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Post by dem on Apr 21, 2014 9:14:09 GMT
J. D. Wilson - Saucy, Sad, Sexy, Sinister: 13 Short Stories (Shore, 2013) The Perfect Marriage
A Song for Lionel
She Married for Money
Son of the Ripper
The Cafe of Your Dreams
Freddy Fogg's Rebellion
The Clone Conspiracies
The Man Who Squashed the World
A Horse Called Harry
Assassin by Post
The Midwinter Murders
Lost in a Dream
1918Spotted this in the library on Saturday and, with a title like that, felt I ought to give it a go. Nice and economic in the telling - thirteen stories told over 116 pages - have now read four of the stories and while none of them have grabbed me around the throat, neither have I disliked them. Given their subject matter, this pair strike me as of potential interest to some of our regulars .... The Midwinter Murders: Enigmatic mystery writer 'Geraldine Brown' (known to her parents as Gussie Roberts) takes up residence in the affluent village of Midwinter, only to learn this sleepy country idyll is the murder capital of Europe. Gussie's killer neighbours include fellow crime writer Mandy Murray (of Murder At The Mansion fame, an Estate Agent, and a chap who hosts the local murder tour for elderly ghouls. He doesn't appreciate a meddlesome old busybody queering his pitch. Son of the Ripper: Perhaps not quite as accomplished as above - but who is to say? I ain't a lit crit. Twenty years after the Ripper was done to death by his own mother following the murder of Mary Kelly, chip off the old block son takes up the knife eight miles away in Barking. The Perfect Marriage: This is one of the saucy/ sexy ones I'm guessing. Muriel's marriage to dependable, sensible accountant Howard has lost its WOW factor. A chance meeting with a wealthy customer in Macys introduces her to the world of fashionable clothing designed to make the most of her attractive figure. Muriel splashes out on some decent gear, eventually cultivating a new personality befitting to her new, sexy self. Howard falls for this mystery lady and resolves to smarten himself up. The pair hit it off famously.
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Post by dem on Apr 22, 2014 9:59:35 GMT
A couple more, this next will be one of the sad ones.
1918: The Great War puts paid to the romance of handsome Jack and Elizabeth, the village beauty. On the same day George dies in filthy Flanders mud, back home his fiancée succumbs to influenza. Meanwhile in France, Danielle wonders what became of the dashing young Englishman who too briefly shared her life.
She Married For Money: In one of life's "hilarious" Are You Being Servedesque mix-ups, gold-digging Miss Jones and Lord Banratty are misled into believing the other to be fabulously wealthy. One whirlwind romance-engagement-marriage later, the bitter truth dawns, but all ends on a cheery note when her Ladyship has an unlikely stroke of good fortune.
Nothing remotely 'sexy' yet .....
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