This is what I've finished so far:"Grave Matter - A Mike Hammer Story" - Max Allan Collins and Mickey Spillane This was a fairly amusing story. Though there wasn't much of a point to me.
The opening pulled me in with trepidation. It was a little hard to follow the characters for a while until the motorcycle chase scene.
Hard Christmas by Barbara D'Amato Cat Marsella researches the Christmas tree industry in Holland, Michigan and stays with a family. The whole family welcomes her from all the members. Henry DaGraw has recently died due to an accident that could've been avoided.She loves the youngest Nell and helps ...
Dahlia Underground by Charlaine Harris: ★★A vampire who felt nothing but contempt towards humans learns otherwise.Hixton by William Kent Krueger: ★★Five boys disappear without a trace..and pigs.. and sweets!Small Change by Margaret Maron: ★★★A girl tries to find out who's stealing from her father.Th...
Not a bad collection, but not the best one I've read. I liked about half the stories, found most of the rest just 'ok' and completely disliked one. Still, there are a few here that I'll probably re-read again in the future when I'm looking for a quick Supernatural fix.
A baby sits alone right next to Interstate 90 in Chicago. Cars and trucks whiz by and the baby, fascinated by the noise, begins to crawl into traffic....Other Eyes has one of the most gripping intros I've read, and, as a rule, I'm not particularly moved by the "child in peril" storyline/device.It's...
I've only read 3 stories - the Charlaine Harris, which is the one I got the book out of the library for, and 2 others that seemed well recommended by other reviewers. I found the sheer number of stories in this book quite daunting, and therefore didn't really bother dipping into any others at all. I...
Boy this book was so long! I kept wishing it would end so I could move on to another book. These long anthologies are not a good idea. I averaged my ratings and it came to 3.2 stars, which I'll call 3 stars for simplicity's sake. :) Overall the book was pretty good, some really great stories, s...
This was like most of these anthologies, some good, some not so much. When you add in the fact that most of the writers don't write "woo woo", as it's called in the foreword, it gets a little more iffy. Charlaine Harris' story was very good. It was another look at the bombing of the Rhodes hotel....
Deputy Chief of Detectives Polly Kelly has a difficult case. Someone with a great deal of technical knowledge has kidnapped Danni, the three-year-old only child of famous singer Maggie McKittredge and her husband senator Neal Gaston. The child was taken from a Catholic Mass by someone disguised as a...