Book Review: Love & Death

Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner

Love & Death     Amazon US PB Amazon US HC Amazon Canada PB Amazon Canada HC
Carolyn G. Hart
Class/Genre:   Mystery   Cozy   [Short Stories]
Edited by Carolyn Hart
Berkley Prime Crime, Jan 2001, $21.95, 288 pp.

Most books show an upbeat side to the relationships formed by love, especially stories linked to Valentine's Day. This fourteen-story anthology takes an opposite perspective as each of the well-known contributors provides an exciting version of "I Love You to Death".

All fourteen short stories are superbly conceived allowing the audience to understand the characters and their motives. Each tale stands on its own as this who's who of modern mystery writers gift the audience with a winner. Fourteen stories all edited by Hart are appropriate for a Valentine's Day collection in which any moment readers will expect Lemmon to persuade the juror to press the button in How I Murdered My Wife.

Harriet Klausner

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