Manhattan Mayhem in The Philadelphia Inquirer
The 17 contributors include Lee Child, Jeffery Deaver, Mary Higgins Clark, T. Jefferson Parker, and others, and each story takes place in or on a different Manhattan neighborhood, building, or river.
Highlights include Julie Hyzy's proving she can write chilling suspense as well as the cozy novels for which she is known, and a prime contender for greatest title ever: S.J. Rozan's "Chin Yong-Yun Makes a Shiddach."
Read the entire review at philly.com.
© Peter Rozovsky 2015
Labels: Jeffery Deaver, Julie Hyzy, Lee Child, Mary Higgins Clark, Mystery Writers of America, S.J. Rozan, short stories, T. Jefferson Parker
posted by Peter Rozovsky at 5:35 PM
7 Comments:
Nice roundup, Peter.
Thanks, And a roundup it was--not easy to work 17 stories into one short review. The collection is pretty good.
Have you ever read anything by my old friend Julie Hyzy? If you have, her story here might surprise and impress you.
I haven't but I do remember those cozies and you and Adrian being impressed by the punning titles.
Perhaps especially since one of those punning titles was mine!
Yep, my suggestion of "Secretary of Steak" became "Affairs of Steak" when the book appeared, but she did introduce me to a friend once as the guy who came up with the title, so I'm on safe ground making the claim.
I never doubted it.
I did doubt it for a while, after the altered title appeared. I thought the publisher or someone else might have come with the similar title independently.
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