The Crime Warp

Welcome to another stop on the Kathy Reichs Blog Tour - all about Kathy Reichs latest book - The Bone Collection - four chilling tales featuring Tempreance Brennan including First Bones , the story of Temperance Brennan's first case. Now, as regular Crime Warp readers know, I’m particularly drawn to short stories – partly because my attention span is getting shorter with age, but mostly because a well crafted short story gives you all the delight of a long novel, that you can enjoy from start to finish in an hour or less. So, just a little about The Bone Collection – four stories with very different settings, from Mecklenburg, to the Florida Everglades, the heights of Mount Everest, then back to Mecklenburg for a trip down memory lane to Brennan’s first case.   The stories in The Bone Collection all have those Kathy Reichs hallmarks – excellent technical detail that’s fascinating but not too overwhelming; strong and well developed characters, plus plots with sus...

With an ever increasing range of short crime fiction available the commute has never been so enjoyable.  Read on for just a few recommendations from some of the leading lights in crime fiction.

The Gift by   Katia Lief (77p Kindle) Slushy, nostalgic and representative of the true meaning of christmas: family and love.   Karin Shaeffer takes herself off for a ride on her new Vespa, when a surprise theft makes her aware of an altogether darker, less benevolent  Christmas.

From  the criminally comic to the  nostalgically nefarious, from  raunchy romance  to the decidedly dark, from the criminally classic to the warped word - crime authors of all descriptions form The Crime Warp Advent Calendar - A Criminal Short Read A Day Christmas Treat.