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Crime is common ground for the twenty-one women writers in this extraordinary collection of contemporary mystery fiction. The voices here include professional crime solvers who take you from the mean streets of V.I. Warshawski's Chicago in a case of music and murder... to the California freeway where Kinsey Millhone's beloved VW skids into a shooting... to the gang-held turf of Sharon says mum's the word. And then there are mothers, grandmothers, battered wives, and social workers -- ordinary women in extraordinary situations whose voices reveal contemporary life as seen through a woman's eye. From the opening tale of a girl down-and-out in London and what she steals from a corpse... to the final story of a summer vacation in the Berkshires, complete with romance and sudden death... this unique collection brings us great mystery writing that engages both our intellects and our hearts. From the Paperback edition.
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reviewed A Woman's eye on August 03, 2020
A Woman's eye
I've never been especially drawn to the short story as a form of story-telling, preferring the luxury a novel allows to present and complete both character and plot. So I'm not sure how I came by this anthology of short stories by female crime authors, published by Sara Paretsky in 1991 - but I found a lot in it to like.
My favorites, unsurprisingly, were by authors I already knew and liked: Paretsky, Sue Grafton, Marcia Muller, Julie Smith, and Dorothy Hughes. I'd forgotten how much I enjoyed Muller's Sharon McCone and Julie Smith's Skip Langdon series back when I first read them. I've come to Dorothy Hughes more recently; her entry in this volume was true to her sometimes unsettling form. Carolyn Hart, an author I think I'd only read once previously, had a solid entry. One author who was completely new to me was Carolyn Wheat. Her story, Ghost Station, is an excellent character study with a murder attached. And Barbara Wilson's Theft of the Poet was a bit of feminist fun.
All in all, not enough to make a short story enthusiast of me (so often they just seem to get started with a great idea - and then it's over), but definitely worth the time.
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