A DEADLY DOZEN

A DEADLY DOZEN

Tales of Murder from Los Angeles

By Susan B. Casmier, Aljean Harmetz, Cynthia Lawrence
Ugly Town Publishers - Aug. 2000
ISBN: 0966347323 - Trade Paperback

Mystery / Amateur Sleuth

Reviewed by: Pam Stone, MyShelf.Com
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A DEADLY DOZEN (TALES OF MURDER FROM LOS ANGELES) is the third anthology following the 1997 DESSERTICIDE (DESSERTS TO DIE FOR ) and 1998 MURDER BY THIRTEEN.

The Los Angles chapter of Sisters in Crime has released a book of twelve short stories, based on murder and mayhem. I usually do not like to read short stories, but these stories were fully contained with well-crafted plots and well defined characters. My favorites were Wifely Duties, because every woman can identify with Lucy and her discontent with her marriage, but I would like to think that we would not go to the lengths that she did, and with such a startling conclusion. Cats and Jammer was another favorite, it's about a teen-age detective that finds a body and the suspects are many.

Stories included are:
Sentience Imposed by Kris Neri
Wifely Duties by Cory Newman
Push Comes To Shove by Nathan Walpow
Fatal Tears by Ekaterine Nikas
Miss Parker and the Cutter Sanborn Tablets by Gay Tolti Kinman
Driven To Kill by Jamie Wallace
Touch Of A Vanish'd Hand by Phil Mann
Ai Witness by Kate Tornton
Over My Shoulder by Lisa Seidman
The Cats And Jammer, by Gayle McGary
Copy Cat by Joan Myers
Midnight by Dorothy Rellas

This book is well worth the read.