Love is Murder

Any garage sale devotee or antique store aficionado is familiar with the idea of the junk box – a place where for a modest price you can purchase a plethora of odds and ends. Most of the stuff is exactly as the box describes it – junk. Sure, there is the occasional treasure but mostly there is just ho-hum debris that will simply move from the store’s junk box to your junk drawer. This book is much like that junk box, with a plethora of forgettable stories making up the “debris.” There is the occasional A or B story, but most are C or below. The authors, in trying to provide a story that was both suspenseful and romantic, often found themselves giving us neither.

Since there are 29 stories in this anthology, I’ve picked only a few to hit the highlights.