Reviews for Collected works

The average rating for Collected works based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-02-25 00:00:00 Curtis Mcclain Death Dines In ed. by Claudia Bishop and Dean James is a collection of 16 SS with culinary connections as well as recipes and brief author interviews for each story. My ratings for the stories are extremely mixed. "Sing a Song of Sixpence" by Anne Perry, the best story, features Great Aunt Vespasia Cummings-Gould (from the Pitt series) when she was younger (than most of the series) in 1864 who saves her friend Cicely from being charged with murder of her husband, who had pretended to be poisoned to torture his wife, but who in fact was poisoned and died. Another excellent story was "Waiting for Gateau" by Claudia Bishop, an extremely humorous story about a couple taking a vacation at the Inn at Hemlock Falls who run into a murder at the Inn. Other interesting stories were "Café Con Leche" by Marcos Donnelly set in the Spanish barrios of Los Angles mixing religions and Hispanic culture; "All in the Famiy" by Dean James, with a surprise ending; "The Birthday Dinner" by Donna Andrews, about Meg's aunt Millicent, a seldom mentioned relative in the "bird" series who is known as a poisoner; "Where the Wildflowers Bloom" by Nick DiChario, a sad, but interesting slice of life story; and "License to Koi" by Carole Nelson Douglas with Midnight Louie, a cat, as both narrator and solver of a death at a fugu (poisonous puffer fish) dinner. The remaining nine stories vary from mediocre to awful. Choose your stories well!

Review # 2 was written on 2020-11-03 00:00:00 Shariq Imam A compilation of short mysteries that has encouraged me to now research the varied writers and read more if their work. Lots of fun!