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Such excellent spy stories. I especially liked Heilige Nacht...

Read quite a bit of this during a power outage. Excellent stories and one featured another of Gilbert's characters, Peter Petrella, a London CID cop... Neat

Lecture on the History of Sky-writing is beautifully written. A play on creation, story told in 7 days; interview with Godot (or Waiting for) "First things first, do I call you GOdot or GoDOT? Why not use my first name? Okay, what's that? Rusty"
"So tell me, Rusty, how did it all get started, the non-arriving?" Parts had me chuckling.
But also the Arabic text of a statement by Faisal, mentioned in previous poem.

So fascinating. Fate, Federal Court, Moon is such a sad poem, relating in part Yemeni engineer & his efforts to get the US to apologize for a drone strike that killed his brother-in-law & nephew

Rumpole and the Man of God - Rumpole defends a vicar for shoplifting and also must try and help his best friend who might be getting married to the wrong woman (3.5 stars)

I liked the 1st story, The Road to Damascus, which really has nothing to do with Damascus but a Russian spy working out of England and an old WWII hiding place in the countryside. (3.5 stars)

I'm really enjoying this.

The Fragments of an Earlier World by Camilla Grudova, set in the 1850s was creepy and excellent. A family in Hamilton welcome family from Scotland. Weird.... (4.5 stars)

The Key to Black Creek by Rory Say, set on Vancouver Island, mother running with son (3.5 stars
The Night Birds by Premee Mohamed - Social worker trying to save a young girl in Calgary... creepy (4.0 stars)
Church and Westbound Train by David Neil Lee - Vampire?? meets a Metis hero. Really neat (4.0 stars)

Such clear writing and I love how the book is laid out.

Fancy Dad by David Nickle (3.5 stars) and The Black Fox by David Demhuk (4.0 stars) had similarities, set by cabins on the lake but also different. Got quickly to the point with eerie short stories. Nickle's deals with ancient evils, while Demchuk's deal with a father's past crimes.

It's been a couple of years since I read the 1st book, but it was easy to get into the swing of things. Excellent writing and such a fascinating story.