Crimewave 8 Cold Harbours by
. Crimewave
pbk out October 05
(TTA Press)
at £6.99
This stylish crime magazine consistently publishes innovative new crime fiction and
invites unsolicited short story submissions from writers; though they advise you to
study the magazine first. In this issue there's a great range of subject matter and style,
and all the stories are engaging and accomplished. Kristine Kathryn Rusch's, Jury
Duty, is a tense and ironic account of a reluctant juror and the turmoil she endures
when picked to serve on a murder trial. How To Build Your Own Coffin, by Scott
Nicholson, details one man's struggle to find a good woman and has a neat twist in
the tail. Scarecrow, by Tom Brennan, is a chilling story of vigilantism in a rural
community. Steve Mohn writes with a comic edge about the desperate life of a hit-
man in Is It Better Now? Adjustment, by Luke Sholer, explores paranoia and fear
when a contract killer is given an unbearable mission. Joe Hill's, In The Rundown, is
a powerful story of soured dreams and violent death seen through the eyes of a young
video store clerk. The Beautiful Ones, by Michelle Scalise is set in Victorian London,
and recounts the terror of persecution lived by a drug-addicted, homosexual,
playwright. With eighteen stories in all this is an excellent collection.
(
Cath Staincliffe
author of the popular Sal Kilkenny mysteries and the series creator of TV Blue Murder)
Crimewave 8 Cold Harbours by
. Crimewave
