Author: Karen Cantwell
Anthology: Chesapeake Crimes “This Job is Murder”
Published: 2012/Wildside Press, LLC, USA
Discovered the anthology from Stop, You’re Killing Me newsletter http://stopyourekillingme.com/
Read as an e-book
Also available in paper format
Link to author’s website: http://www.karencantwell.com/
Okay,
let’s be honest, who hasn’t had one of those days where you just wanted to kill
your boss? The narrator of this short story has given it a lot of thought:
strangle, shoot, poison? She finally comes
up with the perfect and simplest solution. Her boss, Athena Pappas, has been
the perpetrator of much misery in the narrator’s life and now Pappas will get
her comeuppance.
This
short story really keeps you guessing and wanting to know more. Athena’s
character is well developed, despite the brevity of the tale. Just what has
Athena done to attract such an extreme reaction? Will the narrator get away
with the murder? There is even a nice little twist in the story. Since it is
short, you can then go back easily and see what clues you missed. And the clues
are there.
The
author Karen Cantwell not only writes short stories and plays, but also a
humorous mystery series, featuring suburban mom Barbara Marr. The two titles so
far, “Take the Monkey and Run” and “Citizen Insane” are now added to the
reading list!
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