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little big crimes september 2014 the best mystery story i read this week sunday september 28 2014 crush depth by brendan dubois crush depth by brendan dubois in mystery writers of america present ice cold tales of intrigue from the cold war 2014 hard time choosing between two very different stories this week both in ice cold and both excellent sara paretsky s miss bianca is about intrigue in a biological research lab as seen through the eyes of a child crush depth is a look back at a genuine mystery of american military history offering a possible explanation the first is cute the latter is grim what finally decided me was their surprise endings paretsky s seemed tacked on while dubois s was a genuine twist putting a new light on everything that went before in crush depth it is a year after the soviet union collapsed and an intelligence agent named michael is hanging around the portsmouth new hampshire naval yard trying to make contact with someone who knows the truth behind a naval tragedy from the 1960s michael thought it ironic that his work and the work of so many others was still going on despite peace supposedly breaking out everywhere cold war or hot war there was always plenty of work to be done true and sad enough posted by robert lopresti at 5 22 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels 2014 dubois mwa saturday september 20 2014 the last confession by john lescroat the last confession by john lescroat in mystery writers of america present ice cold tales of intrigue from the cold war 2014 not surprisingly a lot of these stories about the cold war focus on berlin but my favorite so far takes place in the good ol u s a and features nary a soldier nor spy instead lescroat is interested in how the cuban missile crisis affects one american family the narrator now an adult was a high school boy whose younger brother was what we would now call autistic he has a hard time in school but things seem to be going okay until that awful october 1962 i think what i like best in this story is a character type i don t remember seeing in fiction before but whom i recognize from real life a vain charismatic guy who has no clue as to how he can damage people s lives and in this case alas he s a priest posted by robert lopresti at 8 11 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels 2014 lescroat mwa sunday september 14 2014 it s a wonderful rat race by james powell it s a wonderful rat race by james powell in ellery queen s mystery magazine november 2014 i guess it makes a sort of sense that when my friend james powell writes about madness the result is slightly less crazy than his usual work his usual tale contains a free association of bizarre connections like a garden sprinkler shooting water in all directions this one is more tightly focused although he does offer some odd riffs on human conception and the well known jimmy stewart movie obsession is either comic or tragic depending on how close you stand to the fallout hilda ross is a neatnik she is delighted when her grown children move away because she can finally get wall to wall white carpeting and she loves her house and her less fastidious neighbor because to really succeed neatness wise you needed a messy best friend but one day that friend s husband casually releases a piece of folk wisdom that turns hilda s life upside down turning good into bad light into dark and well you have to read it posted by robert lopresti at 8 18 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels 2014 eqmm powell sunday september 7 2014 crossing the river styx by kristine kathryn rusch crossing the river styx by kristine kathryn rusch in alfred hitchcock s mystery magazine november 2014 they d left all of them they d left taking the light with them now edith huddled in the darkest place she d ever been in her face hands and shirtwaist soaked with blood frank was dead beside her she d known that from the moment the shot hit him hot blood spurted out of him coating her and he made all kinds of groaning sounds someone shouted murder and the others ran as if their lives depended on it well that s an exciting way to start a story isn t it the illustration clued me in to the fact that this takes place in the 1920s which made me think we were in a bonnie and clyde scenario but not quite edith is a proper young woman on her honeymoon and frank has taken her to the oregon caves that s where the extreme darkness comes in now edith has to find a way out of the cave by herself crossing a creek known as yes river styx and figure out whether she is in danger from the men who fought with her husband the other key viewpoint character is albert a mechanic employed by the forest service that runs the caves they will both learn something about themselves before the night is over as usual a very good story from ms rusch posted by robert lopresti at 8 23 am no comments 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