Mystery / Short stories
Various periods
and locations
Seven short
stories and a novella from five supremely accomplished historical fiction
authors. The first story is a delightful early Gwen and Gareth mystery from
Sarah Woodbury, but without Gareth; Anna Castle presents two masterful stories,
the first from her Francis Bacon series, the second from her Professor Moriarty
and Sherlock Holmes series; Libi Astaire’s fine story is set in the Jewish
community of Regency London; Mary Louisa Locke gives us two carefully-crafted
mysteries set amongst the lower orders in Victorian San Francisco, and the
final two short stories are from M. Ruth Myers’ wonderful noir female gumshoe,
Maggie Sullivan.
The book is a
perfect taster of each author’s work. I was familiar with four of the five
before I found this book. They are all fine writers. The one that was new to me
was Libi Astaire, as confident and relaxed a writer as I have come across.
A good read and
an excellent springboard to these authors other publications.
© JJ Toner
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