Featured in the Books sections of the Knoxville News Sentinel on Sunday Dec. 8, this anthology from the East Tennessee Sisters in Crime offers a dozen “original tales of crime and mystery” that take readers into the dark corners of humanity.
The writers, with backgrounds ranging from newsrooms to the CIA to underwater naturalist education, share sinister stories of murderm poisoning, theft, stalking, and violent jealousy.
One of the columnist’s favorites is “Fences, Neighbors, and a Gun” by Kaye George intrigued him with its domestic depravity. In the story a tree falls on an elderly woman’s yard leading to a dispute over the cost of the damage that escalates to a chilling level. The story ends up in court, but even the judge’s ruling doesn’t end the matter that leads to neighbors retaliating against one another in unexpected ways.
