Book Review: A Confederacy of Crime

Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner

A Confederacy of Crime     Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB
Sarah Shankman
Class/Genre:   Mystery   [Short Stories]
Signet, Jan 2001, $6.99, 288 pp.

Steal magnolias seem feeble next to the titanium magnolias that make up this superb collection. The twelve stories center on the more menacing southern perspective where murder and mayhem are just another mint julep. Locales vary from big cities like Atlanta to small rural towns, but each entry is fun to read.

Some of the leading mystery writers of today have contributed clever entries to A CONFEDERACY OF CRIME: New Stories of Southern Style Mystery. The stories run the gamut from private and police investigations to the iron-fisted Twiddle, but each indulges fans of anthologies and regional mysteries with a distinct taste of the underside of the South.

Harriet Klausner

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