Bone Dance: A Ladies Killing Circle Anthology

by Joan Boswell (Editor), Sue Pike (Editor)

Music may soothe the savage breast, but in this fifth collection of witty and wicked crime fiction from the Ladies’ Killing Circle, music provides the background for tales of murder and mayhem. Eighteen stories by Canadian women crime writers along with poems from Joy Hewitt Mann take their inspiration from titles as varied as the upbeat "Wake Up Little Suzie" through the romantic "Summertime" and musicals such as "There’s No Business Like Show Business". It’s a collection you won’t want to put down until you’ve read every one and hummed all the tunes. You’ll never listen to your favourite songs again without wondering what nefarious deeds they may have inspired.

Genres: Short Stories

280 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2003

Reviews

[Jeannie and Louis Rigod · Rating 5 out of 5]

This compilation of poems, short stories are the efforts of Canadian Crime Authors. This book was an assortment of crimes set to titles of songs/lyrics. Each was in its self almost a complete book which left me feeling complete as though I had read 300 pages instead of perhaps 14 to 15.

Another treat was that these stories covered every style of crime imaginable and left me quite amazed. Even the cover was a work of art.

Treat yourself. This is an excellent book to take to work, the beach, or an appointment. Definitely one to add to your library!

[Pam]

02/04/08 rec via bookmooch