Like your crime short and sweet? So does Barb Goffman. She is a crime writer who specializes in short stories. Her book Don't Get Mad, Get Even won the 2014 Silver Falchion Award (awarded by Killer Nashville) for best crime short-story collection published in 2013. Barb won the 2013 Macavity Award for her story "The Lord Is My Shamus," which originally was published in Chesapeake Crimes: This Job Is Murder and is republished in Don't Get Mad, Get Even. Barb has been been named a finalist multiple times for the Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity awards for her stories, and once was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Her stories run from funny to dark, and from amateur sleuth to police procedural. Barb works as a freelance crime-fiction editor. In her spare time, she serves as a co-editor of the award-winning Chesapeake Crimes series.