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Meh.I think this article in The New Yorker captures my reaction perfectly:The Salacious Non-Mystery of “The Real Lolita”In 1948, an 11-year-old girl named Sally Horner was abducted by Frank La Salle, a 50-year-old pedophile. He had caught her trying to steal a notebook on a dare from popular girls a...
This is one of the books that got me through last week. (The other is Ellen Forney's graphic novel Marbles, which I haven't had the guts to review yet because what do I say? Thank you for saving my life when you didn't even know me?)Anyway. I happened to have this collection from the library, and I ...
This is a wonderful anthology, edited by Sarah Weinman, of some of the best women crime/horror writers, and she has don and excellent job of it. Every story was good, My favourites were Louisa, Please Come Home by the legendary Shirley Jackson, A Case of Maximum Need by Celia Fremlin and Lavender...
Akashic Books has been issuing a series of books that thematically collect "noir" stories related to specific cities, e.g., Richmond Noir, Philadelphia Noir, etc., although I see there is a recent one entitled "Grand Central Noir;" perhaps they ran out of cities. The books are an excellent way to di...
This was an unexpected surprise at my library but after reading the names of those involved with this collaboration I was willing to give this a shot.Each chapter is written by a different author on the same story line. Perry, disgraced cop now PI, is hired to find Angelina "Angel" Loki. Even I, not...
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