Leland Dirks is rapidly becoming one of my favorite authors. In Brother Raven, he is ably abetted by his Border Collie companion, Angelo.

This collection of flash fiction includes pieces Dirks wrote for a couple of my own favorite micro-fiction haunts: the #2minutesgo outings at JD Mader's blog on Fridays, and the weekly flash fiction contest at Indies Unlimited. He has paired each story with his own photography and most of the photos were taken in southern Colorado.

All good so far. But the guy can also write. I'm partial to the first story in the collection, "Brother Raven," but I don't think there's a clunker in the whole bunch.

Highly recommended for fans of flash fiction.

3* A Morbid Taste for Bones (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #1)3* One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2)3* Monk's Hood (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #3)3* The Leper of St. Giles4* The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)3* The Sanctuary Sparrow (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #7)3* Dead Man's Ransom (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #9)CR The Raven in the Foregate (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #12) 3* The Summer of the Danes (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #18)2* Flight of a Witch (Felse, #3)Edith Mary Pargeter:5* Sunrise in the West (Brothers of Gwynedd, #1)TR The Dragon at Noonday (Brothers of Gwynedd, #2)TR The Hounds of Sunset (Brothers of Gwynedd, #3)TR Afterglow and Nightfall (Brothers of Gwynedd #4) Empress Maud v King Stephen continuesSee also Cadfael Country: Shropshire & The Welsh Borders