155/366
From the anthology The Rich and the Dead (Grand Central Publishing, 2011)
A ridiculously rich rapper is in trouble with the IRS after his business manger didn’t pay the rapper’s taxes and stole millions. But what bothers the rapper most is he’s lost his street cred. When a bounty hunter enters the picture, the rapper has a chance to get his cred back. But at what price?
154/366
From the anthology The Rich and the Dead (Grand Central Publishing, 2011)
Wow, what an interesting story. It has mystery and crime and is well written. Good characters, too. But what kept me turning the pages was the story’s scientific premise of a company developing technology to cure deafness. Definitely recommended.
153/366
From the anthology The Rich and the Dead (Grand Central Publishing, 2011)
In this story, Connelly’s Detective Harry Bosch interviews a woman whose husband was shot. The whole story is written as an interview, back and forth questions and answers. A good read, especially for anyone who likes police procedurals.
152/366
From the anthology The Rich and the Dead (Grand Central Publishing, 2011)
A man doesn’t become an extremely rich and powerful drug lord by letting someone steal from him, even just a little bit.
151/366
From the anthology The Rich and the Dead (Grand Central Publishing, 2011)
Every parent who thinks they’ve successfully shielded their kid from adult matters, who remembers their own childhoods idyllically, should read this story. Because evil can exist even in children. And the kid your child is playing with could be the one person you’d definitely want to shield him from, if only you knew.
A very good story. The pages flew. Not for the extremely squeamish.
144/366
From the anthology The Rich and the Dead (Grand Central Publishing, 2011).
I’m so far behind on posting about my reading. I’ll start to post what I can now and just try to catch up.
About this story: You know a story is good when it sticks with you, when you can remember the plot despite having read so many other short stories since that one, many of which in retrospect feel like a blur.
In this tale, a celebrated mystery writer has passed his pinnacle of success. Gone are the big deals. Gone, too, is all the money he made from those deals. Living the high life is expensive. He thinks about an insurance policy he has on his agent. Life insurance. He wonders if he has the guts to act like his characters do. And then he invites his agent out for a weekend at the beach…
115/366
From Mystery Writers of America Presents: Vengeance (edited by Lee Child, Mulholland Books 2012)
Even when someone has murder comin’, there can be guilt afterward that eats at you from the inside until it’s all you are.
A short story a day review 