Kyle Minor's In the Devil's Territory is rural family noir at its best, with lots of back-woods religion overtones, and family dynamics rooted in harsh sexism where women are taught to be subservient to men and men are trained to exploit that subservience.
This has been a good year for me with short story collections. In the Devil’s Territory felt more like a novel, with some of the characters weaving in and out of the different stories. I love when the author does this because you have this sort of “aha” moment when you realize that the relatively mi...
I have absolutely no idea why these are considered mystery stories. At most they're crime fiction, but in many cases that's at best a loose tie. These stories strike me more as short stories that didn't get in to the Best American Short Stories 2008 collection. The stories are fine, and some are ...
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