Windchill

by Skye Alexander (Editor/ contributor), Susan Oleksiw (Editor/ Contributor), Nita Penfold (Contributor)

Twenty-two New England authors share their unique views of life's darker side in this entertaining collection of crime stories. Mysteries, thrillers, capers, tales of suspense and intrigue, even a touch of the supernatural make this the best and biggest anthology to date. It features the winner of the New England Crime Bake's first Al Blanchard Short Fiction Award.

In Windchill readers will meet the garrulous old deputy reassuring a recently convicted child molester on his way to jail in "The Spare". Feel the intensity and anguish of a psychic's vision as she tracks a missing child in "Visions." Watch a desperate mother as she considers robbing a bank in "Her Lucky Day," And grin while reading "Midnight at the Eleventh Hour Cowboy Bar" when the local big game hunter turns up dead at the taxidermist's door with a note reading, "stuff this!"

Short stories by:
Skye Alexander John R. Clark David Compton
Sharon Daynard Kate Flora Judith Green
Woody Hanstein Scott Hill Ruth McCarthy
Susan Oleksiw Nita Penfold Margaret Press
Stephen D. Rogers John Russo J.E. Seymour
Kathleen Valentine Maureen Walsh Leslie Wheeler
Mark S. Williams Leslie Woods Nancy Means Wright

Genres: Short Stories, Fiction

258 pages, Unknown Binding

Published November 1, 2005

Reviews

[Nikki · Rating 4 out of 5]

The New England chapter of Sisters in Crime (which is not limited to women)has been publishing these short story collections for a few years now. This is the first one I've read, and now I'm glad I bought one of the others when Kate Flora spoke at our library recently. It's a diverse collection of very good short stories (even a couple of short-shorts)by New England crime writers. Most of the stories take place here (a surprising number in Maine), although there are a couple in other parts of the Northeast and even one set in Texas. Some are grim, some not so grim. The writers who use local color and dialect generally get it pitch-perfect. If you like mystery short stories, I think you will like this book.