Bitter Ends: 20 Short Stories of Murder and Mayhem

by John Greco

Twenty short tales of murder, revenge, greed, love gone wrong and other mayhem along with a couple of more charming tales tossed in - all with a twist.
Contents
Good for Nothing
Benny and Slaughter
Killer Smile
Izzy
The Arrangement
About to Die
The Promotion
Ellie’s Cats
No One’s to Blame
Never Look Back
Brotherly Love
The Neighbors
The Best Sex Ever
We All Got What We Wanted
Assisted Living
The Confession
Your Perfect Match
Divorce Is Not an Option
Anything for Art
A Marriage to Die For

132 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 1, 2019

About the author

John Greco is a writer and photographer living in Florida with his wife and cats. E-books are available at Amazon.com


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Photography website
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Reviews

[D.H. Schleicher · Rating 4 out of 5]

John Greco’s short story collection, Bitter Ends, is jam-packed with quick, nasty little numbers full of cheating and murdering spouses and twisty turns of fate. If there’s a lesson to be found…it’s probably this: never agree to a prenup. While some of the stories seem more like sketches and aren’t as fleshed out as others, there are a few real stand-outs of the noir genre: Good for Nothing, We All Got What We Wanted (probably my favorite…with its Upstate New York setting), and A Marriage to Die For. All are great fun to read on your lunch break, salacious little morsels that are like spying on your most scandalous neighbors, peering out your window while chomping down on a tasty sandwich or shoveling pasta in your mouth. Then there is Assisted Living, another standout, but more so for being a slice-of-life that is somehow both sad and sunny. Not every story here is a winner, but hey, maybe’s that’s another lesson to glean: you can’t always be a winner in life (but you can plot some loser’s murder!)

[Sammy Juliano · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another terrific, first -rate short story collection by a master of the form!