In the introduction to the short story collection Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives that she edited, Sarah Weinman laments that "an entire generation of female crime writers...have faded from view." Many of these writers, popular and lauded in their day, have been forgotten over time. Weinman has selected stories by fourteen of them, ranging in publication date from … Continue reading Recommended Reading: Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives
This year, I've decided to post snippets from my ongoing reading journal that aren't full reviews, just thoughts about what I'm reading and what I want to read. This will possibly be terribly dull; I'll let you decide. Here's what I've been reading since the start of the year -- a lot of short books! … Continue reading Reading journal: Ringing in 2016
This week I'm recommending The Expendable Man by Dorothy B. Hughes, a crime noir classic recently reissued by New York Review Books. A young doctor driving from California to a family wedding in Phoenix, Arizona, sees a teenage girl hitchhiking on a desert road and stops to pick her up, setting in motion a chain of events that … Continue reading Recommended reading: The Expendable Man
