A review by sloatsj
The Best American Mystery Stories 2007 by Otto Penzler, Carl Hiaasen

2.0

I read only half of these stories, though if they'd been more compelling I might have charged ahead. I enjoyed "A Season of Regret," but otherwise this was not my genre or milieu. Poker, prostitutes, petty criminals, blackmailers. The first story I read was about a call girl. The last one, which was the end of the road for me, was about "fucking for money" as part of an insurance scam. There was a seven-page story I didn't understand four pages of. Alas, this seems to be one of the last outposts of gritty, unadulterated masculinity. So long.