to LA Wildfire Recovery groups

London Mysteries I: Available as PDF or Print.

Animal Mysteries I: Available as PDF or Print  

Art Mysteries: Available as PDF or Print

Senior Sleuths: Available as PDF or Hardcopy.

Historical Mysteries I: Available as PDF or Hardcopy.