Nine Sons: Collected Mysteries

Wendy Hornsby. Crippen & Landru Publishers, $42 (185pp) ISBN 978-1-885941-65-7

Edgar-winner (for best short story) Wendy Hornsby gathers 10 stories and one essay into her Nine Sons: Collected Mysteries, which offers readers both whodunit thrills and thoughtful explorations into the darker regions of the human heart. Former LAPD officer Mike Flint sometime boyfriend of Hornsby's heroine in her Maggie McGowan series makes an appearance here, as he reflects on his career, his new home and how some cases including a mysterious car accident he's called to examine never get solved.

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