Sinister Shorts
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of Nina Reilly Series comes a thrilling collection of short crime fiction—sure to keep you turning pages deep into the night…
From desperate housewives to hard-boiled PIs to an appearance by Nina Reilly herself, discover nineteen sizzling stories that cover the entire crime genre…
Love and betrayal, rage and revenge—these clever short mysteries set the mood of suspense as only Perri O’Shaughnessy can. Sinister Shorts shows us life at is most ominous, murderous, and deliciously suspenseful.
“O’Shaughnessy is masterful!” –#1 New York Times bestseller, Brad Thor
“Unreliable narrators, historical incidents, and horror grown out of ordinary life can be found aplenty in this entertaining collection, sure to please Perri's fans as well as devotees of the likes of the venerable Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.”—Booklist
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Sisters Pam and Mary O'Shaughnessy use the pen name Perri O'Shaughnessy for their Nina Reilly legal thrillers as well as for this uneven debut collection of 19 short suspense stories, only one of which involves Nina Reilly and is the only "fifty-fifty collaboration" between the pair. "The Long Walk" fittingly leads, since it was published before their first novel, Motion to Suppress (1995). There are two homages: a Gertrude Stein parody, "Gertrude Stein Solves a Mystery," which is less than successful, and "His Master's Hand," which nicely mimics the style of Dostoyevski's Notes from Underground. "Dead Money" crams a novel's worth of twists and deductions into a short story. In "Tiny Angels," an FBI agent nabs a kidnapper thanks to his wife's casual but perceptive observations. Paul van Wagoner, an investigator in the Nina Reilly novels, does brilliant work in "Success Without College." Series fans may enjoy the challenge presented in the sisters' introduction, trying to figure out which sister wrote which story.
