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MWA Grand Master Margaret Maron, Edgar Award winner Tom Franklin, and New York Times bestselling novelist Ron Rash headline a new anthology of 21 tales spanning from traditional detective stories to comic capers to darkest noir and more - something for all tastes. Murder Under the Oaks is published in conjunction with Bouchercon, the World Mystery Convention, held in 2015 in Raleigh North Carolina - the City of Oaks. As with the convention itself, the anthology spreads a broad canopy across a wide range of crime writers from across the country and around the world - including both veteran writers and the brightest up-and-coming talents in the field. Celebrating Bouchercon's first-ever meeting in the American South, several of the stories in Murder Under the Oaks also draw on the region's history and culture - including the birth of a secret society at the University of Virginia, a mystery from Edgar Allan Poe's childhood days & a series of less-than-welcome visits by everyone's favorite hometown sheriff. All participants contributed their efforts to support our charity - the Wake County Public Libraries - and by extension readers and writers everywhere. All profits go to the library. -- back cover.… (altro)
A short story anthology is a good way to be introduced to some writers not yet read. For me, this grouping also holds authors that I have read before, with contributions from Margaret Maron, a writer whose books mostly take place in NC; and Robert Lopresti, one I'm familiar with from the Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Mag.
Some story entries encourage exploring new authors too. I particularly liked the "About the Contributors" section in the back that highlights each author's career. Another plus, the contributors' efforts support the Wake County Public Libraries, so the profits go to a worthwhile endeavor -- libraries always are important to a community.
One intriguing coincidence I can't fail to mention, two stories have settings in places that were in the news this past week, "The Sevens" by K. Kisska, takes place in Charlottesville VA and the University of Virginia, while another one titled "On the Ramblas" by P. Lopresti has a Barcelona, Spain, setting, and is about pickpockets, which seems tame compared to recent headlines. It's just too weird when things like that happen! To be sure, I found this Bouchercon 2015 selection an enjoyable group of stories. ( )
MWA Grand Master Margaret Maron, Edgar Award winner Tom Franklin, and New York Times bestselling novelist Ron Rash headline a new anthology of 21 tales spanning from traditional detective stories to comic capers to darkest noir and more - something for all tastes. Murder Under the Oaks is published in conjunction with Bouchercon, the World Mystery Convention, held in 2015 in Raleigh North Carolina - the City of Oaks. As with the convention itself, the anthology spreads a broad canopy across a wide range of crime writers from across the country and around the world - including both veteran writers and the brightest up-and-coming talents in the field. Celebrating Bouchercon's first-ever meeting in the American South, several of the stories in Murder Under the Oaks also draw on the region's history and culture - including the birth of a secret society at the University of Virginia, a mystery from Edgar Allan Poe's childhood days & a series of less-than-welcome visits by everyone's favorite hometown sheriff. All participants contributed their efforts to support our charity - the Wake County Public Libraries - and by extension readers and writers everywhere. All profits go to the library. -- back cover.
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Some story entries encourage exploring new authors too. I particularly liked the "About the Contributors" section in the back that highlights each author's career. Another plus, the contributors' efforts support the Wake County Public Libraries, so the profits go to a worthwhile endeavor -- libraries always are important to a community.
One intriguing coincidence I can't fail to mention, two stories have settings in places that were in the news this past week, "The Sevens" by K. Kisska, takes place in Charlottesville VA and the University of Virginia, while another one titled "On the Ramblas" by P. Lopresti has a Barcelona, Spain, setting, and is about pickpockets, which seems tame compared to recent headlines. It's just too weird when things like that happen! To be sure, I found this Bouchercon 2015 selection an enjoyable group of stories. (