Tales of mystery, mayhem and murder from fifteen of the Chesapeake Bay region's most talented crime writers. Includes the Agatha and Anthony award-winning story, "Wedding Knife" by Elaine Viets and a foreword by Laura Lippman.
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Format:Hardcover
A great book of fabulous mysteries! It gives us a glance into the future of literary arts - Knowing that authors like Elaine Viets, Ellen Rawlings and Debbi Mack (all featured with stuning pieces), will move on to be literary masters.
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Mystery At It's Best
Oct 25 2004
By Shirley Priscilla Johnson
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Format:Hardcover
If you are a follower of my reviews, you know how much I enjoy short stories. I was excited to be reviewing such as work from a publisher that I know turns out the finest in mystery novels.
Chesapeake Crimes is compiled of short stories packed full of mystery, intrigue and suspense. In this work, you get a delightful taste of numerous authors styles in writing, and perhaps a tad of their 'darker' side as they pen a carload of nail-biting tales, mystery with humor, and real to life characters that grab your attention from beginning to end. I loved the story, "The Butler Didn't Do It." I never saw that ending coming. Great job!
Everyone of the stories is unique, superb in the writers own flare, making each tale fresh and alive, satisfying that hunger for different twists and turns that loom inside the reader. This work is a gift to all mystery lovers. Pick this one up and good luck in being able to put it down. A winner from start to finish.
Shirley Johnson
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MidWest Book Review
Chesapeake Crimes is compiled of short stories packed full of mystery, intrigue and suspense. In this work, you get a delightful taste of numerous authors styles in writing, and perhaps a tad of their 'darker' side as they pen a carload of nail-biting tales, mystery with humor, and real to life characters that grab your attention from beginning to end. I loved the story, "The Butler Didn't Do It." I never saw that ending coming. Great job!
Everyone of the stories is unique, superb in the writers own flare, making each tale fresh and alive, satisfying that hunger for different twists and turns that loom inside the reader. This work is a gift to all mystery lovers. Pick this one up and good luck in being able to put it down. A winner from start to finish.
Shirley Johnson
Senior Reviewer
MidWest Book Review
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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only a few
Jun 24 2006
By Elizabeth Slater
- Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
(Night Shades by Donna Andrews, Grave Ends by Elizabeth Foxwell, Wedding Knife by Elaine Viets)
Once again, another anthology in which I read stories that I chose out of all of them. I love Andrews' Meg Lanslow series, (the reason I sought out the book) and NIGHT SHADES didn't disappoint me. Neither did GRAVE ENDS by Elizabeth Foxwell, or Elaine Viets WEDDING KNIFE. But Viets' sense of humor makes all of her work worth the read!
Once again, another anthology in which I read stories that I chose out of all of them. I love Andrews' Meg Lanslow series, (the reason I sought out the book) and NIGHT SHADES didn't disappoint me. Neither did GRAVE ENDS by Elizabeth Foxwell, or Elaine Viets WEDDING KNIFE. But Viets' sense of humor makes all of her work worth the read!
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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Very intriguing stories
Mar 30 2004
By Kristy Ann Brown
- Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover
This book is a great compilation of short mystery stories. Each of the stories kept me going until the end. Most books you can tell by the end "who done it," but in Chesapeake Crimes, I was on edge to the very end of every story. My favorite story was by Maria Y. Lima, The Butler Didn't Do It. It was very creative and she has a wonderful imagination. I thought the butler did it right until the end! This book is wonderful and the Sisters in Crime deserve a BIG round of applause for this work.
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