Title: Gone Coastal
Author(s): Various Authors

Gone Coastal is an anthology of twenty short mystery stories that range from cozy mystery to hard-boiled, using various settings on and around the coast of California and Hawaii. If you like mysteries, crime and suspense stories this is the book for you. It will delight and entertain as well as present a few thought-provoking incidents that have the readers wondering, "How can I trust my spouse, my children, my friends?" To give the reader even a one-sentence statement on each of the stories would give away the story itself. You have to read them to get their full benefits.

Some of my favorites are:

Nipped in the Nuptials by Jo Anne Lucas who has contributed stories to several magazines and anthologies including…And Some of Them Are Dead and Valley Fever: Where Murder Is Contagious (SEE review on this same blog site.)

Death of a Deceiver by Marilyn Meredith, author of Wishing Makes It So and the Deputy Tempe Crabtree mysteries series.

The Wine Snob by Sunny Frazier who contributed many award winning short mysteries to Valley Fever (SEE review on this same blog site.) She is the author of Fools Rush In: A Christy Bristol Astrology Mystery which can be found at www.sunnyfrazier.com

Room Six by Earl Staggs, author of Memory of a Murder and many more short mysteries which can be found at the archives of <http://www.crimeandsuspense.com/> and Future Mystery Anthology Magazine. <http://www.fmam.biz/>

Short stories are perfect for those times when you have very little time to read and you want to finish a story in one sitting: doctor’s office visits, waiting lines, and when you have to wait on someone else. I like it when I read a story that makes me think as well as entertains me. Valley Fever and Gone Coastal are two of the anthologies I like. You only have to read my other reviews on this blog to know my other favorites.

Other authors, some new, some well-known include: Margaret Searles, K.M. Kavanagh, Victoria & Zachary Heckman, James M. Murphy, Suzanne Caplette Champeau, Ronnie J. Cardone, Kris Neri, Gay Tolto Kinman & Jill Cogen, Bette Bardeen, Candii Vedrin, Sherri Patton, Charla Maine, and Kit Sloane.

These books can be found at Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, and at the various authors’ and publishers’ websites.

Lucille P Robinson