Book Review: A Hot and Sultry Night for Crime

Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner

[5 stars]

A Hot and Sultry Night for Crime Amazon US PB Amazon US HC Amazon Canada PB Amazon Canada HC
Jeffery Wilds Deaver
Class/Genre: Mystery [Short Stories]
Berkley, Feb 2003, $23.95, 400 pp.

The twenty contributions that make up this collection for the most part live up to the tile as each tale occurs on a hot and sultry night. The stories run the gamut of crime fiction with a few seemingly more thriller than mystery. The contributors make up some of the top talent in the genre. It is this not surprising that all the tales is solid and entertaining though a few are superb. A HOT AND SULTRY NIGHT is aimed at the genre generalist as it crosses a diverse series of lines. Anyone who prefers a particular sub-genre will most likely find at least a story or two in the anthology, but must decide the economic value.

Harriet Klausner

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