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Murder
Fiction. Fifty tales of homicide. "Jane Liddle orchestrates the tragic lows of life, the dead ends, the interpersonal misery, the terror, the inevitable end, as if she was a conductor in front of the most joyously addictive orchestra I can think of. Her characters so startlingly human, so nuanced and real, in fifty instances of murder, I don't think she has created a single villain." Bud Smith, author of F 250"
68 pages, Paperback
Published March 29, 2016
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June 16, 2016
A delight to read! Her writing is beautifully sparse. Her stories are simultaneously hilarious, disturbing and unpredictable. Worth dipping into this short story collection. Although be warned, you won't be able to stop until you've finished.
July 3, 2016
Murder is a fantastic collection of flash fiction centering around a singular core concept: murder. Each piece is a fine example of the power that flash fiction contains in its concise space.
September 28, 2017
Destined to be a flash classic.
May 4, 2023
Fifty crisp dioramas of homicide. Liddle's blackly funny prose suspends each of these incidents in an eerie space between the universal and the particular - each tiny tale is beautifully precise and yet evokes a hundred half-remembered news stories, ghost stories, horror stories. The cumulative effect of reading this polished volume is like visiting as a secret museum exhibition on human murderousness by a displeased, but dispassionate higher being.
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