Reviews

A Prisoner of Memory and 24 of the Year's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories by Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Sandra Scoppettone, Sarah Weinman, Jeffery Deaver, Christine Matthews, Marcia Muller, Joyce Carol Oates, Bill Pronzini, Robert S. Levinson, Edward D. Hoch, Clark Howard, Brendan DuBois, Loren D. Estleman, Lawrence Block, Kerry Ashwin, Doug Allyn, Jon L. Breen, Nancy Pickard, Jim Fusilli, Bryon Quertermous, Ed Gorman, Dick Lochte, Jeremiah Healy, Patricia Abbott, Hilary Davidson, Michael Connelly, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Laura Lippman, Tom Piccirilli

mattstebbins's review

2.0

Just to clarify: I do not read many crime dramas and/or mysteries. Still, this looked interesting, and the library was about to close -- so I picked it up. What I found was, at least to me (a self-professed critic of the genre) was very much hit-or-miss. Some of the stories really shine -- Doug Allyn's Dead as a Dog, Jeffrey Deaver's Making Amends, and Sandra Scoppettone's Everybody Loves Somebody are all spectacular -- but I wouldn't wade through the collection again.