sj, i recently read a collection called Troubled Daughters Twisted Wives that might be up your alley. All female authors IIRC. The forewords are not great, but the actual stories are good.
Sweetie, we're crooks. If everything were right, we'd be in jail.
Wash ,'Serenity'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
-t - Dec 07, 2016 1:45:03 pm PST #24200 of 28265
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Sue - Dec 07, 2016 2:20:32 pm PST #24201 of 28265
hip deep in pie
If you haven't read Tana French, that is my recommendation.
lisah - Dec 07, 2016 2:25:07 pm PST #24202 of 28265
Punishingly Intricate
Seconding Tana French heartily! And Laura Lippman is pretty great, too
sj - Dec 07, 2016 2:35:04 pm PST #24203 of 28265
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I'm reading In the Woods right now. I kind of got bored there for a while, but it's picking up again. I just got to the part where the narrator spent the night in the woods trying to remember what happened when he was a kid.
sj - Dec 07, 2016 2:40:58 pm PST #24204 of 28265
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
-t, I grabbed the anthology on the kindle and I'll look into Megan Abbott, Strix
Kate P. - Dec 07, 2016 2:42:29 pm PST #24205 of 28265
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
I love Tana French, especially her second and third novels, The Likeness and Faithful Place.
Sue - Dec 07, 2016 3:28:30 pm PST #24206 of 28265
hip deep in pie
The Likeness was may favourite of them all.
They are allegedly working on a TV series based on the first five Dublin Murder Squad novels, and I am both impatient to see them and dubious they can do them justice. I 'm assuming they do a book a series.
Gris - Dec 07, 2016 4:03:42 pm PST #24207 of 28265
Hey. New board.
I know Megan Abbott! Well, I know her ex husband and met her once. Maybe that isn't so exciting.
Jesse - Dec 07, 2016 4:10:40 pm PST #24208 of 28265
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
sj, have you read Laura Lippman? They aren't necessarily that dark, but there are a lot of them!
Strix - Dec 07, 2016 5:33:24 pm PST #24209 of 28265
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Close enough, Gris!